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Across the Horn of Africa, drought and flooding are displacing people and sharpening competition for land and water, risking conflict. In this excerpt from the Watch List 2022 – Autumn Update, Crisis Group urges the EU and its member states to increase funding for climate adaptation.

In Season 3 of The Horn, host Alan Boswell and guests analyse events from across the Horn of Africa, including civil war in Ethiopia, military coup in Sudan and the ongoing climate crisis facing the region — as well as a special series on “Eastern Africa’s Jihadis”. Produced by Maeve Frances. Episodes from other series of The Horn can be found here: Season 1, Season 2 and Season 4.

In a three-part special episode of The Horn, Alan speaks to three Crisis Group experts across the Horn of Africa and Great Lakes regions. He talks with William Davison about the prospects for peace talks in Ethiopia, to Nelleke van de Walle about Kenya’s new diplomatic efforts in the eastern DR Congo, and to Nazanine Moshiri about the drought devastating the Horn region.

This week on The Horn, Alan is joined by think tank director Dr. Hassan Khannenje to discuss Africa’s largely ambivalent response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as the continent carefully balances multiple strategic interests.

This week on The Horn, Alan is joined by researcher Samuel Ramani to discuss Russia’s influence in Africa and how the geopolitical spillover from the Ukraine war might play out on the continent.

This week on The Horn, guest host Nicolas Delaunay is joined by Nazanine Moshiri, Crisis Group’s climate & security expert, to discuss the complex, often dangerous relationship between climate stresses and conflict in the Horn and on the continent more broadly.

This week on a special episode of The Horn, Alan holds a panel discussion on mounting fragmentation in this East African region. In particular, Alan and three expert guests discuss the regional bloc Inter-Governmental Authority on Development’s failure to help shore up a crumbling regional order.

In the first episode of a new season of The Horn, Alan is joined by Muthoni Wanyeki, Open Society Foundation Africa Director, to provide an overview of the state of civil activism on the continent.

In the final episode of a mini-series of The Horn exploring jihadism in East Africa, Alan Boswell speaks with Murithi Mutiga, Mary Harper and Michael Woldemariam about how the post-9/11 global “war on terror” changed the Horn of Africa, and what comes next.

In this episode of the The Horn’s mini-series exploring jihadism along the Swahili coast, Alan Boswell and Rashid Abdi discuss the connections and competition among jihadist groups in the region and the future prospects for governments to counter their militant movements.