Violence in Ethiopia's border town of Moyale has driven more than 50,000 people into Kenya. Aid agencies are providing emergency support as fighting displaces families and raises fears of a wider humanitarian crisis. More than 50,000 people have fled from Ethiopia to…
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ERITREA · HORN OF AFRICA Eritrea neighbours three countries on land, Ethiopia, Sudan and Djibouti, and sits across the Red Sea from Yemen and Saudi Arabia. For American readers the guide matters because its dispute with Ethiopia lies beside the shipping…
Level 2 is the second step of the State Department’s four-step advisory scale, below Level 3 (Reconsider Travel) and Level 4 (Do Not Travel). Himbol is the name of Eritrea’s state foreign currency exchange branches, and STEP is the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program,…
KENYA · ETHIOPIA BORDER For US readers, Kenya is a longstanding security partner, and the US State Department already tells Americans not to travel near the border. Moyale also lies on the corridor road that links Kenya’s port of Lamu to…
Level 3 on the State Department scale means “Reconsider Travel”, one step below Level 4, “Do Not Travel”. STEP is the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program, a State Department service that sends security alerts to US citizens abroad. An e-Visa is an electronic…
A Port Security Advisory is the US Coast Guard’s list of countries whose ports it has not found to maintain effective antiterrorism measures. Conditions of entry are extra rules that a ship arriving from, or carrying cargo from, a listed…
AFRICA · SECURITY EXPLAINER At least seven foreign powers keep an openly acknowledged military base or training site in Africa, in three countries: Djibouti, Somalia and Kenya. No official source publishes one continental total, because the answer depends on what counts…
A Su-35 is a Russian multirole fighter jet, and an S-400 is a Russian long-range air defence system. CAATSA is the 2017 US sanctions law that can penalise buyers of Russian weapons. Ethiopia says it took delivery of the first twelve Su…
The Mauritania neighbours are Senegal, Mali, Algeria and Western Sahara, and each border brings a different story for US readers. Together they decide who shares a gas field, who shelters refugees and who talks peace over a disputed desert territory.
Somalia operations, Ethiopia issues, and Red Sea security ties.
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