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In 2021, I spent about a month road-tripping around Albania with friends. It is a small country, so in that time we saw most of the major cities and large stretches of the countryside. It remains one of the more fascinating places I have tr...
Khartoum airport had already become a kind of symbol. In October 2025, Sudan’s army-led government tried to stage a symbolic reopening of the capital’s main airport after more than two years of war. A Badr Airlines plane landed, but it was...
When Uganda’s Chief of Defense Forces started talking on X about sending troops to fight on Israel’s side, my reaction was to laugh. The comments were laughing, people I told laughed too, because it sounds absurd.
The idea of Uganda going...
A few months ago, I argued that the Saudi–Pakistan defense pact was really about Israel. ⬇️
That reading doesn’t hold up anymore.
What we’re seeing now makes something much clearer, that this pact was never about Israel. It was always abo...
Before I publish an analysis of what is happening in the Blue Nile state in Sudan, we need to revisit a key driver of regional tension: the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
GERD sits in Benishangul-Gumuz, which is the same western E...
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