The 29th edition of our flagship monthly publication, the Horn Review Magazine, explores the current dynamics defining the Horn’s political and security landscape. This edition examines how Al-Fashaga represents a deeper geopolitical dilemma facing Ethiopia and its relations with Sudan. Egypt’s maritime agreements, it argues, are relocating Cairo’s contest with Addis Ababa to the Red Sea coastline. The Houthi blockade of the Bab al-Mandab is pulling Saudi Arabia and Pakistan into a two-flank defence posture. Behind Sudan’s civil war, a financial architecture once dismantled has been quietly rebuilt since the 2021 coup. Gaza, Washington’s nuclear diplomacy, and the UAE’s growing footprint are together complicating the path to Saudi-Israeli normalisation. The case for continued scrutiny on Eritrea rests on fourteen years of stonewalled accountability. And in Somalia, Washington’s withdrawal of support threatens to unravel two decades of fragile security gains.

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