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The Horn

International Crisis Group

From revolution in Sudan, to Al Shabaab’s increasing regional reach and Ethiopia’s burgeoning political transformation, the Horn of Africa is in turmoil. The Horn, a new podcast series from...

Episodes

20 of 175 episodes

Somalia’s End-of-year Cliffhanger

This week on The Horn, Alan talks with Samira Gaid, founder and senior analyst at the Mogadishu-based think tank Balqiis, about the possible...

32:20Sep 3, 2026

Tiny Djibouti, and Its Prime Real Estate

In this episode of The Horn, Alan is joined by scholar and author Samson Abebe Bezabeh, a professor at the University of Hong Kong, to discu...

27:05Jun 4, 2026

Sudan, and a Region and World in Upheaval

In this episode of The Horn , Alan is joined by journalist and author Nesrine Malik. They take stock of Sudan’s war after more than three ye...

35:41May 15, 2026

How the Iran War is Reshaping the Region

In this episode of The Horn , Alan is joined by Hafsa Halawa, an independent political analyst and mediation specialist, to discuss the fall...

36:55Apr 2, 2026

What’s Really Going on in the Horn?

In this episode of The Horn , Alan is joined by Moses Chrispus Okello, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Security Studies, to unpack the...

36:02Mar 19, 2026

Behind the Saudi-Emirati Rift

In this episode of The Horn, Alan is joined by H. A. Hellyer, Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute and Senior Fell...

37:50Mar 5, 2026

Israel, Somaliland and the Horn

In this episode of The Horn, Alan is joined by Asher Lubotzky, senior research fellow at the Israel-Africa Relations Institute, to discuss I...

27:29Feb 19, 2026

Uganda after Museveni

In this episode of The Horn , Alan speaks with Kristof Titeca, professor at the Institute of Development Policy at the University of Antwerp...

35:01Feb 5, 2026

The Rupture in the Gulf, and its Fallout

In this episode of The Horn, Alan is joined by Crisis Group experts Yasmine Farouk, Omar Mahmood and Shewit Woldemichael. He first speaks wi...

35:00Jan 22, 2026

The Ethiopia-Eritrea Standoff

In this episode of The Horn, Alan is joined by Michael Woldemariam, associate professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Pol...

39:04Jan 15, 2026

The El Fasher Atrocities

In this episode of The Horn , Alan speaks with Julia Steers, investigations editor at Lighthouse Reports, about the large-scale atrocities t...

29:27Nov 18, 2025