Biruk Terrefe
@terrefebiruk.bsky.social
Lecturer & Researcher African Politics, @unibayreuth.bsky.social | Statecraft, Infrastructure, Urbanisation, Conflict, Horn of Africa, Ethiopia, Red Sea
As tensions rise in Ethiopia, RVI's most recent analysis provides helpful content: 'Peace and Instability: Tigray since the Pretoria Agreement' riftvalley.net/publication/...
Peace and Instability: Tigray since the Pretoria Agreement – Rift Valley Institute
CONFLICT TRENDS ANALYSIS / MARCH 2026
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Africa’s Greater Horn region is facing a looming polycrisis fueled by conflict, prices, climate and disease theconversation.com/africas-grea...
Africa’s Greater Horn region is facing a looming polycrisis fueled by conflict, prices, climate and disease
The response to the many problems facing the region has been set back by cuts in humanitarian aid.
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Now let me tell you all about the thousands of students, employees, business owners, and government officials from Africa that are denied visas to Europe and the US..[checks notes]..every single day. #Artan
Please join the Northeast Africa Forum on 2 June for a book launch & discussion: 'Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya' w/author Hanno Brankamp (Glasgow) & discussant Loren Landau (Oxford) *Hybrid event* Details & webinar registration: events.ox.ac.uk/oxford_event...
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Egypt, Eritrea sign maritime transport pact, declare Red Sea security exclusive to littoral states - Dailynewsegypt
Egypt and Eritrea signed a maritime transport cooperation agreement on Saturday to launch a shipping line connecting their ports, as Cairo declared that the security of the Red Sea remains the exclusi...
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Au Somaliland, la discrète implantation d’une base militaire construite par les Emirats pour les Etats-Unis et Israël
Berbera attire les convoitises en raison de son emplacement stratégique, à l’entrée sud de la mer Rouge. Des images satellitaires consultées par « Le Monde » révèlent que l’aéroport de Berbera s’agran...
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"We find steady growth in work-related messages but even faster growth in non-work-related messages, which have grown from 53% to more than 70% of all usage." www.nber.org/papers/w34255
How People Use ChatGPT
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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The world's electricity infrastructure, mapped.
"Yemen’s internationally recognized government has reported that Iranian personnel entered Hodeidah by dhow from the Horn of Africa in the days before the Houthis’ March 28 launch." The logistical dimensions of this conflict certainly also run through the Horn. www.stimson.org/2026/how-to-...
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2 #postdoc positions available at UBT: on South - South security arrangements and transnational security/aid professionals from the Global South and East. Happy to answer questions! www.uni-bayreuth.de/job-vacancy-... @postcolh.bsky.social @conf-mean-trans.bsky.social @africamultiple.bsky.social
Job advertisement of the University of Bayreuth - Chair for Sociology in Africa
Two Postdoctoral Positions (m/f/d)
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Iran looking to formalize its control over the Strait and its power to receive tolls from favored nations in exchange for freedom of movement says India, Pakistan, Iraq, Malaysia and China are in negotiations now to establish rules of transit www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...
Iran developing a ‘vetting system’ for Strait of Hormuz transit: Report
Lloyd's List reports that ships could be allowed to pass through 'safe corridor' once they are approved by IRGC.
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Helpful analysis from Emadeddin Badi for ISPI: Corridor Governance: How LAAF-RSF Cooperation Sharpens Gulf Competition in Libya and Sudan www.ispionline.it/en/publicati...
Corridor Governance: How LAAF-RSF Cooperation Sharpens Gulf Competition in Libya and Sudan | ISPI
Cross-border supply corridors linking Libya and Sudan have become the backbone of the RSF’s war endurance.
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What did people think Israel's recognition of Somaliland was about, if not this? This was always going to be the plan. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Resharing this paper from a year: „The Bab-El-Mandeb to the Suez Canal is part and parcel of our national security. […] If Djibouti becomes the theatre of global war, given the presence of all these military bases including of China and America, then we are trapped.“
Biruk Terrefe@terrefebiruk.bsky.social · last yr.'Ethiopia's Red Sea Politics: Corridors, Ports & Security in the Horn of Africa' My latest research paper published by @rvinews.bsky.social & #XCEPT. riftvalley.net/publication/...
Please join the Northeast Africa Forum on 3 March for a book launch & discussion of: Immunity on Trial: Ethiopian Courts, Chinese Corporations, and Contestations over Sovereignty with author Miriam Driessen & discussant Hallelujah Lulie *Hybrid event* Full details talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/3f3...
A good overview and analysis from Ngala Chome on African Arguments from a few days ago: The Horn and the Gulf: How a New Geopolitical Confluence is Emerging africanarguments.org/2026/01/the-...
The Horn and the Gulf: How a New Geopolitical Confluence is Emerging | African Arguments
The Horn and the Gulf
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🚨It’s publication day!🚨 My book OCCUPIED REFUGE is officially OUT today with Duke University Press. Available to order from all book shops! Upcoming book launches in Glasgow, Oxford, Nairobi and—perhaps—a city near you! Read the introduction for free online: www.dukeupress.edu/occupied-ref...
It is with great sadness that the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa must announce the passing of our inaugural director, Professor Tim Allen. You can read more about Tim’s life and legacy, and leave a message of condolence, on our website www.lse.ac.uk/africa/about...
In memoriam
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Ethiopia, Eritrea and Tigray: A Powder Keg in the Horn of Africa | International Crisis Group
The risk of hostilities involving Ethiopia, its northernmost Tigray region and its neighbour Eritrea remains high three years after the last major war in the area. African states and outside powers sh...
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Sylvia Croese’s keynote on Gradualism as it manifests in political governance and development projects across Angola. Chaired by Biruk Terrefe #UTADo2026 @acc-uct.bsky.social
If you’re in Oxford, go attend the movie and this discussion!
CSAE@oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 6mo ago⏰Registration closing in 5 days! Don't miss out, register for the CSAE Conference 2026 today cvent.me/4mMOvq The opening panel will start with a screening of the film Made in Ethiopia (2024), followed by the discussion 'Made in Africa: An Assessment' 📆22 March, 14:15 onwards Speaker info in 🧵
What a wonderful week we had at #UTADo2026 in Addis Ababa, hosted by the Urban Center. Looking forward to future editions!
Urban Theory Africa- Doing Workshop (UTA-Do)@uta-do.bsky.social · 6mo ago#UTADo2026 Biruk Terrefe gave a brilliant keynote on the politics of water through the different ontologies that crystallize its meanings from chemical properties to geopolitics. @acc-uct.bsky.social @terrefebiruk.bsky.social
The US is deliberately denying Cubans access to fuel and lecturing China on authoritarian supply chains.
New scandal at #Berlinale. After Wim Wenders refused to comment on Israel/Palestine and requested the Berlinale to stay out of politics, now foreign office added next scandal, refusing visas for Sudanese filmmakers. A #Berlinale in Fortress Europe is not possible www.screendaily.com/news/acclaim...
Acclaimed Sudanese filmmakers pull out of Berlinale Co-Pro Market after visa rejection over “migration risk”
EXCLUSIVE: The director and producer of 'Blue Card' previously produced Cannes award-winner 'Goodbye Julia'.
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