The most consequential development in the Horn of Africa may not be taking place in any of its capitals. It is unfolding instead across a chain of borderlands stretching from the Red Sea through Kassala and further eastern Sudan to South and south-eastern to Ethiopia’s Tigray: spaces formally divided by international frontiers but increasingly connected by militias, military camps, ethnic networks, displaced armed forces and the strategic ambitions of states.
Eritrea sits at the centre of this emerging geography. The evidence accumulating in eastern Sudan suggests that Asmara is once again doing what it has done, in different forms, for
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