Africa Aware
Africa Aware is a new podcast series from the Africa Programme at Chatham House. Each month Yusuf Hassan brings together the best international experts to provide original analysis on issues pertinent to African states’ national, regional and international politics. Our guests tackle the big questions and propose solutions centred around African agency.
Mar 24, 2023
The war in northern Ethiopia since November 2020
and subsequent conquest of disputed farmlands in Al-Fashaga by the
Sudanese army on the Ethiopia-Sudan border, has brought into focus
the importance of agricultural commodities such as sesame as a
potential driver of land contestation and
conflict.
In this episode
of Africa Aware, Ahmed Soliman and Abel Abate Demissie discuss the
interrelation of commodity and conflict supply chains, land
contestation, and boundary disputes in the Horn of Africa, with
particular focus on the regions of Wolkait/Western Tigray in
northwest Ethiopia and Al Fashaga in eastern Sudan.
This podcast was
produced with support from the Cross-Border Conflict Evidence,
Policy and Trends (XCEPT) project, funded by UK Aid from the UK
government