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Author: Matthew de Waal

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Matthew de Waal

Matthew de Waal is a freelance analyst on peace and security focused on the Horn of Africa and Red Sea based in Nairobi. Until recently, he was the Deputy Head of Research and Publications at Sahan Research, a think-tank focused on conflict and governance in the region. Matthew has a particular focus on the geopolitics of the Horn and Al-Shabaab.

  • Debating IdeasPoliticsSomaliaSudanTop story
    By Matthew de Waal
    September 16, 2026
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    The Horn of Africa’s Age of Permanent Conflict

    Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement, signed in 2005, seemed to vindicate a model for how wars might end in the Horn of Africa. Under the auspices of ...
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  • Debating IdeasPoliticsSomalia
    By Matthew de Waal
    June 24, 2026
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    Somalia: A State without Settlement

    In early June, a warm evening in Mogadishu was punctuated once again by the staccato of gunfire and mortar shells. Not the result of an ambush ...
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