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On the evening of 21st March 2024, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung’s (KAS) Regional Programme Security Dialogue East Africa (RP SIPODI EA) organised a two-panel symposium at its office in Kampala. The first panel discussed the escalations in the Red Sea with a specific focus on the current military situation, Iran’s network of armed groups in the Middle East and the implications of these escalations on the Horn of Africa.
The Konrad Adenauer Stiftung’s (KAS) Regional Programme Security Dialogue for East Africa (RP SIPODI East Africa) in partnership with the Ethiopian civil society organisation, Climate Resilient Borderlands Horn of Africa (CRBi), conducted a one-day workshop on the topic: “Local Views and Solutions for Climate Change Induced Displacement and other related Threats in Borderland Areas” on the 5th March 2024 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Three weeks after the announcement of the striking Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Addis Abeba and Hargeisa on the establishment of an Ethiopian military base in Somaliland in return for Ethiopia's recognition of Somaliland's independence from Somalia, a delegation of Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) visited the three capitals of Mogadishu, Addis Ababa and Djibouti. Beside this latest diplomatic turmoil the main purpose of the visit was to address the situation in Sudan and the most recent security related developments in the Red Sea and their impact on German and European politics.
The Konrad Adenauer Stiftung’s (KAS) Regional Programme Security Dialogue for East Africa (RP SIPODI East Africa) hosted an evening discussion event on 14th December 2023 on the theme of “The Horn of Africa at Crossroads? Recent Developments and Scenarios for 2024”. The event focussed on the latest developments in Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan and their impact on the entire Horn of Africa region. External speakers were Lukas Kupfernagel, Director of the KAS Country Office Ethiopia / African Union and Khaled Sirelkhatem, political analyst and Sudanese expert on the Horn of Africa. Edgar Mwine, Project Officer at RP SIPODI East Africa, was the third expert, elaborating on the current situation in Somalia.
On Thursday 28th November 2023, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung’s (KAS) Regional Programme Security Dialogue for East Africa (RP SIPODI East Africa) launched a publication on Child Migration in Ethiopia. This publication is a collection of ten research papers from different scholars and researchers in Ethiopia on the challenges of Child Migration. The research was conducted between March and May 2023 and the findings were first presented at an academic research conference held at Wolaita Sodo University on 16th and 17th June 2023 that brought together academics, community-based organisations, local and regional leaders from the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR) of Ethiopia and was organised by KAS RP SIPODI East Africa in partnership with Wolaita Sodo University, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, and the Ethiopian Office of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).
The Regional Programme Security Dialogue for East Africa (RP SIPODI East Africa) of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) in cooperation with the Management Institute for National Development (MIND) Somalia has organised several dialogue platforms throughout this year. The four debates addressed (security) policy questions of high relevance for the Somali society and took place at the Somali capital of Mogadishu.
The Konrad Adenauer Stiftung’s (KAS) Regional Programme Security Dialogue for East Africa (RP SIPODI East Africa) in partnership with the Center of Sustainable Conflict Resolution (CSCR), conducted a five-day training workshop on countering radical extremist narratives on online platforms, from 6th to 10th November 2023, in Nairobi, Kenya.
On the evening of 17th October 2023, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung’s (KAS) Regional Programme Security Dialogue for East Africa (RP SIPODI East Africa) hosted an event that brought together a diverse group of participants, including partners from Kampala, Addis Ababa, Nairobi, Mogadishu, Hargeisa, Djibouti, and Juba. Moreover, the event drew the participation of a German delegation, composed of policy advisors to Members of the German Federal Parliament and representatives from the KAS headquarters in Berlin. The event took place as part of the Kampala Geopolitics Conference 2023.
On 17th and 18th October 2023, the sixth edition of the Kampala Geopolitics Conference (KGC) took place at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. This event is traditionally organised by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) in collaboration with the French Embassy to Uganda, Makerere University, UN Women, and Alliance Française. After having taken over from the KAS Country Office Uganda & South Sudan, this event was coordinated for the second time by the KAS Regional Programme Security Dialogue for East Africa (RP SIPODI East Africa).
From September 27th to 28th 2023, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung’s (KAS) Regional Programme Security Dialogue for East Africa (RP SIPODI East Africa), in collaboration with the HORN Institute for Strategic Studies, organised a conference that was held in Nairobi to address the crisis that erupted in Sudan earlier this year. The two-day conference focused on the humanitarian and security implications for Sudan and the Horn of Africa Region. This event provided a valuable platform for participants to engage in collaborative discussions and develop strategies for addressing the challenges arising from the crisis. The participants represented a diverse spectrum of roles, including various government officials and representatives of international organisations, (former) diplomats, as well as experts from media and think tanks.
