🇺🇸🏛 Columbia University has expelled, suspended, and temporarily revoked degrees for some students involved in anti-Israel protests last year.

https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-protests-c148d1d01718a4482541a6df6cad8d74

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🇪🇹🇪🇷 Renewed conflict in Tigray or between Ethiopia and Eritrea would generate an economic, humanitarian, and security crisis that would have reverberations across Africa and even into Europe.

External powers, including Iran & Russia, have shown an interest in capitalizing on regional conflicts such as Sudan's civil war to advance their objectives around the Red Sea.

A regional war between Eritrea & Ethiopia would be another destabilizing arena for competition.

Iran & Russia are meddling in Sudan's civil war to acquire naval bases to support their power projection in the Mediterranean & Red Seas.

Russia, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are all competing for the rights to mining deposits and Red Sea port access in Sudan.

Greater instability in the Red Sea region could exacerbate already-high shipping costs.

Shipping costs have yet to return to their pre-October 2023 levels, and the Iran-backed Houthis recently announced that they planned to resume attacks for the first time since November 2024.

A war in Ethiopia would create opportunities for malignant nonstate terrorist actors.

The Islamic State, al Qaeda, and the Houthis have all exploited instability in the Horn of Africa to spread their influence.

A war would expand the wall of instability stretching across Africa from the jihadist-afflicted Sahel to the numerous conflicts in the Horn of Africa.

Sudan and Somalia are already in the midst of civil wars and now South Sudan and Ethiopia appear on the brink of civil war.

War in Ethiopia would exacerbate the refugee crisis in the Horn of Africa and increase migration flows that would impact Europe & the Gulf States.

Ethiopia has twice the population of Sudan & already hosts over one million refugees from various neighboring conflicts.

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