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Dr. Annette Weber

Research Division:

Africa and Middle East Senior Fellow (on leave of absence)

annette.weber@swp-berlin.org

Curriculum Vitae
Publications

Areas of Expertise

East Africa
Ethiopia
Horn of Africa
Somalia
South Sudan
Sudan
Civil wars
Fragile states
Jihadism
Political systems
Regional and interstate conflicts

Focus

Regional and intrastate conflicts in the Horn of Africa, questions of political order, social change, and statebuilding in fragile states.

Short Curriculum vitae

Since July 2021 EU Special Representative for the Horn of Africa

2012-2019 Senior Advisor Berghof/ AU Mediation Sudan/ HoA

2010-2012 Research stay in Ethiopia

2003-2006 Coordinator for the Ecumenical Network on Central Africa (Berlin)

1999-2001 Researcher in the Eastern Africa Team, Amnesty International (London)

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SWP Publications

- Annette Weber
Fading Hopes: Ethiopia on the Brink?
- German
Ethiopia is facing its greatest challenge since the Abiy Ahmed transition. Abiy must end the conflict with the TPLF and stop the pogroms or the country risks implosion. As Annette Weber argues, that would have grave consequences for the entire Horn of Africa.

Point of View, 12.11.2020
- Annette Weber
Sudan Conference: A Historic Opportunity
- German
The Sudan Partnership Conference on 25 June will seek funding commitments to rebuilding Sudan’s desolate economy. As Annette Weber argues, the crucial point will be aligning financial assistance with a successful transition process.

Point of View, 23.06.2020
- Bettina Rudloff
- Annette Weber
Cascading of crises in East Africa
- German
The Corona crisis joins a multitude of existing crises in East Africa. If the responses to the various challenges are not carefully coordinated, there is a blatant risk that hunger will spread in the region. An analysis by Bettina Rudloff and Annette Weber.

Point of View, 29.05.2020
- Annette Weber
Covid-19 in the Horn of Africa
- German
Gaining Trust in a Crisis

SWP Comment 2020/C 20, 06.05.2020, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2020C20
- Annette Weber
For a Peaceful Transition in Sudan
- German
Current Developments and Plausible Scenarios

SWP Comment 2019/C 39, 25.10.2019, 4 Pages

doi:10.18449/2019C39
- Anne Koch
- Annette Weber
- Isabelle Werenfels (eds.)
Profiteers of Migration?
- German
Authoritarian States in Africa and European Migration Management

SWP Research Paper 2018/RP 04, 24.07.2018, 74 Pages
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External publications

- Annette Weber
What's Driving Sudan and Ethiopia Apart?

This week on The Horn, Alan Boswell is joined by Annette Weber, senior fellow with the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, to talk about deteriorating Ethiopia-Sudan relations, the risk of a regional crisis and EU policy in the Horn of Africa.

International Crisis Group, Podcast/Africa (S2 episode 18), 18.05.2021
- Annette Weber
Is Sudan’s Transition Over Before It Began?

In: The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington (AGSIW), 10.06.2019 (online)
- Annette Weber
The yellow vests of Khartoum

Protests in Sudan

In: Qantara (online), 28.01.2019
- Annette Weber
Why a Feminist Standpoint Epistemology Is Necessary in Times of Hegemonic Masculinity: Thoughts on Intersectionality and Transrationality

in: Josefina Echavarría Alvarez, Daniela Ingruber and Norbert Koppensteiner (eds.) Echoes to Many Peaces: Transrational Resonances; Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland 2018; S. 83-108.
- Annette Weber
Eritrea

Transitions After Military Rule

in: Hans-Joachim Giessmann / Roger Mac Ginty (eds.) The Elgar Companion to Post-Conflict Transition; Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK/ Northampton, MA, USA 2018
- Annette Weber
Women without arms: gendered fighter constructions in Eritrea and Southern Sudan

in: International Journal of Conflict and Violence Vol. 5, 2011, No. 2, pp. 357-370

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