Readers of this column may remember the prediction that the conflict underway in the Horn would worsen. It has.
As noted then, it conspicuously involves contestants besides East Africans. More will become involved. What inspires their quest for lost political causes is a mystery, perhaps, even, to most of them. For now, the Egyptian-Saudi-UAE intervention, along with one or two others, in the region’s conflicts does give a feeling of indigestion. How many more conflicts can they meddle in before the inevitable happens? The inevitable being ‘blowback’ in their own countries.