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Webinar Announcement: The US/Israel War on Iran: Implications on Relations between the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa

event 23. April 2026

CARPO – Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient – and the HOME Institute (Horn of Africa and Middle East Institute) are pleased to invite you to the webinar ‘The US/Israel war on Iran:  Implications on Relations between the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa’.

  • Date: 23 April 2026
  • Time: 03.00 – 04.30 pm CET I 04.00 – 05.30 pm EAT
  • Location: Zoom (registration required) 

Bringing together leading experts from academia, civil society, and policy-oriented research across Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, this webinar will examine the political and economic intersections between the two regions in the context of the ongoing war.

Participants will assess how Middle Eastern engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa ranging from infrastructure development and energy investments to mediation in regional conflicts is reshaping African agency, diplomacy, and long-term strategic autonomy in a time of crisis, and how established approaches may need to be reassessed and reconfigured.

This webinar is part of the series “The Middle East and Africa in Flux,” organized by CARPO and the HOME Institute (Horn of Africa & Middle East Institute).

Please find attached more information on the webinar. 

Speakers include: 

  • Shirley Achieng, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, United States International University – Africa
  • Damyana Bakardzhieva, Senior Research Fellow, Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy (UAE)
  • Eyad Alrefai, Lecturer, Department of Political Science, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia
  • Bob Wekesa, Director of the African Centre for the Study of the United States, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), South Africa
  • Nimo Jirdeh, Director of the HOME Institute (Horn of Africa and Middle East Institute), leading Governance and Public Sector Specialist
  • Dr. Sebastian Sons, Senior Researcher at CARPO 

Join us on Zoom for this timely conversation by please registering through the following link:  

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vUSw1dPAS56760eEdaxdIw#/registration

Download the webinar announcement as PDF.