Luka Kuol (PhD) is an adjunct professor at the University of Juba. He was previously a professor of practice for Security Studies at Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) at US National Defense University. He is also Associate Professor of Economics at University of Juba, South Sudan and a Global Fellow at Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway.
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Africa’s Greater Horn region is facing a looming polycrisis fueled by conflict, prices, climate and disease
The impacts of a strengthening El Niño and the lingering effects of the war in Iran highlight two separate and seemingly unrelated global hazards. But in the Greater Horn of Africa, an area already beset by prolonged crisis and conflict, these factors are combining with others to potentially create a major, multicountry polycrisis.
July 22, 2026
