Abdullahi Boru Halakhe

Guest Author

Abdullahi Boru Halakhe (X) is the senior advocate for East and Southern Africa at Refugees International. He is an African policy expert with over a decade of experience in security, conflict, human rights, refugee work, and strategic communications.

Abdullahi has worked with and advised various international organizations including the International Rescue Committee, the International Crisis Group, Amnesty International, the BBC, the World Federation of United Nations Associations, the European Union, the African Union, USAID, the World Bank, and the United Nations Development Program.

He has regional and thematic expertise, having worked on/in Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger, and Chad on issues including humanitarian aid reform advocacy, refugees, internally displaced people, and security.

He holds a master’s in International Security Policy from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).

Articles by this author:

Two women sit inside a dark concrete shelter, one on a single bed draped in what appears to be blue mosquito netting, the other on a low stool, in Adwa, Ethiopia on March 30, 2025. A window with bars in the top right of the image provides a little light. Buckets and what appear to be cooking implements sit on the barren floor.

In Ethiopia, an Unfinished Peace Risks Betraying the People of Tigray and the Broader Region

Dec. 3, 2025 Sarah Miller and Abdullahi Boru Halakhe