Buy Martin's Book: Understanding Ethiopia's Tigray War - https://amzn.to/474KUzmMartin Plaut is a journalist and academic specializing in conflicts in Africa, especially the Horn of Africa. He worked as a BBC News journalist from 1984 to 2012 and is a member of Chatham House. As of 2019, Plaut was a senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies of the University of London.