Eritrea used a high-level Geneva conference on Thursday to press a broader case against unilateral sanctions, with Foreign Minister Osman Saleh arguing that such measures are harming development, disrupting essential trade and undermining the very human rights they claim to defen
The mask keeps slipping. A new report by Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab says it has reached a high-confidence conclusion that military assistance to Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces is taking place inside an Ethiopian National Defense Force base in Asosa, in Ethiopia’s Benishangul-
There are development slogans, and then there is the harder thing: the daily work that keeps families fed, markets supplied, and communities standing on their own feet. In Eritrea, that work is often being carried by women whose contribution is discussed too little outside the co
You can lie in speeches. You can posture at summits. You can wrap failure in diplomatic language and hope the world only reads the headline. But official travel advisories have a way of cutting through the performance. They are written carefully, especially by countries that have
Egypt and Eritrea moved to deepen economic cooperation during high-level talks in Cairo on Monday, while also aligning on key regional issues including Sudan’s territorial integrity and Red Sea security. Egypt’s official readout said the meeting focused on trade, investment, indu
Eritrea used a high-level Geneva conference on Thursday to press a broader case against unilateral sanctions, with Foreign Minister Osman Saleh arguing that such measures are harming development, disrupting essential trade and undermining the very human rights they claim to defen
The mask keeps slipping. A new report by Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab says it has reached a high-confidence conclusion that military assistance to Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces is taking place inside an Ethiopian National Defense Force base in Asosa, in Ethiopia’s Benishangul-
You can lie in speeches. You can posture at summits. You can wrap failure in diplomatic language and hope the world only reads the headline. But official travel advisories have a way of cutting through the performance. They are written carefully, especially by countries that have
There are votes that expose a government’s priorities more clearly than any speech ever could. Ethiopia’s “No” vote at the UN Human Rights Council on 31 March, against a resolution reaffirming the illegality of Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the o
Brussels is not undergoing a moral conversion. It is responding to a harsher strategic map in the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea. Annette Weber, the European Union’s Special Representative for the Horn of Africa, was in Asmara this week, and the visit matters less for any dramati
The African Union Commission has appointed former Tanzanian president Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete as the AU High Representative for the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea, placing a veteran East African statesman at the center of one of the continent’s most sensitive geopolitical files. Th
Washington has finally said it plainly. In a March 19 speech at the Powering Africa Summit, Senior Bureau Official Nick Checker laid out the Trump administration’s Africa policy in language that stripped away much of the old diplomatic wrapping. Africa, in this telling, is no lon
Eritrea’s 2–0 win over Eswatini in Meknes Today, was more than a positive result in the preliminary round of AFCON PAMOJA 2027 qualifying. It was a reminder that Eritrean football did not suddenly appear from nowhere. It returned. After almost two decades away from continental q
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