Israel’s Somaliland Recognition Sparks Legal, Regional, and Security BacklashREDISCOVERING ERITREA: A UN Resident Coordinator’s Testimony of Progress and PotentialSudan at the Crossroads: A Peace Initiative Rooted in Accountability, Not IllusionsWhen Maps Become Messages: Ethiopia’s Dangerous Normalization of Territorial ClaimsEgypt: Cairo Draws Clear Red Lines as Sudan’s War Tightens Its GripEthiopia on the Brink: A Humanitarian Crisis Deepened by Political ChoicesPresident Isaias Afwerki: Ending Sudan War Requires Cutting RSF Supply LinesEritrea Withdraws from IGAD, Citing Loss of MandateEritrea-Ethiopia Algiers Agreement at 25: International Law Still StandsRiyadh Signals a Strategic Reset: President Isaias and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Hold High-Level Talks in Saudi ArabiaIsrael’s Somaliland Recognition Sparks Legal, Regional, and Security BacklashREDISCOVERING ERITREA: A UN Resident Coordinator’s Testimony of Progress and PotentialSudan at the Crossroads: A Peace Initiative Rooted in Accountability, Not IllusionsWhen Maps Become Messages: Ethiopia’s Dangerous Normalization of Territorial ClaimsEgypt: Cairo Draws Clear Red Lines as Sudan’s War Tightens Its GripEthiopia on the Brink: A Humanitarian Crisis Deepened by Political ChoicesPresident Isaias Afwerki: Ending Sudan War Requires Cutting RSF Supply LinesEritrea Withdraws from IGAD, Citing Loss of MandateEritrea-Ethiopia Algiers Agreement at 25: International Law Still StandsRiyadh Signals a Strategic Reset: President Isaias and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Hold High-Level Talks in Saudi Arabia
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Sudan at the Crossroads: A Peace Initiative Rooted in Accountability, Not Illusions

Sudan is not asking the world for sympathy. It is asking for seriousness. That message came through clearly at the United Nations on Monday, as Sudan’s Prime Minister laid out a peace initiative framed not as a pause in violence, but as a  realistic, enforceable exit from war . I

Abiy Ahmed and the Crisis in Ethiopia.

Ethiopia on the Brink: A Humanitarian Crisis Deepened by Political Choices

The International Rescue Committee’s latest  Global Humanitarian Crisis Watchlist  offers a sobering snapshot of the world heading into 2026. Ethiopia now ranks among the top five most at-risk countries globally — alongside Sudan, Palestine, and South Sudan. This is not a symboli

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President Isaias Afwerki: Ending Sudan War Requires Cutting RSF Supply Lines

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki has said that any serious effort to end the war in Sudan must begin with cutting off the supply routes that continue to arm and sustain the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), warning that calls for ceasefires are meaningless while weapons and mercenarie

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Riyadh Signals a Strategic Reset: President Isaias and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Hold High-Level Talks in Saudi Arabia

When President Isaias Afwerki arrived at Al Yamamah Palace on Wednesday afternoon, the tone was clear from the outset: this was not a ceremonial courtesy call, but a strategic conversation between two states that share more than a stretch of the Red Sea. Eritrea and Saudi Arabia —

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki and his delegation in Riyadh

Eritrean President in Riyadh for Strategic Talks Amid Regional Shifts

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki arrived in Riyadh on Tuesday, 9 December, for a four-day working visit at the invitation of King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, marking another calculated move in a region undergoing rapid geopolitical adjustment. Upon landing at Riyadh’s Royal Te

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Eritrea MFA Issues Sweeping Rebuttal to Ethiopia’s “Recycled Ambitions” on the Red Sea

Eritrea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Nov. 23, 2025 has issued one of its most comprehensive and forceful rebukes to date of Ethiopia’s ongoing campaign for “sovereign access” to the Red Sea, accusing Addis Ababa of reviving old expansionist doctrines under new language and at

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni

A new front in East Africa’s sea obsession

Speaking on a radio show in Mbale this week, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni moved from economic complaints to open strategic language. He argued that Uganda is  “entitled”  to the Indian Ocean, using a condominium analogy: if Africa is a block of flats, he said, the compound —

Eritrea Ambassador to the UN Sophia Tesfamariam and delegation.

Eritrea urges reform of an unequal global order at Doha Social Summit

Eritrea has urged the international community to confront what it described as “structural injustices” in the global development system, warning that social progress cannot flourish under conditions of dependency or inequality. Addressing the Second World Summit for Social Develo

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EU–Egypt Partnership Exposes Ethiopia’s Diplomatic Isolation

Two documents released within twenty-four hours — one from Brussels, the other from Addis Ababa’s mission to the EU — capture a widening rift in Nile and Horn-of-Africa diplomacy. On 22 October, the European Union and Egypt issued a  Joint Statement  elevating their cooperation t

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The Afar Card: Ethiopia’s Proxy War Against Eritrea

As we recall, for the second time in just two weeks, Ethiopia has gone before the United Nations to accuse Eritrea of “supporting armed groups” inside its territory. No evidence. No coordinates. No captured fighters. Just a letter — carefully timed, theatrically phrased — and qui

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Sudan: RSF leader lashes out at enemies, warns neighbours

In a 18-minute video address released this week, Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commander Mohamed “Hemedti” Dagalo delivered one of his angriest speeches since Sudan’s civil war began in April 2023 — a tirade that revealed as much about his frustration as his strategy. Seated indoors

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Sudan’s Burhan vows to resist imposed settlements, hails unity after El-Fashir martyrdom

Burhan says Sudan’s army fights only its enemies, not its people, and rejects any foreign-imposed peace. His speech after El-Fashir strikes a tone of unity and defiance.

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