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Abiy Ahmed Planing War

Ethiopia: Abiy's War Script and the Media’s False Balance on Eritrea

The lazy framing is already being warmed up: “tensions are rising,” “neighbours trade claims,” “both sides must de-escalate.” It sounds responsible. It reads balanced. And it quietly deletes the one fact that matters:  one side has spent years normalising war talk as policy. If y

AU

AU PSC: Israel’s Somaliland move “null and void”

The African Union Peace and Security Council (PSC) has issued one of its clearest sovereignty statements on Somalia in years—explicitly condemning Israel’s unilateral recognition of the “so-called Republic of Somaliland,” demanding it be revoked, and warning that no actor has the

Biniam Girmay NSN

Biniam Girmay ends drought with Valenciana opener win for NSN

Eritrea’s Biniam Girmay opened his 2026 season the way a nation likes to see it: arms up, sprint line won, and the long wait finally over. Girmay powered to victory on  Stage 1 of the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana , delivering an immediate payoff on his debut with  NSN Cycling

The Somali Cabinet

Somalia Scraps UAE Security Deals as Regions Push Back

Somalia’s Council of Ministers has formally terminated all bilateral security and defence agreements with the United Arab Emirates, marking one of the most consequential foreign-policy moves taken by the federal government in recent years. In a cabinet decision adopted on Sunday,

Sudan prime minister

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

President Isaias interview with AlTayar newspaper

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

PIA-MBS

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

Eritrea FM

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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