The AU’s Ethiopia Problem: How a Continental Body Became a Stage for Manufactured PeaceThe Red Sea Gambit: Eritrea’s Rise and the Battle for the Horn’s FutureBiniam Girmay Signs Three-Year Deal With NSN, Marking a Major Shift in African CyclingBiniam Girmay Wins Men’s Elite Title at the Africa Cycling Excellence Awards in KigaliIsaias Afwerki’s Port Sudan Visit Sends a Clear Signal Across the Red SeaBiniam Girmay Leaves Intermarché: Eritrea’s Trailblazer Steps Into a New ChapterSudan: A Proxy Machine, a Sub-Imperial Ambition, and a Region Fighting to Stop the CollapseThe Silent Extraction: How Western Refugee Politics Turned African States Into Gatekeepers — and Eritrea Paid the PriceEritrea MFA Issues Sweeping Rebuttal to Ethiopia’s “Recycled Ambitions” on the Red SeaEritrea Deepens Engagement With UN Human Rights System, Hosting First-of-Its-Kind Workshop in AsmaraThe AU’s Ethiopia Problem: How a Continental Body Became a Stage for Manufactured PeaceThe Red Sea Gambit: Eritrea’s Rise and the Battle for the Horn’s FutureBiniam Girmay Signs Three-Year Deal With NSN, Marking a Major Shift in African CyclingBiniam Girmay Wins Men’s Elite Title at the Africa Cycling Excellence Awards in KigaliIsaias Afwerki’s Port Sudan Visit Sends a Clear Signal Across the Red SeaBiniam Girmay Leaves Intermarché: Eritrea’s Trailblazer Steps Into a New ChapterSudan: A Proxy Machine, a Sub-Imperial Ambition, and a Region Fighting to Stop the CollapseThe Silent Extraction: How Western Refugee Politics Turned African States Into Gatekeepers — and Eritrea Paid the PriceEritrea MFA Issues Sweeping Rebuttal to Ethiopia’s “Recycled Ambitions” on the Red SeaEritrea Deepens Engagement With UN Human Rights System, Hosting First-of-Its-Kind Workshop in Asmara
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The AU’s Ethiopia Problem: How a Continental Body Became a Stage for Manufactured Peace

For anyone who has followed the AU’s behavior over the last two decades, the events of December 4 in Ethiopia were not shocking. They were simply the latest chapter in a long, predictable pattern: the African Union being instrumentalized by whichever Ethiopian government happens

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Sudan: A Proxy Machine, a Sub-Imperial Ambition, and a Region Fighting to Stop the Collapse

There are moments in African politics when the truth hides in plain sight, yet the world pretends it sees fog. Sudan’s war is one of them. For nearly two years, analysts have wasted ink debating “complexity,” “dual narratives,” and “moral ambiguity.” It’s nonsense. Strip away the

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Sudan’s Peace Demands More Than Diplomacy, It Requires Justice

The recent announcement by President Donald J. Trump at the urging of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to engage in Sudan’s peace process marks a notable shift in international attention. For a war that has displaced millions, decimated cities, and triggered what the United

Kristalina Georgieva With Ethiopian delegation

Ethiopia’s hegemonic ambitions is a danger to Horn of Africa

Ethiopia’s Prosperity Party officials and elites have been making a flurry of claims and declarations the past few months with respect to their aspirations on the Red Sea. They use the term “sea access” to cloak their real intent of asserting control over a coastline. This obsess

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Enough Is Enough: Abiy Ahmed’s March Toward War — and the African Union’s Unforgivable Silence

There are moments in African politics when the truth must be said without varnish, without diplomatic hedging, without the cowardice of “neutrality.” We are in one of those moments now. Ethiopia’s rulers — from Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to his Foreign Minister, generals, propagan

Ethiopian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gedion Timothewos Hessebon

A Speech Built on Sand: Exposing Ethiopia's FM Gedion Timothewos’s Gaslighting on Eritrea

By any standard of diplomacy, Ethiopian FM Gedion Timothewos’s speech at Addis Ababa University should be taught — not as foreign policy, but as an Olympic-level exercise in historical revisionism, projection, and victim theatrics. He spoke confidently, but confidence does not di

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The Custodians of the Red Sea: Eritrea and the Balance of the Horn

The Red Sea has always been more than a body of water. It is a living archive, a sacred artery of trade, migration, and memory. Long before colonial maps carved borders into the Horn of Africa, the Red Sea was a mirror of endurance — a cradle where civilizations learned to breath

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The African Union’s Selective Conscience: Silence on Ethiopia, Outrage on Trump

When the African Union (AU) released a full-page statement from Addis Ababa this week condemning a comment made by Donald Trump about Nigeria, it was more than just an exercise in diplomacy — it was a mirror reflecting the organization’s moral bankruptcy. The AU can apparently fi

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Abiy Ahmed’s Isolation Is Self-Inflicted: How a Chain of Short-Term Gambits Backfired

Abiy Ahmed’s Isolation Is Self-Inflicted: How a Chain of Short-Term Gambits Backfired There’s a pattern to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s statecraft: grab for the nearest lever, declare victory, and deal with the blowback later. That cycle—tactical bargains unmoored from strategy—ha

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The Red Sea Does Not Open to Coercion

Sovereignty  — the sacred right of a people to chart their own destiny, guard their lands and waters, and govern themselves — is not lost in a single stroke, nor is it undone in a day. More often, it is tested, challenged, and chipped away, piece by piece, through strategies that

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Abiy Ahmed’s Speech: A Delusional Threat to Peace

Abiy Ahmed’s latest parliamentary speech is not mere political theater — it is a dangerous escalation. His invocation of demographic conquest, his demand for Port of Assab, and his imperial posturing are not just offensive, they are destabilizing. This is not diplomacy. It is a d

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The Responsibility of Intellectuals: A Reflection on Ethiopia’s Current Political Discourse

The role of intellectuals, as Noam Chomsky reminds us, is to speak truth to power and to hold leaders accountable for their words and actions. Unfortunately, certain segments of Ethiopia’s political elite appear to have lost sight of this fundamental responsibility. Recently, Eth

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