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Egypt reaffirmed support for Eritrea’s sovereignty as Presidents el-Sisi and Isaias met in New Alamein to discuss Red Sea security and economic cooperation.

President Isaias Afwerki travels to Egypt for a regional security summit and bilateral talks with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Red Sea and Horn of Africa cooperation.

Eritrean Foreign Minister Osman Saleh met senior U.S. officials in Washington to discuss trade, investment and regional security after Washington lifted Ethiopia-related sanctions.

Ethiopia and Egypt have expelled each other’s diplomats, giving each 48 hours to leave as their dispute over the Nile and regional security sharpens.

Ethiopia’s expulsion of Eritrean diplomats raises urgent questions about sovereignty, regional escalation and the protection of Eritrea’s African Union representation.

Sharron Yemane reflects on President Isaias Afwerki’s first address to the UN General Assembly in September 1993 and its significance for Eritrean sovereignty.

G. Haile responds to a Middle East Forum analysis of Eritrea’s Red Sea strategy, arguing that recent regional alignments make Asmara’s security concerns current rather than nostalgic.

The UN envoy’s new direct channel with Ansar Allah, combined with talks in Riyadh, reflects several principles Eritrea set out weeks earlier: Yemen cannot be settled militarily, the conflict should not be absorbed into wider regional wars, and the security of the Red Sea requires serious engagement with the states and actors that actually sit along it.

The EU has added €18 million in aid for Ethiopia, bringing 2026 support to €61 million as fighting and drone strikes intensify across Tigray and Amhara.

Foreign Minister Osman Saleh used Eritrea’s address to challenge the annual UN ritual itself, placing economic justice, peace and a more equitable international order at the centre of the country’s message.

Washington has removed any remaining doubt about why Abdel Fattah al-Burhan did not attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

The African Union’s own UNGA81 readouts left Ethiopia out. A jointly agreed communiqué from the same diplomatic round shows that Ethiopia and the Pretoria Agreement were explicitly discussed. The discrepancy deserves an explanation.