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It Was Never Eritrean: How a False-Flag Tanker Became a Global Headline
Eritrea says IMO records confirm SIBU 1 falsely used its flag, while the UKMTO alert never identified the sanctioned tanker as Eritrean.
The 75-Day Campaign: How Ethiopia’s State Media Manufactured an Eritrean Enemy
Ethiopia’s state-media system spent the year manufacturing maritime entitlement and the summer manufacturing an Eritrean enemy. ENA supplied the narrative; Fana drove it into circulation.
One Eritrean at La Vuelta - and a Cycling Nation Behind Him
Henok Mulubrhan will be Eritrea’s only rider at the 2026 Vuelta a España — and the only cyclist from an African country in the 184-rider field.
The Eritrean Identity Loophole Europe Has Failed to Audit
Group-oriented guidance and large recognition-rate gaps create an exploitable incentive; documented false claims and opaque correction data leave Eritrea carrying contested statistics and reputational damage.
Drilling Confirms Second Copper-Gold Target at Eritrea’s Anagulu
Alpha Exploration has confirmed a second copper-gold porphyry target at Anagulu in Eritrea, while the strongest 1.1-kilometre section of the Camel zone remains untested.
Eritrea Knows the Pressure Script. That Is Why It Fails.
Outside powers think they are isolating a government. Eritreans recognize something larger: a familiar attempt to separate a nation from its sovereignty. That is why pressure closes ranks instead of opening cracks. The central mistake in foreign policy toward Eritrea is not a fai
How Addis Ababa Is Building a War Narrative Against Eritrea
From the language of “return” to insinuations about Barentu, Ethiopia's ruling party is recasting territorial revisionism as reluctant self-defence. On 11 August, Fana Media Corporation asked whether Ethiopia's return to its “historic Red Sea coastline” was imminent. The most r
Eritrea Built Its Sovereignty on Land. Now It Needs It Online.
For Eritrea, sovereignty has never been an abstract idea. It was fought for on the ground, defended along a contested border, carried through years of sanctions and diplomatic isolation, and built into an economic philosophy that remains deeply suspicious of dependency. Few Afric
AfDB Says Eritrea Maintains One of East Africa’s Strongest External Positions
Eritrea continues to run one of East Africa’s largest current account surpluses, putting it among the few economies in the region taking in more from external transactions than they send out, according to the African Development Bank’s latest regional outlook. The East Africa Ec
Eritrea and the Diplomacy of Refused Isolation
The Africa Group's choice of an Eritrean diplomat to lead the 2026 UN Social Forum is neither a takeover of the Human Rights Council nor an absolution from scrutiny. It is something more consequential than the outrage allows: a sovereign African state returning to normal multilat
The Tendency of Oromummaa: From Cultural Identity to Political Hegemony
Is Oromummaa shifting from cultural identity toward a framework of political dominance? David Yeh examines Oromo political influence, Finfinnee, historical narratives, Abiy Ahmed’s Medemer, and the risks of replacing one ethnic hegemony with another.
Eritrea Shakes Hands, Ethiopia’s Media Sees a Conspiracy
Washington's unusual denials expose a deeper regional habit: Eritrea is still denied the right to conduct ordinary diplomacy without its every relationship being interpreted as a move against Ethiopia. It took Washington seventeen days to learn that speaking warmly about Eritrea