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When adidas unveiled Messi+10: Season 2 , its celebration of the next generation of football visionaries, one name stood out — Lily Yohannes , the 18-year-old midfielder whose story spans continents but whose heart beats with unmistakable Eritrean pride. Born in Virginia to Eri

Eritrea’s environmental and agricultural leadership took center stage in October 2025 with a series of landmark events that underscored the country’s deep commitment to biodiversity, sustainable farming, and public health. Through national conferences and seminars convened by the

They said Abiy Ahmed would “unite Ethiopia” and make it the Singapore of Africa. Seven years later, the country can’t even pay its bills, hold its borders, or feed its people. Let’s stop pretending Ethiopia is a “rising power.” It’s a failed experiment kept on life support by for

In a rare and unfiltered interview with Zara Media, Jaal Jiregna Gudeta — senior adviser to Jaal Marroo, the leader of the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) — delivered one of the most candid assessments yet of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s recent war rhetoric on the Red Sea. His w

The map says it all. From the blood-red zones of Amhara and Benishangul-Gumuz to the orange cautions stretching across Oromia and Somali regions, Australia’s Smartraveller advisory paints Ethiopia not as a tourist destination — but as a country consumed by conflict, fear, and s

Eritrea and the Sultanate of Oman have agreed to strengthen bilateral trade and investment cooperation, following high-level talks held in Muscat between senior government officials from both nations. The Eritrean delegation, led by Mr. Nusreddin Mohamed Saleh , Minister of Trad

It’s official now. Ethiopia’s economic “renaissance” has gone from sales pitch to slow-motion crash. Reuters confirmed this week that Addis Ababa’s debt restructuring talks have collapsed — bondholders walked out, the government admitted defeat, and legal action is on the table.

For a country once paraded as Africa’s “rising star,” Ethiopia’s latest poverty report reads like an obituary for a dream that never matured. The World Bank’s Poverty & Equity Brief paints a grim picture: nearly four out of ten Ethiopians now live below the poverty line, up fr

In one of his strongest statements to date on the Nile dispute, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi used the opening of the 8th Cairo Water Week to deliver a firm warning to Ethiopia over its handling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Addressing ministers, di

Eritrea has challenged the accuracy and intent of the latest Investment Climate Statement on Eritrea published by the U.S. State Department in late September, describing the annual assessment as factually flawed and politically outdated. Information Minister Yemane G. Meskel ,

When Sudan’s new Prime Minister, Dr. Kamil Idris, landed in Asmara this week, it was more than just a diplomatic courtesy call. It was a homecoming of sorts — a return to a neighbor that never turned its back on Sudan even when the world did. Over two long days, the Sudanese lead

A senior Sudanese delegation led by Prime Minister Dr. Kamil Idris arrived in Asmara on Thursday for a two-day working visit — a trip that has drawn attention not only for its timing but for the message it carries about regional solidarity in a time of deep Sudanese crisis. The