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Composite: Habtom Zerai Ghirmai addressing a session at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

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

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Sanctions, Sovereignty, and the Red Sea: A Critical Examination of Eritrea, Western Narratives, and the Reuters Framing

The recent indication that the United States may lift sanctions on Eritrea marks a significant moment in the geopolitics of the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea. While Reuters frames the development as a strategic recalibration driven by shifting alliances and maritime tensions, th

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Inside Ethiopia’s State-Media Campaign Against Eritrea

Ethiopia’s state broadcaster has crossed another dangerous line. Then again, this is not new. And it almost certainly won’t be the last time. For months, EBC’s Amharic-language output has been full of this kind of messaging — blunt, emotional, territorial, and clearly aimed at a

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Arab, African and Asian States Reject Israel Move Against Somalia

Israel’s decision to deepen formal ties with Somaliland has triggered exactly the kind of regional backlash it should have expected. Somalia has rejected the move as an assault on its sovereignty, while a joint statement by the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Somalia, S

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Berlin’s Sudan Conference Reeked of Colonial Tutelage

There was something deeply revealing about the Sudan conference staged in Berlin this week. It was presented as diplomacy. It was marketed as concern. It was wrapped in the language of humanitarian urgency and civilian-centered politics. But strip away the polished statements and

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Abiy Ahmed’s Sudan Game Is Now in Plain Sight

The mask keeps slipping. A new report by Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab says it has reached a high-confidence conclusion that military assistance to Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces is taking place inside an Ethiopian National Defense Force base in Asosa, in Ethiopia’s Benishangul-

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Abiy Ahmed Can’t Hide Ethiopia’s Collapse Behind Diplomacy

You can lie in speeches. You can posture at summits. You can wrap failure in diplomatic language and hope the world only reads the headline. But official travel advisories have a way of cutting through the performance. They are written carefully, especially by countries that have

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Eritrea’s Ports Are Not a Prize for Propaganda

Economic language is being used to normalize a far more dangerous idea: that sovereign Eritrean ports can be folded into Ethiopia’s national future as if law, borders and regional peace do not matter. The latest wave of Ethiopian regime-aligned messaging about the Red Sea follows

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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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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

TPLF Chairman Debretsion Gebremichael

Ethiopia: TPLF Accuses Abiy Ahmed of Violating Pretoria Deal, Warns of War

The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) has accused Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government of “grave violations” of the Pretoria Agreement, warning that Ethiopia is sliding back into another catastrophic war barely two years after the peace accord ended the devastating confli

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Sudan: RSF leader lashes out at enemies, warns neighbours

In a 18-minute video address released this week, Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commander Mohamed “Hemedti” Dagalo delivered one of his angriest speeches since Sudan’s civil war began in April 2023 — a tirade that revealed as much about his frustration as his strategy. Seated indoors

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