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In a wide-ranging interview with RT, Eritrea’s president delivered a sweeping assessment of Africa’s economic dependence, foreign intervention, political institutions and place in a changing world order.
Isaias Afwerki’s Moscow remarks connect sovereignty, African responsibility and financial independence to the practical terms of partnership with Russia.
David Yeh examines Ethiopia’s maritime ambitions, the distinction between commercial sea access and strategic demands, and the implications for Eritrean sovereignty.
Bana Negusse examines Ethiopia’s maritime ambitions, domestic crises and claims of self-defence, arguing for respect for Eritrea’s sovereignty.
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.
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.
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.
Eritrea's foreign minister raised what Asmara calls the provocative acts of Ethiopia's Prosperity Party towards its neighbours with UN Secretary-General António Guterres in New York, alongside Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb governance and support for a united, sovereign Sudan.
A May 2026 SWP study calls the UAE one of the most aggressive external actors in African conflicts, and names Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Ethiopia. Ten countries — from the RSF's supply corridors to conflict gold in eastern Congo — show how Emirati military, financial and logistical networks connect wars that look domestic.
Sudan is consumed by war, Ethiopia faces renewed armed confrontation, Somalia still battles al-Shabaab and Yemen remains mired in conflict. ACLED's Conflict Index places Eritrea well outside the region's main concentrations of political violence, a trajectory the essay argues deserves serious, evidence-based study rather than uncritical praise or blanket condemnation.
Seven Ethiopian political and armed opposition organizations, among them Fano, the Oromo Liberation Army, the TPLF and the ONLF, have announced the Ethiopian Popular Forces Alliance for Survival, pledging to remove the Prosperity Party government and install an inclusive transitional administration under a Transitional Charter.
Port imperialism has become a central claim in Eritrean arguments against foreign logistics concessions at Red Sea gateways. This analysis weighs that critique against the commercial realities facing Massawa and Assab, and asks where sovereign defence ends and self-inflicted isolation begins.