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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-

Eritrean Women - Food Security.

How Eritrean Women Are Driving Food Security From the Ground Up

There are development slogans, and then there is the harder thing: the daily work that keeps families fed, markets supplied, and communities standing on their own feet. In Eritrea, that work is often being carried by women whose contribution is discussed too little outside the co

Abiy Ahmed's Ethiopia

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

Eritrea National Team

Eritrea’s Football Fight: Talent, Pressure, and Resolve

For Eritrean football, the challenge isn’t only on the pitch. It’s unfolding in hotel corridors, in transit halls, and in the quiet calculations young players are forced to make about their future. The Eritrean National Football Federation is navigating a familiar pattern - one t

Former Tanzanian president Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete

AU appoints Kikwete as Horn of Africa, Red Sea envoy

The African Union Commission has appointed former Tanzanian president Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete as the AU High Representative for the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea, placing a veteran East African statesman at the center of one of the continent’s most sensitive geopolitical files. Th

Eritrea Red Sea Camels

Eritrea’s AFCON Return Revives a Proud Football History

Eritrea’s 2–0 win over Eswatini in Meknes Today, was more than a positive result in the preliminary round of AFCON PAMOJA 2027 qualifying. It was a reminder that Eritrean football did not suddenly appear from nowhere. It returned. After almost two decades away from continental q

Middle East map

Opinion Piece Published on Jerusalem Post by Dr Shmuel Legesse on 15 March 2026 – A Response

An opinion piece titled, "Middle East's future may be decided in the Horn of Africa : The Red Sea is becoming the centre of global power."  was published on #JerusalemPost on 15 March by Dr Shmuel Legesse . The author is an international educator, community activist, a diplomacy

Africa Map

America First in Africa Means Interests First, Pretense Last

Washington has finally said it plainly. In a March 19 speech at the Powering Africa Summit, Senior Bureau Official Nick Checker laid out the Trump administration’s Africa policy in language that stripped away much of the old diplomatic wrapping. Africa, in this telling, is no lon

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Beyond the Propaganda: Wode Maya, Eritrea, and the Reality of African Sovereignty

It happens every time. A content creator lands in Asmara, camera in hand, expecting a dystopian wasteland. They come armed with the same exhausted Western propaganda—the “North Korea of Africa” label, dutifully slapped onto a YouTube title to appease the algorithm. Recently, the

Red Sea Map

The World Cannot Afford a Second Maritime Meltdown in the Red Sea

As the Strait of Hormuz buckles under the weight of war, a reckless axis of actors—driven by Abu Dhabi and executed by its clients in Addis Ababa—threatens to turn the Horn of Africa into a global economic catastrophe. At a moment when the Strait of Hormuz is already under severe

Eritrean Port

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

Abiy Ahmed war on Tigray

Ethiopia: Tigray’s Urgent Warning Exposes Abiy’s War Path

As Ethiopia moves into its 2026 election cycle, Tigrayan political actors say siege conditions are tightening again and federal force deployments are pointing toward renewed war. The most serious signal right now is not coming from Addis Ababa’s talking points. It is coming from

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