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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.
At the 81st UN General Assembly, President Taye Atske Selassie blamed “reckless external actors” for instability in the Horn — two days after seven Ethiopian armed groups formed an alliance against Abiy Ahmed's government. The record at home, the dispute with Eritrea and questions over Sudan tell a more complicated story.
Eritrea has welcomed Washington’s removal of Ethiopia-related sanctions on key Eritrean institutions and officials, while signaling that preliminary contacts are already laying the groundwork for broader talks with the United States on investment, trade and bilateral relations.
The African Union and United Nations met in New York on September 21 to discuss preventive diplomacy across Africa, but Ethiopia was absent from the published list of crises even as a seven-group armed alliance moved to remove Abiy Ahmed's government.
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.
Egypt's president and the CIA director used talks in Cairo to put Sudan, Somalia, the Horn of Africa and Red Sea maritime security alongside Gaza, Iran and intelligence cooperation on a single regional agenda.
Eritrea has welcomed Washington's decision to end the sanctions imposed in 2021, calling the measures unjustified while signalling that the reversal could open the way to more constructive relations with the United States.
The United States has lifted sanctions on the Eritrean Defense Forces, the PFDJ and four other Eritrean entities and individuals after the national emergency underpinning the 2021 Ethiopia-related sanctions program expired without a continuation notice.
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.
Egypt backed measures taken by Saudi Arabia to protect its security and called for secure navigation through the Red Sea and key regional waterways during talks in Cairo, as fighting between Saudi Arabia and Yemen's Houthis intensified.
A senior Eritrean delegation held talks with Saudi officials in Riyadh on Tuesday, continuing a series of meetings focused on expanding bilateral cooperation, with trade, investment and energy emerging as key areas of discussion. The delegation includes Hagos Gebrehiwet, Head of
The agreements reached in Cairo connect industrial expansion around Suez with a wider Chinese position on maritime security and coastal-state authority.