Within a few hours this week, a nearly identical paragraph began marching across Ethiopian state-linked accounts on X and Facebook. From the Ethiopian Embassy in Tokyo to embassy pages in Beijing and other missions, from MFA-adjacent pages to partisan activists, the same text app
Ethiopia’s Prosperity Party officials and elites have been making a flurry of claims and declarations the past few months with respect to their aspirations on the Red Sea. They use the term “sea access” to cloak their real intent of asserting control over a coastline. This obsess
In the high-stakes theater of Horn of Africa politics, a familiar script is being rehearsed. The stage is set in Addis Ababa, the lead actor is the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry, and the plot revolves around a dramatic, almost comedic, attempt to recast an aggressor as the aggrieved
By any standard of diplomacy, Ethiopian FM Gedion Timothewos’s speech at Addis Ababa University should be taught — not as foreign policy, but as an Olympic-level exercise in historical revisionism, projection, and victim theatrics. He spoke confidently, but confidence does not di
Cairo was more than a ceremonial trip. When Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki stood beside President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi this November, the message wasn’t about museums or optics — it was a map of how the Red Sea will now be governed. No slogans. No ambiguity. A littoral doctrin
The Red Sea has always been more than a body of water. It is a living archive, a sacred artery of trade, migration, and memory. Long before colonial maps carved borders into the Horn of Africa, the Red Sea was a mirror of endurance — a cradle where civilizations learned to breath
Somalia’s Defence Minister Ahmed Moalim Fiqi has confirmed that aircraft are departing from Bosaso Airport in Puntland bound for Sudan, Chad, and Niger , a disclosure that adds weight to mounting evidence of covert operations feeding the Sudan conflict. Addressing Somalia’s Up
In a wide-ranging interview with AlQahera News aired from Cairo, Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki delivered one of his most candid and uncompromising statements on the state of the Horn of Africa, the Red Sea, and Africa’s enduring struggle against external manipulation. His w
In a sharply worded interview with Saudi Arabian state-owned media Al Arabiya, Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty proclaimed that the governance of the Red Sea is strictly the business of coastal states, and excluded the land-locked Ethiopia from any participation: “Geograph
Eritrea’s Minister of Information, Yemane G. Meskel , has accused Ethiopia’s ruling Prosperity Party (PP) leadership of “collective historical amnesia” after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed claimed this week that his government could find no official record explaining how Ethiopia “
Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki arrived in Cairo on Wednesday morning for a five-day working visit at the invitation of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi , marking another significant moment in the deepening ties between Asmara and Cairo. According to Eritrea’s Minis
Sovereignty — the sacred right of a people to chart their own destiny, guard their lands and waters, and govern themselves — is not lost in a single stroke, nor is it undone in a day. More often, it is tested, challenged, and chipped away, piece by piece, through strategies that
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