Beyond the Propaganda: Wode Maya, Eritrea, and the Reality of African SovereigntyThe World Cannot Afford a Second Maritime Meltdown in the Red SeaEritrea’s Ports Are Not a Prize for PropagandaEthiopia: Tigray’s Urgent Warning Exposes Abiy’s War PathCrossing the Line: Sudan’s Stern Warning and Ethiopia’s Dangerous Proxy WarExamining Sanctions Regime and the Systemic Adversity Applied on Eritrea’s Sovereignty: A Contextual ImperativeRFI’s Eritrea–Ethiopia Piece Launders a Claim International Law RejectsAlpha says Anagulu drill hit extends Eritrea copper-gold zoneThe “Powder Keg” Script: Crisis Group’s Eritrea BiasEthiopia: Abiy's War Script and the Media’s False Balance on EritreaBeyond the Propaganda: Wode Maya, Eritrea, and the Reality of African SovereigntyThe World Cannot Afford a Second Maritime Meltdown in the Red SeaEritrea’s Ports Are Not a Prize for PropagandaEthiopia: Tigray’s Urgent Warning Exposes Abiy’s War PathCrossing the Line: Sudan’s Stern Warning and Ethiopia’s Dangerous Proxy WarExamining Sanctions Regime and the Systemic Adversity Applied on Eritrea’s Sovereignty: A Contextual ImperativeRFI’s Eritrea–Ethiopia Piece Launders a Claim International Law RejectsAlpha says Anagulu drill hit extends Eritrea copper-gold zoneThe “Powder Keg” Script: Crisis Group’s Eritrea BiasEthiopia: Abiy's War Script and the Media’s False Balance on Eritrea
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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

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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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Examining Sanctions Regime and the Systemic Adversity Applied on Eritrea’s Sovereignty: A Contextual Imperative

The discourses surrounding Eritrea, particularly in mainstream policy and media circles, have too often been stripped of essential context, resulting in a diagnostic failure. To address the symptoms, be it concerns over national service or civil liberties, without a rigorous audi

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Erdogan in Addis: sovereignty first as Abiy beats sea-access drum

Abiy Ahmed tried to stage the usual Addis photo-op when Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan arrived. But the camera caught something different: a stiff, guarded prime minister sitting beside a visitor who didn’t look like he came for flattery. What played out at the joint app

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AU PSC: Israel’s Somaliland move “null and void”

The African Union Peace and Security Council (PSC) has issued one of its clearest sovereignty statements on Somalia in years—explicitly condemning Israel’s unilateral recognition of the “so-called Republic of Somaliland,” demanding it be revoked, and warning that no actor has the

Trump Letter

Abiy Ahmed’s Strategic Isolation Is Now in Writing

What Addis Ababa has spent two years denying is now staring it in the face—on White House letterhead. The January 16 letter from  Donald Trump  to  Abdel Fattah el-Sisi  isn’t just about mediation. It’s a signal. Clear, deliberate, and consequential. Washington is aligning itself

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Israeli Recognition of Somaliland

A Regional Security Threat and Potential for Destabilisation of the Horn of Africa, the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden Regions and Redrawing the Map of the Horn of Africa On December 26, 2025, the State of Israel announced its formal recognition of the Republic of Somaliland as an

The Somali Cabinet

Somalia Scraps UAE Security Deals as Regions Push Back

Somalia’s Council of Ministers has formally terminated all bilateral security and defence agreements with the United Arab Emirates, marking one of the most consequential foreign-policy moves taken by the federal government in recent years. In a cabinet decision adopted on Sunday,

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Israel’s Somaliland Recognition Sparks Legal, Regional, and Security Backlash

Israel’s announcement on Thursday recognizing Somaliland as an independent and sovereign state has triggered immediate diplomatic fallout across the Horn of Africa and the Middle East, reopening long-standing legal and geopolitical fault lines rather than delivering the stability

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When Maps Become Messages: Ethiopia’s Dangerous Normalization of Territorial Claims

There are moments in diplomacy when silence is louder than words. And there are moments when a picture—deliberately chosen, officially circulated—does more damage than a thousand speeches. The map displayed this week in a video released by Ethiopia’s Prime Minister’s Office belon

Abiy speaks at the 20th Nations

When the Mask Slips: Abiy Ahmed’s “Lice” Remark and the Language of Future Atrocities

There are moments in political life when a leader inadvertently reveals the architecture of his worldview. Sometimes it comes dressed in eloquence; sometimes it leaks out through a metaphor so coarse, so naked in intent, that it cannot be brushed off as a slip of the tongue. Abiy

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How Washington Rewrote Its Africa Playbook — And Why the 2025 NSS Quietly Favors Eritrea’s Position

When the United States released its National Security Strategy in November 2025, most observers fixated on China, Russia, EU and the shifting landscape in the Middle East. Few looked at the final pages—three compressed paragraphs under “Africa”—where Washington quietly rewrote ho

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