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Coverage of Eritrea-related sanctions, legal records, diplomatic restrictions, and official U.S. and international actions.
There are moments in African politics when the truth must be said without varnish, without diplomatic hedging, without the cowardice of “neutrality.” We are in one of those moments now. Ethiopia’s rulers — from Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to his Foreign Minister, generals, propagan
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
President Isaias Afwerki held talks with Mr. Guang Cong, the newly appointed United Nations Special Envoy to the Horn of Africa, at Denden Guest House on Wednesday afternoon. The discussions centered on regional developments and the UN’s role in conflict resolution across the Hor
Eritrea is in mourning. Bereket Mengisteab, the veteran singer whose voice became the soundscape of a nation’s endurance and pride, passed away last night after more than six decades of service to Eritrean music and identity. For many, Bereket was not simply a musician — he was t
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
When the African Union (AU) released a full-page statement from Addis Ababa this week condemning a comment made by Donald Trump about Nigeria, it was more than just an exercise in diplomacy — it was a mirror reflecting the organization’s moral bankruptcy. The AU can apparently fi
Eritrea has urged the international community to confront what it described as “structural injustices” in the global development system, warning that social progress cannot flourish under conditions of dependency or inequality. Addressing the Second World Summit for Social Develo
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
Abiy Ahmed’s Isolation Is Self-Inflicted: How a Chain of Short-Term Gambits Backfired There’s a pattern to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s statecraft: grab for the nearest lever, declare victory, and deal with the blowback later. That cycle—tactical bargains unmoored from strategy—ha
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