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Ethiopia Sea Access | The Mesob Journal • Mesob Journal
The EU and Britain rightly defend sovereignty. Their statements must now confront Abiy Ahmed’s public claims over Eritrea’s coastline and the military rhetoric supporting them.
Yemane G. Meskel’s rebuttal exposes the legal leap in Ethiopia’s proximity argument: neither distance nor past annexation gives Addis Ababa sovereign entitlement to Eritrea’s coast.
The African Union moved quickly to clarify its position after Cairo objected. It has yet to publicly address a more direct institutional question: Ethiopia’s expulsion of Eritrean diplomats accredited to the African Union itself.
The U.S. urged Ethiopia and Eritrea to respect sovereignty and resume dialogue under their 2018 peace framework, without assigning blame for the latest escalation.
Ethiopia’s expulsion of Eritrean diplomats raises urgent questions about sovereignty, regional escalation and the protection of Eritrea’s African Union representation.
G. Haile responds to a Middle East Forum analysis of Eritrea’s Red Sea strategy, arguing that recent regional alignments make Asmara’s security concerns current rather than nostalgic.
The EU has added €18 million in aid for Ethiopia, bringing 2026 support to €61 million as fighting and drone strikes intensify across Tigray and Amhara.
The African Union’s own UNGA81 readouts left Ethiopia out. A jointly agreed communiqué from the same diplomatic round shows that Ethiopia and the Pretoria Agreement were explicitly discussed. The discrepancy deserves an explanation.
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.
