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Tracking Ethiopia's sea-access ambitions, port politics, regional responses, and Horn of Africa security implications.
As we recall, for the second time in just two weeks, Ethiopia has gone before the United Nations to accuse Eritrea of “supporting armed groups” inside its territory. No evidence. No coordinates. No captured fighters. Just a letter — carefully timed, theatrically phrased — and qui
When a hijab-wearing influencer posts about her love for Somalia or her prayers for peace in Sudan, most viewers scroll past without suspicion. But behind some of those polished smiles, there’s no real woman at all — only an image stolen, edited, and deployed for propaganda. A B
For years, Ethiopian officials and state-aligned media have repeated a striking claim — that the country spends enormous sums each year on port access through Djibouti because Eritrea allegedly denied it a route to the Red Sea. The narrative, now echoed across speeches and social
When history threatens the comfort of power, the truth itself becomes the target. That is precisely what Eritrea faces today — a new wave of revisionism disguised as “analysis,” peddled by Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity Party (PP) activists and pseudo-intellectual circles such as “Horn
A line on X shouldn’t carry this much weight. But Ethiopian prominent activist Jawar Mohammed’s post does, because it does what official talking points can’t: it shows a country’s breaking point in minutes of raw, human grief. “Ethiopian soldiers have begun posting videos of the
They said Abiy Ahmed would “unite Ethiopia” and make it the Singapore of Africa. Seven years later, the country can’t even pay its bills, hold its borders, or feed its people. Let’s stop pretending Ethiopia is a “rising power.” It’s a failed experiment kept on life support by for
In a rare and unfiltered interview with Zara Media, Jaal Jiregna Gudeta — senior adviser to Jaal Marroo, the leader of the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) — delivered one of the most candid assessments yet of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s recent war rhetoric on the Red Sea. His w
The map says it all. From the blood-red zones of Amhara and Benishangul-Gumuz to the orange cautions stretching across Oromia and Somali regions, Australia’s Smartraveller advisory paints Ethiopia not as a tourist destination — but as a country consumed by conflict, fear, and s
It’s official now. Ethiopia’s economic “renaissance” has gone from sales pitch to slow-motion crash. Reuters confirmed this week that Addis Ababa’s debt restructuring talks have collapsed — bondholders walked out, the government admitted defeat, and legal action is on the table.
For a country once paraded as Africa’s “rising star,” Ethiopia’s latest poverty report reads like an obituary for a dream that never matured. The World Bank’s Poverty & Equity Brief paints a grim picture: nearly four out of ten Ethiopians now live below the poverty line, up fr
In one of his strongest statements to date on the Nile dispute, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi used the opening of the 8th Cairo Water Week to deliver a firm warning to Ethiopia over its handling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Addressing ministers, di
Eritrea’s Minister of Information, Yemane G. Meskel, has sharply rebuked Ethiopia’s latest communication to the United Nations, describing it as “an act of duplicity in its extreme” and “a deceitful charade” aimed at misleading both Ethiopians and the international community. The