Ethiopia Sea Access

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio highlighted the proxy nature of Sudan's conflict, implicating external actors like Ethiopia and the UAE in the ongoing violence. The war has escalated into a regional crisis, fueled by foreign support and arms supply.

The United States is preparing to lift sanctions imposed on Eritrea, Reuters reported, in a move that could mark one of the clearest signs yet of a shifting Washington approach toward the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea corridor. Reuters, citing an internal U.S. government documen

The recent indication that the United States may lift sanctions on Eritrea marks a significant moment in the geopolitics of the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea. While Reuters frames the development as a strategic recalibration driven by shifting alliances and maritime tensions, th

Ethiopia’s state broadcaster has crossed another dangerous line. Then again, this is not new. And it almost certainly won’t be the last time. For months, EBC’s Amharic-language output has been full of this kind of messaging — blunt, emotional, territorial, and clearly aimed at a

The preeminent author, historian and tegadalay Alemseged Tesfai brilliantly detailed the “consistently suicidal pursuit of successive Ethiopian regimes to own Eritrea or parts thereof” in his piece titled “March of Folly Re-enacted: A Personal View“. It was published 27 years ago

The mask keeps slipping. A new report by Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab says it has reached a high-confidence conclusion that military assistance to Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces is taking place inside an Ethiopian National Defense Force base in Asosa, in Ethiopia’s Benishangul-

You can lie in speeches. You can posture at summits. You can wrap failure in diplomatic language and hope the world only reads the headline. But official travel advisories have a way of cutting through the performance. They are written carefully, especially by countries that have

There are votes that expose a government’s priorities more clearly than any speech ever could. Ethiopia’s  “No”  vote at the UN Human Rights Council on 31 March, against a resolution reaffirming the illegality of Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the o

Brussels is not undergoing a moral conversion. It is responding to a harsher strategic map in the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea. Annette Weber, the European Union’s Special Representative for the Horn of Africa, was in Asmara this week, and the visit matters less for any dramati

The African Union Commission has appointed former Tanzanian president Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete as the AU High Representative for the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea, placing a veteran East African statesman at the center of one of the continent’s most sensitive geopolitical files. Th

An opinion piece titled, "Middle East's future may be decided in the Horn of Africa : The Red Sea is becoming the centre of global power."  was published on #JerusalemPost on 15 March by Dr Shmuel Legesse . The author is an international educator, community activist, a diplomacy

Washington has finally said it plainly. In a March 19 speech at the Powering Africa Summit, Senior Bureau Official Nick Checker laid out the Trump administration’s Africa policy in language that stripped away much of the old diplomatic wrapping. Africa, in this telling, is no lon