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Tracking Ethiopia's sea-access ambitions, port politics, regional responses, and Horn of Africa security implications.
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
The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) has accused Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government of “grave violations” of the Pretoria Agreement, warning that Ethiopia is sliding back into another catastrophic war barely two years after the peace accord ended the devastating confli
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
Eritrea’s Minister of Information, Yemane G. Meskel , has accused Ethiopia’s ruling Prosperity Party (PP) leadership of “collective historical amnesia” after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed claimed this week that his government could find no official record explaining how Ethiopia “
Sovereignty — the sacred right of a people to chart their own destiny, guard their lands and waters, and govern themselves — is not lost in a single stroke, nor is it undone in a day. More often, it is tested, challenged, and chipped away, piece by piece, through strategies that
Abiy Ahmed’s latest parliamentary speech is not mere political theater — it is a dangerous escalation. His invocation of demographic conquest, his demand for Port of Assab, and his imperial posturing are not just offensive, they are destabilizing. This is not diplomacy. It is a d
The role of intellectuals, as Noam Chomsky reminds us, is to speak truth to power and to hold leaders accountable for their words and actions. Unfortunately, certain segments of Ethiopia’s political elite appear to have lost sight of this fundamental responsibility. Recently, Eth
Why “Who decided?” exposes the poverty of Ethiopia’s Red Sea narrative When Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed addressed Ethiopia’s parliament on October 28, 2025, his speech was less a policy statement and more a performance — part sermon, part threat. He spoke of peace, then hinted at w
It was supposed to be a day of military pride — Ethiopia’s "118th National Defence Forces Day". Flags, parades, speeches about sacrifice. Instead, Field Marshal Berhanu Jula - once held as a prisoner of war in Eritrea - used the occasion to do what Ethiopian generals have done to
Some stories never really age. Decades after Eritrea’s 1993 referendum, a certain breed of Ethiopian elites, including those “opposition” stalwarts who are waiting for Abiy to fall, have perfected the fine art of grievance-making. History, law, and basic logic? Mere props in the
Two documents released within twenty-four hours — one from Brussels, the other from Addis Ababa’s mission to the EU — capture a widening rift in Nile and Horn-of-Africa diplomacy. On 22 October, the European Union and Egypt issued a Joint Statement elevating their cooperation t