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Horn of Africa | The Mesob Journal • Mesob Journal
Sharron Yemane reflects on President Isaias Afwerki’s first address to the UN General Assembly in September 1993 and its significance for Eritrean sovereignty.
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 UN envoy’s new direct channel with Ansar Allah, combined with talks in Riyadh, reflects several principles Eritrea set out weeks earlier: Yemen cannot be settled militarily, the conflict should not be absorbed into wider regional wars, and the security of the Red Sea requires serious engagement with the states and actors that actually sit along it.
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.
Foreign Minister Osman Saleh used Eritrea’s address to challenge the annual UN ritual itself, placing economic justice, peace and a more equitable international order at the centre of the country’s message.
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.
Foreign Minister Osman Saleh told the UNGA81 plenary on sea-level rise that existing baselines and maritime boundaries must be preserved, framing Eritrea's Red Sea waters as a question of sovereignty and climate adaptation alike.
Eritrea and Egypt have restated that the Red Sea's security and governance belong to its littoral states, in talks at the 81st UN General Assembly that also covered trade, investment, ports and maritime transport.
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.
Eritrea's foreign minister told a UNGA81 meeting on the right to development that trade barriers, debt burdens and unilateral coercive measures keep developing countries from setting their own policies — five days after Washington lifted sanctions tied to Executive Order 14046.
A May 2026 SWP study calls the UAE one of the most aggressive external actors in African conflicts, and names Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Ethiopia. Ten countries — from the RSF's supply corridors to conflict gold in eastern Congo — show how Emirati military, financial and logistical networks connect wars that look domestic.
