Horn of Africa

Yale’s latest Asosa evidence exposes a wider pattern linking Ethiopia’s RSF support, UAE patronage and pressure on Sudan, Somalia and Eritrea.

Sudan's army and people deserve support against the RSF's foreign-backed war. Washington must confront the governments sustaining it.

Eritrea says IMO records confirm SIBU 1 falsely used its flag, while the UKMTO alert never identified the sanctioned tanker as Eritrean.

Ethiopia’s state-media system spent the year manufacturing maritime entitlement and the summer manufacturing an Eritrean enemy. ENA supplied the narrative; Fana drove it into circulation.

Henok Mulubrhan will be Eritrea’s only rider at the 2026 Vuelta a España — and the only cyclist from an African country in the 184-rider field.

Group-oriented guidance and large recognition-rate gaps create an exploitable incentive; documented false claims and opaque correction data leave Eritrea carrying contested statistics and reputational damage.

Alpha Exploration has confirmed a second copper-gold porphyry target at Anagulu in Eritrea, while the strongest 1.1-kilometre section of the Camel zone remains untested.

Outside powers think they are isolating a government. Eritreans recognize something larger: a familiar attempt to separate a nation from its sovereignty. That is why pressure closes ranks instead of opening cracks. The central mistake in foreign policy toward Eritrea is not a fai

From the language of “return” to insinuations about Barentu, Ethiopia's ruling party is recasting territorial revisionism as reluctant self-defence. On 11 August,  Fana Media Corporation asked  whether Ethiopia's return to its “historic Red Sea coastline” was imminent. The most r

For Eritrea, sovereignty has never been an abstract idea. It was fought for on the ground, defended along a contested border, carried through years of sanctions and diplomatic isolation, and built into an economic philosophy that remains deeply suspicious of dependency. Few Afric

Eritrea continues to run one of East Africa’s largest current account surpluses, putting it among the few economies in the region taking in more from external transactions than they send out, according to the African Development Bank’s latest regional outlook. The  East Africa Ec

The Africa Group's choice of an Eritrean diplomat to lead the 2026 UN Social Forum is neither a takeover of the Human Rights Council nor an absolution from scrutiny. It is something more consequential than the outrage allows: a sovereign African state returning to normal multilat