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Latest Red Sea Security coverage and analysis.
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 has welcomed Washington’s removal of Ethiopia-related sanctions on key Eritrean institutions and officials, while signaling that preliminary contacts are already laying the groundwork for broader talks with the United States on investment, trade and bilateral relations.
Sudan is consumed by war, Ethiopia faces renewed armed confrontation, Somalia still battles al-Shabaab and Yemen remains mired in conflict. ACLED's Conflict Index places Eritrea well outside the region's main concentrations of political violence, a trajectory the essay argues deserves serious, evidence-based study rather than uncritical praise or blanket condemnation.
Egypt's president and the CIA director used talks in Cairo to put Sudan, Somalia, the Horn of Africa and Red Sea maritime security alongside Gaza, Iran and intelligence cooperation on a single regional agenda.
Eritrea has welcomed Washington's decision to end the sanctions imposed in 2021, calling the measures unjustified while signalling that the reversal could open the way to more constructive relations with the United States.
The United States has lifted sanctions on the Eritrean Defense Forces, the PFDJ and four other Eritrean entities and individuals after the national emergency underpinning the 2021 Ethiopia-related sanctions program expired without a continuation notice.
Egypt backed measures taken by Saudi Arabia to protect its security and called for secure navigation through the Red Sea and key regional waterways during talks in Cairo, as fighting between Saudi Arabia and Yemen's Houthis intensified.
A senior Eritrean delegation held talks with Saudi officials in Riyadh on Tuesday, continuing a series of meetings focused on expanding bilateral cooperation, with trade, investment and energy emerging as key areas of discussion. The delegation includes Hagos Gebrehiwet, Head of
The agreements reached in Cairo connect industrial expansion around Suez with a wider Chinese position on maritime security and coastal-state authority.
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.
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