The Red Sea Gambit: Eritrea’s Rise and the Battle for the Horn’s FutureBiniam Girmay Signs Three-Year Deal With NSN, Marking a Major Shift in African CyclingBiniam Girmay Wins Men’s Elite Title at the Africa Cycling Excellence Awards in KigaliIsaias Afwerki’s Port Sudan Visit Sends a Clear Signal Across the Red SeaBiniam Girmay Leaves Intermarché: Eritrea’s Trailblazer Steps Into a New ChapterSudan: A Proxy Machine, a Sub-Imperial Ambition, and a Region Fighting to Stop the CollapseThe Silent Extraction: How Western Refugee Politics Turned African States Into Gatekeepers — and Eritrea Paid the PriceEritrea MFA Issues Sweeping Rebuttal to Ethiopia’s “Recycled Ambitions” on the Red SeaEritrea Deepens Engagement With UN Human Rights System, Hosting First-of-Its-Kind Workshop in AsmaraSudan’s Peace Demands More Than Diplomacy, It Requires JusticeThe Red Sea Gambit: Eritrea’s Rise and the Battle for the Horn’s FutureBiniam Girmay Signs Three-Year Deal With NSN, Marking a Major Shift in African CyclingBiniam Girmay Wins Men’s Elite Title at the Africa Cycling Excellence Awards in KigaliIsaias Afwerki’s Port Sudan Visit Sends a Clear Signal Across the Red SeaBiniam Girmay Leaves Intermarché: Eritrea’s Trailblazer Steps Into a New ChapterSudan: A Proxy Machine, a Sub-Imperial Ambition, and a Region Fighting to Stop the CollapseThe Silent Extraction: How Western Refugee Politics Turned African States Into Gatekeepers — and Eritrea Paid the PriceEritrea MFA Issues Sweeping Rebuttal to Ethiopia’s “Recycled Ambitions” on the Red SeaEritrea Deepens Engagement With UN Human Rights System, Hosting First-of-Its-Kind Workshop in AsmaraSudan’s Peace Demands More Than Diplomacy, It Requires Justice
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Sudan: A Proxy Machine, a Sub-Imperial Ambition, and a Region Fighting to Stop the Collapse

There are moments in African politics when the truth hides in plain sight, yet the world pretends it sees fog. Sudan’s war is one of them. For nearly two years, analysts have wasted ink debating “complexity,” “dual narratives,” and “moral ambiguity.” It’s nonsense. Strip away the

Western Refugee Politics Turned African States Into Gatekeepers

The Silent Extraction: How Western Refugee Politics Turned African States Into Gatekeepers — and Eritrea Paid the Price

For nearly two decades, the world was fed a simple story: Eritreans were fleeing “en masse,” and neighbouring African states generously opened their doors. In Europe’s capitals, this narrative fit neatly into pre-existing political agendas. But behind the headlines and donor broc

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Copy-Paste Diplomacy: Ethiopia’s ‘Dialogue’ Campaign on Eritrea

Within a few hours this week, a nearly identical paragraph began marching across Ethiopian state-linked accounts on X and Facebook. From the Ethiopian Embassy in Tokyo to embassy pages in Beijing and other missions, from MFA-adjacent pages to partisan activists, the same text app

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Enough Is Enough: Abiy Ahmed’s March Toward War — and the African Union’s Unforgivable Silence

There are moments in African politics when the truth must be said without varnish, without diplomatic hedging, without the cowardice of “neutrality.” We are in one of those moments now. Ethiopia’s rulers — from Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to his Foreign Minister, generals, propagan

Ethiopian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gedion Timothewos Hessebon

A Speech Built on Sand: Exposing Ethiopia's FM Gedion Timothewos’s Gaslighting on Eritrea

By any standard of diplomacy, Ethiopian FM Gedion Timothewos’s speech at Addis Ababa University should be taught — not as foreign policy, but as an Olympic-level exercise in historical revisionism, projection, and victim theatrics. He spoke confidently, but confidence does not di

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Red Sea Doctrine: Littoral States Shut the Door on Expansionism

Cairo was more than a ceremonial trip. When Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki stood beside President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi this November, the message wasn’t about museums or optics — it was a map of how the Red Sea will now be governed. No slogans. No ambiguity. A littoral doctrin

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The African Union’s Selective Conscience: Silence on Ethiopia, Outrage on Trump

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

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Isaias Afwerki: “No External Powers, No Foreign Bases — The Horn Can Solve Its Own Problems”

In a wide-ranging interview with AlQahera News aired from Cairo, Eritrean President  Isaias Afwerki  delivered one of his most candid and uncompromising statements on the state of the Horn of Africa, the Red Sea, and Africa’s enduring struggle against external manipulation. His w

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Egypt: “Ethiopia Will Remain Land-Locked Until Judgment Day”

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

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Abiy’s Parliament Show — Big Rhetoric, Bigger Questions, No Logic

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

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Djibouti’s New "Constitutional" Trick: When “Reform” Is Just Another Word for Succession

Djibouti’s National Assembly met this morning to approve what it called a “constitutional revision” — a phrase that, in that country’s political lexicon, usually means one thing:  Ismaïl Omar Guelleh is not done yet . The draft law, numbered  2025-03/ADP , raises the presidential

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Ethiopia’s Costly Choice: How Political Arrogance Cut Addis Off From the Red Sea

For years, Ethiopian officials and state-aligned media have repeated a striking claim — that the country spends enormous sums each year on port access through Djibouti because Eritrea allegedly denied it a route to the Red Sea. The narrative, now echoed across speeches and social

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