Crossing the Line: Sudan’s Stern Warning and Ethiopia’s Dangerous Proxy WarExamining Sanctions Regime and the Systemic Adversity Applied on Eritrea’s Sovereignty: A Contextual ImperativeRFI’s Eritrea–Ethiopia Piece Launders a Claim International Law RejectsAlpha says Anagulu drill hit extends Eritrea copper-gold zoneThe “Powder Keg” Script: Crisis Group’s Eritrea BiasEthiopia: Abiy's War Script and the Media’s False Balance on EritreaErdogan in Addis: sovereignty first as Abiy beats sea-access drumFenkil’s Dawn: The Martyrs Who Made Eritrea UnbowedAU PSC: Israel’s Somaliland move “null and void”Sudan envoy praises Eritrea ties as “partnership beyond geography”Crossing the Line: Sudan’s Stern Warning and Ethiopia’s Dangerous Proxy WarExamining Sanctions Regime and the Systemic Adversity Applied on Eritrea’s Sovereignty: A Contextual ImperativeRFI’s Eritrea–Ethiopia Piece Launders a Claim International Law RejectsAlpha says Anagulu drill hit extends Eritrea copper-gold zoneThe “Powder Keg” Script: Crisis Group’s Eritrea BiasEthiopia: Abiy's War Script and the Media’s False Balance on EritreaErdogan in Addis: sovereignty first as Abiy beats sea-access drumFenkil’s Dawn: The Martyrs Who Made Eritrea UnbowedAU PSC: Israel’s Somaliland move “null and void”Sudan envoy praises Eritrea ties as “partnership beyond geography”
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Examining Sanctions Regime and the Systemic Adversity Applied on Eritrea’s Sovereignty: A Contextual Imperative

The discourses surrounding Eritrea, particularly in mainstream policy and media circles, have too often been stripped of essential context, resulting in a diagnostic failure. To address the symptoms, be it concerns over national service or civil liberties, without a rigorous audi

SATIRICAL EDITORIAL ILLUSTRATION

RFI’s Eritrea–Ethiopia Piece Launders a Claim International Law Rejects

RFI’s February 22 piece tries to sound like a careful warning about a "widening rift" between Ethiopia and Eritrea. But the most consequential thing it does is much simpler: it normalizes an unlawful premise by handing it to a credentialed authority. That authority is Clionadh Ra

Crisis Group Bias

The “Powder Keg” Script: Crisis Group’s Eritrea Bias

International Crisis Group’s 18 February 2026 briefing advertises itself as conflict prevention. In reality, it performs something closer to narrative management: it repackages Ethiopia’s Red Sea ambition as a “grievance” to be accommodated, while keeping Eritrea boxed into the f

South Sudan

A Brief Understanding of South Sudan: Not a Forgotten Conflict but a Neglected One

South Sudan, the world's youngest nation, is teetering on the brink of a devastating return to full-scale war. While international attention is often diverted, the country is experiencing a severe political, humanitarian, and security crisis, fuelled by a collapsing peace deal, v

Trump Letter

Abiy Ahmed’s Strategic Isolation Is Now in Writing

What Addis Ababa has spent two years denying is now staring it in the face—on White House letterhead. The January 16 letter from  Donald Trump  to  Abdel Fattah el-Sisi  isn’t just about mediation. It’s a signal. Clear, deliberate, and consequential. Washington is aligning itself

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Israeli Recognition of Somaliland

A Regional Security Threat and Potential for Destabilisation of the Horn of Africa, the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden Regions and Redrawing the Map of the Horn of Africa On December 26, 2025, the State of Israel announced its formal recognition of the Republic of Somaliland as an

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Israel’s Somaliland Recognition Sparks Legal, Regional, and Security Backlash

Israel’s announcement on Thursday recognizing Somaliland as an independent and sovereign state has triggered immediate diplomatic fallout across the Horn of Africa and the Middle East, reopening long-standing legal and geopolitical fault lines rather than delivering the stability

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