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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Biniam Girmay Wins Men’s Elite Title at the Africa Cycling Excellence Awards in Kigali

Eritrean cyclist  Biniam Girmay  has won the  Men’s Elite  title at the inaugural  Africa Cycling Excellence Awards (ACEA), held on  29 November 2025  in  Kigali, Rwanda . The honour places him at the top of the continent’s rankings for 2025 and further solidifies his reputation

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Isaias Afwerki’s Port Sudan Visit Sends a Clear Signal Across the Red Sea

President Isaias Afwerki’s arrival in Port Sudan on Saturday was more than a diplomatic courtesy call. From the moment General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan greeted him at the outskirts of the city — in full military uniform, with senior ministers at his side — the choreography matched

Three stage wins at Tour 2024

Biniam Girmay Leaves Intermarché: Eritrea’s Trailblazer Steps Into a New Chapter

Biniam Girmay’s departure from Intermarché–Wanty marks one of the most consequential moves of the cycling transfer season—not only for the sport, but for African cycling as a whole. After three seasons that rewrote the record books and reshaped the identity of a modest Belgian sq

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Eritrea Deepens Engagement With UN Human Rights System, Hosting First-of-Its-Kind Workshop in Asmara

In a move that has drawn notice among diplomats and aid officials in the Horn of Africa, Eritrea hosted a three-day technical workshop in Asmara last week with senior experts from the UN human rights system — an initiative that, according to UN officials,  was proposed and reques

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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

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni

A new front in East Africa’s sea obsession

Speaking on a radio show in Mbale this week, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni moved from economic complaints to open strategic language. He argued that Uganda is  “entitled”  to the Indian Ocean, using a condominium analogy: if Africa is a block of flats, he said, the compound —

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

UN Envoy and President Isaias

President Isaias Calls for New Approach to UN Role in Horn of Africa

President Isaias Afwerki held talks with Mr. Guang Cong, the newly appointed United Nations Special Envoy to the Horn of Africa, at Denden Guest House on Wednesday afternoon. The discussions centered on regional developments and the UN’s role in conflict resolution across the Hor

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Bereket Mengisteab: The Voice That Built a Nation’s Memory

Eritrea is in mourning. Bereket Mengisteab, the veteran singer whose voice became the soundscape of a nation’s endurance and pride, passed away last night after more than six decades of service to Eritrean music and identity. For many, Bereket was not simply a musician — he was t

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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

TPLF Chairman Debretsion Gebremichael

Ethiopia: TPLF Accuses Abiy Ahmed of Violating Pretoria Deal, Warns of War

The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) has accused Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government of “grave violations” of the Pretoria Agreement, warning that Ethiopia is sliding back into another catastrophic war barely two years after the peace accord ended the devastating confli

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