Sudan’s government has formally rejected the Berlin conference on Sudan, with Prime Minister Kamil Idris saying the meeting and its outcomes “do not concern” the Sudanese people or government because Khartoum was excluded from participation. In remarks published by the Sudanese e
The African Union Commission has appointed former Tanzanian president Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete as the AU High Representative for the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea, placing a veteran East African statesman at the center of one of the continent’s most sensitive geopolitical files. Th
Eritrea’s 2–0 win over Eswatini in Meknes Today, was more than a positive result in the preliminary round of AFCON PAMOJA 2027 qualifying. It was a reminder that Eritrean football did not suddenly appear from nowhere. It returned. After almost two decades away from continental q
Washington has finally said it plainly. In a March 19 speech at the Powering Africa Summit, Senior Bureau Official Nick Checker laid out the Trump administration’s Africa policy in language that stripped away much of the old diplomatic wrapping. Africa, in this telling, is no lon
It happens every time. A content creator lands in Asmara, camera in hand, expecting a dystopian wasteland. They come armed with the same exhausted Western propaganda—the “North Korea of Africa” label, dutifully slapped onto a YouTube title to appease the algorithm. Recently, the
Khartoum has stopped hinting and started naming the line it says Addis Ababa has crossed. In a press statement issued Monday, March 2, 2026 , Sudan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it had monitored drones entering Sudan “from inside Ethiopian territory” throughout February a
The lazy framing is already being warmed up: “tensions are rising,” “neighbours trade claims,” “both sides must de-escalate.” It sounds responsible. It reads balanced. And it quietly deletes the one fact that matters: one side has spent years normalising war talk as policy. If y
Abiy Ahmed tried to stage the usual Addis photo-op when Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan arrived. But the camera caught something different: a stiff, guarded prime minister sitting beside a visitor who didn’t look like he came for flattery. What played out at the joint app
The African Union Peace and Security Council (PSC) has issued one of its clearest sovereignty statements on Somalia in years—explicitly condemning Israel’s unilateral recognition of the “so-called Republic of Somaliland,” demanding it be revoked, and warning that no actor has the
Eritrea’s Ministry of Information has dismissed Ethiopia’s latest diplomatic message as “patently false and fabricated,” rejecting what it described as a familiar two-year pattern of hostile campaigns — and pointedly refusing to be pulled into public escalation. In a short press
Ethiopia’s Foreign Ministry has sent Eritrea a formal letter dated 7 February 2026 that reads less like a genuine diplomatic outreach and more like a paper trail for escalation. It accuses Eritrea of “occupying Ethiopian territory,” of providing “material assistance” to militan
An open letter from former Ethiopian foreign minister Gedu Andargachew has directly contradicted Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s claim in parliament that Gedu was dispatched to Eritrea to convey Abiy’s concerns about alleged abuses against civilians in Tigray. Abiy’s parliamentar
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