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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Abiy Ahmed Planing War

Ethiopia: Abiy's War Script and the Media’s False Balance on Eritrea

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

Massawa - Three tanks stand fixed as a monument

Fenkil’s Dawn: The Martyrs Who Made Eritrea Unbowed

Some victories are celebrated once. Others are lived—every day—like a vow you can’t afford to break. At Twalet, the Tanks Don’t Rust In Massawa, the Red Sea air has a way of softening everything—except memory. You can feel it near Twalet, where three tanks stand fixed as a monume

Abiy Ahmed Planing War

Ethiopia’s MoFA Letter to Eritrea: Another Pretext in Plain Sight

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

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

Abiy Ahmed map

When Maps Become Messages: Ethiopia’s Dangerous Normalization of Territorial Claims

There are moments in diplomacy when silence is louder than words. And there are moments when a picture—deliberately chosen, officially circulated—does more damage than a thousand speeches. The map displayed this week in a video released by Ethiopia’s Prime Minister’s Office belon

Abiy speaks at the 20th Nations

When the Mask Slips: Abiy Ahmed’s “Lice” Remark and the Language of Future Atrocities

There are moments in political life when a leader inadvertently reveals the architecture of his worldview. Sometimes it comes dressed in eloquence; sometimes it leaks out through a metaphor so coarse, so naked in intent, that it cannot be brushed off as a slip of the tongue. Abiy

AU Fake Fano Peace Deal

The AU’s Ethiopia Problem: How a Continental Body Became a Stage for Manufactured Peace

For anyone who has followed the AU’s behavior over the last two decades, the events of December 4 in Ethiopia were not shocking. They were simply the latest chapter in a long, predictable pattern: the African Union being instrumentalized by whichever Ethiopian government happens

Sudan in ruines

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

US-Saudi-Sudan.webp

Sudan’s Peace Demands More Than Diplomacy, It Requires Justice

The recent announcement by President Donald J. Trump at the urging of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to engage in Sudan’s peace process marks a notable shift in international attention. For a war that has displaced millions, decimated cities, and triggered what the United

Kristalina Georgieva With Ethiopian delegation

Ethiopia’s hegemonic ambitions is a danger to Horn of Africa

Ethiopia’s Prosperity Party officials and elites have been making a flurry of claims and declarations the past few months with respect to their aspirations on the Red Sea. They use the term “sea access” to cloak their real intent of asserting control over a coastline. This obsess

Ethiopia threatening AU is Silent

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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