The Resurgence of an Imperial Ghost The political landscape of the Horn of Africa was jolted in late 2023 by the resurgence of a decades-old ambition emanating from Addis Ababa. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government began a concerted campaign, articulating what it framed as Ethi
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
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
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
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 —
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
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
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
Somalia’s Defence Minister Ahmed Moalim Fiqi has confirmed that aircraft are departing from Bosaso Airport in Puntland bound for Sudan, Chad, and Niger , a disclosure that adds weight to mounting evidence of covert operations feeding the Sudan conflict. Addressing Somalia’s Up
Eritrea’s Minister of Information, Yemane G. Meskel , has accused Ethiopia’s ruling Prosperity Party (PP) leadership of “collective historical amnesia” after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed claimed this week that his government could find no official record explaining how Ethiopia “
Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki arrived in Cairo on Wednesday morning for a five-day working visit at the invitation of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi , marking another significant moment in the deepening ties between Asmara and Cairo. According to Eritrea’s Minis
Some stories never really age. Decades after Eritrea’s 1993 referendum, a certain breed of Ethiopian elites, including those “opposition” stalwarts who are waiting for Abiy to fall, have perfected the fine art of grievance-making. History, law, and basic logic? Mere props in the
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