One of the defining characteristics of leadership in the Horn of Africa is the extent to which the personal experiences, ...
Eritrea remains a structural challenge to Ethiopia’s national security. The present relationship between the two countries is ...
On 17 December 2025, the Swedish foreign minister, Maria Malmer Stenergard, took the unprecedented step of travelling to Asmara to meet President Isaias’s senior envoy, Foreign Minister Osman Saleh.
For much of the past century, Ethiopia and Yemen have maintained a relationship shaped by geographical proximity, commercial ...
The recent signing of a parliamentary Memorandum of Understanding between Somalia and Djibouti has been greeted in most ...
At a joint ministerial meeting of Egyptian and Sudanese foreign and water resources officials, Cairo issued a belligerent ...
The seizure of the Amagala administration compound in Beledweyne by Macawisley fighters in late October 2026 presents a ...
The greatest threat to Isaias Afwerki’s rule no longer lies primarily in Eritrea’s marginalized population or fragmented ...
Ethiopia's security concerns with Eritrea extend well beyond the presence of Eritrean troops inside its internationally ...
Why has Eritrea deepened its strategic partnership with Egypt while maintaining strained relations with Ethiopia, its most consequential potential economic partner? The contradiction becomes clearer ...
The greatest threat to Isaias Afwerki’s rule no longer lies primarily in Eritrea’s marginalized population or fragmented opposition, but within the military and intelligence establishment that has ...
The eruption of violence in Moyale demands an analysis that resists the temptation of reductionist ethnic framing. While the ...