Introduction: Landlocked Ethiopia’s ruling elite have revived an age-old obsession: obtaining direct access to the Red Sea through Eritrean territory. In doing so, they have unfurled a...

There are moments when a military parade tells you more by what it hides than by what it shows. Ethiopia’s recent celebration of the...

There is a persistent tendency in some academic and advocacy circles to treat Eritrea’s national unity as a contrivance rather than a lived political...

This article examines the imbalance in President Isaias Afwerki’s recent media interview, where extensive attention was given to global and regional geopolitics while domestic...

Let me start by mentioning the obvious, Eritrea is rarely examined with patience. It is more often assessed through borrowed lenses that flatten history,...

Dear readers, a few weeks ago - technically last year, even though the change of calendar matters more than the actual time elapsed - I...