Abiy Ahmed’s Red Sea Rhetoric: Ethiopia’s Dangerous Return to Imperial Fantasy
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has once again opened an old wound in the Horn of Africa. Standing before his parliament, he declared that the...
Ethiopia’s Boundary Policy: From Imperial Consolidation to Contemporary Contradictions
Prefatory Summary: The Narrative According to the Ethiopian Reporter
In January 2021, the Ethiopian newspaper The Reporter published a lengthy article titled “Why Did Sudan...
Montevideo and the Eritrean Case: A Mirror Ethiopia Refuses to Face
The Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States, signed in 1933 in Uruguay by twenty American republics including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico,...
War of Narratives: Eritrea at the Center of a Shifting Horn
A quiet but intense information war is unfolding across the Horn of Africa, with Eritrea once again at the center of competing narratives about...
When Strategic Cooperation Becomes Reckless: Russia’s Naval and Nuclear Agreements with...
Executive Summary
In 2024, Ethiopia and Russia signed agreements expanding cooperation in nuclear energy and naval defense. Both governments present these deals as developmental, but...
Ethiopia’s Sea Access Gambit: Between Diplomacy, Military Revisionism, and Propaganda
Ethiopia’s Maritime Puzzle
Since losing its coastline with Eritrea’s independence in 1993, Ethiopia has wrestled with dependence on Djibouti for over 95 percent of its...
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