Overview When Major General Teshome Gemechu sat before the Ethiopian state broadcaster to address the growing regional conversation around Ximdo, he handed analysts a rare...

The article titled “Ethiopia-Eritrea Relations: Historical Drivers of Conflict and Pathways to Peace,” published by Ethiopia’s Institute of Foreign Affairs on May 22, 2026,...

Kampala and the Weight of History For personal reasons, I have spent the past several weeks in Kampala, Uganda's capital — a vibrant, contradictory city...

 The Deeper Strategic Logic - and Its Limits, Challenging Ipsedixitism on the Ground Ethiopia's structural advantages over Eritrea are not in question: larger population, bigger...

The Architecture of a Different Kind of Security There is an old saying among soldiers: the map is not the territory. Generals who win wars...

There are moments in the life of a region when words are not mere words. They become signals. They reveal intentions. They test whether...