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Red Sea Reality Check: A Letter to Ethiopia’s Political Elite
There are moments in the life of a region when words are not mere words. They become signals.…
Tag: Algiers Agreement
EditorialEditorial
Hypocrisy at Sea: Ethiopian Elites’ Double Standards on Red Sea Access and Eritrean Sovereignty
Introduction: Landlocked Ethiopia’s ruling elite have revived an age-old obsession: obtaining direct access to the Red Sea through Eritrean territory. In…
EritreaOpinion
Abiy Ahmed: Brinkmanship will not get you anywhere.
After Eritrea expelled the Ethiopian occupying Army in 1991, two years before the official independence of Eritrea on…
EditorialEditorial
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…
OpinionOpinion
Washington and Asmara: A History of an Unresolved Relationship
The relationship between the United States and Eritrea was born in the context of the post-war order shaped…
OpinionOpinion
A Persistent Threat: International Law and Ethiopia’s New Maritime Ambitions
On 9 July 2018, in Asmara, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki signed a…
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Who is Dr. Ghelawdewos Araia?
Dr. Araia is a bombastic individual who often stirs controversy in Ethiopian history, specifically in the relationship between…
CommentaryOpinion
Reflections on the Ankara Declaration: Hopes and Reservations for the Horn of Africa
The Ankara Declaration, signed on December 11, 2024, between Ethiopia and Somalia, represents a significant diplomatic breakthrough in…
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Getachew’s Calls for Peace: Reckoning with a Troubled Legacy in Eritrean Relations
Getachew Reda, the President of Tigray’s Interim Administration, recently called for peaceful relations with Eritrea, stating, “We want…
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France 24’s Dishonest reporting from the Tigray Region of Ethiopia
Recently, I came across a video report by a France 24 journalist who implicitly claimed she was reporting…