Tag: #Assab

Barking at Eritrea While Ethiopia Unravels

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Addis Ababa Can Expel Diplomats. It Cannot Expel Geography. By Alula Frezghi Ethiopia has closed its embassy in Asmara, expelled Eritrean...

Complicity and Duplicity of External Entities Will Only Deepen the Crisis in Ethiopia and Across the Horn of Africa

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By Ahferom Thomas The announcement of the formation of the Coalition of Ethiopian Popular Forces for Survival, on September 20,...

The Red Sea Is Not Abu Dhabi’s Chessboard

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Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan and the Limits of External Power in the Horn of Africa By Alula Frezghi The most important question...

Ethiopia’s Current Narrative as a Cover for a Much Older Ambition

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By Alula Frezghi The most revealing aspect of Ethiopia’s Ruling Party pundits is not what they say about Iran or...

The Red Sea Should Be a Bridge, Not a Battlefield: Sovereignty and Sea Access in the Horn of Africa

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Ahmed Ibrahim The history of a coastline cannot be rewritten simply because a neighboring country has become landlocked. For Eritrea,...

Access is Negotiable, Sovereignty is Not!

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Eritrea, Ethiopia, and the Dangerous Recasting of the Red Sea Question By Alula Frezghi A subtle but consequential transformation is unfolding...

The Potemkin Party: Historical Obfuscation and Geopolitical Compellence

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Weldu Gebrselassie (PhD) & Amleset Negash G.Hiwet Over the last three years, the Potemkin Party (PP) has made concerted efforts...

After the Ship Has Sailed: Ethiopia’s Myth of 3,000-Year Ownership of the Red Sea Coast

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By Simon Zecharias Introduction: Ethiopia did not lose Assab in 1993. It lost an occupation. It lost the temporary possession of...

The Myth of Foreign Military Bases In Eritrea

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Eritrea is not for Sale! by Ghidewon Abay Asmerom Few accusations reveal the dishonesty of anti-Eritrean propaganda more clearly than the...

The Fallacy of the IFA Proposal: Why Sovereign Boundaries, Not Coerced Normative Demands, Condition Bilateral Peace

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by Mihreteab Medhanie The recent framework (May 22, 2026) published by the Ethiopian Institute of Foreign Affairs (IFA), titled “Ethiopia-Eritrea...

Ethiopian Regimes and the Fabled Hyena

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Debesai Tesfu The preeminent author, historian and tegadalay Alemseged Tesfai, in his piece titled “March of Folly Reenacted: A Personal...

Reckless General Tsadkan Gebretensae and the Contested Legacy of Power, War, and Political Ambition

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By David Yeh How many wars must a region endure before those who helped ignite them are finally held to...