Tag: #Nile

Ethiopia: The Guilty Party Playing the Victim

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By Ghidewon Abay Asmerom There is an old Tigrinya proverb: “ጭጉራፍሲ ወቂዓ ተእዊ” — “The whip does the lashing, then...

The Assab Question: Sovereignty, Illusion, and the Crossroads Facing Ethiopia

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by Ibrahim A. Ibrahim In geopolitics, the most dangerous moments are not marked by gunfire, but by words spoken casually...

Stability Is Not Hegemony: Why Egypt’s Posture Serves Peace in the Horn

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By Alula Frezghi The debate over the Nile has hardened into caricature. Egypt is portrayed as a relic of hydro-hegemony,...

Power, Proxies, and Peril: Ethiopia’s Sudan Gambit Risks Igniting the Horn

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By Ibrahim A Ibrahim As Reuters verified of Ethiopian involvement inside Sudan’s war are accurate, then the Horn of Africa is...

Lines in the Sand and Below the Waterline: Eritrea, the Gulf, and the Cold War Inside the GCC

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By Ahmed Mahmoud Introduction: Eritrea and the Gulf — why fractures in the GCC matter For Eritrea, the Gulf Cooperation Council...

Ethiopia’s Reckless Nile Gambit: Trump’s letter, GERD, International Law, and the Urgent Need for Leadership Change

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By David Yeh Introduction Nations assert sovereignty not by defiance alone, but by judgment. When leaders confuse unilateral action with strength,...

Famine: Ethiopia’s Only Proven Existential Threat

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by Yemane Abselom Introduction Ethiopia’s famines have never arrived unannounced; they have been foretold by policy, prepared by power, and perfected...

Tinder box on the Blue Nile: The Looming Ethiopia-Sudan Conflagration

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By B. Tekle As 2025 draws to a close, the civil war in Sudan has metastasized from a power struggle...

By Abiy’s Own Logic: Restricting the Nile Is an Existential Threat to Egypt

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by Yemane Abselom For Egypt, the Nile is not a policy preference; it is a biological requirement. Over 95 percent...

Sovereignty, Survival, and the Rule of Law: Egypt, Ethiopia, the Nile, and Eritrea’s Inviolable Maritime Rights

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By David Yeh Egypt’s position on the Nile is frequently portrayed as obstructionist or hegemonic, yet such characterizations obscure the...

The “Two Waters” Delusion: How Ethiopia’s Prosperity Party Fabricates a National Crisis to Mask Expansionist Ambition

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by B. Tekle I. Introduction: The Cartography of Coercion 1.1 The Prosperity Party's Doctrine: Manufacturing an Existential Linkage The ruling Prosperity Party...

Ethiopia: from GERD to Assab, from the Nile to the Red Sea, a painful history lesson

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The GERD (Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam) is an important work, but one that must be contextualized within a very...