Tag: #Yohannes IV

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

Fiction vs. Facts & Reality Red Sea Beacon -
By Simon Zecharias Introduction: Ethiopia did not lose Assab in 1993. It lost an occupation. It lost the temporary possession of...

From Mengistu’s Blood Bottles to Abiy’s Fighter Jets: War-Mongering in the Horn of Africa

Opinion Red Sea Beacon -
By Red Sea Beacon Introduction In Ethiopia, power has rarely been proven by consent. It has been proven by display. Rulers...

The Potemkin Party and Ethiopia’s Territorial Provocations: When Optics, History, and Symbols Become Warnings

Opinion Red Sea Beacon -
By David Yeh Introduction Maps can kill. In the Horn of Africa, lines drawn—or deliberately erased—have never been academic exercises; they...

Red Lines and Broken Myths: Ethnic Power, Sovereignty, and the Future of the Horn

Opinion Red Sea Beacon -
Aaron Introduction History rarely announces its turning points with clarity; it signals them through repetition of myths, of maps, of...

Ethiopia’s Dangerous Fantasy: Fake Maps as Acts of Aggression

Opinion Red Sea Beacon -
By ALULA FREZGHI Maps are never innocent, especially when they are designed to erase borders. Since Abiy Ahmed’s ascent to...