By Fidel Amakye Owusu Eritrea: Honestly, I wasn’t even asking for the spotlight. Chad: Hey, I just held an election not too long ago. And wait...
By Godfred Zina The growing diplomatic ties between Eritrea and Saudi Arabia are poised to reshape the power dynamics in the Red Sea and the Horn...
By Gregory Simpkins When Abiy Ahmed became Prime Minister of Ethiopia in April 2018, the country had been ravaged by a protracted conflict with its neighbor,...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In junior high school, particularly in a subject called “social studies” under the Ghanaian curriculum, we were taught that the assassination of...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The secession of Eritrea from Ethiopia in the early 1990s technically made Ethiopia the largest landlocked country in the world by population...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu After decades of severe drought and concomitant famine and socio-economic challenges in the Horn of Africa, the Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and...
By Gregory Simpkins It is said that necessity is the mother of invention but that desperate times call for desperate measures. Well Ethiopia has a desperate...
AFP | Eritrea has rejoined the East African bloc, the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), nearly 16 years after the politically isolated state pulled out of...
AFP | Ethiopia’s parliament on Wednesday removed the rebel Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) from an official list of terrorist groups, a key step in the...
By Gregory Simpkins The announcement of a so-called “permanent” cease-fire agreement in Ethiopia’s Tigray war sparked optimism among those outside Ethiopia, as well as those clinging...
By Gregory Simpkins On April 23, 2021, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken proudly announced the appointment of Jeffrey Feltman as the U.S. Special Envoy for...
Eritrea – a small east African country implemented its self-reliance initiative – it did something that at the time, was virtually unheard of in sub-Saharan Africa....
The Eritrean government said Friday that the attack on its military outposts by neighboring Ethiopia was meant to divert attention from a border dispute between the...
The United Nations Security Council on Monday slapped additional sanctions on Eritrea for allegedly providing support to armed groups (including the al-Shabaab group) seeking to destabilize...
Eritrea has rejected Kenyan allegations that it may be arming al-Shabaab fighters in Somalia, as a diplomatic row between the two countries intensifies. Moses Wetangula, Kenya’s...
Kenya’s foreign minister summoned Eritrea’s ambassador on Friday and “raised concern” over the possibility that planes from Eritrea are supplying weapons to Somali militants whom Kenyan...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — An Ethiopian official says nine people were arrested last week on suspicions of organizing a terrorist network and planning attacks. Government spokesman...
