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Horn of Africa risks becoming arena for Gulf rivalry as Ethiopia drawn into power struggle - AFP
Addis Abeba – Intensifying competition among rival Gulf monarchies is increasingly shaping political and security...
Eritrea’s War Crimes in Tigray: Strategic Violence & State Fragility
The Tigray conflict of 2020–2022 exposed one of the most consequential and underexamined dimensions of state behavior in the...
Horn of Africa ‘battleground’ for rival Gulf monarchies
ADDIS ABABA — On a hill overlooking the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, a giant new palace is emerging, funded by the...
Maritime Interdiction: Eritrean Naval Operations and Armament Procurement
Maritime Interdiction or is it Protection? Is this predatory procurement model involving the tactics of detained...
Eritrea’s Renewed Drift Toward War: Who Benefits – and Who Pays
Eritrea’s recent escalation in northern Ethiopia represents a deliberate, structurally grounded strategy rather than a...
The Comparative and Absolute Disadvantages of Eritrean Refugees
In his recent interview, an Eritrean journalist in exile, Zecarias Gerrima, sparked an important debate by comparing...
‘Without any humanity’: Eritrea human trafficker gets 20 years
THE HAGUE: A Dutch court on Tuesday sentenced an Eritrean man to 20 years in prison for operating a human trafficking...
How Ambiguity Helped Endure Dictatorship - Part IV
In Part I, I argued that Eritrea’s political crisis did not begin after independence. It began with a culture of...
Saudi Arabia’s Challenge in the Horn of Africa
As Riyadh moves to curb the UAE’s influence, it appears to be gaining momentum across the Middle East. Replicating...
Turned & Embedded: Eritrean Spies Feeding Ethiopia’s Intelligence Machine
The reported defection of Eritrean intelligence personnel into the Ethiopian security architecture represents a quiet...
The Illusion of Harmony: Eritrea’s Suppressed Ethnic and Religious Divisions
The People’s Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ) routinely projects Eritrea as a socially cohesive state, defined by...
How Survival Anxiety Enabled Dictatorship in Eritrea - Part 3
In the first two parts of this series, I argued that Eritrea’s dictatorship did not begin with Isaias Afwerki, nor did it...























