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A detailed historical analysis of the demographic surge, battlefield pressures, factional politics, and organizational breakdown that transformed Eritrea’s liberation struggle in the late 1970s and early 1980s, culminating in the…
Source: DW Amid growing tensions and security risks in the Horn of Africa, Eritrea, with its strategically important coastal points on the Red Sea, is emerging as an important player in the region. Across the Horn of Africa , geopolitical…
The Pledged Public and the Problem of Power Before Transition In my previous essays on the Pledged Public, I have been trying to think about Eritrea’s political problem from the position of the public rather than from the organizations…
Amid growing tensions and security risks in the Horn of Africa, Eritrea, with its strategically important coastal points on the Red Sea, is emerging as an important player in the region.
The Incomplete Inheritance of Eritrea’s Political History Political communities rarely inherit their past in full. They inherit interpretations shaped by the needs of particular actors, and these interpretations often become the foundation…
Amid growing tensions and security risks in the Horn of Africa, Eritrea, with its strategically important coastal points on the Red Sea, is emerging as an important player in the region.
Addis Ababa -- Ethiopia's ambassador to Somalia, Suleyman Daddaf, has accused Eritrea of violating Ethiopia's sovereignty by sending troops into the Tigray region, amid growing tensions between the neighbouring countries.
Amid growing tensions and security risks in the Horn of Africa, Eritrea, with its strategically important coastal points on the Red Sea, is emerging as an important player in the region.
SUPPORT ETHIOPIA INSIGHT Addis’ Tigray policies echo the mistakes that drove Eritrea away. Karl Marx famously observed that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. Ethiopia is now living the second half of that maxim. The…
Amid growing tensions and security risks at the Horn of Africa, Eritrea, with its strategically important coastal points on the Red Sea and a perceived lack of conflict, is emerging as important player in the region.
The Horn of Africa is once again facing the danger of military and political escalation as renewed manoeuvring involving Eritrea, illegal TPLF-led political and military actors, and other regional and external forces threatens to…
Source: Addis Standard Addis Abeba – Eritrea has called for a regional security architecture in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden that prioritizes the sovereignty of littoral states, strengthens their own defense and naval capabilities, and…
A rigorous historical and philosophical exploration of Eritrea’s liberation struggle, tracing the rise of the tegadalai as a moral category, the country’s deep martial inheritance, and the gradual erosion of voluntary participation as…
Sarah Tekhlu was ready to give up on university. An Eritrean refugee, she had already been displaced once from Khartoum to Madani, then again to Port Sudan, as war tore through the country around her. Higher education, she had decided, was…
Eritrea’s future depends on a clear and deliberate choice of development model. Since independence, the country has articulated a mixed economy vision through the 1991 national economic vision, the 1996 macro policy, and the economic…
With analysis from Pulse of Africa (POA)
Bereket Mekonnen Over a week ago, the Eritrean government announced the passing of former Ambassador and Minister of Education Semere Russom in its standard, formulaic fashion: a senior official succumbs to illness, followed by a summary…
Source: CPJ International Press Freedom Awards CPJ is honored to present its 2026 International Press Freedom Award to the Eritrea 16 . This year marks the 25th anniversary of the silencing of independent Eritrean media and the arrest of…
History does not simply move forward; it circles, it spirals, it returns to its own wounds until the repetition becomes unbearable. Eritrea and Ethiopia have lived inside such spirals for generations – spirals of domination, resistance,…
Addis Abeba -- Chronic water shortages are increasingly disrupting daily life in Eritrea's capital, Asmara, forcing many households to ration water, purchase costly supplies from private tankers, and rely on rainwater…
The Horn of Africa is entering another dangerous moment. What appears on the surface to be an alarming situation in northern Ethiopia is increasingly being viewed by many regional observers as a broader geopolitical struggle in which…