Khartoum's Conditional Peace Offer and the Egyptian Shadow over Ethiopia-Sudan Relations

Consistency in Ethiopia's Approach and the Evolution of Mediation Channels from IGAD

Except War, What Option is Ethiopia Left With to Defend Persistent Incursions from Eritrea?

Egyptian Offer of Troops to Saudi Arabia: Why Now?

Why Africa Needs Permanent Strategic Research Capacity and How Tana Forum Could Grow Into It

Sudan’s Drone War Reaches Abyei and Puts South Sudan’s Election on Notice

The drone strike on the Amiet market inside the disputed Abyei region marks a clear escalation in Sudan’s war. The Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces increasingly fight over supply...

Eritrea's Incursion and Ethiopia’s Right to Self-Defense: Where Does the Law Stand?

Ethiopia’s recent letter to the United Nations Security Council places important legal principles at issue about the prohibition on the use of force, the protection of territorial integrity and the...

How Egypt's Opening Could Take Shape in Southwest Somalia

Federal authority in the Bay region is contracting in a manner that has now become difficult to reverse and the principal beneficiaries of that contraction are the forces aligned with the ousted...

Eritrea’s Garrison State and Its Crisis-Exporting Strategy

The Eritrean People’s Liberation Front did not simply inherit a state in 1991; it institutionalised the operational repertoire of a clandestine liberation movement that had survived by cultivating...

Is Eastern Sudan Becoming a Fortified Base for the Next Regional War?

General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan's recent inspection of the 11th Infantry Division headquarters in the city of Khashm el-Girba, Kassala State, was described in official briefings as a routine field...

The Legal Paradoxes in Eritrea’s AU Complaint to ReInstate its Mission

Ethiopia’s expulsion of ten Eritrean diplomats from Addis Ababa marked the culmination of more than a year of steadily worsening relations. It is characterized by formal accusations of interference...

Ethiopia Somaliland Defence Ties and the Practice of Keeping the Door Ajar

The recent meeting between Brigadier General Nimcaan at the army’s headquarters and Ethiopian envoy Teshome, Ethiopia’s consul general in Somaliland and the embassy’s defense attaché presents a data...

Russia’s Mediation Offer Between Ethiopia and Eritrea

Russia’s decision to offer a platform for contacts between Ethiopia and Eritrea is a constructive and welcome development. Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Alimov’s confirmation that Moscow is...

The Aswan Dam and Ethiopia’s Longstanding Rejection of Egypt’s Nile Veto

On 29 May 1956, before construction of the Aswan High Dam began, the United States Embassy in Addis Ababa sent the U.S. Government a telegram recording Ethiopia’s objection to any attempt to restrict...

The AU’s Uneven Geography of Urgency

Since Mahmoud Ali Youssouf assumed leadership of the African Union Commission in March 2025, the institution has confronted an increasingly entangled continental security environment, from the war in...