Vol 62 No 5 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Stirring the regional pot 4th March 2021 A burgeoning Ethiopia-Eritrea-Somalia axis is resetting relations all over the Horn and undermining regional institutions Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is fending off all pleas for mediation and accountability for human rights abuses committed during his campaign to defeat the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front...
Vol 61 No 10 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Refugees in crossfire 14th May 2020 Ethiopia no longer automatically gives refugee status to fleeing Eritreans. Neither they nor their Tigrayan hosts are happy about it The Ethiopian federal government's treatment of refugees from Eritrea is causing concern both in the Tigray regional government, with which it is already at odds, and among refugees....
Vol 60 No 14 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Asmara and Amhara 12th July 2019 Attention is focusing once more on last November's meeting of Eritrean President Issayas Afewerki with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed one month after retired Brigadier-General Asaminew Tsige, the...
Vol 60 No 9 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Chill on the border 3rd May 2019 Last year's rapprochement between Ethiopia and Eritrea was supposed to be about breaking down barriers, but a stuttering process has seen them rise again after an initial thaw....
Vol 59 No 15 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Question on Oromo peace 27th July 2018 What to do about the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and how powerful the rebel faction is, are among the most important 'known unknowns' as the political landscape takes...
Vol 59 No 14 | ERITREAETHIOPIA From the edge of war to the bridge of love 13th July 2018 Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has topped off weeks of revolutionary change by triumphantly making peace with Eritrea The Ethiopian leader's previously inconceivable trip to Asmara on a mission of reconciliation on 8 July has reshaped regional geopolitics and crowned Abiy Ahmed's premiership with a hugely... READ FOR FREE
Vol 59 No 13 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Abiy scores – so far 29th June 2018 An Eritrean Government delegation arrived in Addis Ababa on 26 June in response to the Ethiopian ruling coalition's latest peace initiative. The dispatch of the fact-finding mission by...
Vol 59 No 12 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Pushback peril for Abiy 15th June 2018 Addis’s radical offer to implement the UN’s ruling on the border is meeting resistance at home and silence in Asmara The Ethiopian government's announcement that it was ready to implement the 2002 border ruling to try and resolve the freeze in relations with Eritrea has met with worrying...
Vol 59 No 12 | ERITREAETHIOPIA A radical bid for peace and economic change 8th June 2018 Abiy Ahmed will need strong backing from the party as well as his new security chiefs to make his new policies work A credible offer to end the war with Eritrea and the opening up of state companies to private capital are Ethiopia's biggest strategic shifts in over a decade....
Vol 58 No 6 | ERITREANORTH KOREA Pariahs united 17th March 2017 A United Nations report provides evidence that outcasts stick together, if not always honourably. North Korea has been providing military radios to Eritrea, in violation of UN sanctions...