After a two day visit to Asmara, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has issued this announcement. But how should we interpret…
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A dangerous confrontation on the Ethiopia-Sudan border
The situation on the border could see forces from across the region confronting each other – with Egypt and Sudan…
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Ethiopia’s Wars – views from UAE, Egypt and Sudan
“When the war in Tigray began, the United Arab Emirates – one of the brokers of the truce between Eritrea…
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Will Tigray’s fate be decided in Sudan?
Events have highlighted the importance of the Sudanese – both Khartoum and Juba – to the future of the war…
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Sudan caught in a web of influence as the Tigray conflict spills across its border
“Sudan is under intelligence polarisation from the UAE [and] Saudi Arabia on one side and Qatar and Turkey on the…
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Egypt weighs stance on Ethiopian Tigray conflict
Source: al Monitor https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/11/egypt-ethiopia-tigray-war-water-dam.html CAIRO — While the conflict rages in the Ethiopian Tigray region, a high-ranking delegation from Eritrea arrived…
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International dimensions of the Tigray war – and how it might end
With the entry of Eritrean forces into the war in Tigray, and the missile strike by Tigray on the Eritrean…
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Interesting timing: Egypt, Sudan launch joint military exercises
In the light of the confrontation between Ethiopia and Egypt over the Blue Nile dam, and Sudan’s potential role in…
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The Tigray war threatens to transform the Horn of Africa
Ethiopia, Eritrea and the war in Tigray Martin Plaut The conflict in the northern Ethiopian state of Tigray is a…
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Two Eritreans refugees on hunger strike in Egyptian prison
Source: Human Rights Concern Eritrea Hunger Strike by Two Eritrean Refugees in Long-Term Detention in Al-Qanater Prison in Cairo, Egypt Two Eritrean refugees…
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