Are The UAE Building A Military Base At Assab Port?

Jane’s Defense Weekly The United Arab Emirates (UAE) appears to be constructing a new port next to Assab International Airport in Eritrea, which could become its first permanent military base in a foreign country. Satellite imagery shows rapid progress has been made since work began sometime after September 2015. A square of coastline measuring about…

Does Assab Belongs to Ethiopia or Eritrea?

By VOA NEWS FORMER U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Herman Cohen said he wanted to set the record straight about his recommendation during the 1991 London Conference on Ethiopia, Eritrea and Port Assab. He said he did not say the port belongs to Ethiopia, contrary to what some in Ethiopia had attributed…