The Atlantic Council Destroyed military equipment is piled high in the “tank cemetery” in Asmara, a product of a previous confrontation between Ethiopia and Eritrea (Photo credit: Flickr/David Stanley) According to Eritrean officials, in the early hours of Sunday, June 12, Ethiopian forces launched an unprovoked assault over the Eritrean border at the town of…
Author Walaa Hussein, Al-Monitor CAIRO — There are fears that the dispute over Halayeb and Shalateen, a small border region claimed by Cairo and Khartoum, will cast its shadow over Egyptian-Sudanese coordination on the negotiations over the Renaissance Dam between the two countries and Ethiopia. On April 18, state-owned channel Ethiopian TV interviewed Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir,…
Here is a piece from the somalilandinformer His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, today received President of Somaliland, Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud Silanyo and his high-profile ministerial delegation. President Silanyo signs a historic agreement with UAE officials that focuses on wide range of areas that the…
POLITICS Senior leader of Ethiopia’s Somali rebel group discusses a growing alliance of groups seeking self-determination. Video Ethiopia, Africa’s oldest independent country, is one of the West’s closest allies in the Horn of Africa. Bordering Kenya, South Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia, this vast nation is home to about 80 different ethnic groups, many with their…
Reuters | BY GEORGE OBULUTSA NAIROBI -Online activists who claim ties to Anonymous said on Thursday they had begun to leak documents from Kenya’s foreign ministry as part of a campaign to expose government and corporate corruption across Africa. HackRead, a cyber security news site, reported that a hacker affiliated with “Operation Africa” had told it: “In (a)…
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…
© AFP/File / by Mona Salem | Although generations of Egyptians have grown up believing the islands belonged to Egypt, Cairo insists they have always been Saudi territory, which was leased to it in 1950 following a request by Riyadh By Mona Salem CAIRO (AFP) – Egypt’s surprise move to give two Red Sea islands to Saudi…
Reuters Investigates SCRABBLE: A propaganda video posted online by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The group has grabbed more territory along the Yemeni coast and regularly puts out photos and videos that paint it as a functioning administration. (SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE) Militant economy One unintended consequence of the war in Yemen: Al Qaeda now…
BBC, King Salman announces deal on second day of Cairo visit after meeting Egyptian president Abdel Fatah al-Sisi King Salman and Abdel Fatah al-Sisi in Cairo. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has announced an agreement with Egypt to build a bridge over the Red Sea connecting the two countries. The monarch made the announcement…
The Horn of Africa region is central to the world’s maritime trade. It’s also beginning to fall apart. BY ALEX DE WAAL , FP Back in 2002, Meles Zenawi, then prime minister of Ethiopia, drafted a foreign policy and national security white paper for his country. Before finalizing it, he confided to me a “nightmare scenario” —…