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 missio...
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 silence ...
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. Premier Abiy Ahmed's...
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 sanc...
Vol 58 No 3 | ERITREAHORN OF AFRICA Eritrea's unsettling alliance 3rd February 2017 Asmara's new role as Saudi Arabia's ally is causing headaches in Addis just as Egypt makes overtures to Issayas Ethiopia is troubled by the deepening role of Eritrea in the Saudi Arabian-led coalition's war against Houthi rebels in Yemen and its enemy's consequent relief from diplomatic isol...
Vol 57 No 7 | DJIBOUTIERITREA POW row heals 1st April 2016 President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh has been trying to capitalise on obtaining the release of four Djiboutian soldiers from Eritrean custody after mediation by Qatar. He hopes it will h...
Vol 56 No 23 | ERITREA Issayas looks north 20th November 2015 The President is helping the Saudi and Emirates' military campaign in Yemen in return for desperately needed money for the flagging economy Long isolated in the Horn of Africa, Eritrean President Issayas Afewerki is expanding his alliances and horizons. He has forged a new strategic military relationship with Saudi Ara...
Vol 56 No 19 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Tongue-tied BBC 24th September 2015 After years of cutting services, the BBC World Service made a dramatic U-turn this month when the Director of the BBC World Service Group appointed last year, Francesca Unsworth, a...
Vol 56 No 19 | ERITREA EU in denial 24th September 2015 The European Union is limiting the number of Eritreans whom member countries grant asylum to. Brussels is finalising a 200 million euro development aid package for Asmara which, al...
Vol 56 No 13 | ERITREA Let my people stay 26th June 2015 Eritrean refugees are at the heart of Europe’s migration crisis but a divided European Union is at odds about how to deal with them Once, European countries were happy to gently chide the Asmara government for the oppression of its impoverished people, but the flotillas of its people sailing across the Mediterr...
