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Relations with Abu Dhabi deteriorated sharply when Hassan Sheikh's team suspected Emirati involvement in 2024 when Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said that he would recognise the territorial sovereignty Somaliland region in exchange for access to a port in the Gulf of Aden...
Abiy Ahmed later backed down following mediation led by Turkey (Dispatches 3/3/25 Abiy and Hassan Sheikh turn down the rancour)...
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Growing regional tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea and Somalia (backed by Egypt and Turkey) are likely to have featured in Wang's meeting with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Foreign Minister Gedion Timothewos according to regional experts...
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The key issue dividing the two blocs is Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's quest for access to the sea; specifically he is targeting Eritrea's port of Assab which he points out was once within the Ethiopian empire...
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While there is regular propaganda from Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government about reclaiming Assab – a seaport in Eritrea just north of Djibouti that was part of Ethiopia until the former's secession in the early 1990s – Ethiopia lacks the military capacity for escalation...
A ceasefire gives them breathing space and time to train younger recruits from the Sahel and South Sudan while improving logistics by collaborating with Libya's eastern warlord Gen Khalifa Haftar Chadian President Idriss Déby Mahamat ‘Kaka' Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadéra Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and South Sudanese President Salva Kiir...
5 billion from 37 tonnes in the fiscal year ending 7 July Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed told the federal parliament in Addis Ababa...
Vol 66 No 23 |
- ERITREA
- ETHIOPIA
THE FIGHT FOR THE RED SEA: Ethiopia's maritime ambitions clash with Eritrea's hard-fought sovereignty Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has repeatedly insisted that Ethiopia must secure direct access to the Red Sea...
How rival alliances target the Red Sea A central pillar of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's foreign policy is his close relationship with President Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan (MBZ) of the United Arab Emirates...
Egypt has strengthened ties with Eritrea (AC Vol 66 No 15 Former enemies unite to take on Abiy Ahmed)...
ETHIOPIA'S FEDERAL CRISIS: Tigray Amhara and Oromo insurgents ally against Addis Ababa After recent victories by insurgents in Amhara Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government has been showing signs of the strain as its opponents join forces and launch heavier challenges...
But they think that Tigrayan commanders could offer guidance on tactics perhaps with Eritrean intelligence officers helping to coordinate(AC Vol 66 No 15 Former enemies unite to take on Abiy Ahmed)...
But the TIRA leader General Tadesse Werede is accused by the TPLF of appeasing Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed...
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Vol 66 No 21 |
- ERITREA
- ETHIOPIA
Since the 2022 agreement that ended a two-year war in Tigray the TPLF's leadership has split with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed aligning with one faction and Eritrean President Issayas Afewerki backing another (AC Vol 66 No 19 Tigray's widening schisms are threatening regional security)...
In the letter to Guterres he accused Eritrea of ‘funding mobilizing and directing armed groups such as Fano to expand the horizon of the conflict ' adding that the insurgent in Amhara region had recently launched an offensive on Woldiya a major town (AC Vol 66 No 15 Former enemies unite to take on Abiy Ahmed)...
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Vol 66 No 20 |
- ETHIOPIA
- RUSSIA
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's decision to sign a deal with Russia to plan and build a nuclear power plant in Ethiopia was one of several diplomatic coups for Moscow at a nuclear forum hosted by state-run energy firm Rosatom on 25 September...
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