Landlocked Ethiopia says sovereign access to the Red Sea is an 'existential' issue, and its troops are now massing on the border with its smaller neighbour, Eritrea. What next?

Ethiopian online influencers are pushing for their government to invade neighbouring Eritrea and seize access to the sea, ...

Ethiopia has received 12 Russian Su-35 fighter jets as fighting resumes in Tigray area, Eritrea with plans to acquire four ...

Eritrea neighbours Ethiopia, Sudan and Djibouti on land and Yemen across the sea. See the borders, rivalries, refugees and regional ties in 2026.

Somalia's president says his country will stay out of any Ethiopia-Eritrea conflict while addressing Red Sea security, ...

Isaias Afwerki told Putin's Moscow summit that partnership cannot be nurtured unless independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity are respected.

After a succession of escalations, the armies of Ethiopia and Eritrea now stand face to face, and a direct confrontation that ...

Having learned from the devastating costs of the 1998 border war between Ethiopia and Eritrea and the 2020 northern Ethiopia ...

But the Ethiopian government and other African regimes have good reason to fear musicians. Opposition parties in Africa tend ...

On 19 September 2026, the United States lifted its sanctions on Eritrea, one of Africa's most enigmatic and repressive states. These sanctions were imposed by the Biden administration in 2021 for ...

Troop movements, drone attacks and escalating rhetoric have pushed Eritrea and Ethiopia back to the brink of war. Analysts ...

Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has said his country will not take sides in disputes between Ethiopia and Eritrea, ...