Eritrea: 10,000 Prisoners Ago
Of late, to the delight of the Eritrean people, the Government of Eritrea has released dozens of prisoners. In a press release, the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said that...
View ArticleOh My IGAD: Eritrea Says Goodbye (Again)
“Distinguished representatives of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), and other concerned parties: “IGAD, whose founding principle is the “sovereign equality of all member states”,...
View ArticleRomancing Tigray: An Eritrean Story (1946-2025)
Like any two bordering people, the people of Tigray and Eritrea have had a long bond which included all the ups-and-downs of relationships: intermarriage, war, deportation, love and enmity. Here’s a...
View ArticleAbiy Ahmed Takes His Case To Permanent Court of Souped-Up History
To try to explain how far back Ethiopia’s sense of ownership about the Red Sea goes to, this Eritrean Digest article had said it goes back to the D’MT Kingdom (10th century BCE to the 5th century BCE),...
View ArticleEritrean History (As Told By Ethiopians & Eritreans)
Too bad for Ethiopia, there is no Permanent Court of History because if there were, it would win its case against Eritrea by the sheer grandiose, swashbuckler narration which, compared to our boring...
View ArticleNo, Egypt Was No Reliable Ally To Eritrean Rebels
A perennial story told by Ethiopian politicians for decades is that Egypt incubated and then consistently supported Eritrean rebels because it is “our historic enemy.” The facts show otherwise. Here’s...
View ArticleBurning The Termite Mound: An Autopsy of Gedion’s Speech
Dr. Gedion Timothewos, Ethiopia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, gave an unflattering speech about Eritrea. Where did he speak, in which language, to whom? are all clues to the message itself. We will...
View ArticleEthiopian Governments, Unlike TPLF, Consulted Their People? Sure.
Some of Ethiopia’s elite, who have been making bogus claims about Port of Assab on the basis of history and nature, are trying a new one: legitimacy. Eritrea became independent while TPLF was in charge...
View ArticleThe Price Paid for the Imperialization of Eritrea Under Isaias Afwerki
Over a 25-year period, President Isaias Afwerki has caused and used external actions and reactions to entrench his power. This is not atypical for Africa: more than half of African countries are...
View ArticleAbiy’s Long Speech and Ethiopia’s Short Memory
Just think: when, in 1991, Al Gore invented the world wide web (hush), ushering in the Information Age, the promises, explicit and implicit, were many. How we got from there, to where we are now, where...
View ArticleFlattering the Host, Forgetting the Facts: UN Day in Eritrea
The “rules-based international order”, or RBO, is a term often used by the US and EU to describe a system of international norms, institutions, and laws centered on the UN Charter, human rights...
View ArticleEritrea & Its Ministries – Justice
Eritrea’s Ministry of Justice is headed by Ms Fawzia Hashem, who has held the position since it was created. The primary role of a Minister of Justice is to uphold the constitution, the nation’s...
View ArticleIf Eritrea Could Reply: A Fictional Rebuttal to Ethiopia’s UN Complaint
The official position of the Government of Eritrea to anything that cries for it to speak out is “we choose to be silent”, a culture that has failed Eritrea over, and over, and over. This is how a...
View ArticleIt’s All Bad: When Horners Practice Horn Diplomacy
Ethiopia wrote a letter to the UN, TPLF replied to the UN with a cc to everybody else, and Eritrea…posted an X post. It all started on October 2, 2025 when Ethiopia’s Foreign Minister sent a letter...
View ArticleEritrea & UN: The Missing Moral Authority
Imagine at every African Union General Assembly Meeting, every nation rises up to claim the ills of the continent are the fault of the African Union, because it yields too much to its host, Ethiopia....
View ArticleWhy Eritrea Is Ineffective In Diplomacy
Ambassador Sophia Tesfamariam, Eritrea’s Permanent Representative to the UN, addressed the 49th Annual Meeting of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the Group of 77 and China. She emphasized the...
View ArticlePorts Over Politics: Peace, Not Possession, Propels Prosperity
From the minimal data we have, we can piece together how the Port of Assab fared when Ethiopia owned it, while waging war on Eritrea (1980s); when Eritrea owned it while enjoying excellent relationship...
View ArticleWhat We Can Learn From The Isaias-Meles Letters of August 1997
After the “border war” between #Eritrea and #Ethiopia broke in May 1998, the Eritrea state media shared private correspondence between the heads of governments of the two States: President Isaias...
View ArticleIs Abiy’s Port Obsession Religious Extremism?
Religion is a deeply personal thing and how one chooses to worship (or not worship) The Creator is nobody’s business. Moreover, you can’t blame a belief system for all the sins of some of its strict...
View ArticleJeddah Treaty: How Ignoring One Article Undermined All Others
In the Summer of 2018, Eritrea and Ethiopia entered into two peace agreements. One was just the two parties, meeting in Asmara, Eritrea to sign their Joint Declaration of Peace and Friendship on July...
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