Ethiopia holds significant strategic importance in the region across multiple dimensions, including geography, diplomacy, and ...
Recent publications on the Horn of Africa by outside actors indicate a newly discovered, sudden and burning passion for asserting a “strategic balance” in the Horn of Africa. One such claim was made ...
On September 11, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed officially opened the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a $5 billion megaproject that has been under construction since 2011. Operations ...
For much of the past three decades, the political economy of the Horn of Africa rested on a fragile but durable arrangement: Ethiopia's overwhelming dependence on Djibouti as its primary maritime ...
Ethiopia’s quest for permanent access to the sea is not a recent impulse or a bargaining tactic, nor is it even a political luxury anymore; it is a strategic ...
As African leaders gather for the forthcoming African Union Summit, one strategic issue demands urgent and collective attention: Ethiopia's quest for secure and sovereign access to the sea. This is ...