Here’s How Key Stakeholders Can Help Broker A Port Deal Between Ethiopia And Eritrea By Andrew Korybko While Saudi Arabia and the UAE are the stakeholders most capable of stopping Egypt from exploiting Eritrea as a proxy due to their financial… Read More ›
Ethiopia Strongly Suggested That Eritrea Is Following In Ukraine’s Footsteps By Andrew Korybko Its Foreign Minister’s description of Ethiopia’s grievances against Eritrea, coupled with his closing remarks about how they’re “two states that have virtually one people”, resembles Putin’s article “On… Read More ›
The Russian-Ethiopian Strategic Partnership Pioneers A New Model Of Multipolar Cooperation By Andrew Korybko These civilization-states are regional leaders with complementary worldviews. Russia and Ethiopia expanded 2017’s bilateral agreement on the peaceful use of nuclear energy by signing a roadmap in late September during… Read More ›
Somaliland’s Critical Minerals Offer To The US Might Move The Needle In Favour Of Recognition By Andrew Korybko This proposal could pique Trump 2.0’s attention and ultimately catalyse a regional US pivot. Bloomberg published an update late last month about Somaliland’s long-running… Read More ›
Egypt Draws Red Line On U.S. Gaza Deal: GERD Dispute Takes Backseat To Homeland Security By Andrew Korybko Preserving its perceived national interests vis-à-vis Gaza is seen as much more important of a priority. It was concluded here in late July after Trump’s… Read More ›
Trump’s Latest Remarks About GERD Raise Questions About His Understanding Of This Dispute By Andrew Korybko Siding with Egypt signals support for its next proxy war on Ethiopia that could destabilize key US allies. Trump scandalously predicted during his first term that Egypt… Read More ›
Creative Ethiopian Diplomacy Might Deter An Egyptian-Backed Eritrean-TPLF Offensive By Andrew Korybko Economic-diplomatic initiatives with the UAE and Saudi Arabia could pair with a proposed Congolese-like economic-security deal with the US to get Egypt’s three patrons to stop it before it’s… Read More ›
Five Takeaways From The Newly Signed Russian-Ethiopian Naval Cooperation Agreement By Andrew Korybko This development is much more newsworthy than casual observers might have thought. Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Admiral Vladimir Vorobyev signed a naval cooperation agreement with landlocked Ethiopia last… Read More ›
The Ethio-Somali Rapprochement Is A Pleasant Surprise By Andrew Korybko It had hitherto appeared almost inevitable that a proxy war would soon be waged in Somalia between Ethiopia and Egypt due to all sides’ (those three’s, Eritrea’s, and Somaliland’s) seemingly unshakable… Read More ›
How Viable Is The Turkish-Brokered Ethiopian-Somalian Joint Declaration? By Andrew Korybko A lot depends on whether Ethiopia’s anti-terrorist troops will now be allowed to remain in Somalia next year; the relationship between the new Somaliland President and the Ethiopian Prime Minister;… Read More ›
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