Once rivals for regional influence, Ethiopia and Kenya have signed a landmark agreement that could reshape the balance of ...
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty’s recent address to the UN General Assembly underlined Egypt’s role as an ...
The United States has pledged support for the construction of a $10 billion international airport in Ethiopia, in what marks President Donald Trump's first major business initiative in the Horn of ...
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 ...
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The world’s attention is now turning to the geostrategic waterways of the Red Sea. At a time when the conflict over the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden in the Arabian Peninsula to the north of it is ...
Over the past 20 months, as multiple wars have swept across the Middle East, the southern end of the Red Sea has become a source of international concern. In the early months of 2025 alone, the United ...
At a recent meeting of Horn of Africa Finance Ministers in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, Ethiopia’s digital transformation progress got thumps up from regional officials. The country, which is currently ...
Geopolitical ambitions, ethnic divisions and contested access to the sea and fresh water are intensifying anxieties in Ethiopia, Eritrea and the Tigray region. The port of Massawa is one of the ...
Addis Ababa, June 5, 2025 (ENA) – High-level officials from Kenya and Ethiopia gathered today in Addis Ababa to advance the Horn of Africa Gateway Development Project (HoAGDP), a key initiative aimed ...
Two months ago, in the early afternoon of March 31st, gunfire erupted in Birakat, a town in the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia (see map). Panicked residents ran for cover as the Ethiopian army ...