Ambassador Tekeda Alemu: Futile Attempts to Ignore History and Facts

BY SOPHIA TESFAMARIAM | SHABAIT In the Centre for Dialogue, Research and Cooperation (DCRC) paper, “The conundrum of present Ethiopian foreign policy—in search of a roadmap for Ethiopia’s foreign and national security policy and strategy”, Tekeda Alemu, former Ethiopian Ambassador to the United Nations, attempts to conceal the vacuity of the ousted TPLF regime’s foreign […]

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Eritrea’s Experience and State Craft Key to Peace in the Horn

Peace is created through the actions and interactions of statesmen, and diplomacy is its key ingredient. BY SOPHIA TESFAMARIAM | SHABAIT These are the time of rapid, breath-taking, developments in the Horn of Africa region. The changes have bewildered analysts who have been pontificating about the Horn for decades, only to get it all wrong […]

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The Economist’s Tom Gardner – Savior Complex?

Time to end the misleadingly simplistic, culturally ill-informed, and politically dangerous narratives about Eritrea and the Horn region. BY SOPHIA TESFAMARIAM | SHABAIT Much of western media coverage of the Horn of Africa tends to focus on negative attributes or problems. So when Eritrea and Ethiopia signed the “Peace and Friendship Declaration” on 9 July […]

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Impotence of the UN and Ethiopia’s Impunity

BY SOPHIA TESFAMARIAM | SHABAIT April 13th will mark the 16th anniversary of the Eritrea Ethiopia Boundary Commission’s (EEBC) “final and binding” decision on the Eritrea Ethiopia border. There is not much that can be said about the historical decision that has not been said before, but it would not hurt to re-iterate some facts:

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