By Sudan Tribune, The Eritrean government has dismissed recent reports alleging that Saudi Arabia has transferred some 5,000 Yemeni militants to Eritrea for training in the Red Sea country. The report released by the Fars news agency (FNA), an Iranian news agency, says that Riyadh is transferring the militants from Aden to Eritrea’s Assab port […]
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By TesfaNews, Ethiopia’s marionette Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, this week told a local newspaper that what the Saudi and Gulf States about to offer to arch enemy Eritrea in exchange for using its water and air space is getting on his nerves. Then he starts to warn both the Saudis and UAE of unspecified consequences if what they are offering is substantial […]
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By Al Jazeera, YEMEN’s former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, has formally announced an alliance with Houthi fighters for the first time, after the Arab coalition launched two air strikes on his home in the capital, Sanaa. Saleh, who was forced to step aside in 2012 following a year of deadly nationwide protests against his three-decade […]
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By Tedla Asfaw, MANY foreigners are fleeing Yemen by sea to Djibouti because of the continued and discriminate Saudi airstrikes. I wonder why Ethiopians are not going to Assab which is very close from the Aden port to save their lives. There is no report so far confirming how many Ethiopian refugees flee to Djibouti. As it […]
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By Thomas C. Mountain, STILL stinging from their last military humiliation six years ago at the hands of the Houthi tribal fighters in Yemen, the Saudi Arabian royal family has embarked on what is highly likely to turn into Saudi’s “Vietnam”with their latest attempt at invading Yemen. In 2009 the Saudi military’s incompetence was exposed […]
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By Ministry of Foreign Affairs, THE Eritrean Foreign Ministry today (31) issued a statement that dismissed as baseless a fabricated report, quoting certain Yemeni officials, alleging Iranian support to Houthi through Eritrea. In the 11-point press statement, the Ministry underscored that the Government of Eritrea has been monitoring such repeated and groundless allegations claiming at […]
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By Russia Today (RT), SAUDI Arabian forces, joined by nine other countries, have launched a military operation in Yemen against Shiite Houthi rebels, the Saudi ambassador to the US said. The offensive, which started with airstrikes, will also involve “other military assets.” According to Ambassador Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir, the military operation in Yemen started […]
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By Amanuel Biedemariam, AFTER the breakup of the Soviet Union, for over two decades the US and allies controlled and managed the affairs and agendas of the countries in the Horn of African (HoA) and the region. Ethiopia is used as the hub and, alliances with the heads of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen were […]
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