28/10/2025
Red Nile Geopolitical Analysis
The Bure Gambit: Ethiopia’s Proxy Chess for the Red Sea
The Gambit Unfolds
In the parched borderlands of Bure, where Ethiopia and Eritrea’s deserts meet, geopolitics has once again turned the Horn of Africa into a high-stakes chessboard.
On October 21, 2025, Getachew Reda, Ethiopia’s Advisor for East African Affairs, and Redwan Hussien, Director General of the National Intelligence and Security Service, arrived in Bure—just 60 km from Eritrea’s Port of Assab. Officially, the visit was diplomatic. Strategically, it was a signal.
Behind the scenes, Addis Ababa is executing what Red Nile analysts call “The Bure Gambit” — a dual-track strategy combining proxy leverage, coercive diplomacy, and game-theoretic brinkmanship to achieve one historic objective: restoring Ethiopia’s maritime access through Assab.
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