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15/12/2025

The developments in the Horn of Africa highlight the complexity of regional diplomacy and the need for measured, strategic action. While public rhetoric can draw attention, the situation underscores that sustainable outcomes are achieved through careful negotiation, coalition-building, and attention to international dynamics. Eritrea’s quiet approach in securing strategic stability and fostering long-term development in Assab demonstrates how discretion can yield tangible results, even as Ethiopia continues to navigate its own geopolitical objectives.

The 25th anniversary of the Algiers Agreement serves as a timely reminder that historical agreements and multilateral engagement remain central to maintaining peace. For Ethiopia, this reinforces the importance of balancing domestic imperatives with broader regional stability and the expectations of the international community.

Quiet Diplomacy Prevails in the Horn of Africa

As tensions simmer in the Horn of Africa, stark contrasts are emerging in the region’s approach to geopolitics. While Ethiopia’s leadership has engaged in highly visible public rhetoric, Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki has taken a markedly different path, quietly advancing strategic objectives away from the media spotlight.

Rather than issuing statements or seeking attention, Isaias has focused on securing protection for Eritrea and exploring long-term opportunities for development in the port city of Assab. These efforts have drawn subtle but clear international support, with Saudi Arabia signaling engagement and the recent U.S. National Security Strategy highlighting the critical importance of stability in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. Analysts note that any conflict involving Ethiopia, Eritrea, or Somalia now intersects directly with American strategic interests.

Recent diplomatic signals underscore this dynamic. U.S. Senator Marco Rubio’s communications, followed by a visit from General Anderson of AFRICOM, reinforced the limits of pursuing unilateral military action. Meanwhile, the United Nations marked the 25th anniversary of the Algiers Agreement, a diplomatic milestone that serves as a reminder of the international community’s continued commitment to peaceful resolution.

The implication is clear: attempts to secure regional objectives through force face significant international constraints, while avenues for negotiated solutions remain open. As the Horn of Africa navigates this delicate balance, the spotlight is increasingly on diplomacy over theatrics.

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“doesn’t negotiate” is absolute and leaves no room for dialogue. From a professional diplomatic perspective, this can close channels of communication and may be seen as provocative rather than peace-oriented.

Ethiopia reaffirms its commitment to peaceful dialogue and regional stability. While every nation has the right to sovereignty, absolute statements that preclude negotiation can limit opportunities for constructive communication. Ethiopia now encourages all parties in the region to maintain open channels, promote mutual understanding, and work collaboratively toward lasting peace and cooperation.

19/11/2025

we support any effort that prioritizes peace, stability, and human dignity. Ethiopia’s readiness for dialogue is a welcome development. Now is the moment for Eritrea, Ethiopia, and the international community to work toward an inclusive diplomatic process that respects national sovereignty while advancing regional cooperation.
This moment should not become another temporary pause or symbolic gesture. It must evolve into a continuous and enduring peace framework a long-term commitment that secures the well-being of future generations and strengthens the entire Horn of Africa.
Peace is never the responsibility of one government alone. It is a collective duty shared by nations, institutions, and citizens. With the right leadership and genuine engagement, Ethiopia and Eritrea can turn a fragile moment into a historic transformation.

Horn of Africa Moment That the World Cannot Afford to Ignore

The Horn of Africa stands once again at a precipice. Ethiopia’s recent declaration that it is prepared for dialogue with Eritrea and its call for international encouragement to bring Asmara to the table has opened a narrow but significant window for diplomacy in a region too often overshadowed by conflict. The bigger question is whether the world, particularly Europe and the United States, is paying close enough attention.
For years, the relationship between Ethiopia and Eritrea has oscillated between cautious détente and simmering hostility. The political landscape remains complex, the grievances longstanding, and the trust fragile. Yet the stakes today extend well beyond history or borders. A renewed conflict between these countries could have profound humanitarian, economic, and geopolitical consequences that would reverberate across continents.
Europe, in particular, cannot ignore the implications. Migration patterns from the Horn of Africa are tightly linked to political instability. Should tensions escalate again, the resulting displacement would likely send thousands onto dangerous migration routes northward a familiar story with increasingly destabilizing effects on European politics. At a moment when Europe is wrestling with economic strain, public anxieties over immigration, and the political rise of far-right movements, another migration surge from the Horn could prove deeply destabilizing.
There is also the matter of trade. The Red Sea corridor remains one of the world’s most strategically critical shipping routes. Any destabilization in the Horn of Africa risks disrupting global supply chains at a time when shocks from the pandemic to the war in Ukraine have already tested their resilience. The global economy does not need another crisis.
For Ethiopia, the message appears clear: stability cannot wait. Its call for dialogue reflects a recognition of Eritrea sovereignty that diplomacy, even when imperfect, is preferable to another devastating conflict. It is a sober acknowledgment that the cost of war human, economic, geopolitical is simply too high.
Eritrea, a nation whose political calculations often diverge from Western expectations, still has an opportunity to respond constructively. To do so would not mean capitulation. It would reflect a pragmatic understanding that regional cooperation offers more security than confrontation. Eritrea’s sovereignty remains unquestioned; what is at stake is the direction it chooses to take at a moment when the region’s future hangs in the balance.
The international community, too, must rethink its posture. To produce meaningful dialogue in this part of the world. But quiet, consistent diplomatic engagement combined with support from regional partners can create the conditions for genuine, substantive talks. Increased involvement from the African Union, the European Union, and the broader diplomatic community would signal that peace in the Horn is not just a regional aspiration, but a global priority.
Ultimately, the responsibility lies with both Ethiopia and Eritrea. Their people share history, bloodlines, culture, and geography. Their futures, whether they choose to acknowledge it or not, are deeply intertwined. To seize this moment for dialogue would not erase the past. But it could prevent repeating it.
In a world overwhelmed by conflict, from Gaza to Ukraine to the Sahel, Sudan a peaceful turn in the Horn of Africa would offer a rare glimmer of hope proof that dialogue can still prevail when leaders choose pragmatism over pride, and when the world chooses to pay attention before it is too late.

17/11/2025

A thoughtful, steady response is needed especially when commentary like this circulates with such intensity.
What worries many of us is not only the content of Ahmed Mahmoud’s article, but the pattern of how narratives like these are weaponised across our region.

Every few years, a new “existential threat” is manufactured and suddenly the diaspora is told to mobilise emotionally, financially, blindly. Fear becomes the currency. Anger becomes the fundraising machine.
And people who have nothing to do with governance, development, or nation-building suddenly emerge as “mobilisers,” “community leaders,” or “protectors of the homeland,” calling for contributions that rarely reach the nation they claim to defend.

The psychological strategy is old:
First, provoke fear.
Then amplify division.
Then create urgency.
Then ask for money.
And the cycle repeats, while the ordinary citizen in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, or elsewhere pays the real cost in time, life, and opportunity.

This is why we must step back and think critically.

The Horn of Africa doesn’t need another warlord in a suit or another diaspora activist playing general from a safe distance. It needs a generation capable of breaking the mental loop that turns every disagreement into a battlefield.

Ahmed’s article, strategically framed, plays into the same emotional trap:
push Eritreans, Ethiopians, and the wider Horn into permanent psychological mobilisation.
A people who live in constant fear are easier to manipulate, easier to tax without accountability, easier to distract from internal questions that deserve transparent answers.

And these internal questions matter:
What happened to Eritrean prisoners?
Why are some still held?
Were they collaborators with TPLF as claimed?
If so, the public deserves clarity, not silence.
If not, the public deserves justice, not delay.

A responsible government and a responsible diaspora does not run from accountability.
Growth is impossible inside a fog of unanswered questions.

If our regain are to move forward, we must recognise this truth:

A nation that focuses its energy on phantom wars loses the chance to build real power economic, intellectual, and human power.

War consumes the young we should be training.
Fear consumes the creativity we should be cultivating.
And propaganda consumes the critical thinking we desperately need to survive in a world shaped by advanced technology, psychological warfare, and global competition.

We should not let journalists or diaspora agencies use dramatic narratives as fuel for collecting untaxed diaspora contributions.
Money raised in anger rarely builds a nation but it often enriches those who collect it.
And media warfare is the cheapest tool for stirring that anger.

As East African, we want clarity.
We want reform.
We want institutions that match the future, not the past.
We want an end to the politics of fear and the economics of emotion.
And above all, we want leadership real leadership that understands the age we live in:
a world where nation-building is measured in education, innovation, talent, diplomacy, and economic competitiveness, not recycled conflicts.

If the region keeps choosing war narratives, none of us will progress.
If our leaders, diplomats, and diaspora voices choose wisdom over theatrics, the Horn of Africa could become the stabilising engine of the continent.

The time for circular conflict is over.
The time for transparent governance, skilled populations, and genuine regional cooperation is overdue.
And the time for psychological maturity to stop being manipulated by every wave of media warfare is now.

By Ahmed Mahmoud

17/11/2025

When fear replaces strategy, war becomes a temptation.

Both Ethiopia and Eritrea are facing enormous internal pressures: economic strain, demographic urgency, institutional distrust, and the trauma of recent conflicts.
When a society feels cornered, it looks for external explanations. This is human. But it is also dangerous.

Because psychological displacement can never be a national policy.