Ethiopia News & Analysis

The Sudan civil war is increasingly drawing in extra-regional powers and spilling its borders, imperiling the stability of vulnerable states in the region.

Egypt-Ethiopia tensions, fueled by water conflict and the Grand Renaissance Dam, are increasingly reverberating in the wider geopolitics of the region.

BRICS expansion may empower the bloc and rebalance the global order, but any thoughts of replacing it remain premature.

While global focus is fixed elsewhere in the Red Sea, Ethiopia has quietly hammered out a deal that could bring long-term geopolitical ramifications for the region.

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam remains an intractable geopolitical challenge; however, new diplomatic initiatives spearheaded by Russia and South Africa aim to make headway.

Recent border clashes in the disputed region of al-Fashaqa risk triggering a wider regional war.

The prime minister’s popularity ratings have soared amid widespread suffering during the Ethiopian civil war.

A decisive Fed meeting, NATO-Russia hold talks to deescalate Ukraine tensions, and drones turning the tide in the Ethiopia civil war.

Another civilian-military compromise in Sudan, the civil war spills its borders in Ethiopia, omicron roils global markets, and Turkey careens toward a currency crisis.

A mid-October offensive launched by the Ethiopian government has not only failed to make headway, but Tigray troops and their allies are now pushing toward the capital of Addis Ababa.

After tilting the scales in Nagorno-Karabakh, Syria, and Iraqi Kurdistan, will drones do the same in the Ethiopian civil war?

Whether or not the offensive succeeds, the Tigray conflict has produced long-lasting scars that will not heal easily.

The dam is a source of acute tension between Ethiopia and downriver states Sudan and Egypt.

Ethiopia to vote in a landmark election, commodity prices come back down to Earth, and Iran’s election produces few surprises.

Ethiopia’s climate-sensitive economy, growing population, and inter-ethnic conflict make it a geopolitical time bomb primed to explode.