For decades, Africa’s economy and image were defined by others, its growth measured in external indices, its struggles narrated through…
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The maps drawn in 19th-century Europe never stopped at borders; they extended into language, faith, and even time itself. In…
Before the intrusion of European colonialism, Ethiopia exercised free and unimpeded access to the Red Sea through a network of…
Throughout modern history there has been a recognizable pattern in how certain states are weakened from within. The tactic relies…
By Rasmus Sonderriis, Ethiopia correspondent for media in Chile and Denmark since 2004 and author of “Getting Ethiopia Dead Wrong”. It…
GERD is more than a hydropower project; it’s a geopolitical pivot. This analysis explores how the dam is shattering a…
This is an excerpt from “Getting Ethiopia Dead Wrong”, a book which chronicles the narrative on the so-called “Tigray War” (2020–2022)…
The two stories emerged weeks apart, in different cities, under vastly different spotlights. One unfolded on a university campus in…
Abstract Eritrea’s emergence from Italian colonial rule and its subsequent detachment from Ethiopia produced one of Africa’s most militarized and…
For more than two years, Sudan’s civil war has torn through every level of the state — its institutions, economy,…