When eritrea’s national football team returned home from South Africa in April, seven of its players did not. It was not the first time. Plenty of the 3.5m or so people living in the reclusive ...

For a leader who rarely leaves Eritrea unless there is a compelling strategic reason to do so, Isaias Afwerki’s arrival in Cairo this week was always going to attract attention. Officially, the ...

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA—On April 23, 2026, the Wall Street Journal broke the story that U.S. Envoy Massad Boulos seeks to lift some sanctions on Eritrea and perhaps even normalize ties with Africa’s ...

The US government held talks with Eritrea to explore the possibility of normalizing relations with the isolated Horn of Africa state, drawn by its strategically important Red Sea coastline, according ...

The Trump administration is exploring ways to reset ties with a reclusive and autocratic state controlling prime geopolitical real estate along the Red Sea as Iran threatens to choke off a second ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The histories of Eritrea and Ethiopia have long been closely intertwined. Once part of Ethiopia, Eritrea launched an armed struggle for independence in 1961 that resulted in its secession in 1993 ...

Ethiopia and Eritrea are deploying troops and military equipment to the northern Tigray region, according to regional diplomats, raising the risk of renewed conflict in the Horn of Africa. The buildup ...

NAIROBI, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Eritrea on Monday rejected accusations by Ethiopia that it was responsible for military aggression and was backing armed groups inside Ethiopian territory as "false and ...

ADDIS ABABA, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Ethiopia's foreign minister has accused neighbouring Eritrea of military aggression and of supporting armed groups inside Ethiopian territory, according to a letter seen ...

Ethiopia’s federal government on Tuesday acknowledged for the first time that troops from neighboring Eritrea took part in the war in the Tigray region, which formally ended in 2022. The government ...

In President Donald Trump’s first term farewell address, he spoke with pride about restoring restraint to Washington. “I am especially proud to be the first president in decades who has started no new ...