Eritrea: Looming Ethiopia-Eritrea Tension: Is New Cycle of Armed Conflict Imminent?

Eritrea: Looming Ethiopia-Eritrea Tension: Is New Cycle of Armed Conflict Imminent?

Addis Abeba -- Ethiopia and Eritrea shared long-standing turbulent relations marked by a brief period of tactical and opportunistic alliance where comprehensive and strategic cooperation is lacking.

Looming Ethiopia-Eritrea Tension: Is new cycle of armed conflict imminent?

Eritrea reportedly mobilized reserved troops, engaged in active recruitments of conscripts, and imposed foreign travel bans on its citizens amidst rising tension with Ethiopia. Ethiopia, on its part, allowed the Birged Nhamedu, a diaspora-based anti-Eritrean regime movement, to open its office in Addis Abeba after the group held a conference in the capital city on 25 January, 2025, taking the rising tension to the next height. The possibility of…

Looming Ethiopia-Eritrea Tension: Is new cycle of armed conflict imminent? - Addis Standard

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, left, and Eritrea’s President Isaias Afwerki attend the reopening of the Eritrean embassy in Ethiopia in July 2018 (Photo: EPA) Addis Abeba –Ethiopia and Eritrea shared long-standing turbulent relations marked by a brief period of tactical and opportunistic alliance where comprehensive and strategic cooperation is lacking. Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia in May 1993 after enduring a protracted liberation stru…