while the Ethiopian government’s attempts to negotiate are undermined by a lack of meaningful concessions and a preference for military suppression. The cumulative effect of these two rebel forces will inevitably have a detrimental effect on an already staggered regime and/or country. Equally worrisome is that Eritrea, once a temporary ally again
Russia’s use of quasi-private military companies like the erstwhile Wagner Group and now the ‘Africa Corps’, particularly in Africa’s Sahel region, attest to its expanding footprint in Africa. However, this footprint is not limited to the Sahel. It extends to the Horn of Africa (HoA) and the strategic Red Sea region where Russia seeks to ma
In the end of May 2025, a high-level Ethiopian delegation led by Chief of the General Staff Field Marshal Birhanu Jula Gelalcha met senior Russian defence officials to discuss the progress of their strategic bilateral military ties.iBoth sides emphasised the importance of maintaining regional stability and agreed to improve professional military co
in a September 2021 email as “a useful metric to help quantify” U.S. negotiating goals and as “a useful analytic framework to structure the negotiation of technical measures related to enrichment.” The timeline was also “helpful in explaining the deal and selling it politically,” the official noted, adding that the timeline has “becom
The aforementioned JCPOA restrictions constrained Iran’s nuclear program so that Tehran, using its declared enrichment facilities, would, for at least 10 years, have needed a minimum of one year to produce enough weapons-grade HEU for one nuclear weapon. The agreement does not explicitly mandate such a timeline. The timeline would begin to decrea