Tuesday, July 7, 2026

East Africa

Security

UAE builds military base in Somaliland for Israel and US

Berbera (Somalia Today) — The United Arab Emirates is discreetly building a military base at Berbera airport in Somaliland, Somalia’s self-declared republic in the northwest, for use by the...
Security

Somalia says Crisis Group report distorts Al-Shabaab war

Mogadishu (Somalia Today) — Somalia’s defence ministry has rejected an International Crisis Group report on the war against Al-Shabaab, accusing the think-tank of presenting...
Analysis

Turkey building missile launch site in Somalia, Le Monde says

Mogadishu (Somalia Today) — Turkey is building a launch site in Somalia that could serve both its space programme and its ballistic missile ambitions,...
East Africa

Isaias attacks US policy as Washington eyes Eritrea reset

Asmara (Somalia Today) – Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki has sharply questioned President Donald Trump’s global agenda, using his Independence Day address to attack decades...
East Africa

Ethiopia rejects Sudan drone claims, alleges TPLF backing

Addis Ababa (Somalia Today) – Ethiopia has rejected Sudanese accusations that it played a role in recent drone attacks, calling the claims “baseless” and...
East Africa

U.S. moves to reset ties with Eritrea as Red Sea tensions rise

Washington (Somalia Today) — The Trump administration is weighing a diplomatic opening to Eritrea, one of Africa’s most secretive states, as rising tensions around...
East Africa

TPLF bid to reclaim Tigray rule raises fears of conflict

Mekelle (Somalia Today) - Tigray’s main political force said it was reclaiming control of the northern Ethiopian region’s government, challenging the post-war order established...
East Africa

Abiy turns Ethiopia’s sea access push into a security issue

Addis Ababa (Somalia Today) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has renewed his push for sea access, casting Ethiopia’s landlocked status not only as...
East Africa

Djibouti says Ethiopia rejected port stake, seeks sea corridor

Djibouti (Somalia Today) - Djibouti said Saturday that Ethiopia had declined an offer to take a 60 percent stake in the northern port of...
East Africa

Ethiopia secretly arming Sudan’s RSF from military base: report

Addis Ababa (Somalia Today) - Ethiopia is covertly funnelling military support to Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) from a national army base near the...
East Africa

Fall of Laftagareen shows Ethiopia losing Somalia grip: Jawar

Baidoa (Somalia Today) — The collapse of South West State’s leadership in the strategic city of Baidoa shows that Addis Ababa is rapidly losing...
An Ethiopian flag flutters in the wind next to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), built along the Blue Nile

Ethiopia plans three new Nile dams sparking Egyptian anger

Ethiopia's National Defense Force (ENDF) members attend the 116th celebration of the Ethiopian Defense Force Day

Ethiopian troops mass near Eritrean border over Red Sea port

Djibouti's President Ismael Omer Guelleh speaks during a meeting at the presidential palace in Djibouti City in this file photo from December 27, 2022.

Djibouti’s Guelleh blasts Israel’s recognition of Somaliland, UAE role

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, whose government is pursuing sea access, arrives at a BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia.

Landlocked Ethiopia adds maritime force ‘to deter’ war

Turkish President Erdogan and Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed shaking hands in Addis Ababa.

Erdogan backs Somalia, warns Horn risks ‘arena of struggle’

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud listens during the African Union summit in Addis Ababa.

Saudi-UAE feud in Horn of Africa overshadows AU summit

Abiy Ahmed and Isaias Afwerki amid rising Eritrea-Ethiopia tensions

Eritrea hits back at Ethiopia over ‘fabricated’ border claims

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud during a press conference in Cairo, February 8 2026.

Egypt and Somalia bolster ties to defend Red Sea sovereignty

Somaliland leader Abdirahman Irro and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel’s Somaliland recognition jolts Horn of Africa diplomacy

Locals gather around the burnt vehicle of the Hulugho chief, torched by militants after his killing in Garissa.

Al-Shabaab militants kill chief, teacher in eastern Kenya

The Antonov An-124 Maximus Air Cargo, photographed here in Dubai in 2007, connected to UAE supply routes to Sudan and Libya (Wikimedia)

UAE arms flights pivot to Israel, Ethiopia after Somalia exit

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at Mar-a-Lago

Trump offers to mediate Egypt-Ethiopia dam row in letter to Sisi

Ethiopian Foreign Minister Gedion Timothewos in Moscow

Ethiopia says sea access is a ‘generational’ cause

IGAD logo on a white background

IGAD regrets Eritrea’s decision to exit the organisation

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki speaks at BRICS summit

Eritrea withdraws from IGAD over ‘violations of mandate’

Somali and Ethiopian leaders shake hands in Addis Ababa

Ethiopia says Somalia backs its ‘two waters’ plan. Does it?

Museveni at Kampala summit amid Indian Ocean remarks Kenya

Why Museveni’s Indian Ocean remarks alarmed Kenya

Somalia Speaker Sheikh Aden Nur with Kenya Speaker Moses Wetangula during talks on Somalia EALA seats.

Somalia’s EALA seats frozen as court battle continues

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, whose government is pursuing sea access, arrives at a BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia.

Ethiopia’s sea access illusion: A dream that died before it reached the shore

Professor Phoebe Okowa and Ambassador Ekitela Lokaale celebrating Kenya's ICJ seat win.

Kenya wins ICJ seat vacated by Somali judge Yusuf

President Isaias Afwerki speaks during a visit in Nairobi Kenya

Afwerki decries ‘foreign meddling’ as Ethiopia seeks port

Somalia President Hassan Sheikh and Djibouti President Ismael Guelleh in Djibouti City, July 27, 2025.

China expands influence in ‘Djibouti-Mogadishu corridor’

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed addresses Ethiopia's parliament regarding the Ethiopia sea access loss and regional tensions on October 28, 2025.

Abiy: ‘No official record’ exists for Ethiopia’s sea access loss

Djibouti's President Ismael Omer Guelleh speaks to the media at a press conference in this 2022 file photo.

Djibouti lifts age limit, paves way for Guelleh 2026 run

Djibouti's President Ismael Omer Guelleh speaks during a meeting at the presidential palace in Djibouti City in this file photo from December 27, 2022.

Djibouti mulls age limit change to let Guelleh, 77, run

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, left, and Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed at a meeting in Addis Ababa on February 14, 2025.

Why Ethiopia and Somalia are clashing over Gedo

Raila Odinga, wearing a blue suit, waves to a large crowd of supporters from a stage.

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga dies in India at 80

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