Alex de Waal and Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe co-authored an article for the powerful Council on Foreign Relations’ Foreign Affairs magazine titled “Ethiopia Back on the Brink: How Abiy’s Reckless Ambition—and Emirati Meddling—are Fueling Chaos in the Horn”. As the...
The stage is set for Japan to participate in AUKUS’ Pillar II advanced capability projects (AI, hypersonic weapons, electronic warfare, underwater drones, quantum technologies, and space-tracking radar) after that bloc’s Defense Ministers signaled their interest in this in Monday’s...
Several NATO members have already agreed to provide so-called “security guarantees” to Ukraine whereby they promised to extend arms, intelligence, logistics, and other forms of support to it in the event that another conflict breaks out with Russia. These...
A senior defense analyst at the RAND Corporation published a piece at Foreign Policy magazine last week about how “U.S.-India Ties Remain Fundamentally Fragile”. As could be expected, Derek Grossman laid the blame largely on India’s lap, arguing that...
Kyrgyzstan’s local payments operator announced last week that it’ll stop accepting Russia’s Mir bank card on Friday, which coincided with reports that most Kazakh banks had already stopped servicing them and follows Armenia’s official decision to do the same...
Bloomberg cited unnamed “people familiar with the matter” to report on Saturday that “China Providing Geospatial Intelligence to Russia, US Warns”. The storyline weaved into their piece is that the People’s Republic isn’t as neutral towards the NATO-Russian proxy...
The “Jaish-al-Adl” (JAA) terrorist group attacked Iran’s Chabahar in the early hours of Thursday morning in a battle that killed 11 members of the security forces and neutralized 16 of their own militants. It occurred around two weeks after...
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) announced on Friday evening that his country is severing diplomatic relations with Ecuador after its police stormed the Mexican Embassy to arrest a fugitive former Vice President who was sheltering there and...
The Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) demanded that the autonomous State of Puntland close the Ethiopian consulate in the regional capital of Garowe as part of Mogadishu’s latest diplomatic move to protest January’s Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Ethiopia...
CNN published a detailed piece on Tuesday about how “Ukraine’s AI-enabled drones are trying to disrupt Russia’s energy industry. So far, it’s working”. Although an unnamed source close to the program told them that “The flights are determined in...
