Eritrea’s resentment and Ethiopia’s Red Sea push unsettle the Horn
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (right) and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki (left) disembark from a plane at Juba International Airport in South Sudan, on March 4, 2019. The visit was aimed to consolidate the regional efforts to restore peace and stability to South Sudan.
Eritrea’s deepening resentment over its exclusion from the 2022 Pretoria Agreement that ended Ethiopia’s war in Tigray, combined with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s renewed push for access to the Red Sea, risks dragging the Horn of Africa back into another major war.
Amidst optimism and the glare of the world, the Pretoria Agreement was signed in November 2022 in South Africa’s administrative capital. It brought to an end a brutal two-year conflict between the Federal Government of Ethiopia and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).
