March 19, 2026
Ethiopia: Belligerent Agenda of Regional Destabilization
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Research and Documentation Division
Asmara, 18 March 2026
Over the past two years, Ethiopia’s Prosperity Party (PP) regime has indulged in a reckless and insidious agenda of belligerence and destabilization against the State of Eritrea and the wider region. The hostile and unprovoked agenda has often been framed and rationalized in “existential” terms; as the “imperative for sovereign access to the sea” in the regime’s hyperbolic parlance. The elusive and toxic agenda continues to be flaunted by invoking and recycling fallacious and revisionist historical narratives; alluding to demographic factors that revolve around Ethiopia’s relatively big and growing population size; as well as reciting…
