Egypt Rejects Ethiopian Involvement in Red Sea Governance: Minister Affirms

Egypt rejects Ethiopian involvement in Red Sea governance: Minister affirms

Badr Abdel Atty, Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, declared that the governance of the Red Sea is an affair exclusively concerning the riparian states (countries bordering the Red Sea) and that no non-littoral state has the right to intervene in or participate in its governance mechanisms. In a special statement to Al Arabiya, Abdel Atty …

Red Sea: Eritrea–Ethiopia maritime tensions and Addis Ababa’s quest for sea access - MariTimes Crimes

Landlocked since Eritrea’s independence in 1993, Ethiopia conducts the overwhelming bulk of its external trade through Djibouti, a dependence that Addis Ababa increasingly frames as a strategic vulnerability. The issue has re‑emerged sharply in 2024–2025 amid Ethiopia’s efforts to secure “reliable, safe and durable” routes to the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, including an ill‑fated memorandum with Somaliland and renewed rhetoric touching Eritrean se…