{"id":242342,"date":"2026-08-27T08:44:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T06:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/east-africa-from-red-sea-to-sudan-why-ethiopias-instability-risks-destabilizing-horn-of-africa\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T08:44:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T06:44:55","slug":"east-africa-from-red-sea-to-sudan-why-ethiopias-instability-risks-destabilizing-horn-of-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/east-africa-from-red-sea-to-sudan-why-ethiopias-instability-risks-destabilizing-horn-of-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"East Africa: From Red Sea to Sudan &#8211; Why Ethiopia&#8217;s Instability Risks Destabilizing Horn of Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">Addis Abeba \u2014 The guns may not yet have returned to the scale seen during Ethiopia&#8217;s devastating 2020-2022 war, but the warning signs are becoming impossible to ignore. Tigray is once again caught in a dangerous <a href=\"https:\/\/addisstandard.com\/from-red-sea-to-sudan-why-ethiopias-instability-risks-destabilizing-horn-of-africa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> political<\/a> and military confrontation, while the unresolved issues left behind by the Pretoria peace agreement continue to deepen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">Recent clashes and reports of military mobilisation in and around Tigray have revived fears of a return to full-scale war. The danger is not confined to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608270037.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addis Abeba \u2014 The guns may not yet have returned to the scale seen during Ethiopia&#8217;s devastating 2020-2022 war, but the warning signs are becoming impossible to ignore. Tigray is once again caught in a dangerous political and military confrontation, while the unresolved issues left behind by the Pretoria peace agreement continue to deepen. Recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":242343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660675:24adb54537bfa3c6a407489b1f1cec92:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,8322,6719,7144,7150,9317,257,10722,7349,10361,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-242342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-destabilizing","tag-east","tag-ethiopias","tag-horn","tag-instability","tag-news","tag-red","tag-risks","tag-sea","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660675:24adb54537bfa3c6a407489b1f1cec92:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}