Overnight World Report · October 15, 2026, 5:40 AM CDT
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- Eritrea’s Coming Crisis? How the Lifting of US Sanctions Might Spell Trouble for Africa’s Most Opaque State (via African Arguments)
Eritrea’s Coming Crisis? How the Lifting of US Sanctions Might Spell Trouble for Africa’s Most Opaque State.
On 19 September 2026, the United States lifted its sanctions on Eritrea, one of Africa’s most enigmatic and repressive states.
These sanctions were imposed by the Biden administration in 2021 for Eritrea’s role in Ethiopia’s devastating Tigray War (2020-22). Opinions vary as to the possible meanings of their removal: is it morally permissible on the part of the US?
Will Eritrea’s inhabitants be uplifted by their departure? Is this a portent of a new US-defined political order in the Horn of Africa?
Though these are important questions, the greatest impact – and a paradoxically destabilising one – may instead be felt around Eritrea’s octogenarian autocrat, Isaias Afwerki, as predatory officials search for new political openings.
The lifting of these sanctions may yet help to push Eritrea into an era of uncertainty. The departure of the sanctions is both controversial and long-awaited.[1]
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