El Fasher, North Darfur, four weeks before it fell to the Rapid Support Forces and on the day it fell. At ten metres per pixel this cannot show what the United Nations has since documented inside the city; it can only show whether the city itself was flattened. It was not.Copernicus Sentinel data 2025, processed by ESA Geopolitics·Explainer Sudan's war, explained A year since El Fasher fell and the world briefly looked, Sudan's war has not ended, it has spread. We checked what satellite imagery of that city can and cannot tell you, and explain where the fighting is now. 13 Oct
The Mediterranean coast at El Alamein, Egypt, where the four leaders met. File photo, not an image of the summit.Faris knight Geopolitics·Fact check We read the Alamein declaration. Ethiopia is not in it. Four leaders met in Egypt and published a text now widely described as an anti-Ethiopia front. The document never says the word. What it does say is narrower, and more useful. 6 Oct
Asmara. File photo, not an image of any event described here.Clay Gilliland from Chandler, U.S.A. / Wikimedia Commons Geopolitics·Analysis Eritrea has an opening in Washington. What does it actually mean? A documented sanctions removal and an Eritrean account of U.S. talks show diplomatic movement. They do not establish a military alliance or a promise of American protection in the current crisis. 5 Oct
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile. The water dispute runs underneath this summit. File photo, not an image of the summit.Own work / Wikimedia Commons Geopolitics·Analysis Egypt, Eritrea, Sudan and Somalia set out a common Red Sea position The Alamein declaration puts maritime governance, the Nile and sovereignty into one diplomatic package. That is a regional alignment, not proof of a joint military campaign against Ethiopia. 4 Oct
Asmara. Eritrea's capital sits at the centre of a quarrel about sea access that long predates this war. File photo, not an image of any event here.Clay Gilliland from Chandler, U.S.A. / Wikimedia Commons Geopolitics·Analysis Eritrea cuts ties with Ethiopia as the war turns regional Asmara has severed all diplomatic relations after Ethiopia expelled ten of its diplomats and shut its embassy. Egypt was pulled in within days. What began as fighting in Tigray is now entangled with the two oldest quarrels in the Horn: the Nile, and the sea. 3 Oct