Tolera FIKRU GEMTA / AFP Ethiopia
Fri, March 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM EDT
Ethiopia’s quest for access to the Red Sea has become a hotly debated topic on social media. Posts with a map of the Red Sea region in the Horn of Africa claim that Eritrea’s port of Assab is located in Ethiopia. However, this is false: the map has been altered. The area where the port is located in Eritrea has been redrawn within the border of Ethiopia.
The post, published in English on Facebook on March 13, 2025, reads: “Assab, Afar Ethiopia”, followed by an emoji with the Ethiopian flag.
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