French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni shared a rather awkward and unusual hug right in front of the cameras.
The video quickly went viral online.
What Was Ethiopia’s Chief of Staff Berhanu Jula’s Take on the 2021 Axum Incident?
And how does that compare to PM Abiy Ahmed’s latest allegations against Eritrea?
Potemkin Party zealots and minions continue to ramp up their wholesale, defamatory, media campaigns against Eritrea by peddling and recycling abject lies (Horn Review; IFA etc.), on its governance architecture and disparaging its economic policy approaches and realities.
Truth is, these incessant campaigns invariably stem from, and are principally pursued, in order to deflect attention from the chronic internal security quagmire that is afflicting the country as well as to camouflage & rationalize the grave threat to regional stability its misguided agenda of "sovereign access to the sea" has engendered.
Indeed, as the figures below illustrate, its economic predicaments remain extremely dire in spite of massive financial injections, and perennial "safety nets and bailouts" by its multilateral and bilateral donors. (Aggregate donor support to Ethiopia in the last three decades amounts to a whopping 84 billion US$).
The country is also seething under spiraling conflicts and centrifugal forces that stem from deep-rooted governance deficits that the PP has exacerbated.
These are, indeed, the poignant realities that the Potemkin Party should grapple with instead of stoking internal and regional conflicts in pursuit of its costly and elusive pipe-dreams.
This clip is from 1977 in #Eritrea, produced by a Japanese television crew that visited the area under the control of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF). In the video, we see #EstifanosAfwerki (also known as Bruno), the head of the EPLF northern front, speaking from behind enemy lines. He was a former member of the #EPLF Central Committee and is now the Ambassador of the State of Eritrea to #Japan. The clip illustrates how the EPLF treated Ethiopian prisoners of war by providing them with education and healthcare services. Throughout the struggle for #Eritrean independence, the EPLF captured over 130,000 #Ethiopianprisoners, including officers, pilots, and generals. All of these individuals were ultimately released and sent back to Ethiopia. Many of these former prisoners of war have since become generals and leaders within the Prosperity Party government of Ethiopia. #DiscoverEritrea
🚨 قم بإعادة تغريد هذا الفيديو
يحتاج العالم إلى رؤية ما يفعله إرهابيو قوات الدعم السريع - المسلحون والممولون من قبل الإمارات العربية المتحدة - بالشعب السوداني الأبرياء.
لاتدعها تمر مرور الكرام من اجل اخوانا في السودان💔
Potemkin Party (PP) senior officials seem to have contracted a severe case of historical amnesia.
In a bizarre and rather amusing announcement to the "House of Representatives" this week, the PP's leader stated that "he had scoured every archive in Addis Abeba - the Prime Minister's Office, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cabinet minutes, and parliamentary records - yet found no official record or institutional decision how Ethiopia lost access to the Red Sea".
Hopefully, this debilitating disease is at its incipient or early phase.
* Indeed, only seven years ago, on 9 July 2018 and accompanied by senior officials of his regime including the then Foreign Minister and now Secretary General of IGAD, he had signed in Asmara the Joint Declaration of Peace and Friendship between Eritrea and Ethiopia. The kernel and cardinal content of this Agreement revolved on the "implementation of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission (EEBC) decision", which affirmed Eritrea's internationally recognized boundary for more than a century in accordance with the Treaties of 1900, 1902 and 1908.
* In another moment of truth in those times, Ethiopia's Army Chief of Staff confessed that "he and his colleagues were embarrassed in May 1998 when the incumbent government publicly accused Eritrea of aggression while it was the Ethiopian army which actually unleashed the war in the first place ". Today, he seems to be infected by this collective amnesia as he tries to justify his incessant saber-rattling and agenda of war on spurious pretexts in contravention of international law and Eritrea's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
*Similarly, another PP General, Bacha Debele, confessed, three years ago, about the disastrous defeat that the Ethiopian army contingent had suffered - in his graphic words "ተጨፈጨፍን/we were completely annihilated " - on the Bure Front when it attempted to occupy Assab in June 2000. Apparently infected by the same historical amnesia, this retired General has joined the chorus to clamour for another cycle of irredentist war of aggression against Eritrea in order to occupy Assab.
The incipient, even if already severe, disease of collective amnesia that has gripped the tight circle of senior Potemkin Party officials will need proper therapy: History 101. Link below is the Introductory Chapter I.
The whole syllabus will of course consist of: the denial of Eritrea's right to decolonization in the 1940s; annexation and the armed struggle; all the way back to medieval and ancient history with objective archeological findings and interpretations.
*Warning: the disease may be incurable if it is a pure case of deliberate deception and/or reflexive/pathological lying.
https://t.co/u3297ObXt5
In a 1998 interview with the Eritrean Minister of Finance Mr. Gebresillasie Yosief, he explains how Ethiopia was allowed to operate in Assab with negligible costs.
It was truly a historic blunder on the part of Ethiopia to reject such a lucrative business arrangement for them.
💥🇪🇷 Eritrea Set to Break Free from SWIFT Sanctions! 💳🌍 From Isolation to Integration — The Road to Economic Renaissance Begins
After years of unjust financial isolation, Eritrea may finally re-enter the global banking system.
Some Western banks have lifted SWIFT restrictions — and more may soon follow!
🧠 Before You Judge Eritrea’s Economy — Ask the Right Question: WHY?
🔍 It’s not because Eritrea failed…
It’s because Eritrea was deliberately blocked by crippling, politically-driven sanctions!
💸 What Is SWIFT — And Why Does It Matter?
🔐 SWIFT = Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication
💬 It’s the secure global messaging system that allows banks to send payment instructions across borders.
🌐 Used by 11,000+ banks in over 200 countries — it's the lifeblood of international trade.
🚫💣 Impact of Being Banned from SWIFT
📉 Trade Paralyzed:
👉 Eritrea couldn’t buy or sell easily on global markets.
💵 Currency Suffers:
👉 With limited financial flow, the Nakfa struggled in the shadow of unfair barriers.
🌍 Global Isolation:
👉 Eritrean banks couldn’t talk to the world.
👉 Eritrean businesses couldn’t grow.
👉 Eritrean people were cut off.
💥 Deliberate Economic Pressure:
👉 These sanctions were meant to choke Eritrea into submission — but the nation stood tall.
🛡️🇪🇷 But Eritrea Endured. And Now, Things Are Changing.
✅ SWIFT restrictions on some Eritrean banks are being quietly lifted
✅ A window is opening for economic reintegration
✅ Hope for investment, growth, and trade is on the rise
🔔 This Is a Call to Action:
🚀 Eritrea is ready to rise. But it won’t happen on its own.
✊🏽 Eritreans around the world — unite to build the future we deserve.
🌱 Development starts with us. If we don’t build it, no one will.
📢 Share. Educate. Rebuild. Eritrea's Economic Comeback Starts NOW.
VIDEO: https://t.co/fAFk5uVYnD
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🔖 #EritreaRising | #SWIFTUnblocked | #EndUnjustSanctions | #BuildEritrea | #EconomicJustice | #NakfaStrong | #AfricaFinancialFreedom | #HornOfAfricaVoices | #AwetNehafash 🇪🇷💪 🇪🇷