Yovela Debesay

✞ | USF & GWU Alumna | 🇪🇷 | 1908.

[UN Eritrea 🇺🇳 @UNinEritrea]

Eritrea’s nationally owned response is bold
& generational:

🌱151M trees planted
💧 872 dams built
🔆613 solar water systems installed
🔥 173K improved cookstoves distributed

➡️Next, focus on empowering communities& securing financing to grow these efforts. #ClimateAction

[Yovela Debesay @DebesayYovela]

@SadieCollective Excited!

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

Profile Q & A - #Eritrea’s Voice on the Global Stage: Ambassador Sophia Tesfamariam on the UN; the Global South; and National Development

*"...Eritrea’s approach aligns with strategies employed by many nations, but what sets us apart is our proactive stance. We have been addressing key issues—climate, food security, water management, and sustainability—long before they became global talking points".
*"...Every country at the UN prioritizes its national interests, and Eritrea is no different. We are not aligned against any country, nor do we align blindly with others. Instead, we work with nations that share similar perspectives and understand the context of Eritrea’s positions. These allies span both the Global South and the Global North, depending on the issue at hand".
*"...While a few powerful nations may dominate decision-making, the majority of UN members share our aspirations for peace, development, and justice. We must engage constructively, ensuring that Eritrea’s voice continues to be heard".

https://t.co/VJYZjFnpb2

[Hadnet Keleta @hadnetkeleta]

Minister Osman Salih addressed the diplomatic corps about z allegations on #Eritrea’s interference in the internal affairs of #Ethiopia, as a baseless accusation. He underlined that Eritrea remains committed to peace & regional security. #Eritrea #Ethiopia #HoA #RegionalSecurity

[Sharron Yemane @Sharronyemane]

OUR TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY IS NON-NEGOTIABLE!

Eritrea was a country of its own that was illegally annexed by Ethiopia from 1952 - 1991.
👉Eritrea paid sacrifice to remove occupation power.
👉Eritrea exercised right of self determination per UN Charter (not by permission of 🇪🇹, occupier)
👉UN monitored Referendum = 99.8%🇪🇷
Respecting sovereignty means acknowledging and honoring the political independence and territorial integrity of other nations. It's a fundamental principle of international law!
#ERITREA 🇪🇷🇪🇷

[Eritrea at the UN @Eritrea_UN]

We are honored to welcome high school students from @dwightschool here today @EritreaUN in preparation for the @Columbia Model UN conference. The students got the chance to learn more about global diplomacy and #Eritrea’s voice at the #UN 🇪🇷

[Yovela Debesay @DebesayYovela]

@thomascmountain This is not confirmed. Source?

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

#Eritrea : MoA Newsletter January 2025

Concise summary/recap of key MoA activities for the month of December 2024
https://t.co/v1XRxcF8nF

[Ministry of Information, Eritrea @shabait]

International Conference on Eritrea Studies Opens in Asmara

International Conference on Eritrea Studies opened yesterday at Asmara Palace Hotel under the theme “International and Regional Cooperation for Sustainable Development.”

The opening ceremony was attended by Ministers, senior Government and PFDJ officials, Ambassadors, members of the diplomatic community, heads of UN agencies in Eritrea, scholars, professionals, and invited guests.

Dr. Halima Mohammed, chairperson of the conference’s coordinating committee, noted the growing interest among scholars and practitioners in researching and publishing on Eritrea. She emphasized that investment in research and education is fundamental to all development efforts. The conference aims to facilitate academic exchange, foster collaboration, and promote a deeper understanding of Eritrea’s role in regional peace and stability, as well as its contributions to global sustainable development.

In his keynote address, Mr. Yemane Gebremeskel, Minister of Information, said that the research papers, on a broad spectrum of themes, slated for discussion during the next three days will immensely enrich development oriented academic research in the country. Furthermore, Minister Yemane emphasized that another invaluable spinoff of this conference will be its impact and contribution in debunking and rectifying the stifling, negative narrative, on Eritrea that has been pursued, for almost two decades now without let-up, by major legacy media outlets and associated think tanks.

Regarding the current global situation, Minister Yemane underscored that it is very turbulent and trying times; by all historical metrics. The global security structure is literally under unprecedented and dangerous stress.

The so-called civilized, technologically-advanced, post-industrial world has been spared from another global conflagration in the past eighty years; this was not due to some higher moral calling, statesmanship, or wisdom. It was not based on a judicious architecture of global governance. Sadly, Minister Yemane went on to say that the fragile peace was, and remains predicated, on a raw and crude balance of terror. Due to what is termed as Mutually Assured Destruction or MAD as the acronym cynically suggests.

Minister Yemane underlined that the nuclear powers did not enjoy the privilege of success in annihilating their adversaries through pre-emptive first strikes. It was this binary balance of terror that constituted, for the last eighty years, the sole and primary basis of deterrence and fragile peace. Tactical and political brinkmanship and posturing aside, there are worrying signs now that this paradigm might shift for the worst. Some, worst-case analysts are even invoking what is known as the Thucydides Trap to emphasize historical precedents for the high probability of the outbreak of war in this period of global transition of hegemony.

Noting that all these aberrations, in the security, legal and economic global architectures of governance, are occurring at a time when technological advancement has achieved unprecedented progress in all its dimensions, Minister Yemane said that the disconnect between reality and what is possible and desirable, remains immensely and absurdly huge. Humanity can indeed work out a viable and sustainable global system that can advance human dignity under a common Global Social Contract of compassion, fairness, and solidarity and that is arguably cherished by the vast majority of the peoples of the world.

Regarding Eritrea’s consistent stance, Minister Yemane reiterated that for reasons of history, geographic proximity, pragmatic calculus, and other cogent considerations, Eritrea’s policy perspectives on continental African cooperation and partnership are primarily predicated on a modular approach. This policy perspective was first articulated at the OAU Summit held in Tunis in 1994.

In Eritrea’s views, while the aspirations for fostering continent-wide institution of African effective cooperation is laudable in terms of broad abstract principles, realism dictates that this is implemented – over a long span of decades – through the establishment and consolidation of regional building blocks.

Minister Yemane further underlined that debilitating dependency on, and entrenched tendencies and proclivities to act as surrogates of global and regional hegemony, have also encumbered independent and home-grown development policies and options. Ill-advised ambitions of territorial aggrandizement and expansion, often induced by overriding external agendas, have and continue to constitute avoidable factors of additional regional destabilization; thereby compromising the national and regional interests of the nations and peoples of the Horn of Africa.

Highlighting that Eritrea’s endowments are substantial by all standards, Minister Yemane said that the blue economy consisting of considerable marine resources; locational advantages; ports as well as pristine beaches and islands can be leveraged to catalyze and expedite rapid economic growth under conditions of congenial regional peace and stability.

In his closing remarks, Minister Yemane emphasized that Eritrea’s Social Contract, hinged as it is on comprehensive Social Justice, does not stem from a humanistic philosophical and political convictions alone. Embedded in the philosophy is the keen and implicit tribute to, and recognition of, Stakeholder rights; the additional acknowledgement that Eritrea is a nation whose citizens have all paid heavy and almost unparalleled sacrifices to assert and defend their inalienable human and national rights. As such, they deserve their proper share in the national pie.

Minister Yemane also expressed his expectation that the Conference will address all these interrelated themes in greater depth in its proceedings in the next three days.

At the conference that will continue until 6 January 154 research papers will be presented including on natural and social science, agriculture and natural resources, archeology and national heritage, Diaspora opportunities and challenges, economic development, environment and climate change, language and linguistics, law, politics and regional and global issues, science and technology as well as folklores and music. 70 of the research papers will be presented by Eritrean experts from inside the country and abroad.

By its second day of the conference, over 95 research papers have so far presented by various academicians and professionals in their respective fields of profession.

Academicians, experts and researchers from Germany, Italy, the UK, People’s Republic of China, Russian Federation, Hungary, India, Egypt, Uganda, Somalia, the US, Canada and others are attending the conference.

[ታሪኽ 🇪🇷 @___rikh]

I’m lost for words. Our community loses another beautiful soul. 💔

[Yovela Debesay @DebesayYovela]

@MeronRebecca so proud of you Meron haftey!

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

“Moreover, in the larger scheme of things, Eritrea consistently advocated for ownership & charting out of its policies- economic, cultural, political - as opposed to prescriptive emulation of extraneous ‘development models & abstract principles’, however irrelevant/inappropriate

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

Good Read - #Eritrea: Vaccines Supporting SDG Goal 3 Success; by Dr. Fikre

*Eritrea's pronounced health policy, which is anchored on dual preventive and curative aproaches, includes consistent and nation-wide implementation of a variety of vital vaccination programmes.

https://t.co/5rq0LCPV8F

[Eritrea at the UN @Eritrea_UN]

The event highlighted #Eritrea’s unwavering commitment to peace and justice, acting in good faith, adhering to its treaty obligations, international law and respecting the final & binding arbitral awards. Interesting interventions were made in this regard.

[Eritrea at the UN @Eritrea_UN]

Today PM #Eritrea at the UN organized a side event on the margins of #ILW2024 and the 125th Anniversary of @PCA_CPA. HE Ms. Fawzia Hashim @MoJ_Eritrea provided the keynote address followed by a panel discussion with Prof. Brilmayer and Deputy Secretary-General Garth Schofield🇪🇷🇺🇳

[Yovela Debesay @DebesayYovela]

information is power, & sometimes it’s peace.

[United Nations @UN]

With the youngest population in the world, Africa's potential for growth & innovation is immense.

Last week at UNHQ, @aminajmohammed & @AU_YouthEnvoy joined a UN-@_AfricanUnion Youth Town Hall to discuss the issues most pressing to young people on the continent.

[Yovela Debesay @DebesayYovela]

I also had the pleasure of meeting and speaking with former Senator of Florida @DanaYoungFL after hearing her speak on economic development and tourism throughout the state of Florida. We tried to teach her the bulls horns 😂. #usfdatc #gobulls @BullsAdvocates @USFStudentGov