ወትሩ ሃገረይ

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

PRESS STATEMENT

Hoax News Story on the Phantom “Eritrean Oil Tanker”

This bizarre story is astounding on many counts:
- All the information in the public domain about this ship shows that it is not owned by, and has no links whatsoever with, Eritrea.
- IMO records show that "the ship is flying a false Eritrean flag; i.e, as not owned by or officially registered in Eritrea". This was duly confirmed to Eritrea's Permanent Mission to the IMO.
- Yet, the usual culprits chose to abandon all semblance of journalistic standards to indulge in, and unleash, another despicable campaign of disinformation on Eritrea.

https://t.co/WnkO9mLWN8

[ⓉⓃ @tesfanews]

Today, August 24, the Head-to-Head Challenge at 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲, Round 1, was held, featuring contestants from the Asian and African regions.

Following this round, the strongest performers will advance to Round 2, giving them another opportunity to showcase their talents and abilities as they compete for a direct spot in the Top 40.

Here is the contestant from #Eritrea, Snit Habteab.

[ወትሩ ሃገረይ @Desta455]

@tesfanews @Meconneno Bacha beta kkl moyu hji xbuq srah serihu 😂😂😂.

[David Atherton @daveatherton]

You may have seen my X post on "Eritrean" 🇪🇷 Bruke Desalagne who raped a 60 old man outside a church in. I have had two Eritreans @eritrean_post & now @Eritrea1952 who confirm he's an Ethiopian 🇪🇹, and he sent me his Facebook page. It's an immigration scam as Eritreans are rarely refused asylum.

His name is written in Amharic the native language of Ethiopia and says his place of birth is the capital Addis Ababa.

English is compulsory in Eritrean schools and Desalagne needed an interpreter.

The image is lifted from his FB page.

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

This harrowing crime amplifies two cardinal issues:
1. Inherent flaws of UNHCR's deplorable Eligibility Guidelines (2011/12) originally designed to promote malicious political agendas of harassment and "strategic depopulation" against Eritrea but whose blanket "asylum procedures" have allowed other nationals to obtain asylum masquerading as "persecuted Eritreans" ; (the estimates vary from 40% to 70% in several European countries).
2. The feckless norms and practices of Legacy Media who routinely misconstrue heinous and repugnant crimes of a deranged immigrant for purposes of stigmatization and racist/xenophobic campaigns against the Global South; (even RT recycled the story of defamation against Eritrea without any modicum of validation).

https://t.co/K6Z4N6NUcC

[Berhane @EmbassyEritrea]

Embassy of the State of Eritrea - Press Release - 17 Aug 2026 https://t.co/Z03EtjPdQN

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

Eritrea’s Sovereignty Is Not Negotiable: Neither Is the Sovereignty of Any Other African Nation
Embassy of the State of Eritrea
Washington, D.C.
17 August 2026

*"...At the heart of current Eritrea-Ethiopia tensions is a fundamental question that should not be obscured: commercial access to a port is one matter; sovereignty over another country’s coastline or territory is entirely another".

*"...Eritrea has no territorial claim against Ethiopia, demands no Ethiopian land or resources, and seeks no alteration of Ethiopia’s internationally recognized borders. Eritrea has never, in recorded history, opposed Ethiopia’s legitimate commercial use of regional ports through mutually negotiated arrangements. Landlocked countries throughout the world conduct international commerce through neighboring coastal states without acquiring sovereignty over their territory. In fact, commercial necessity creates opportunities for cooperation among countries; it does not create territorial entitlement".

*"...The overall principle at stake extends far beyond Eritrea. Africa’s interstate order rests on respect for inherited international colonial boundaries, sovereign equality, and territorial integrity. If established borders can be reopened because one country is larger, landlocked, economically ambitious or considers another state’s territory strategically necessary, virtually no African boundary would remain immune from challenge".

*"...Eritrea claims no territory belonging to another state and seeks peaceful, mutually beneficial relations with Ethiopia and all its neighbors. What is not open to negotiation is Eritrea’s sovereignty and territorial integrity".

*"...Eritrea’s sovereignty is not a geopolitical bargaining chip. It is an internationally recognized legal right, and the same right upon which the security, sovereignty and territorial integrity of every African nation ultimately depend".
https://t.co/n8P1UmwP21

[ወትሩ ሃገረይ @Desta455]

@tesfanews 🙊🙊🙈🙈🙈

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

Potemkin Party's official media outlets - Ethiopian News Agency (ENA), EBC, and FANA among others - are yet again on overdrive mode this week to churn out, particularly in their domestic broadcasts, fallacious and incendiary vitriol against Eritrea on a daily basis.

The stale and obsolete themes, the inflammatory and provocative packaging, remain the same; i.e.

1. Denigration and denial of Eritrea's hard-won independence that was achieved through precious sacrifices in Africa's longest liberation struggle when its right to decolonization was suppressed in the 1940s on the altar of "overarching" geopolitical interests of some global powers;
2. Repeated and bellicose pronouncements, accompanied by incessant saber-rattling, on the Potemkin Party's inexorable quest for "sovereign access to the sea... through negotiations if possible and force if necessary";
3. Rationalization of a "wider war that would expand to Eritrea's Dahlak Islands for reasons of strategic depth", in order to project and guarantee, in its convoluted views, "viable maritime power";
4. Banal and spurious "economic arguments" for rationalizing war and invasion in order to avoid exorbitant "port fees"; etc.

These are red lines and political blasphemies that should not be countenanced by any normal country.

The sad fact is these are normative for a callous and reckless Potemkin Party that seems to specialize in incubating endless conflicts both at home and in the wider Horn of Africa region (illicit MoU with Somaliland; active and surrogate role in the exacerbation of the conflict in Sudan etc.).

https://t.co/GkuVblIueE

[Wedi Segid @Sawa5hager]

يُعد تخرج الدكتورة حبن داويت كأول طبيبة #إريتريا تنال شهادة التخصص في علم الأمراض (Pathology) إنجازاً تاريخياً لـكلية أورتا للطب والعلوم الصحية وللقطاع الصحي في إريتريا بأكمله. يُمثل هذا الحدث خطوة استراتيجية نحو توطين الكفاءات الطبية النادرة فى الأمراض المعقدة
#Eritrea 🇪🇷 🙌🏾

[Haylom Wedi Eri @wediEriHaylom]

This is an impressive achievement. As an Eritrean who actively explores technology on a daily basis, I am thrilled that we have developed the AI below. Please utilize it and support their efforts. The AI’s intelligence will continue to grow as you use it more frequently.

#Eritrea

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

Profile Q & A - Polytech, AI, and the Future: Isaias Okbai on Eritrean Innovation

To be realistic, these are modest programmes still at the early incipient phase. But the broader vision and optimism are laudable indeed!

*"...In Eritrea, technical creativity is practically a national passion. You can see it in the industrial legacy left by our ancestors  and, most profoundly, in the brilliant improvisations born of our armed struggle. Even today, if you visit any ordinary household, you will see how resourcefully people repair and maintain their home appliances despite material shortages. As a nation, we are naturally curious and open-minded about new technology, as evidenced by how eagerly the younger generation enrolls in our tech courses".

*"...My final message to the Eritrean youth is: let us focus on our opportunities rather than our scarcities. By embracing our national principle of self-reliance, we can replicate the miraculous achievements of our past and firmly establish our country as one of the continent’s tech centers".

https://t.co/WfaqL44lAi

[German Embassy in Eritrea @GermanEmbasssy]

Eritrea Festival 2026-the vibe, the sound, the taste and the colours of a proud nation.

[Ghideon Musa @GhideonMusa]

Henok Mulubrhan takes the green jersey! 💚 on Stage 7 of the Tour of Magnificent Qinghai 💪 🇪🇷
Well deserved!

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

In characteristic fashion, the Potemkin Party's erratic political pendulum is yet again swinging between two extreme positions:
i) A provocative and aggressive posturing that has been accompanied, for over two years now, by incessant saber-rattling to "acquire sovereign access to the sea", on the one hand;
ii) Simultaneous portrayal of itself as the "aggrieved party" and a "hapless victim of internal and external conspiracies", on the other.

This was indeed the gist of the PM's rambling at the House of Peoples Representatives earlier today.

Hyperbole and associated drama aside, the stubborn facts remain the same.

The sad truth is: the unnecessary and avoidable tensions in the region have and continue to be stoked by the very reckless policies of the Potemkin Party. For brief illustrations:

1. The palpable friction with the Sudan squarely emanates from the Potemkin Party's dangerous involvement in the conflict in the Sudan by hosting, under the bidding of certain extraneous forces, a secret military camp and base for the RSF in the Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia. The evidence, which is overwhelming, is already in the public domain.
2. The Potemkin Party's stealthily signed MOU with Somaliland a couple of years ago was another illicit and reckless misstep that aroused consternation in the region as a whole. This act remains in flagrant violation of the AU and IGAD Constitutive Acts as well as fundamental tenets of international law on sovereignty and territorial integrity of States.
3. The Potemkin Party has pursued, for over two and half years now, a toxic and revisionist policy against Eritrea by openly threatening to invade/acquire by any means, its Assab port and coastal areas for what it terms as "sovereign access to the sea".
4. In the event, its frequent reference to "conspiratorial forces disappointed by, and bent on, scuttling the Pretoria Agreement" is as disingenuous as it is untenable. In as far as Eritrea is concerned, the Pretoria Agreement is a purely Ethiopian affair. Let us also recall - the beans have been spilled now by Getachew Redda's multiple confessions - that the Potemkin Party was scheming against Eritrea (Djibouti and Seychelles events) months before the negotiations and signature of the Pretoria Agreement.

In a nutshell, the quest for enduring regional peace and stability that the peoples of the Horn of Africa deeply cherish and deserve has been, and continues to be, jeopardized by the Potemkin Party's delusional policies.
https://t.co/2MuR9MZUna

[G. Drar @gdrarr]

🇪🇷⚖️ Eritrea Calls for an End to the Politicization of the UN Human Rights Process

💬 “Justice loses its credibility when it ceases to be impartial.”

At a briefing to the foreign diplomatic community in Eritrea, Foreign Minister Osman Saleh reaffirmed Eritrea's longstanding position regarding the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) process.

🔍 Key Messages from the Briefing

🟥 1) End the Politicization
Eritrea argues that, for 14 years, the Special Rapporteur mechanism has evolved into a politicized process rather than a constructive human rights dialogue.
🟦 2) Sovereignty & Mutual Respect
Eritrea reiterated its commitment to international engagement based on:
• 🤝 Sovereign equality
• 🤝 Mutual respect
• 🤝 Non-interference
• 🤝 Genuine cooperation

🟩 3) Economic Consequences
According to Eritrea, the continued mandate has contributed to:
🔹 A negative international perception
🔹 Reduced investor confidence
🔹 A weaker tourism climate
🔹 Obstacles to economic development

🟨 4) Better Use of UN Resources
Eritrea contends that resources devoted to the mandate could instead support:
✅ Capacity building
✅ Development programs
✅ Practical cooperation that directly benefits citizens
🟪 5) Engagement—But Not Selective Targeting
Eritrea emphasized that it remains committed to internationally recognized human rights mechanisms, including:
📌 Universal Periodic Review (UPR)
📌 Treaty body processes
📌 Technical cooperation based on dialogue and consent
🌍 The broader question extends beyond Eritrea:
Should international human rights mechanisms primarily emphasize dialogue, technical cooperation, and capacity-building, or should they continue relying on country-specific mandates that some states view as politically selective?
Constructive engagement is most effective when it is credible, impartial, and applied consistently.

“Lasting solutions are built through trust and cooperation—not perpetual confrontation.”
🇪🇷🕊️ Peace, development, and human dignity are best advanced through principled dialogue, mutual respect, and equal treatment under international law.

#Eritrea 🇪🇷 #UNHRC #UnitedNations #HumanRights #Diplomacy #InternationalLaw #UPR #Africa #Peace #Development #Multilateralism

[ወትሩ ሃገረይ @Desta455]

@GhideonMusa 100%✅️😂😂😂😂

[ወትሩ ሃገረይ @Desta455]

@tesfanews @FasilSanjaw 👍🤣🤣🤣

[ⓉⓃ @tesfanews]

DID YOU KNOW? - Eritrea is the only country in Africa that manufactures Intraocular Lenses (IOLs), the artificial lenses implanted during cataract surgery.

[ⓉⓃ @tesfanews]

Bridging Global Biotechnology and Public Health in Eritrea: Dr. Menghis Bairu on Eritrea’s Path to Medical Self-Reliance

ERITREA ― Dr. Menghis Bairu is an Eritrean-American physician, philanthropist, Co-founder, President and CEO of a biotechnology company "Bio Usawa" with more than three decades of international executive experience in the life sciences industry.

Throughout his career, he has led major biotechnology initiatives and multi-billion-dollar business transactions while also maintaining a strong commitment to medical education and global health.

In this interview with @shabait journalist Sabrina Solomon, @DrMenghis presents a vision that extends beyond humanitarian medical missions toward building a sustainable, self-reliant healthcare system in #Eritrea.

Through his work with the #CureBlindness Project, the Ministry of Health, and Orotta School of Medicine and Dentistry, he emphasizes training local specialists rather than relying on foreign expertise, ensuring that knowledge and technology remain within the country.

A central theme of his work is the establishment of the Berhan Ayni Ophthalmic Hospital as a regional Center of Excellence.

His long-term goal is to equip the hospital with world-class technology, develop highly trained Eritrean ophthalmologists through local residency programs, and create an internationally competitive eye care system capable of serving both Eritreans and patients from neighboring countries.

Dr. Menghis also highlights the importance of leveraging the expertise and global networks of the Eritrean diaspora. Through organizations such as the Eritrean-American Healthcare Association, he advocates structured collaboration between diaspora professionals and Eritrean institutions to strengthen medical education, transfer technology, and improve healthcare infrastructure.

Beyond restoring sight through cataract surgeries and corneal transplants, Dr. Menghis views #blindness reduction as a broader development strategy that directly addresses poverty and improves quality of life.

Looking ahead, he envisions Eritrea becoming a destination for reverse medical eye-care tourism, with the Berhan Ayni Ophthalmic Hospital serving as a premier regional hub staffed by homegrown specialists and supported by international partnerships.

Here is the full interview: https://t.co/sd1hiHXRbC