Lejalem Gemechu

We are all here for the
time being, let us do the right thing.

[Abiy Ahmed Ali 🇪🇹 @AbiyAhmedAli]

Today, we inaugurated the Gelan Gura Industrial Park in Addis Ababa, which carries hope for our city's medium and large-scale manufacturers and provides job opportunities for thousands of our youth.

#EthiopiaDelivers

[Habtish Gurmu (Commentary) @Habtishgreat]

ባለጊዘው ጎጃሜ እንዲ አዲስ አበባ ላይ ፈሰስ ብሎ በሰርግ እንደላቀቃል:: ለማንኛውም በጎጃሚኛ ዘፈን እንጣጥ እያለች የምትጨፍረው መኪና 2026 ሜባክ ማርሲዲስ (Maybach Mercedes) ነች::
መልካም ጋብቻ:: ከዘባቹ ነውና እንኳን ተደሰታቹበት

[Lejalem Gemechu @LejalemMerga]

He reminds me when I was 14 and my mom left me and my 3 siblings for another man I have to do my best to keep us all together!!! What a brother!!!

[Big Wizard 🪄🇦🇷 @bigwizarrdd]

A 14 years old boy lied about his AGE so that he could work Nights and support his little sister after his parents died🥺. Watch till the end to hear the Judge finally decision

[Lejalem Gemechu @LejalemMerga]

The only thing that I can say about this post is bla bla bla nonsense!!! Communication is only when you cooperate with others!!!

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

The Potemkin Party's boringly sterile campaign of disinformation against Eritrea to rationalize its illicit and delusional agenda of "sovereign access to the sea" continues unabated by floating shifting ruses at different times.

Revisionist history bordering on political blasphemy; bogus economic and trade arguments for "legitimizing" brazen breach of foundational international pillars on sovereignty and territorial integrity... etc. were invoked in the past two years ostensibly to hoodwink its domestic constituencies and garner some external support.

When these gimmicks lost traction, the new ploy shifted to accusing Eritrea for "acts of regional destabilization" in order to re-package its irredentist and expansionist agendas in the language of "self-defence".

These days, the new variant/mutation seems to revolve on falsely portraying Eritrea as a "malleable proxy" of extraneous forces with detrimental ramifications to peace and stability in the Horn of Africa.

Eritrea's celebrated and well-known policies on political independence and national dignity in its international relations; its principled and consistent stance on nurturing its multi-layered ties of cooperation with its international partners on the basis of symmetry and mutual interest that eschew structural dependency, are too well-known to merit a long discourse here.

In the event, the PP's new ploy belie's its own track-record and innate proclivity to cater for external agendas that are not in consonance with the enduring interests and welfare of the nations and peoples of the Horn.

https://t.co/imtduVepDN

[Lejalem Gemechu @LejalemMerga]

All I can say about you is, you are a vampire!!!

[Martin Plaut @martinplaut]

For more than a year now commentators have predicted that Eritrea and Ethiopia would soon be at war again. Then, a few weeks ago, Ethiopian military were deployed northwards. It seemed war was about to erupt. I have been sceptical. Of course I may be wrong. 1/2

[Lejalem Gemechu @LejalemMerga]

A friend in need is a friend indeed!!!

[Abiy Ahmed Ali 🇪🇹 @AbiyAhmedAli]

Brotherhood undeterred, a partnership rooted in trust. During my working visit to the United Arab Emirates, I had the pleasure of meeting with H.H @MohamedBinZayed . Our discussions focused on strengthening the longstanding partnership between Ethiopia and the UAE, expanding cooperation, and advancing regional stability. I appreciate the warm reception and our shared commitment to deepening the friendship between our two nations.

[Lejalem Gemechu @LejalemMerga]

I am assured by the person I know in the government of #Ethiopia doesn't have to do what the US did to the #Japanese Americans during world war 2. Nowadays they have a phone and watch the TV so it's easier to identify the enemy!!!

[Habtish Gurmu (Commentary) @Habtishgreat]

Alert ‼️

TPLF activists and supporters have made claims on TikTok that over 100,000 dormant or embedded TPLF-affiliated individuals/fighters remain in Addis Ababa ready for activation should conflict reignite in Tigray.

The Ethiopian government bears the core responsibility to prioritize public safety through proportionate, lawful security measures—intelligence monitoring, community policing, rule-of-law-based investigations, and de-escalation efforts—to protect innocent civilians in Addis Ababa and elsewhere from any potential threats, while avoiding actions that could inflame ethnic divisions or violate rights.

@INSAEthio @AddisPolice

[Lejalem Gemechu @LejalemMerga]

Well, during world war 2 the USA put Japanese American citizens into a concentration camp for their own safety, #Ethiopia must consider that if the war broke out. Fool me once shame on me fool twice, Shame on you!!! #Nomore

[Habtish Gurmu (Commentary) @Habtishgreat]

Alert ‼️

TPLF activists and supporters have made claims on TikTok that over 100,000 dormant or embedded TPLF-affiliated individuals/fighters remain in Addis Ababa ready for activation should conflict reignite in Tigray.

The Ethiopian government bears the core responsibility to prioritize public safety through proportionate, lawful security measures—intelligence monitoring, community policing, rule-of-law-based investigations, and de-escalation efforts—to protect innocent civilians in Addis Ababa and elsewhere from any potential threats, while avoiding actions that could inflame ethnic divisions or violate rights.

@INSAEthio @AddisPolice

[Lejalem Gemechu @LejalemMerga]

Today is not 1991, we will all see the end result, I reposted this just for the record!!!

[President Parody Afwerki (Parody) 🇪🇷 @isaias_afwerki]

Always... 😂

[Lejalem Gemechu @LejalemMerga]

It's sad to see the so called #fano is fighting along their own enemy what an ignorant!!!

[Ⓕⓔⓣለወርቅ ☦︎ ♛𓃭 @DuchessOfGonder]

“This fetishization is still very much alive among the #Dadabit goons. Any attempt by anyone to negotiate let alone handover these historic #Amhara lands is a direct declaration of war on the #Amhara people.”@HOAAffairs

[Lejalem Gemechu @LejalemMerga]

There's insider information coming from the #Tigray region of #Ethiopia, most of the people who are coming to Addis Ababa are #Eriterian citizens with a fake ID, Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

[Abiy Ahmed Ali 🇪🇹 @AbiyAhmedAli]

Ethiopia has finalised its preparations and stands ready to host the distinguished delegations of the 39th African Union Summit and the Second Italy–Africa Summit.

As you gather in the diplomatic capital of Africa, I warmly invite all distinguished delegates to plan ahead and extend your stay beyond the halls of the AU to experience a new era of African-led tourism development.

#VisitEthiopia

[Lejalem Gemechu @LejalemMerga]

One question that I would like to ask you is? Did you sleep in the last 7 years, I didn't think so my youngest brother, I am praying for you everyday!!!

[Abiy Ahmed Ali 🇪🇹 @AbiyAhmedAli]

ከሸበሌ ሪዞርት እስከ አይሻ-2 የንፋስ ኃይል ማመንጫ እና ድሬዳዋ ከተማ ጉብኝት፤ ከጎረቤት ሀገር ወንድሞቻችን ጋር የነበረ የጥር 23 ውሎ!

[Lejalem Gemechu @LejalemMerga]

@cassini4507 You are a bunch of Eritrean who speak Amharic don't lie brothers!!!

[Ⓕⓔⓣለወርቅ ☦︎ ♛𓃭 @DuchessOfGonder]

“This fetishization is still very much alive among the #Dadabit goons. Any attempt by anyone to negotiate let alone handover these historic #Amhara lands is a direct declaration of war on the #Amhara people.”@HOAAffairs

[Lejalem Gemechu @LejalemMerga]

I can't disagree with any of them!!!

[Tibor Nagy @TiborPNagyJr]

Re Prez Trump's offer to mediate Nile discord between Ethiopia and Egypt. In 2020 US position was not neutral, clearly favoring Egypt. If US mediation now is fair, it could succeed with GERD completed and if both sides respect the other's position.

[Birhanu M Lenjiso (PhD) @BMLenjiso]

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is a non-consumptive water projects, that generates electricity by passing water through turbines, allowing most of it to continue downstream. Unlike consumptive uses such as irrigation that divert and deplete water, GERD doesn’t block Nile from flowing to downstream countries.

[Lejalem Gemechu @LejalemMerga]

Absolutely right!!!

[The Asrat Blog @RenaissanceDam]

All Nile Basin Countries, Russia, and China Must Be Invited to Trump’s GERD Negotiations

The Math Doesn’t Add Up: Ethiopia Faces 5-to-1 Pressure

I read the Jan 16, 2026, White House letter to President El-Sisi. I’m using the words on the page.
The letter opens with Gaza praise, then pivots straight into the Nile and calls it “The Nile Water Sharing,” “once and for all.” Then it drops three phrases that carry real weight in negotiations:
1.“A strong United States role in monitoring and coordinating between parties.”
2. “Predictable water releases during droughts and prolonged dry years for Egypt and the Sudan.”
3. “No state… should unilaterally control the precious resources of the Nile, and disadvantage its neighbors…”

That language is not neutral. It’s a frame.
Now look at the CC list, because the CC list is the room. Saudi Arabia is copied. The UAE is copied. Ethiopia and Sudan are copied.

Count the leverage around that table:
US + Egypt + Sudan + Saudi + UAE versus Ethiopia
That is 5-to-1 pressure before anyone even sits down.

If you say “Nile Basin Nations,” and " Water Sharing," then invite the Nile Basin Nations

Saudi Arabia and the UAE are not Nile Basin riparians. They contribute no basin flow. Yet they are placed inside the process, while most actual Nile Basin countries are not even mentioned. If this is truly “a lasting agreement for all Nile Basin Nations,” then where are the rest?

A real basin table includes the full basin family: Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan, DR Congo, and Eritrea as an observer if needed. You cannot call it basin-wide while inviting non-basin brokers and excluding basin states. That is not mediation. That is choreography.

The hydrology doesn’t lie
People can argue politics forever. They cannot argue physics. The Ethiopian tributaries, Abay (Blue Nile), Sobat, and Atbara contribute the overwhelming share of the flow measured downstream at Aswan, commonly summarized as about 85 percent, while the White Nile contributes roughly 15 percent.

So when non-basin countries get seats while basin countries are locked out, it is not water sharing. It is influence sharing, and Ethiopia is expected to carry the cost.

Even this letter admits Ethiopia has water needs too, not just Egypt and Sudan. Fine. Then act like it. A basin file must be treated like a basin file.

UAE: business ties are not official support
Yes, Ethiopia and the UAE have economic and political ties. Usually, Abu Dhabi speaks the language of mediation. But on the GERD file, Arab and Gulf bloc statements repeatedly center Egypt and Sudan’s “water security” framing.

The evidence speaks for itself. In March 2020, Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected an Arab League resolution on GERD as “blind support” for one member state. The UAE did not publicly distance itself from that bloc position. In June 2021, GCC foreign ministers, including the UAE, issued a statement prioritizing Egypt and Sudan’s water security and welcoming the Arab League line against “unilateral measures” that undermine Egypt and Sudan’s rights in the Nile.

That tells you what the UAE is on this file: a transactional broker. Brokers follow interests, not justice.

Gaza first, Nile next: transactional diplomacy is back
The letter starts with Gaza, then pivots to the Nile. That’s how transactional politics works: files get linked, favors get traded, pressure gets packaged as peace. Egypt has leverage in Gaza. Ethiopia does not. Ethiopia must never allow the Nile to become a payment method for Middle East politics. Ethiopia is not a bargaining chip. The Nile is not a prize to be traded. GERD is not a favor. Ethiopia does not need permission to operate it.

The trap words are “monitoring,” “coordination,” and “drought”

“Monitoring and coordinating” sounds harmless until it isn’t. In diplomacy, monitoring can quietly become permission, and coordination can quietly become control, especially when Ethiopia is outnumbered.

Now add the word “drought.” In these negotiations, drought is not just weather. In draft texts Ethiopia has seen before, “drought” and “prolonged dry years” get turned into technical triggers that force additional releases. That is how quotas sneak in through the back door, without ever using the words “historic rights.”

Here is the deeper trap. If drought is defined against a historical downstream baseline, then any Ethiopian development gets framed as “drought.” If Ethiopia expands irrigation for food security, or builds additional power dams and regulates flows differently, Egypt can point to the reduced flow and say “drought.” Then the trigger clauses activate, and Ethiopia is forced into predictable releases and emergency mitigation, not because nature failed, but because Ethiopia developed.

That is the purpose of the drought vocabulary: freeze Ethiopian development without writing a quota.

Ethiopia’s response should be calm and non-negotiable. Two demands should be made immediately.

Demand 1: Invite all Nile Basin countries.
If the letter says “all Nile Basin Nations,” prove it. Bring them all.
Demand 2: If outsiders are included, balance the outsiders.
If Saudi Arabia and the UAE are included despite being non-basin states, then Ethiopia has every right to insist that China and Russia are included as well, at least at the observer or guarantor level. This is not ideology. It is balance. A widened table cannot be widened only with U.S. partners and Gulf pressure tools.

Cooperation without surrender
Ethiopia can coordinate on drought without signing away sovereignty. A fair framework means transparent basin-wide data, trigger-based drought coordination based on real inflows and reservoir levels, no permanent quotas, and no foreign supervision.
Power trade is normal economics. If Egypt and Sudan want electricity, buy it. Sign PPAs. Pay market rates. Integrate grids. Build regional growth.

But nobody supervises Ethiopia’s river like Ethiopia is renting the Abay.

#Egypt #Sudan #SouthSudan #Ethiopia #Eritrea #Uganda #Kenya #Tanzania #Rwanda #Burundi #DRC #China #Russia #UAE #Saudiarabia @AbiyAhmedAli @AlsisiOfficial
#SaudiArabia

[Lejalem Gemechu @LejalemMerga]

Thank you for your hard work!!!

[Abiy Ahmed Ali 🇪🇹 @AbiyAhmedAli]

ወርቁም፣ ቡናውም፣ መልካም ስራ ወዳድ ሰውም፣ ተፈጥሮውም ያለው እናንተ ጋር ነው። ይሄ በኮትሮባንድ፣ በስርቆት እንዳይጠፋ ጠብቃችሁ ከባቢውን ለማልማት እና ለሌሎች ለመትረፍ እንድትተጉ አደራ እላለሁ።