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[Samuel T. @Maetot2014]

Facts matter. UN development grants allocated to Eritrea through UN agencies should not be portrayed as direct donor funding to the Government of Eritrea. Those funds are managed within the UN Cooperation Framework. Direct donor assistance is a different category altogether and typically involves budget support or donor-implemented programmes.

[Berhane @EmbassyEritrea]

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

[ⓉⓃ @tesfanews]

GENEVA —⚡️ The President of the United Nations Human Rights Council, H.E. Sidharto R. Suryodipuro, has appointed 𝗠𝗿. 𝗛𝗮𝗯𝘁𝗼𝗺 𝗭𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗶 𝗚𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗶, Chargé d'Affaires a.i. of #Eritrea's Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva, as 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗿-𝗥𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝘂𝗿 of the 2026 Social Forum.

The appointment was made following a nomination process within the regional group, where Habtom was one of the candidates considered for the position.

The Social Forum is an annual meeting of the UN Human Rights Council that brings together governments, international organizations, civil society, and other stakeholders to discuss human rights issues related to social development.

[Thomas C. Mountain @thomascmountain]

Does the US still support the UAE proxy Abiy Regime in Ethiopia?
"Ethiopian National Defense Force and U.S. Africa Command will jointly host the first African Logistics and Communication Symposium in Addis Ababa from July 27 to 31, 2026." Talk about backing a loser, again...

[AMB. Beyene Russom @BeyeneRussom]

Glad to have met a dear sister and a friend of Eritrea, Ambassador Amina Mohammed, former Minister of foreign affairs of Kenya, after some lapse of time, during a get together with some other friends.

[Korir Sing'Oei @SingoeiAKorir]

Hosted H.E. Beyene Russom, Ambassador of the State of Eritrea to Kenya at Ministry Headquarters today. Building on the strong foundation laid during H.E. President Ruto’s State Visit to Asmara in 2022, our discussions focused on strategic priorities aimed at deepening our bilateral ties. We discussed institutionalising our engagement through a Political Consultations Mechanism, finalizing a new reciprocal Visa Abolition Agreement, and fully operationalising our Bilateral Air Services Agreement. We also reviewed the peace and security situation in the region underscoring the primacy of peaceful coexistence based on respect for territorial intergrity. @ForeignOfficeKE

[Andargachew Tsege @AndargachewTse2]

Eritrea: Happy Independence Day.
Celebrating 35 years of Eritrean independence.

Liberation has never come free, and it is never sustained without courage and sacrifice. The Eritrean people paid dearly to win their freedom, and they have continued to pay a heavy price for holding fast to what they believe in rather than yielding to powerful pressures. I honour the indomitable spirit and perseverance of the Eritrean people, and the sacrifices still being made. Your resilience inspires all who value true liberty.
@NeaminZeleke @hornafricanguy @AmbStesfamariam @EritreanPress @hawelti
@ShidaMedia

[AMB. Beyene Russom @BeyeneRussom]

@nahlav @UNinEritrea Wishing Dr Halima all the success in her new role as Minister of Education of the Government of Eritrea👍🏾🙏🏾

[Chinese Embassy in Eritrea @ChinaEmbEritrea]

On December 29, Chinese MFA spokesperson Lin Jian stressed that China expresses serious concern and firm opposition to  Israel formally recognized Somaliland as an "independent sovereign state".
According to the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and international law, Somaliland is an inseparable part of Somalia's territory. China firmly supports Somalia’s sovereignty, reunification, territorial integrity, and opposes to any attempt to split Somalia territory.
The Somaliland issue is entirely an internal affair of Somalia and should be resolved by the people of Somalia in a manner consistent with their national conditions and constitution. Foreign countries should cease their undue interference. No country should incite or support separatist forces within another country for its own selfish interests. China urge the Somaliland authorities to recognize the situation and immediately cease separatist activities and collusion with external forces.

[Samuel T. @Maetot2014]

@Bestmodefit Velocity

[Samuel T. @Maetot2014]

@otokyo Roar

[Amb. Sophia Tesfamariam @AmbStesfamariam]

https://t.co/S35xyGtxmY An insightful article. States are sovereign and free to choose their own development models. It is therefore striking that Prosperity Party cadres persist in drawing comparisons between #Ethiopia’s development trajectory and that of its neighbors, particularly #Eritrea, while disregarding historical context.

#Ethiopia|s policies over the past seven decades, including the #federation, #annexation, prolonged war marked by the deliberate destruction of vital economic and social infrastructure, 9 year long illegal and unjust @UN sanctions engineered by its sponsors, a sustained 25-year campaign of defamation and vilification, and refusal to implement the final and binding #delimitation and #demarcation decisions of the #Eritrea–#Ethiopia #BoundaryCommission, have directly disrupted and delayed #Eritrea|s economic development. Comparisons that disregard this historical and legal context are not analytical; they are selective and misleading.

From Eritrea’s perspective, “prosperity is not a slogan or a skyline”, but a moral and political test measured by the lived security, dignity, and cohesion of #Eritrean society. This cohesion underpins #Eritrea|s internal peace, stability, and security, and reflects the country’s conviction that #socialjustice is not a byproduct of growth but a central pillar of #development. Economic expansion alone does not automatically produce #fairness, #inclusion, or #dignity.

For #Eritrea, #socialjustice is intentionally built into development from the outset through policies that prevent marginalization, protect vulnerable groups, ensure equitable access to basic services, and avoid the politicization of identity. Growth on its own does not guarantee equal access to opportunity, protection from exclusion, or the fair distribution of resources. In many cases, rapid growth without justice deepens inequality, fragments societies, and fuels instability.

By prioritizing justice early, #Eritrea strengthens social trust and cohesion, essential foundations for peace, stability, and long-term prosperity. Durable prosperity rests on trust, inclusion, and restraint, not spectacle, acceleration, or outward projection. The need to parade visiting dignitaries in front of cameras in Addis Ababa in search of validation is telling; such displays would be unnecessary if governance enjoyed genuine domestic legitimacy.

For #Eritrea, protecting sovereignty, a necessary condition for safeguarding social cohesion and ensuring that development remains accountable to the people, is paramount. #Eritrea does not reject prosperity; it rejects prosperity without people.

[Samuel T. @Maetot2014]

@umeh098 He is definitely above 50

[Samuel T. @Maetot2014]

@ohhanxiety Why not?

[Samuel T. @Maetot2014]

@elonmuskmel7 5

[AnnGarrison @AnnGarrison]

The United Arab Emirates Use a Black Sport to Whitewash a Genocide in Africa #UAE @NBA @ESPN https://t.co/qn4mo6LnF8

[Samuel T. @Maetot2014]

@elonmuskADO 👍

[Samuel T. @Maetot2014]

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[Samuel T. @Maetot2014]

ኣየ እዛ ፌራ ኢትዮጵያ ---- ንሓድነትኩምን ጥምረትኩምን ብመትከል ሰሪሕናሉ ኢና፡ ካብ ዘይደለኹሞ ግን ናብ ክንዲ እቲ ትምክሑሉ ቁጽሪ ህዝብኹም መቓቒልና አኣብ ኢድኩም ክንህበኩም ዘጸግመና ኣይኮነን #Eritrea Prevails ......ዓወት ንሓፋሽ!!!

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

Potemkin Party's declared "war manifesto" seems to be morphing - through constant packaging and re-packaging - into "the aggrieved party" mode these days.

Indeed, the incessant and toxic mantra on "acquiring sovereign access to the sea by force if necessary .. the imperative to project naval power in the Red Sea.. the revisionist and blasphemous pronouncements on Eritrea's independence...etc. " that the war-mongering PP has been floating for the last two years has been temporarily turned on "mute-mode" in the past few weeks.

The transparent ploy is designed to hoodwink public opinion by rationalizing the unprovoked and reckless war that the PP has been itching to unleash against Eritrea for the past two years as a "legitimate act of self defense".

This is the gist of the long and monotonous diatribe that PP's Foreign Minister delivered at a "Foreign Policy Forum" in Addis Ababa on Thursday this week whose central theme was on "Eritrea's perennial acts of destabilization against Ethiopia".

Strange as it may sound, PP's senior officials seem to suffer from acute deficits of institutional memory - they claim they are not able "to retrieve them from Cabinet, Parliamentary and other archives". In the event and to refresh the memories of the FM and his Potemkin Party colleagues in a broad-brash and snapshot manner, we will dwell on the following indelible historical facts:

1. Eritrea's three decades war of national liberation was sparked because Ethiopia unilaterally abrogated the sham Federation and annexed Eritrea in flagrant contravention of international law. The Federal Act itself was a blatant violation of Eritrea's inalienable rights of decolonization. Ethiopia's surrogate role in the original illicit act; annexation, and intermittent relapse of its expansionist and irredentist agendas were, and continue to remain, the singular causes of the periodic conflicts that have raged between the two countries.
2. In a nutshell, Eritrea has invariably been on the receiving end for the costly and unnecessary conflicts that successive Ethiopian regime have and continue to unleash because they covet their neighbour's land and endowments.
2. The vicious 1998-2000 border war between the two countries was unleashed by the incumbent Ethiopian regime under the putative pretext of "dispute on Badme and its environs". Although they are singing to a different tune these days, PP's senior officials - including the current Army Chief of Staff - confessed only four years ago that they were ashamed and embarrassed at the time when the Parliament accused Eritrea for aggression and declared war in May 1998 while the army had been given explicit instructions to unleash war weeks earlier. The maximalist agenda of the war went beyond regaining the "disputed territory". In the early weeks of the war, the then Deputy Foreign Minister, Tekeda Alemu, publicly announced to a gathering of the Ethiopian community in Washington that "capturing Assab" was one of the central objectives of the war. During the 3rd Offensive, the Ethiopian regime halted the US-EU facilitated negotiations in Algiers while the Ethiopian army launched a massive military assault on Assab with disastrous consequences. Ethiopia signed the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement only after, and because of, this debacle. The Moratorium on Air Strikes brokered by President Clinton in July 1998; the Technical Arrangements; the Algiers Agreement, and later the EEBC Award were violated by incumbent Ethiopian regimes because they were not sincerely committed to nurturing and consolidating good-neighbourly ties between the two countries on the basis of each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
3. The Potemkin Party is suffering from the same irredentist malaise with its current war agenda cloaked in "sovereign access to the sea". The accusation alluding to Eritrea's visceral stance and "Isaias doctrine" of fomenting perpetual "destabilization" of Ethiopia is too ludicrous to merit elaboration. Small Eritrea must indeed have Providential powers if it is potent enough to destabilize its much larger neighbour for decades. The truth is the wars that are raging in virtually all of Ethiopia's Regions are incubated by the regime's own flawed governance architecture.
4. The FM further digresses to what has become normative among PP officials and trolls these days of disparaging Eritrea's economic endowments and growth as well as its governance architecture. Again, this is too audacious coming as it does from a country whose economy is overstressed and burdened by debilitating poverty in spite of over 84 billion US$ of receiving international development assistance over the last three decades; periodic IMF financial bailouts; and cyclical rounds of intensive care (Food Safety nets etc.). Currently, 21.4 million Ethiopian are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance, while 68.7% are multidimentionally poor. And as mentioned above, the country is seething under spiraling conflicts that emanate from misguided governance structures that polarize society along entrenched and centrifugal ethnic cleavages.

We could go on and on.. but it would be meaningless: "ዘረባ ኣደይ ለቱ፥ ኣየውፍር ኣየእቱ"፥ ስለዝኾነ እቲ ነገሩ!