Alganesh

[Sirak Bahlbi @SirakBahlbi]

I am very curious to know whether there is any threshold that would prompt the Norwegian Nobel Committee @NobelPrize @NobelPeaceOslo to reconsider a Nobel Peace Prize it has awarded.

Let’s say a Nobel Peace laureate has waged war against his own people and is responsible for the deaths of more than one million people and acts as if nothing happened.

He acts as a conduit for waging war against a neighbouring country, destabilising it for years by allowing drones to operate from his military bases.

He signs territorial lease agreements with entities that are not sovereign governments angering a neighbouring country.

For years, he has been arming himself while openly declaring irredentist ambitions and seeking to seize the territories of neighbouring countries.

And finally, he is starting a war against the very country with which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for making peace.

Is there any threshold for withdrawing a Nobel Peace Prize?

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

Information Note Regarding #Eritrea-Ethiopia Relations

(Document circulated to UNSC Member States on 13 October yesterday in response to "Ethiopia’s Note on Current Developments” of 11 October 2026)

*"...Over the past three years, the Government of Ethiopia has sustained and progressively intensified its unprovoked war agenda against Eritrea under the rubric of acquiring 'Sovereign access to the sea, through negotiations if possible and force if necessary', in violation of the UN Charter and the 2018 Peace and Friendship Agreement between the two countries. Ethiopia’s acts of aggression and destabilization include the pronounced establishment of a Naval Force with jurisdiction over and strategic depth in Eritrea’s southern coastal region".

*"...Taken together, these developments are tantamount to, and constitute, a brazen violation of Eritrea’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, in breach of the prohibition of the threat or use of force under Article 2(4) of the Charter of the United Nations".

https://t.co/fUiTdNiiJY

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

In his address to the House of Peoples Representatives on 28 October 2025, the PP's leader proclaimed: "We did not start building our Navy five years ago (in 2020) to make it float in a small pool of water".

Inflammatory declaration of war in what they have termed as "projection of naval power with jurisdiction in Eritrea's southern coastal zone".

This wicked war agenda was conceived against the backdrop, and in the immediate aftermath, of the 2018 historic Agreement of Peace and Friendship between the two countries..

Smoking gun that illustrates, beyond any shred of doubt, that the war agenda was long planned by the Potemkin Party whose hallmark remains trite Machiavellian and backstabbing political traits.

[Sirak Bahlbi @SirakBahlbi]

The body of evidence of Abiy threatening to take #Assab, #Eritrea by force is innumerable, but what he says internally and to the international community is different in language.

The following is just one example of him asking #US, #China, #Russia, #Europe, #Africa, to act as intermediary and resolve the issue. He goes on to say ....If they refuse to take us seriously & continue to waste time, they should not expect us to sit idly,I don't think so’
The following is a verbatim translation of his speech in his parliament..

‘It is possible to resolve it legally and negotiation! I have spoken to many countries bilaterally. If the council wants to know the identity of these countries…

I have spoken to #America, #China, #Russia, #Europe, #Africa… and I want to say before the Honourary Council that Ethiopia’s access to the sea is beyond question.

Because I prioritise peace and negotiation before anything, I have politely asked them to act as intermediaries and help resolve the issue.

This is our question! If they refuse to take us seriously & continue to waste time, they should not expect us to sit idly,I don't think so’

@US_SrAdvisorAF @USEmbassyAddis @mfa_russia @ChinaEmbEritrea @Chinamission2un @_AfricanUnion @DGAfrica_MFA @MFA_China @eu_eeas @EUSR_Weber @Reuters @TheEconomist @BBCAfrica @trtafrika @NobelPeaceOslo @NobelPrize

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

Let us not mince our words and call a Spade a Spade!

1. The Potemkin Party has been obsessed/immersed in unparalleled military expenditure spree in the last three years.
2. In the last three quarters of 2026 alone, the regime has received 365 UAE Cargo/military deliveries for use in its multiple domestic conflicts and concomitant acts/designs of regional destablization.
3. At the same time, the regime has received - and these are conservative estimates - over 30 billion US Dollars in cumulative external financial assistance in the last eight years from several multilateral and bilateral donors.
4. And yet, almost 21.4 million people all over the country remain in dire conditions whose survival depends on humanitarian assistance.

In a nutshell, the priorities of this callous regime are crystal clear; reckless wars of delusional "grandeur" in lieu of the welfare of the majority of its people and enduring regional peace and stability.

[Sirak Bahlbi @SirakBahlbi]

#Eritrea is always peaceful nation, and always capable of defending its sovereignty against any aggression!

[Eri_Blooming ,🇪🇷 @eri_blooming]

Eritrean FM has written to the UNs responding to the Ethiopian Foreign Minister’s open and direct accusations against the Eritrean government.
In the letter, Eritrea strongly rejects the claimed justification as a pretext for invading the country to secure access to the sea

[Amanuel Biedemariam @Amanbiede]

Eritrea's letter to the UNSC is a legal and moral necessity. Ethiopia's "self-defense" claim is a sham—Abiy declared his intent to seize Red Sea access "by any means necessary" in 2023. The UNSC must condemn this war of aggression and act under Chapter VII. The Alamein coalition stands with Eritrea. #Eritrea #UNSC #Ethiopia #RedSea #Sudan #Egypt #Somalia

[Hidmona Tv @hidmonatv]

ጽምዶ47/XMDO47 Coming soon …..@hidmonatv

[Berhane @EmbassyEritrea]

PRESS STATEMENT

Eritrea: Sovereignty Is Never an “Old Narrative”

The Embassy of the State of Eritrea in Washington, D.C. has taken note of the Middle East Forum article, “Eritrea’s Old Red Sea Narrative Meets a New Middle East,” published on 21 September 2026, in response to the interview granted by Eritrea’s Foreign Minister, Osman Saleh, to Middle East Eye.

……..The most important correction concerns its persistent and misleading description of #Eritrea as having simply “seceded” from #Ethiopia. This formulation is not merely imprecise; it reverses the historical sequence and obscures the legal and political circumstances through which Eritrea became an independent state. Addressing this issue is critical not only to refute the specific claims made by the @meforum , but also to correct a broader, pervasive myth. Eritrea was never a part of the Ethiopian nation, and any narrative that treats Eritrea as a simple territory seceded from Ethiopia misrepresents its distinct history formation as an Italian colony and nation building processes, its forced federation and subsequent military occupation, and the legitimate political and protracted armed struggle of its people to restore its full #independence………

The article presents a selective and fundamentally distorted account of Eritrea’s history and consequently mischaracterizes the basis of Eritrea’s contemporary position on the Red Sea.

To read more, please follow the link below:

https://t.co/ZkNNSemWUZ

#EritreaPrevails
#Africa
#Sovereignty

[Sirak Bahlbi @SirakBahlbi]

Abiy Ahmed effectively declared war on #Eritrea since October 2023 and has been preparing for war for the past three years. He has provoked Eritrea, going so far as to claim that Eritrea, as a nation-state, does not exist.

Anyone who has been following developments in Ethiopia has been predicting that he would eventually start a war with Eritrea, particularly after the sham election he organised. But his first priority was to reassert control over #Tigray, after the people of Tigray refused to take up arms against Eritrea. Abiy also has unfinished business with Tigray and has continued to seek to subjugate its people.

He has worked hard to provoke a war between Eritrea and Tigray, deliberately pulling out Federal Forces from all the border areas and attempting to antagonise the two sides into fighting each other. But he failed miserably, as the wise people of Eritrea and Tigray chose peaceful coexistence instead. This has angered Abiy, who has since been working relentlessly to divide and weaken Tigrayan people by every means at his disposal.

Over the past two weeks, he has moved towards war, first marching towards Tigray and then, ultimately, Eritrea. But because he cannot launch a war against Eritrea without having to answer to the international community, he has been concocting a “self-defence” narrative to justify an invasion of Eritrea.

Last week, he appeared to try to use Al Jazeera and Awol Arba to implicate Eritrea, with reports claiming that Eritrean troops had moved deep into Afar. But the story failed to gain significant traction in the international media.

Today, the job was given to @dwnews, which reported alleged sightings of Eritrean troops inside Tigray. There was no confirmation from the Tigray authorities, nor was there any reported fighting with the ENDF—despite claims that Abiy has already occupied the whole Tigray and that his army are supposedly dancing in the streets.

In my opinion, Eritrea has shown extraordinary restraint despite the colossal daily provocations and repeated declarations of war from Abiy and his PP followers. It would be the ultimate dereliction of duty for Eritrea to simply sit idle while the PP’s army marches towards Eritrean territory with military equipment supplied by the UAE, apparently seeking to capture Eritrean territory.

And for the record, Abiy is risking everything—including the possible disintegration of #Ethiopia—to start a war with Eritrea for two reasons. First, to distract the #Ethiopian population from the utter failure of his leadership; and second, because he is acting as an agent of the UAE, which has ambitions to control as many ports as possible along the strategically vital waterways of the Red Sea.
@BBCAfrica

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

Ethiopia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is these days accusing Eritrea for acts of "unprovoked aggression that may jeopardize regional peace and security".

Audacity and duplicity in their most extreme forms!

The indelible facts:
1. Ethiopia has in essence declared a war of aggression against Eritrea when its Prime Minister announced to his Parliament on 13 October 2023 that his regime will acquire "sovereign access to the sea, through negotiations if possible and by force if necessary".
2. As illustrated in the Press Release issued at the time (link below), Eritrea responded with exemplary restraint and equanimity to underline that it will not be provoked by these perplexing pronouncements and events.
3. In subsequent and repetitive campaigns to agitate and solicit support from his domestic constituencies to his war agenda, the PP's leader invoked "Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights" as a useful precedent for what he had in mind for Assab.
4. He went further to denigrate and deny Eritrea's independence by stating that "he could not find any legal documents in all Ethiopian Government archives - the Cabinet, Parliament etc. - in relation to Eritrea's independence".
5. His periodic and strident agitations included urging and reminding the Ethiopian Army that its core mission centered on "ensuring and maintaining the security of the Red Sea from the edge of Somalia to the Port of Massawa".
4. Taking their cue from the Potemkin Party's Chief, senior political and military officials dwelt on provocative statements on several public events; essentially to declare that they will correct the "historical mistake" and forcefully occupy the Eritrean port of Assab as well as its entire southern coastline to secure "strategic depth" to their phantom naval force.
5. And, on 27 September last month, the Ethiopian Army's Deputy Chief of Staff openly declared that "the offensive launched in Tigray will not stop there". He went on to state: "Mekelle is a mere stop-over, our ultimate destination is Assab; our main objective is to install our flag in the Red Sea".
6. The hysterical infatuation with the Red Sea must also be seen with previous intentions to wage a war of invasion against Eritrea but that were not publicly divulged at the time. Indeed, the PP regime did not only try to entice the TPLF to join forces for an invasion against Eritrea in confidential meetings in Djibouti and Seychelles during the Tigray War in early/mid 2022, but a confidential report issued by the EU Envoy after her visit to Ethiopia in September 2022 - a couple of months prior to the Pretoria Agreement - bluntly announced that the 2018 Peace Agreement between Eritrea and Ethiopia had become "null and void". These were apparently sinister machinations to which Eritrea had no inkling at the time.

In brief, the Ethiopian regime has been pursuing, in effect, an unprovoked war of aggression against Eritrea for more than three years now in flagrant breach of foundational principles of international law and the UN Charter that prohibit the threat or use of force against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of another Member State.

https://t.co/PUdlL3vZQs

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

Second Segment

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

President Isaias Afwerki's brief speech at the Cairo Summit of Heads of State and Government on the crisis in Sudan - 1st segment

[ሃገራዊ ድሕነት @hagerawiDihnet]

ካድረታትን ባራዪ ብልጽግናን ወዲ ኣፌ ናብ ግብጺ ዝኸደ ካብ ሰራዊት ብልጽግና ስለ ዝፈርሐ እዪ ክብሉ ምስ ሰማዕኩ ብጣዕሚ ገሪሙኒ ጥራሕ ዘይኮነስ ብዕሽነቶም ሲሕቀ. ጸላእትና ንሻዕብያ ከይፈለጥዋ ክጠፍኡ ንቡር ኮይኑ.
#Eritrea #Shaebia #EDF #SAWA

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

President Isaias Afwerki and his delegation returned home in the early afternoon hours today after a fruitful, three-day, working visit to Egypt for a Quadrilateral Consultative Summit.

High points of the visit included:
- the El-Alamein Joint Declaration on enhancement of regional peace and security; and,
- bilateral meetings with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi; Sudan's Chairman of the Sovereign Council, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan ; as well as Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.

[Filmona Teklay @Filmona12]

I am proud of my king 🤴 President Isaias Afwerki. #Eritrea

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

Potemkin Party's characteristic behaviour of speaking with a forked tongue is again in full display.

In a Press Statement issued by the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry today in an apparent reaction to the El-Alamien Declaration, the PP pays lip-service to the pursuit of "peaceful engagement, mutual respect, and regional cooperation". It further urges "all regional actors to address shared challenges through constructive dialogue, partnership, and adherence to the principles of good neighborliness...".

But this is the crux of the matter.

The Potemkin Party's duplicitous antics aside, the prevailing tension that has gripped the Horn of Africa region emanates precisely from its perilous acts perpetrated over the past years and that violate international law and the prospects and opportunities of healthy regional cooperation.

Indeed, these are the poignant facts:
1. Ethiopia enjoys unfettered access to all ports in the Horn of Africa. In what can be termed as a "buyers market", it has extensive latitude to enter into mutually beneficial commercial agreements with all the coastal countries concerned. But the Potemkin Party chose to violate international law and the principles of good neighborliness to pursue an agenda of aggression and war against Eritrea to "acquire sovereign access to the sea".
2. As spelled out in previous public statements by its Foreign Ministry, the invasion of the Eritrean port of Assab must include the southern coastal zone too. In the PP's convoluted logic: "without the protective depth offered by the Dahlak islands, Assab remains an exposed coastal facility vulnerable to hostile naval power... any enduring arrangement for Ethiopia must therefore consider a dual reality: access to the coast and the strategic depth required to protect that access".
3. Similarly, the Potemkin Party has fomented unnecessary and avoidable tensions with Somalia and Sudan through willful acts that breach international law and impede regional cooperation. The illicit MOU that it signed with Somaliland in flagrant breach of Somalia's sovereignty and territorial integrity; the all-rounded support that it continues to provide to the RSF under the bidding of the UAE are deplorable acts that have jeopardized regional peace and security.

Finally, Ethiopia's insinuation that some geographic proximity to the Red Sea entitles it with the rights and responsibilities of the littoral States is too ludicrous and hollow in purely legal terms to merit response.

[Martha Ghebray 🇪🇷🫡 ✊🏾 @MissMartina19]

Forza Forza 🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

Ethiopia's Potemkin Party: another despicable display of war psychosis and provocative saber-rattling at Hawassa on the weekend on the occasion of the "Inauguration of the Special Operations Command"!

The Potemkin Party continues to spew and ramp up, at almost every public occasion, toxic and provocative vitriol against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its neighbour (s) in flagrant contravention of international law and established norms and parameters of regional peace and stability.

The pattern/war-recipe remains perilously the same:
*Barely cryptic declaration by the President of the Oromia Region two years ago that "Irrecha will be celebrated in the Red Sea (Assab), next year";
* Public display, at the Inauguration of Military Recruits few months ago, of an official Map of Ethiopia that unlawfully incorporates the port city of Assab and Eritrea's southern coastal territories;
* And these days, outrageous "announcement" on the weekend by the Chief of the Potemkin Party on the establishment of "an elite force" to police and ensure maritime security in the Red Sea from the tip of Somalia to Massawa (in Eritrea).
*The ill-advised MOU that the PP regime signed with Somaliland; the RSF training camp it has installed in southwestern Ethiopia reportedly under the bidding of the UAE; complete the picture of its irresponsible and reckless acts of fomenting conflict in the Horn of Africa region.

Poignant as it is, the Potemkin Party seems to believe that it has carte blanche to flout international law at its whimsical will in the current global climate of uncertainty and greater turbulence.

Indeed, it is indulging in these dangerous acts of aggression and regional destabilization while it continues to simultaneously seek - with a bowl in hand - financial bailouts from the IMF as well as other multilateral donors. Furthermore, over 21.4 million Ethiopians are seething under extreme poverty and continue to remain fully dependent on international humanitarian handouts for their survival.

The maritime security of the Red Sea is otherwise under the purview and prerogative of, and guaranteed by, the littoral States.

That the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Horn of Africa countries is inviolable is also too palpable to merit elaboration.
https://t.co/tjHVpKuvzN