The biggest and funniest lie Eritreans tell themselves is that an Amhara Ethnonationalist force has no ambitions of the red sea down the road.
An alliance formed on the basis of "enemy of my enemy is my friend" is the weakest form of alliance.
Getachew Reda, the Prime Minister's Advisor on East African Affairs, has stated that the process of forming the Eritrean state was fundamentally based on weakening and dismantling Ethiopia.
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The greatest irony in the Horn of Africa is that Eritrea won its independence but never completed its liberation.
The struggle against foreign rule ended in 1991.the struggle for political freedom never began.
💬 President #Putin:
☝️The pseudo-democratic West follows a simple playbook: create threats to Russia, force us to take necessary self-defence measures, 👉 then blame Moscow for every conceivable sin to justify its continued aggressive policy.
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Regional authorities in #Ethiopia's Tigray region, the TPLF, should immediately withdraw a disturbing new law that grants sweeping powers to compel military service and punish dissent, and imposes the death penalty for a range of vague offenses. New @hrw https://t.co/Yx4XZu7BF4
New intelligence-linked reports claim that Yemen’s Houthi movement, working through cross-border smuggling networks, has helped transfer low-cost Iranian military technology to armed groups in Sudan aligned with the SAF and believed to be connected to the Sudanese Islamic Movement.
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This!?😲 Ethiopia is preventing the Horn of Africa from falling under the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda, Iran, and its proxies.
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According to sources, #Israel is actively seeking to establish a naval and military presence in the port of Berbera in #Somaliland. The Israeli Navy could deploy its #German-built Dolphin-class submarines there. https://t.co/me4z43QSAk
“The ongoing systematic and widespread enforced disappearance and prolonged incommunicado detention without charge or trial, torture, and the persecution of political opponents, journalists and members of religious communities remain central features of governance in Eritrea.”
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UN’s Eritrea expert warns of crimes against humanity https://t.co/hmm96KUmGG
Washington's sanctions on TPLF hardliners are unlikely to alter realities on the ground. Their significance lies elsewhere: they assign political responsibility for threatening the Pretoria Agreement and increasingly position sections of the TPLF as spoilers.
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"Washington and the broader West should prepare for Ethiopia to be a player in the Red Sea basin and for Abiy to assert himself in a way his predecessors did not in decades past."
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