Daniel Gerekidan

Nationalism Tigrinya

[HabtoMehari @GHabtom]

Ndileka Mandela’s recent praise for the Eritrean dictator is a grotesque moral failure and a shameful betrayal of her grandfather’s legacy. To frame a brutal dictator as a "servant leader" is not just an error—it is an obscene insult to the suffering of the Eritrean people.

Let us be clear about the reality she chose to ignore:

👉Modern-Day Slavery: This is a dictator that uses national service as a mechanism for enslavement.

👉Crimes Against Humanity: The UN has explicitly documented the dictator’s atrocities, which mirror and, in many ways, exceed the horrors of the Apartheid era in South Africa.

👉Total Isolation: Eritrea is a digital black hole—the only country in the world that effectively denies its citizens access to the internet. Literally no internet in Eritrea.

👉Systemic Deprivation: The dictator has starved the people of Eritrea of basic electricity, water, healthcare, and human dignity, while maintaining power through terror.

How does one stand before such a dictator and see "servant leadership" instead of seeing a tyrant whose incompetence and parasitism have devastated the country?

By praising this dictator, @mandela_ndileka has either fallen victim to state propaganda—facilitated by the UN coordinator in Eritrea Nahla Valji, whom many rightly identify as the dictator’s propaganda-in-chief—or she has willfully turned a blind eye to mass extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention, systemic torture and the misery of the people.

Either way, her attempt to polish the dictator’s image is a profound disgrace and a futile attempt.

@nahlav @UNDPEritrea @ifa_ethiopia @EritreanPress

[HabtoMehari @GHabtom]

Congratulations to the sovereign state of Somaliland, the resilient people of Somaliland, and President @Abdirahmanirro. The opening of Somaliland's embassy in Israel is a historic milestone and a testament to Somaliland's growing international engagement. Wishing Somaliland peace, prosperity, and continued success.

[HabtoMehari @GHabtom]

A new Agazian news poll finds 9 out of 10 members of the Tigrinya diaspora disapprove of the dictator's visit to Egypt. Their attention is fixed entirely on the airport scene and the absence of a national fleet, which they view as a source of collective humiliation.
https://t.co/ltO5c6k740

#Eritrea @UNDPEritrea @Egypt

[HabtoMehari @GHabtom]

Tsimdo is an assault on Ethiopia’s sovereignty—a brazen, destabilizing campaign orchestrated by the Eritrean dictator to arm, fund, & weaponize rogue factions like the TPLF dissidents, the Amhara Fano militia & others, all with the singular, ruthless objective of toppling Abiy Ahmed. Tsimdo is no longer contained within Ethiopia’s borders; it is metastasizing across the Horn of Africa, shamelessly weaponizing radical proxies—from the Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan to Al-Shabaab in Somalia—while actively threatening Somaliland. https://t.co/FP8SpnYODK

[HabtoMehari @GHabtom]

Happy 35th Independence Day!
Read and listen to the full Op-ed on Substack:
https://t.co/AIDyEivENU 

Today, as we commemorate the 35th Independence Day of Eritrea, we bow our heads with pride and gratitude before the generation that carried the struggle on its shoulders. The Tegadelti (young fighters) in the trenches of Sahel were not ordinary men and women. They were disciplined, resilient, extraordinarily capable and determined beyond imagination.
#OurResilienceOurGuarantee #ጽንዓትናዋሕስና #EritreaShinesAt35 #Eritrea #EritreaPrevails

[HabtoMehari @GHabtom]

My new op-ed at JNS on the historic arrival of the first Somaliland Ambassador @AmbMohamedHagi in Israel—the first country to recognize Somaliland. https://t.co/BEuOgtsscH

@JSLToday @AhmedIs35835677 @somalilandmfa

[Daniel Gerekidan @danielgere2]

Happy 35th Independence Day, Somaliland!

Today, 18 May, is #Somaliland’s 35th Anniversary of Independence. Congratulations to Somaliland. The coincidence of Somaliland’s independence in May 1991 with Eritrea’s independence is symbolic.

Although the Eritrean dictator opposes Somaliland’s independence, publicly, in a televised Eri-TV interviewas, and actively works to undermine it by backing Al-Shabab and the Mogadishu failed government, including training and sending 10,000 Somali soldiers, many of whom later defected to Al-Shabab.

The Tigrinya nation, despite decades of repression under brutal dictator since independence, stands in solidarity with your right to self-determination and celebrates your independence.
@SomalilandStand @SomaliaTodayHQ @Somaliland_30 @amjadt25

[Daniel Gerekidan @danielgere2]

Using Eritrea’s Tigrinya internal dominance and its relatively stable internal politics, the main source of instability in the region remains the corrupt and incompetent dictator Isaias Afwerki. Neither Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed nor Ethiopia has either the motive or the capacity to be the driving force of regional destabilization.

[HabtoMehari @GHabtom]

The op-ed contends that the primary destabilizing actor in the region is not Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy, but Eritrean dictator Isaias Afwerki, through the use of proxies and sustained regional interference. https://t.co/qMEHXYvcQe

[HabtoMehari @GHabtom]

Al-Sisi & Isaias Afewerki have no bilateral cooperation or trade. The one thing connecting them is their shared hostility toward Abiy. The Eritrean dictator has turned himself into Egypt’s proxy in destabilizing Ethiopia.

[HabtoMehari @GHabtom]

The op-ed explores why Boulos’ gamble on the Eritrean dictator reflects diplomatic self-deception. https://t.co/TW9EJOCzJk

[HabtoMehari @GHabtom]

The op-ed examins inside Isaias Afwerki’s Ethiopia playbook; shifting narratives, shifting targets, but a consistent method of war, proxies, and information warfare. https://t.co/HT467kPWaz

[Daniel Gerekidan @danielgere2]

https://t.co/SgoHhQf93j

[Daniel Gerekidan @danielgere2]

@mrubin1971

[HabtoMehari @GHabtom]

Sanctions relief will empower the Eritrean dictator to deepen repression at home, destabilize the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea, fuel Iran’s regional expansion and undermine U.S. and its allies interest.
https://t.co/RndpoptByC

[HabtoMehari @GHabtom]

Sanctions relief will empower the Eritrean dictator to deepen repression at home, destabilize the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea, fuel Iran’s regional expansion and undermine U.S. and its allies interest.
https://t.co/RndpoptByC

[HabtoMehari @GHabtom]

The “Greater Israel” narrative is spreading fast across media —simple, emotional, and dangerously misleading. My latest op-ed exposes it for what it is: a hoax—one of the most dangerous lies shaping today’s discourse: https://t.co/TLnulim2up

[HabtoMehari @GHabtom]

Israel’s envoy won’t rule out forceful Ethiopian grab of Assab. Reckless, undiplomatic, and a blow to Israel’s own interests. Full op-ed on Substack: https://t.co/JiLkeaCUrR

#RedSea #Eritrea #IsraelEthiopia @fanatelevision @AmbAvrahamN @Inbram @SharonBarli @IsraeAfricaOrg @IsraelMFA @andafta

[HabtoMehari @GHabtom]

My latest analysis explains what the U.S. designation of Sudan’s Muslim Brotherhood as an FTO means for Sudan and regional security — overlooked amid the Iran war. https://t.co/3tkNNwaCpS
@amjadt25 @FormulaRauda

[HabtoMehari @GHabtom]

Isaias Afwerki, the Eritrean dictator, Iran's close ally, has completely isolated the stable and peaceful Eritrea, while meddling in Ethiopia to dismantle its popular federal arrangement against the will of its people and backing the U.S.-designated terrorist Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan, which is committing genocide against non-Arab Sudanese. Washington once engaged the late Meles Zenawi for lack of a partner in Eritrea; today it works with Abiy Ahmed for the very same reason. @SecRubio @StateDeputySpox