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[Ministry of Information, Eritrea @shabait]

Haddas Ertra 18 June 2026

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[G. Drar @gdrarr]

🏛️ Masterclass in Diplomacy: Egypt & Eritrea Secure the Ultimate Strategic Advantage

The geopolitical chessboard of the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea is being rewritten, and the verdict is clear: consistency and relationship-building win the long game. While Cairo and Asmara solidify deep, unwavering alliances with the world's most decisive leaders, Addis Ababa’s erratic maneuvers are leaving it increasingly isolated. 🇪🇬 🇪🇷

♟️ The Strategic Alignment

Diplomacy is not an ad-hoc scramble; it is a calculated, persistent pursuit of mutual interest.

🔴 The Washington Connection: Egypt has secured an extraordinarily robust alignment with U.S. President Donald Trump, anchoring its regional national security interests—including Nile water security—at the highest levels of global power. 🇺🇸 🇪🇬

🔴 The Axis of Stability: By masterfully nurturing long-term relations with regional heavyweights like Saudi Arabia and Egypt, Eritrea has effectively deployed its diplomatic capital where it yields maximum impact. 🇸🇦 🇪🇷
🔴 The Chaos of the "PP": In stark contrast, PM Abiy Ahmed and his Prosperity Party (PP) continue to drift from one erratic maneuver to another, lacking a coherent grand strategy or stable international backing. 📉
🔴 The Final Word: The formidable coalition of Cairo, Riyadh, Asmara, and Washington leaves no room for unilateral maritime or regional overreach by Addis Ababa.

🛑💡 The Hard Lesson for Addis Ababa

While the regime in Ethiopia continues its reactive rhetoric, a timeless truth remains evident on the global stage:

"Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way." — David Frost(Or closer to home: He who builds bridges commands the crossing, while he who burns them stands isolated.)

The Cairo-Asmara alliance, backed by global heavyweights, is securing the future of the Red Sea while the PP is left out in the cold. It's time for Addis Ababa to stop whining and start learning how real diplomacy works. 🕊️⚡

#HornOfAfrica #RedSeaSecurity #Diplomacy #Egypt #Eritrea #SaudiArabia #USForeignPolicy #AbiyAhmed #RegionalStability

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

The Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare has stated that GOE has disbursed, through monthly installments, over 6.2 billion Nacfa in tribute to, and, for the support of the families of Eritrea's Martyrs in the past twenty years (2004-2025).

ሃገር ኣብ ረዚን ዝኽሪ ሓበን!

[Zero_X @ZXCycling]

🇧🇪@belgium_tour stage 1

Tadej showed his GC rivalries power in Suisse? Our legend 🇪🇷@GrmayeBiniam make his answer to all Green Jersey contenders! Crazy sprint in Belgium with break caught in last 100 m, which bring him 3x Jerseys! Let's celebrate this together!

#cycling

[ⓉⓃ @tesfanews]

ERITREA ― 💥A perfect start for Biniam Girmay at the Tour of Belgium, the Eritrean star stormed to victory in the bunch sprint to claim the opening stage.
#BaloiseBelgiumTour #Eritrea #cycling

[Mihai Simion @faustocoppi60]

Are you telling me there's a chance an UAE rider gets caught in the last 100m?! 😵 Biniam Girmay (NSN) won the opening stage of Belgium Tour after the bunch caught poor Herregodts in the finish straight. 👏🇪🇷 Bini beat Merlier btw!
#BaloiseBelgiumTour

[Le Gruppetto @LeGruppetto]

Biniam Girmay (NSN Cycling Team) s'offre au sprint la 1re étape du #BaloiseBelgiumTour ! L'Érythréen (26 ans) signe son 3e succès de la saison devant Tim Merlier (Soudal Quick-Step). Max Kanter (XDS-Astana) est 3e.

Sorti à 21km, Rune Herregodts (UAE) a été repris dans le sprint.

[La Flamme Rouge @laflammerouge16]

Biniam Girmay wins Stage 1 of #BaloiseBelgiumTour beating Tim Merlier

Huge boost for him and NSN coming into Tour de France.

[Embassy of Eritrea to Ethiopia PM to AU & ECA @ERIEMBAET]

What a way to kick off the Tour of Belgium!

Biniam Girmay storms to victory on Stage 1 with a brilliant display of speed and power.

Congrats to Biniam and the whole team on an incredible start! Making Eritrea proud with an outstanding performance on the international stage!

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

#Eritreancycling: Congrats to All!

What a sprint! What a stellar performance! Biniam Girmay wins Stage 1 of Baloise Belgium Tour (https://t.co/Vm3CPd8jI7) 188.3 km

https://t.co/kI0wegeDOR

[Sertseyonas Negash 🇪🇷 @Sertseyonas]

The Special Rapporteur relies heavily on anonymous and unverified sources while giving limited consideration to information from #UN agencies and other institutions that have documented progress in health, education, food security, infrastructure, and socioeconomic development.

[Asmerom Tekeste 🇪🇷 @Hagerawnet]

🎙️ Post-Race Reaction: Biniam Girmay @GrmayeBiniam After His Stage 1 Victory at the Tour of Belgium 🏆🇧🇪🇪🇷 @NSNCyclingTeam

[French Embassy in Eritrea @FranceinEritrea]

Congratulations to Biniam Girmay. Wonderful victory. And #TDF2026 is close. Tour de France 2026 will start July 4th. Bravo Biniam

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

Profile Q & A - Eritrea: A Model of a Primary Health Care System; Professor Mohamed Yakub Janabi, WHO Regional Director for Africa

Senior Officials (visiting and resident) of UN Development Agencies in Eritrea invariably portray a balanced, nuanced, and positive account of the development challenges and prospects as the interview (link below) illustrates.

*"...Eritrea’s model of largely free or highly subsidized health care is rooted in very strong principles of health equity. It is a notable achievement. However, any free or highly subsidized program usually faces financial, structural, and system-level challenges. To sustain it, the government must work on expanding physical infrastructure and domestic financing. If you want to maintain it, you have to sustain it, and to sustain it, you need a very stable financing process – whether through tax collection and subsidizing the health budget, or by increasing the health budget directly".

*"...I think that with more investment in health – and health has never been a cost; it is an investment that pays back quickly – if you have a healthy community and a healthy population, your people will be more productive. I was very impressed with this initial stage. Eritrea has 98% immunization coverage – you see that level in developed countries. Thus, investment in health is not a cost; in the long run, it contributes to the economic development of any country".

https://t.co/eGYncXoPSU

[Prof. Mohamed Janabi @ProfJanabi]

I had a productive meeting with @hawelti, Eritrea's Minister of Information, to discuss the critical role of communication in public health. We exchanged views on promoting accurate health information, countering misinformation, and highlighting Eritrea’s health achievements.

Effective communication remains essential for building trust, strengthening preparedness, and supporting public health responses across Africa.

[Sertseyonas Negash 🇪🇷 @Sertseyonas]

#Eritrea #WHO #Health #SDGs
🇪🇷🤝🇺🇳
🏥🩺💉

[Sirak Bahlbi @SirakBahlbi]

This man is a Minister in #Ethiopia's Prosperity Party (PP) government. In an interview on Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) few days ago, he discussed Ethiopia's unlawful claim to ownership of Red Sea coastal territory. In doing so, he bastardizes the history of the Horn of #Africa to accommodate Abiy Ahmed's Red-Sea fantasies and to destruct the poor #Ethiopian public.

We constantly receive messages from PP supporters on social media telling us not to speak about Ethiopia and related matters. I would be more than happy not to mention Ethiopia if its covetous Ministers and Generals would stop mentioning #Eritrea. The relentless propaganda and toxic indoctrination aimed at persuading ordinary #Ethiopians that they are victims because of the Red Sea issue is becoming increasingly dangerous. If left unchecked, it could easily lead to conflict, destruction, and further destabilization of the region.

In this clip, he appears to have little understanding of how modern nation-states are formed, particularly how sovereignty and borders were established in #Africa. He refers to the 4th-century Kingdom of Aksum and its use of the port of Adulis as justification for contemporary territorial claims.

Someone needs to explain to this greedy Minister that if the borders of African states were to be determined according to the ancient kingdoms, then present-day Ethiopia would not be recognizable . Large parts of what is now Ethiopia—including #Oromo, #Somali, 'Southern people', #Afar, and #Benishangul-#Gumuz regions—would not be part of modern day Ethiopia. Even the #Amhara heartland was not fully part of the Aksumite Kingdom during much of its existence.

So when he uses Aksumite Kingdom of the 4th century to justify his Red-Sea fantasies, which Ethiopia exactly is he referring to? The modern Ethiopian state did not exist in its current territorial form, and using ancient kingdoms as a basis for contemporary sovereignty claims raises even more difficult questions his small brain can answers.

[F-rem Si 🇪🇷 @ProEritrea]

Congratulations 🎓🫡

[Eriid🇪🇷❤️ ዕርዲ @eri_id_]

ዑደት ፕረዚደንት ኢሳይያስ ኣፍወርቂ ኣብ ግብጺ

President Isaias Afwerki visited Egypt’s “Housing for All Egyptians” project in the New Administrative Capital area to observe the country’s experience in large-scale affordable housing development.

#Eritrea #Egypt #IsaiasAfwerki #HousingForAll #AffordableHousing #Development #Africa #NewCapital #UrbanDevelopment

[ኤርትራ 🇪🇷 ERITREA @thedrosg1]

🇪🇷✨️🇸🇪⚽️ #Alexander #Isak #Goal at #worldCap2026 ⚽️ #Congratulations #Eritrea 🇪🇷 #Sweden and everyone...