Fiqadu Tecle

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

The Potemkin Party is apparently seething under extreme desperation. It must indeed be at its lowest point; at the end of its tether so to speak!

How else can one explain the monotonous, 35-minute long diatribe of lies and hollow allegations against Eritrea peddled by mercurial Getachew Reda (nominally, Adivsor to the Prime Minister) that was broadcast yesterday by the Ethiopian Broadcast Corporation (EBC) and other domestic media outlets.

If the unhinged Getachew Reda is taken as a credible political analyst and a reference point, then the numerous insolent and outrageous remarks that he had made on various Tigrayan TV outlets, as well as his X Account, about the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed during the war in the Tigray Region must be accorded due credibility too.

Indeed, some of his grotesquely disparaging statements on Abiy Ahmed and the Ethiopian army include:

- "Abiy Ahmed is a political pigmy. Had Ethiopia been a normal country, he would have long been confined to a mental institution or spiritual cites of healing for the deranged";
- "Abiy Ahmed is delusional enough to believe and openly brag that his mother had told him, when he was seven years old, that she saw him, in her dream, being crowned as a King";
-" Abiy Ahmed is the epitome and example of little men who come to power by some accident of history and who subsequently create huge catastrophes";
-"Abiy Ahmed cannot lead a nation without reverting to endless deceptions";
- "He (Abiy Ahmed) has literally no education...but you cannot ask him how he claims that he has a PhD as he does not give you time for reasonable discourse";
- "Abiy Ahmed is the textbook example of national treason. As such, he has no moral high ground to speak about sovereignty";
- "Abiy Ahmed is a toxic weed that has grown in this nation";
- " (General) Birhanu Jula and others are not leading a capable army. They have lost the little military knowledge they had and are sheepishly taking orders from this mad leader. This anti-people army, which is blindly implementing Abiy Ahmed's war agenda, is entailing massive deaths among the civilian population and the youth"...etc...

The rudderless Getachew Reda is indeed prone to making whimsical and contradictory statements on almost any issue depending on his unstable moods and ever-shifting political affiliations. Recently, as he struck an opportunistic alliance with the Federal Government and its PM on whom he was heaping endless insults, he has began to shamelessly disavow the political beliefs he had held for decades.

In a recent interview, he quipped (referring to his old comrades): "There are many people who maintain that Tigray should be an independent nation. I also mull about that concept whenever I am tipsy!"

His close associates confide that Getachew is tipsy or drunk from the late afternoon to the wee morning hours almost on a daily basis... This has in fact earned him the moniker :"Vodakchew".

On a more sober note, how can one give serious weight to the excesses and irresponsible utterances of this political vagabond.

In the event, there is no point in responding to all the vitriol that he has floated against Eritrea in his interview yesterday.

We will thus focus on one fallacy: his preposterous assertion that "Eritrea was created, by conspiratorial forces, as an independent State in order to weaken and destroy Ethiopia".

This spurious and revisionist claim is, of course, utterly false and deliberately peddled to rationalize and advance the Potemkin Party's wicked domestic agenda of agitation and mobilization for war.

History otherwise attests to these indelible facts:

1. Eritrea was denied its inalienable right of decolonization in the late 1940s and "federated" with Ethiopia only because the US and other powers gave precedence to their perceived geopolitical interests.
2. The international community kept mum, again for similar political calculus, when the Ethiopian government unilaterally abrogated the "Federal Act" and annexed Eritrea in November 1962.
3. The Eritrean people and nation had to shoulder the heavy burden of national liberation for thirty long years and pay huge and unparalleled sacrifices. Throughout this period, virtually the whole world showed unconscionable apathy by failing to recognize and extend moral and material support to Eritrea's legitimate war of national liberation. In the meantime, Ethiopia which was ruled by the Emperor and the military junta that toppled him continued to receive massive military, economic and political support from diverse countries - the US, USSR, European Countries, Israel, several Arab and Asian countries, Cuba etc..
4. The same pattern continued at various critical junctures in Eritrea's post independence period. The failure to take meaningful action against the Ethiopian regime when it reneged on its treaty obligations - essentially worked out under the facilitation of the the US, the EU, the UN and the OAU - and rejected the EEBC Arbitral Award to occupy sovereign Eritrean territories for almost two decades is a glaring illustration of the tendency of major powers, and the international community at large, to sacrifice legality and justice on the altar of narrow interests.
5. In all these decades, including in these critical times when the current regime is stoking the flames of war through its reckless agenda of "sovereign access to the sea", the "intensive care" accorded to Ethiopia has not diminished in any way. The IMF's 3 billion financial bailout that is underway; the EU's massive assistance, including recent budgetary assistance; individual bilateral support to Ethiopia from European, Asian, Middle Eastern countries...etc. corroborate this fact.
6. Indeed, by some accounts, Ethiopia has been the beneficiary of an aggregate 114 billion US dollars in the past three decades from multilateral and bilateral assistance. This pattern of huge and burgeoning assistance does not reek of, and cannot be misconstrued, by any stretch of imagination, as "some entrenched conspiracy to weaken and destroy Ethiopia".

In brief, and as noted earlier, Getachew Reda's "analysis" can hardly be taken seriously on any subject. For the Potemkin Party to stoop too low to use his deranged analysis for "popular mobilization" only accentuates its utter desperation.

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

These days, the clique of notorious/unconscionable lobbysits (US Congressman Brad Sherman; Tibor Nagy & other minions - እፋሊ ሓንጨመንጪ) seem to revert, once again, to their old habits of fabricating and/or recycling baseless vitriol against Eritrea. We also see other junior amateurs/trolls (at RFI & elswhere) who are jumping on the bandwagon and joining the chorus for a few bucks.

Our resounding message remains the same, well-known, adage: the dog barks while the camel marches!

https://t.co/i5SghU6bAG

[G. Drar @gdrarr]

Guess who is lying?

A) Abiy claims Ethiopia built the controversial GERD dam without taking a single dollar in help or loans from anyone.
B) Trump repeatedly said Ethiopia’s large dam GERD is financed by the United States.

So, who do you think is lying?

Remember, Abiy also said in a different context that Ethiopia is a beggar nation that often lives off begging from everywhere.

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

Excellent Read - #Eritrea: Peaceful Gate of the Horn of Africa

*"...Peace in Eritrea is not accidental. It is a strategic choice shaped by the country’s long liberation struggle and the heavy cost of war. While instability has consumed much of the Horn of Africa, Eritrea has maintained internal cohesion and stability, rejecting proxy conflicts and foreign-driven agendas. This stability has created something increasingly valuable in today’s world: predictability".

*"...Eritrea does not seek to impose itself as a gatekeeper. Geography has already placed it at the entrance of the Horn of Africa. What Eritrea offers instead is responsible access anchored in peace, reinforced by self-reliance, and safeguarded by principled diplomacy".

*"...In an era when instability carries global consequences, Eritrea’s long-standing approach is no longer unconventional. It is necessary. And it is precisely this combination of peace, independence, and diplomacy that makes Eritrea the natural and credible gate of the Horn of Africa".

https://t.co/lp53EKNGUP via @https://x.com/RedSeaBeacon

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

December does not, normally, fall within the ignominious calendar of Eri-Influenza Season when Eritrea's assorted detractors ramp up and spew their run-of-the-mill vilification campaigns against Eritrea. Indeed, the predictable "Eritrea-bashing" ritual is routinely unleashed in May (Independence Month); June (Martyrs Commemoration); and September (Beginning of the Armed Struggle for Independence).

But for reasons that are not hard to decipher, there is a tinge of Eri-Influenza in the air these days.

As it happens, Potemkin Party minions seem to be in cahoots with the usual cabal of notorious Conflict Entrepreneurs - ኣሃዱ ገናዞን ሓንጨመንጭን - to intensify their demonization campaigns against Eritrea. The underlying purpose is to shift gear and deflect attention from PP's toxic and brazen agenda of "sovereign access to the sea" by couching their subversive campaign in the language of "victimhood and self-defense".

The tools employed to this end revolve around:

1. Portrayal of Eritrea as a perpetual destabilizer of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa region. This is a hard sell for a regime that was profusely expressing, only three years ago, its profound gratitude - from the Prime Minister down to all sections of the Defense Establishment - to Eritrea for its principled support in Ethiopia's darkest times. PP's political and military officials are also on record on the origins and dynamics of the 1998-2000 Eritrea and Ethiopia border war that is grossly at variance with the spurious chorus that they are singing these days.

2. Eritrea's withdrawal from IGAD as "symptomatic of its isolationist agenda" and distaste for "multilateral forums". Again, this is too trite to merit much elaboration. But for the record, Eritrea was pivotal in expanding the restrictive mandate of IGADD (confined to combatting drought and desertification when it was established in 1986) to encompass a much more relevant and broader scope of regional economic cooperation and development as well as conflict prevention and resolution. Eritrea's conviction for a robust regional organization stemmed from, and was linked to, the more realistic and phased approach of Continental economic cooperation and integration through a modular process. But IGAD's abject and repetitive failures - its subservient position during the border war; its shameful endorsement of Ethiopia's unwarranted military intervention in Somalia in 2006; its muted reaction to the illicit Ethiopia - Somaliland MOU; its pathetic silence in the face of Potemkin Party's aggressive agenda of "sovereign access to the sea"...etc. have rendered it a liability to Eritrea and other Member States affected by its pathetic/harmful track-record. In the event, Eritrea's withdrawal from IGAD cannot derail or diminish its vibrant agendas of regional cooperation as its continued memberships in COMESA (which brings together 22 countries from southern, eastern and central Africa) as well as the Council of Arab and African Coastal States of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden attests too.

3. Disparaging Eritrea's economic development agenda and governance structure. Here again, the Potemkin Party/Conflict Entrepreneurs' fallacious and distorted analyses are too hollow to merit serious response. Eritrea's overall performance in the face of relentless hostilities including intermittent wars of aggression, sanctions and other subterfuges, is a testament to the unparalleled resilience of its people and the prudence of GOE's policies. And the myopic mindset of the PP aside, the countries and peoples of the Horn of Africa region ought to cherish the economic progress and well-being of all the constituent parts as they share a common destiny shaped by immutable geography. In any case, with the staggering statistics of 68.7% of the population classified as multidimensionally poor in spite of massive international assistance and IMF bailouts; and, spiraling internal conflicts that stem from, and are triggered by, a governance structure of institutionalized ethnic polarization; Potemkin Party zealots, hired lobbyists, and external apologists are not in a position to disparage Eritrea's economic and governance architecture.

https://t.co/Ym2kAPEwMd

[Fiqadu Tecle @johnsiru]

@Sharronyemane @GhideonMusa emo yelen 😆

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

Profile Q & A - “The People Are Our Greatest Treasure”: Italian Tourists on Eritrea’s Hospitality

"Eritrea’s growing tourism potential is attracting visitors from around the globe. They are captivated by the enchanting landscapes, conducive climate, timeless cuisine, and diversified cultures. Yet, a common thread unites their experiences: the Eritrean people’s hospitality is unanimously attested as the nation’s most precious resource".

https://t.co/ltMHn6JPBX

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

Food for thought: How #Eritrea's inviolable right to decolonization was sacrificed on the altar of geopolitical calculus and perceived interests of major powers against the backdrop of incipient Cold War.

The Secret Telegrams That Changed Eritrea’s Destiny | Declassified U.S.–... https://t.co/5Z8BQc33aG via @YouTube

[Yohanna @GualAbaMitin]

Eritrea is entering a new chapter — one built on real partnerships, regional stability, and strategic cooperation across the Red Sea. The back-to-back visits in Riyadh say it clearly: 🇪🇷💫 is moving forward — building bridges with the Gulf, opening economic corridors, and strengthening ties with a market-rich region. —And yes — it’s time to build a sanity wall, literally and figuratively, to insulate ourselves from being dragged backward by @AbiyAhmedAli’s 16th-century warlord politics, shifting narratives, and endless propaganda. Eritrea chooses progress, not the noise and vanity coming from Addis. #EritreaRising #HOA #RedSeaRegion #SaudiArabia #Qatar #Eritrea

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

President Isaias Afwerki met, at Al Yamamah Palace in Riyadh in the mid-afternoon hours today, Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed Bin Salman for extensive talks on bilateral ties as well as other matters of vital interest to both countries.

The warm discussions focused on the historical and brotherly ties between the two countries and prospects and opportunities for broadening their bilateral ties of economic cooperation.

On regional issues, the exchange of views revolved around current developments in the Nile Basin, the Horn of Africa, the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf. The two sides deliberated on Saudi Arabia's appropriate role in all these regional matters.

President Isaias remarked on the absence of active Saudi role in these affairs in the past stressing the pivotal requirement of enduring regional peace as a pre-requisite for vibrant economic development.

In this regard, President Isaias urged for significant contributions of Saudi Arabia in the promotion of peace and stability in the wider region in general and in our neighbourhood in particular.

Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, for his part, stated that he will shortly send a delegation to Eritrea for more profound consultations on all these vital regional issues.

Foreign Minister Osman Saleh; Eritrea's Charge d'Affaires Weini Gerezgiher; Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan; Advisor for National Security Dr. Musaed bin Mohammed Al-Aiban; and Saudi Ambasador to Eritrea Mushael Hamdan Elroquin participated in the meeting.

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

#Congrats to All! 🥇 ERITREA SHINES AGAIN! 📷 Merhawi Kudus claims the Champion of the Year title (#2025AfricanCyclingChampionships) with Gold Medal in the Men's Elite! Young and Upcoming Star, Awet, also clinches Gold in U23 and Silver Medal in the Men Elite (ME).
https://t.co/dKJf3URVkv

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

Another vivid display of the Potemkin Party's incorrigible preference for optics, political duplicity, and hollow posturing instead of substance. Let us revert to the fundamentals:

1. The Five-Point Peace Agreement - Joint Declaration of Peace and Friendship between Eritrea and Ethiopia - that was signed in Asmara on July 9, 2018, was anchored on cardinal pillars of international law; i.e. full respect of each-others sovereignty and territorial integrity.
2. Indeed, Article 1. of the Agreement explicitly heralds the "end of the state of war between Ethiopia and Eritrea and the ushering in of "a new era of peace and friendship". Articles 4 & 5 announce the "full implementation" of the EEBC Award; and, the "joint endeavor of both countries to ensure regional peace, development and cooperation", respectively.
3. This Agreement occurred 18 years after the "final and binding" EEBC Arbitral Award that was rendered in April 2002. The state of continued hostility that prevailed between the two countries stemmed from the willful decision of the incumbent Ethiopia regimes not to abide by the international agreements they had signed as well as the failure of the relevant international powers/guarantors to take punitive measures against the recalcitrant party.
4. But the positive and sensible stance that the new Ethiopian government took, even if belatedly, in 2018 was sadly and suddenly reversed in December 2023 when it reverted to a more virulent variant of the expansionist and irredentist agendas of its predecessors; dashing the optimism and euphoria that the 2018 Peace Agreement had engendered for a new chapter of enduring regional stability and cooperation between the two neighbouring peoples and countries.
5. The Potemkin Party went beyond illicit claims of "sovereign access to the sea.. and reclaiming by force the stolen port of Assab", to desecrate and "delegitimize" Eritrea's inalienable and hard-won independence, publicly setting its mission as "the correction of the historical event that transpired in 1991 - i.e. Eritrea's independence". The daily barrage of media campaigns to whip up "national sentiment"; the provocative saber-rattling have been, and remain, intensive and boundless to this day.
6. As we have emphasized repeatedly, the incubator and epicenter of the unnecessary and avoidable tension; the party that is bracing for renewed conflict is the Potemkin Party alone. In the event, the panacea or antidote for the looming crisis is crystal clear: adherence to fundamental pillars of international law in good-faith and respecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of thy neighbour! "ካብ ጉይይ ምውዓል፡ ክሳድ ምሓዝ"፥ከም ዝበሃል።

https://t.co/iBWLua7m05

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

Double-speak and duplicity of Potemkin Party (PP) officials is again in full and glaring display!

Only last Thursday, PP's Foreign Minister tried to re-package, essentially to hoodwink the diplomatic community, Ethiopia's two-year long reckless war agenda and incessant saber-rattling for "sovereign access to the sea" in "self-defense" language.

But on the morrow of the FM's speech delivered in English, a senior General in the Ethiopian army pleads, in Amharic, to the various internal armed movements "to give the ENDF a respite "as they are bracing for a "larger mission".

This is indeed typical of the war-mongering agenda that PP senior political and military officials have been, and continue to convey, to their domestic audiences in cryptic, and often more explicit, terms.

https://t.co/xWvLN4deKP

[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!

[Hadnet Keleta @hadnetkeleta]

The Potemkin Party’s fairytale keeps getting wilder. Now they’re asking the international community to help them claim another sovereign country’s sea—as if borders are mere props in their political theatre. #Eritrea #Ethiopia #HoA

[Amb. Sophia Tesfamariam @AmbStesfamariam]

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed seems to relish storytelling, even if it requires borrowing, or outright embellishing, tales to fit his narrative. His speeches are a genre of their own: part sermon, part stand-up, part historical fan fiction. Each monologue arrives drenched in metaphor, punctuated with borrowed wisdom, and sprinkled with a sense of divine destiny. His recent address to the Ethiopian Parliament was no exception. I listened closely, and something felt off…it smelled fishy.

In that infamous monologue, PM Abiy slipped into full storyteller mode. He recounted the tale of a physics student who arrived late to class, was sent to sit on the balcony as punishment, and, unaware that two equations on the blackboard were deemed “unsolvable”, copied them down believing they were homework questions.

Over the weekend, the student solved one. Upon returning, the professor was stunned: the student had unknowingly solved a long-unsolved problem. Abiy framed the lesson dramatically: the student succeeded because he “did not hear”- ኣልሰማም-that the problems were impossible or unsolvable.

Something was indeed fishy. You could sense it in his tone...that polished calm before the performance. He was up to something. My gut feeling was right. What followed wasn’t just another speech; it was a carefully staged act of deception.

With his trademark smile and preacher’s cadence, Abiy Ahmed was about to hoodwink the Ethiopian Parliament, and he did. In broad daylight, before cameras and lawmakers, he recited a borrowed parable as if it were his own revelation, weaving fiction into history, and once again proving that in his political theatre, truth is merely a prop.

The real story is not new, and most of us have heard it before; some may even have seen the movie "Good Will Hunting", inspired by that story. For those unfamiliar, like the members of the Ethiopian Parliament, it is the well-known anecdote of George Dantzig. In 1939, George Dantzig, a graduate student at UC Berkeley, famously arrived late to a statistics class and mistook two notoriously unsolved problems on the blackboard for routine homework.

Over the next few days, he diligently worked through them, submitting his solutions with the innocent assumption that they were ordinary assignments. Only later did he learn that he had solved problems that had baffled mathematicians for years, and his “homework” became the cornerstone of his doctoral thesis, a testament to one quietly achieved brilliance. He had unknowingly solved problems, simply because he did not hear the professor say they were unsolvable…because he was late to class.

In academia, Dantzig’s story is a lesson in #humility, #curiosity, and #perseverance, a quiet triumph of intellect over intimidation. Abiy, however, appropriated the tale without attribution and transformed it into a nationalistic parable declaring:

“…If anyone says #Ethiopia does not deserve to be on the Red Sea, our answer is ኣልሰማንም! (‘We didn’t hear’) …”

There is a big difference between willfully not hearing and not hearing because one was not there. George Dantzig, for all his brilliance, was late to class, he didn’t ignore the lesson; he simply missed it. By contrast, when PM Abiy told the Ethiopian Parliament that “we did not hear” about the issue of #Ethiopia and the Red Sea, it was not an innocent oversight.

It was a deliberate performance, pretending that there was some alternative solution other than respecting international law and the sovereignty of the Red Sea states, a fiction meant to mislead lawmakers and cloak the obvious truth in false possibilities.

The implication was obvious: Ethiopia, like the student, would defy doubters and achieve the impossible. In Abiy’s framing, the student is #Ethiopia, the teacher is the international community, and the “unsolvable problem” is a place on the Red Sea for #Ethiopia.

Dantzig’s lesson about disciplined inquiry and quiet brilliance was transformed into a sermon about entitlement: faith over fact, aspiration over sovereignty.

Where Dantzig quietly achieved brilliance, Abiy loudly declares what reality should be, and demands applause. The Parliament complied, clapping with uncritical excitement.

This is plagiarism with a political twist. Dantzig’s story celebrates discovery through diligence; Abiy’s retelling twists it into justification for ignoring international law and the sovereignty of neighboring states.

Someone needs to tell the Prime Minister to stop manipulating Ethiopians, especially the gullible youth. No number of borrowed parables will bring #Ethiopia any closer to the sea. Borders do not dissolve under metaphor. Nations cannot rewrite themselves through inspirational speeches.

When governance falters, spectacle becomes the substitute. When facts fail to inspire, fables take their place. Abiy’s speeches are no longer about guiding a nation through turbulent times; they are about maintaining the illusion of control, the theater of messianic leadership. He lifts from films, parables, and university folklore to recast Ethiopia’s political crises as heroic journeys or divine tests.

This is how such leaders lead their people straight into the abyss. It is not merely deceit, it is desperation.

Dantzig’s triumph came from diligence, patience, and humility; Abiy’s performance relies on theatrics, borrowed stories, and the willing suspension of critical thought. Pity the people of #Ethiopia, who are led to cheer for illusions while real challenges go unaddressed.

Pity a nation where hope is manufactured on a podium rather than built through strategy, diplomacy, and respect for law. Pity the youth, whose aspirations are fed by borrowed parables rather than grounded in reality. Spectacle cannot fill ports, redraw borders, or rewrite history...yet, for now, applause masks the truth.

Allow me to end with my twist on this old Ethiopian adage…

ምከረው ምከረው እንቢ( ኣልሰማም) ካለህ መከራ ይምከረው!

[Simon K Hagos @tewerwari_1]

#Eritrea & #Egypt agreed in principle to cooperate in all sectors to assure stability in the HoA and Red Sea. Accordingly, Egypt will deploy all tools (political, economic & military) to restore balance, stability in the greater horn. This probably is “historic” in its nature, & it will impact HoA & Red Sea for decades.
@MfaEgypt @MFA_China @mfa_russia @PMOIndia @StateDept

[Ghideon Musa @GhideonMusa]

Egypt to deploy all tools to restore balance, stability in Horn of Africa: FM Abdelatty in News24

Egypt is intensifying its diplomatic and military engagement in the Horn of Africa to counter regional security threats and protect its strategic interests in the Red Sea and Nile River Basin, Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty wrote in an opinion piece published by South Africa’s news website News24.

Egypy is intensifying its diplomatic and military engagement in the Horn of Africa to counter regional security threats and protect its strategic interests in the Red Sea and Nile River Basin, marking a significant reassertion of its historical role in the region,” FM Abdelatty wrote in his article titled "Reasserting a Strategic Role in the Horn of Africa amid Turbulence."

https://t.co/R1612aWpsP

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

“መተካእታ ሃገራት ቀይሕ ባሕሪ ክኸውን ዝኽእል ሓይሊ የለን” ቃለ-መጠይቕ ፕረዚደንት ኢሳይያስ ኣፈወርቂ ፣ ምስ ልኡኽ ኤሪ-ቲቪ/ERI-TV)

*"...ክልተኣዊ ዝምድናና ብዘለዎ ዞባዊ ዕምቆት ኣገዳሲ እዩ። ይኹን’ምበር ምትሕግጋዝ ኣብ ክልተኣዊ መዳይ ጥራሕ ተሓጺሩ ዝተርፍ ኣይኮነን። ኩነታት ዞባን ከባቢናን ኣልዒልና’ውን ዘቲና ኢና። ብዛዕባ ንህዝብታት ኣፍሪቃን ዞባናን ዘሸግር ጉዳያት ኣልዒልና ተዘራሪብና። ሓባራዊ ስትራተጂያዊ መረዳእታና ከኣ፡ ካብ ታኼላ ህመሻ፡ ዕንወት፡ ምትእትታውን ዘይርግኣትን ውግኣትን ብኸመይ ትወጽእን ንምፍታሑ ዘኽእል ምቹእ ሃዋሁው ኣብ ምፍጣር ብኸመይ ትዋሳእን እዩ። ከምኡ’ውን ቃልና ንምሕዳስ፡ ሓባራዊ መደባት ንምትግባር፡ ውጥናት ንምድላው፡ ካልኦት ከም ዝሳተፉ ንምግባር፡ ስትራተጂያዊ ንቕሓትን ዕላማታትን ምብራህን ካብ ህልው ዓቕሚታት ምጥቃምን ክከኣል ምእንቲ ብዛዕባ ህልው ኩነታት ብዝርዝር ተመያዪጥና። እዚ ከኣ ቀጻሊ ጻዕሪ ዝሓትት እዩ። እቲ ዕላማ ርሑቕ፡ ብድሆታቱ ድማ ዓቢ ስለዝኾነ፡ ኣብ ክልተኣውን ስትራተጂያውን ዝምድናታትና እነስርጾ ፖለቲካዊ ባህሊ ኣዝዩ ኣገዳሲ እዩ"።

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[The Nation @TheNation1993]

Eritrea 🇪🇷 The Nation:

“መተካእታ ሃገራት ቀይሕ ባሕሪ ክኸውን ዝኽእል ሓይሊ የለን” ቃለ-መጠይቕ ፕረዚደንት ኢሳይያስ ኣፈወርቂ ፣ ምስ ልኡኽ ኤሪ-ቲቪ/ERI-TV)