Thousands of artifacts were stolen from Tigray and still fetching good money on online stores around the world.
Ethiopian artefacts on eBay spark fears of looting from war-torn Tigray https://t.co/j4824cM8fd
French journalist Augustine Passilly expelled from Ethiopia.
A sad reflection on Ethiopia’s lack of confidence about being open to scrutiny.
https://t.co/uD5eyFuDIP
News: CPJ condemns expulsion of #French journalist following reporting trip to #Tigray
The Committee to Protect Journalists (#CPJ) has condemned Ethiopia's expulsion of French journalist #Augustine_Passilly following a reporting trip to Tigray, calling on authorities to reverse the decision and allow her to continue reporting in the country.
#Passilly, a correspondent for the French #Catholic_daily #La_Croix, left #Ethiopia on 11 June after authorities revoked her press accreditation and residence permit and issued her an exit visa. The measures followed a reporting trip to #Shire, in Tigray, from 03 to 06 June, where she had traveled to report on residents' concerns over the possibility of renewed conflict in the region.
https://t.co/eH6TVIzTE2
Potemkin Party's signature trademark has been aptly described by the formula: PP Propaganda = Lies + Deception + Delusion + Disinformation + "Dazzling" Optics.
Indeed, the article (Al Jazeera, 11 June 2026) by mercurial Getachew Reda (PP's Advisor for East African Affairs); and Redwan Hussein, (PP's Director General for National Intelligence and Security Services) accentuates, in more graphic terms, this poignant reality.
Let us revert to the facts:
1. The tragic war that ravaged Ethiopia for two years from 4 November 2020 until 2 November 2022 with devastating consequences stemmed from, and has its roots in, Ethiopia's internal and perennial ethnic cleavages. Eritrea was dragged into the imposed conflict at the behest of the Federal Government, and more importantly, due to the broad objectives of the war agenda that explicitly included and targeted Eritrea itself. This is on the public record. As one of the principal architects and fervent advocates of the war, Getachew Redda is intimately aware of all these facts; a matter that is easily validated by his numerous posts under his X handle in those tragic times.
2. At the end of the war, PP political and military leaders from the Prime Minister downwards, profusely expressed their profound gratitude to Eritrea. Again, this is on the public record.
2. Getachew Reda and Redwan Hussein weave a theatrical and fictitious story about the consternation of their South African Hosts in Pretoria as the "negotiating team from the two warring parties would get into a fist fight in the middle of the Conference Hall if not shepherded to steer clear of one another".
3. Problem with this fictitious and romanticized story is the Parties had, in fact, held secret meetings in Djibouti and Seychelles months back under the sponsorship of US and EU "Peace Facilitators". And as it was later divulged by Getachew Redda himself, the two Teams had contemplated prompt reconciliation, reportedly under the prodding of the PP Party, to join forces and wage a war of aggression against Eritrea that they both agreed was, in their contorted views, "the ultimate threat to them". These meetings took place in August 2022; when the war was still raging ferociously. A Confidential EU Report issued in September 2022 further corroborated this "imminent trend".
4. The Pretoria Agreement is essentially a peace-pact between warring sides in Ethiopia. It is, and remains, an Ethiopian affair; purely and exclusively. Eritrea's stance and support to the Pretoria Agreement stems from its principled desire and commitment to promote regional peace and stability. In this sense, Eritrea has neither the political appetite nor the interest to scuttle an agreement between Ethiopian political forces if all the parties indeed implement the provisions of the agreement in good faith.
5. In this perspective, PP's current propaganda and transparent disinformation campaigns, as epitomized by the article in question, are designed to re-package the unprovoked agenda of conflict and hostility that it has unleashed against Eritrea since December 2023 in the quest of what it calls "sovereign access to the sea", in "self-defense" terms.
6. The unfortunate fact is: it is PP's delusional agendas (illicit MOU with Somali-land; logistical and other military support to RSF under the bidding of other external forces; and provocative pronouncement, accompanied by unremitting saber-rattling, for acquiring Assab and other Eritrean coastal lands "through negotiations if possible and force if necessary" ) that are stoking unnecessary and avoidable tensions in the Horn. "ጭጉራፍ'ሲ ሃሪማ ተእዊ" ፥ ከም ዝበሃል።
https://t.co/2MuR9MZUna
#Op_ed: Ancient Identity, Sacred Continuity: Why #Axum ‘holy city’ decree reaffirms 3,000-year continuum, protects living heritage
Following the May 2026 declaration by the Synod of the #Tigray Orthodox Tewahedo Church designating Axum as an exclusively Christian “Holy City,” Tsegay Fseha argues that the status “simply codifies an ancient, unbroken sacred identity.”
He emphasizes that "officially designating Axum as a holy city actively strengthens and validates its inscription on the #UNESCO World Heritage List.”
Tsegay notes, "Preserving Axum’s 3,000-year continuous Christian identity and guarding the absolute epicenter of Christian civilization is not a political policy... It is the sacred, historical, and moral duty of every Christian citizen."
https://t.co/EnRXxy5aPb
#Op_ed: Ancient Identity, Sacred Continuity: Why #Axum ‘holy city’ decree reaffirms 3,000-year continuum, protects living heritage
Following the May 2026 declaration by the Synod of the #Tigray Orthodox Tewahedo Church designating Axum as an exclusively Christian “Holy City,” Tsegay Fseha argues that the status “simply codifies an ancient, unbroken sacred identity.”
He emphasizes that "officially designating Axum as a holy city actively strengthens and validates its inscription on the #UNESCO World Heritage List.”
Tsegay notes, "Preserving Axum’s 3,000-year continuous Christian identity and guarding the absolute epicenter of Christian civilization is not a political policy... It is the sacred, historical, and moral duty of every Christian citizen."
https://t.co/EnRXxy5aPb
#Tigray remains suspended between war and peace, strangled between resilience and fragility. Grim survival for both people and environment is the game, its political project fatally broken as also the lofty ambitions of #Ethiopia. Tragic for all https://t.co/6VsSz7oHoT
@FredHarter@Theodre_S Hey Fred if you’re talking about #Axum and #DebreDamo in #Tigray they fallow Tigray Orthodox Christianity! Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity is the group that gave over $6Million to Ethiopian Military for them to committed the ongoing atrocities of #TigrayGenocide & death over 600K
Ge’ez manuscripts are essential part of Orthodox Christian women in #Tigray.
The looting and distraction of those manuscripts- a spiritual warfare-is part of the ongoing genocide.
@eBay@Etsy#InternationalWomensDay#CulturaCleansing
Once the New age/Prosperity gospel following #PPcults realize how profitable it is to liquidate the old Orthodox Church, their looting will not be limited to #Tigray. Mark my word.
#CulturalCleansing
Tigray’s rich cultural heritage includes the rock-hewn churches that make up the ‘Sacred Landscapes of Tigray’, submitted to the tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2018.
#Tigray#Orthodox