Mulu Alem

Eritrean, first and foremost. 🇪🇷

[The ANF Club ⚽️ @adjorNfriends]

On our space, there’s a discussion about whether Messi should’ve been sent off here. Do you agree?

[Elham Ishmael ✍︎ @EIshmael_]

At the World Cup, two Swedish players of East African descent are honoring their roots with the Eritrea 🇪🇷 and Somali 🇸🇴 flags emblazoned on their cleats as they compete for Sweden. ❤️🇸🇴🇪🇷

[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

FIDEL (1988): "When you meet a South African racist, the only thing you have to ask him is: What happened at Cuito Cuanavale?

The 'superior race' clashed against a small piece of territory defended by blacks and mulattos and it became impossible for them...

This could be the end of South African apartheid."

(He was right)

Footage from Villon Films

[Yousuf Boulisi @BoulisiYousuf]

إنجاز تاريخي! 🇪🇷🔥 هبتوم صامويل لا يُقهر! حصد هذا العداء الإرتري الموهوب لقبي سباقي 10000 متر و5000 متر لصالح @UNMLoboXCTF. لا أحد يستطيع منافسته الآن.
شاهدوه وهو يتألق في سباق 5000 متر هنا! 🎥👇 #NCAATF #Eritrea #HabtomSamuel

[Alula Frezghi @AlulaFre]

Old Lies, New Ties: Eritrea, Once Again the Convenient Scapegoat

June 12, 2026

By Ghidewon Abay Asmerom
@RedSeaBeacon

There is a familiar ritual in Ethiopian politics: when the center cracks, blame Eritrea. When agreements fail, blame Eritrea. When Ethiopian factions betray one another, blame Eritrea. When the Red Sea obsession alarms the region, blame Eritrea. When Addis Ababa and Tigray cannot honor their own commitments, blame Eritrea again. This is the oldest trick in the Ethiopian political playbook: externalize the crisis, invent a foreign hand, and hide domestic failure behind the convenient shadow of Eritrea.
The latest performance comes from Getachew Reda, now serving as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s adviser on East African affairs. In a June 11, 2026 Al Jazeera opinion article, Getachew and Redwan Hussein, the director general of Ethiopia’s intelligence and security services, attempt to portray Eritrea as the principal source of danger to Ethiopia’s fragile peace. Their argument is simple: “the Pretoria Agreement is under threat because Eritrea is allegedly backing ‘hardliners’ and pushing Ethiopia toward another war.” But this claim collapses under the weight of Ethiopia’s own record.
The Uncertainty Principle of Ethiopian Elite Politics
Getachew Reda is not an accident. He is the latest incarnation of a familiar Ethiopian ruling-class habit: treachery dressed as strategy, deception packaged as diplomacy, and flip-flopping elevated into statecraft. In the political culture of Ethiopia’s Abyssinian elite, yesterday’s enemy can become today’s patron, yesterday’s accusation can become today’s slipup, and yesterday’s principle can be sold by evening for a seat at the palace table.
Getachew’s career seems designed to outdo even the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics. With some politicians, one may not know both position and momentum at the same time. With Getachew, Abiy, and their circle, one cannot know whether a position taken in the morning will still exist by lunchtime, let alone by evening. Their politics has no fixed moral location. It moves with office, opportunity, and survival.
If Meles Zenawi was the arch-deceiver who turned tactical ambiguity into a governing method, Abiy Ahmed, Getachew Reda, and Tsadkan Gebretensae represent a more shameless generation of the same tradition: men of shifting loyalties, convenient memories, and selective outrage. They speak of peace while preparing for war. They speak of accountability when out of power and forget it when near power. They speak of sovereignty when it protects them and dismiss it when it belongs to Eritrea.
This is why Getachew’s latest attack on Eritrea must not be read as serious regional analysis. It is the speech of a man who has changed camps without changing habits. Once Abiy’s loud accuser, he is now Abiy’s adviser. Once a voice claiming to speak for Tigrayan suffering, he now echoes the very political center he condemned. Once a critic of betrayal, he has become one of its most polished practitioners.
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[Red Sea Beacon @RedSeaBeacon]

Eritrea’s Road Towards an Organic State and its Institutional Reality
By Mihreteab Medhanie

One of the laziest accusations repeated against Eritrea is the claim that the country has “no institutions” because it has not implemented the 1997 Constitution in the manner demanded by Western liberal orthodoxy, has no conventional multiparty parliament, and has not held national elections according to the timetable preferred by foreign critics. This is a political slogan dressed up as scholarship. It is the old colonial gaze wearing a modern human-rights suit.

At the heart of the accusation lies a crude assumption: Africans are not expected to build institutions from their own history, struggle, culture, security realities, social needs, and developmental priorities. They are expected to imitate. They are expected to copy. They are expected to import ready-made political furniture from Europe and North America, arrange it neatly in their capitals, and call that “institution building,” even if the result is hollow, fragile, externally financed, and socially rootless. In this worldview, imitation becomes legitimacy, while originality is treated as suspicion.

The Western double standard is breathtaking. The same political tradition that took centuries to produce its current constitutional systems now demands that a newly independent African country, born from a thirty-year liberation war and immediately confronted by regional hostility, produce instant liberal perfection on command. The same powers that imposed colonial administrations designed for extraction and control now pretend to be neutral judges of institutional maturity in the societies they helped deform.

This article strips that myth bare. Read More:
https://t.co/OB8EvAsjE8

#Eritrea #Somalia #Djibouti #SouthSudan #Sudan #Ethiopia
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[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

#Eritrea: Statement by Ambassador Sophia Tesfamariam at the Enhanced Interactive Dialogue; Geneva 15 June 2026

*"...Eritrea rejects the report before the Council as fundamentally flawed in its methodology, unsupported by independently verified information, and disconnected from realities on the ground. Its findings and conclusions therefore lack credibility and cannot serve as a reliable basis for informed deliberation or action by this Council".

*"...The Special Rapporteur argues that his mandate is indispensable as the only international mechanism responsible for monitoring Eritrea. This assertion disregards the existence of multiple United Nations mechanisms, including the Universal Periodic Review, treaty bodies, specialized agencies, and other intergovernmental processes through which all Member States, including Eritrea, are regularly assessed".

*"...Eritrea has maintained its sovereignty, preserved social stability, sustained public administration, and continued the delivery of essential services despite decades of conflict, sanctions, and external pressures. While acknowledging the need for continued progress, this reality is fundamentally inconsistent with the picture repeatedly presented through this mandate".

*:...When a country-specific mechanism persists despite sustained questions regarding its selectivity, methodology, and balance, it risks shifting from a tool of engagement into one of entrenchment. Rather than promoting constructive dialogue, it perpetuates a divisive process that has failed to command broad confidence among Member States.... Eritrea therefore rejects both the report and the resolution before the Council and reiterates its call for the termination of this mandate".

https://t.co/0R9QOvqST1

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

The Economist article on Eritrea, (11 June 2026), is again replete with the usual condescending attitude and mindset; and inevitably, presumptive and utterly erroneous portrayal of unfolding events and trends.

The Editor does not only insult a people and nation that he has no inkling about, but even dubs the envisaged lifting of unwarranted sanctions as "sweeteners" to the GOE.

In general terms, the malaise of biased and irresponsible news reporting is not confined to one or two mainstream media outlets or odd articles here and there. It is indeed common in, and visceral to, many, "prestigious", media platforms who have long abandoned their pronounced ethical standards of "objectivity, impartiality and neutrality" to cater for higher financial and geopolitical interests.

In the event, the panacea is crystal clear: the Global South and particularly targeted countries have no option but to focus on their own networks to rectify falsified narratives.

EDF: Admirable Ethos Rooted on Rich Heritage https://t.co/puvnhpL76t

[Hassan Berkia @HassanAhmedBerk]

The #British government has refused to grant MEE correspondent and Sudanese #journalist Mohammed Amin a visa to travel to the UK and attend a prestigious #journalism awards ceremony in London this week.
Amin had been due to attend the One World #Media Awards, which will be held next Wednesday, where he has been nominated for the Journalist of the Year Award for his reporting from #Sudan .

#KeepEyesOnSudan

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Anti-immigrant riots in Northern Ireland left many cars and homes burned after masked protesters went through mostly immigrant parts of Belfast.

“I'm afraid maybe I might be the next to be attacked on the street. So I don't know where to take my family,” said a Congolese

[UN Human Rights Council @UN_HRC]

Updating the @UN Human Rights Council, the Fact-Finding Mission for the #Sudan reported arbitrary detention, torture & enforced disappearance by both parties to the conflict.

The Mission calls for an immediate end to all violations of intl' human rights+humanitarian law.

#HRC62

[Daily Loud @DailyLoud]

The New York Knicks pulled up to The Tonight Show hosted by Jimmy Fallon with the Larry O’Brien Trophy 🔥🏆

[Wyatt Reed @wyattreed13]

Lots of Hezbollah flags flying today as families returning to Southern Lebanon show their support for the resistance

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Only 16% of Americans support arming Israel without restrictions.

So what is Congress doing? Burying a provision in the defense bill that would give Israel more military integration than any NATO ally.

We must strip Section 224 from the Pentagon budget.

[The Mesob Journal @MesobJournal]

Alexander Isak Makes Eritrean World Cup History

Isak scored for Sweden in their 5–1 World Cup win over Tunisia, becoming the first known player of Eritrean heritage to score at a FIFA World Cup.

Isak’s goal was a proud moment for Sweden & a historic one for Eritreans worldwide.

[David Yeh @Yehdavid]

Despite @AbiyAhmedAli's 'Prosperity' agenda promising economic transformation since '18, #Ethiopia now has z highest number of people living in extreme poverty in Africa. Conflict,inflation,& currency collapse have pushed millions below z poverty line.👇👉
https://t.co/hQg7Bp0Th9

[Elias Amare ኤልያስ ኣማረ @EliasAmare]

ሓደ ካብቲ ብዙሕ ንስለ #ኤርትራ እተኸፍለ ረዚን ዋጋ።
ዘልዓለማዊ ክብርን ዝኽርን ነቶም ብኣርኣያነቶም ዝመሃሩናን ዘጽንዑናን ጀጋኑ ሰማእታትና!
ዓወት ንሓፋሽ! 🙏🏾🇪🇷✊🏾
5 brothers who gave their lives so that #Eritrea could be free.
Eternal glory to our Martyrs!

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

When the World Cup comes to town, we aren’t just watching for fouls on the field — we’re tracking fouls in the workplace. 

That’s why we’ve launched a historic Know Your Rights campaign, informing 20,000 workers on their labor rights under NYC Protected Time Off Law, Fair Workweek Law, and Safe Hotels Act. 

Go to https://t.co/X102ohVroD to learn more.

[Hadelibi☝♡ @Ternafi]

The EU keeps recycling the same tired “human rights” script on Eritrea:

Pressure disguised as principle.
Mandates dressed as concern.
Lectures from powers allergic to self-reflection.

Eritrea’s answer remains clear: engage with respect, not coercion.
Sovereignty is not for sale.

The EU Is Still Riding the Wrong Horse on Eritrea
https://t.co/1QDuCysEsf

[Mulu Alem @Mekhete]

@AlexanderIsak19 made the game! Congratulations on an amazing performance and win! 💚❤️💛💙