#Eritrea's detractors (እፍሊ ሓንጨመንጪ) have gone completely berserk these days.
This time round, the event that has aroused their irrational tantrums is the nomination, and subsequent appointment, of Eritrea's Charge d'Affaires as Chair-Rapporteur of the 2026 UNHRC Social Forum by the Africa Group.
As it will be recalled, Eritrea's appointment to UNICEF's Executive Board and its recent election to the Vice-Presidency of the 81st UN General Assembly had triggered similar commotion in these feckless groups in the past months.
For two principal reasons: i) any limelight/recognition of Eritrea's voice in the international stage and appreciation of its contributions to multilateral diplomacy pokes a huge hole in their wicked and relentless demonization campaigns; ii) it will ultimately impact on their hefty lobbyists' fees.
As the saying goes: "the camel marches as the dog barks!" - ፈኮስቲ፥ ጃንዳ ርእሲ ኹቦ !
#Eritrea's detractors (እፍሊ ሓንጨመንጪ) have gone completely berserk these days.
This time round, the event that has aroused their irrational tantrums is the nomination, and subsequent appointment, of Eritrea's Charge d'Affaires as Chair-Rapporteur of the 2026 UNHRC Social Forum by the Africa Group.
As it will be recalled, Eritrea's appointment to UNICEF's Executive Board and its recent election to the Vice-Presidency of the 81st UN General Assembly had triggered similar commotion in these feckless groups in the past months.
For two principal reasons: i) any limelight/recognition of Eritrea's voice in the international stage and appreciation of its contributions to multilateral diplomacy pokes a huge hole in their wicked and relentless demonization campaigns; ii) it will ultimately impact on their hefty lobbyists' fees.
As the saying goes: "the camel marches as the dog barks!" - ፈኮስቲ፥ ጃንዳ ርእሲ ኹቦ !
In these tumultuous times, charting out synergetic and complementary architecture of collective regional security, and more broadly, modalities and mechanisms of wider cooperation has become more vital and urgent than ever before.
The overarching political considerations and operational calculus behind this conviction are the imperatives of ownership and agency; the need to avoid a polarized climate of global rivalry; and the rationale for enhancing local capacity building and mutual cooperation between the main stakeholders to secure and enhance enduring regional peace and stability.
In the Red Sea, this broad framework translates and is better summed up in the following 12 points that Eritrea submitted to the Council of Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Littoral States few years ago.
Eritrea maintains that these parameters can indeed serve as substantive inputs that can be enriched through continuous and rigorous consultation against the backdrop of fluid and changing realities.
1. Comprehensive and unbiased assessment of the current realities of the Red Sea and associated matters, in all their dimensions and perspectives in a realistic manner;
2. Full clarity on the desired objectives and goals;
3. Detailed mapping of the threats to the peace and security of the Red Sea; and, categorization and specification of these parameters;
4. Formulation of a viable strategy that will ensure achievement of constructive objectives and goals;
5. Formulation of strategies to contain and eliminate the threats in tandem with the positive policies of cooperation;
6. Mapping out detailed schemes and plans that will ensure holistic implementation of the twin strategies;
7. Stipulation of the implementation mechanisms, associated structures and mobilization of the requisite resources;
8. Ensuring that all the organizational configurations and frameworks that are developed are anchored on respect of sovereignty and international law;
9. Ensuring that all littoral States build and possess their own effective defense capabilities and naval forces (without delegation to others);
10. Supplementing, through collective efforts and synergy, those specific tasks that cannot be met through individual domestic capabilities and resources;
11. All relevant States will create appropriate modalities of cooperation with “external forces” for tasks or missions that are beyond their collective capability on the basis of a consensual framework;
12. Creation of competent committees to address all these issues in a comprehensive and professional manner.
The Trump Administration continues to pursue regional peace through diplomatic engagements with Egypt, Eritrea, and Ethiopia. Let me be unequivocally clear: claims that we are negotiating or considering any secret deal involving Eritrea against another regional partner are categorically false. No such agreement exists, and no such arrangement is under discussion. Our diplomatic engagements have one objective: advancing lasting peace and stability throughout the Horn of Africa.
False and misleading statements, defamatory speculation, and baseless accusations concerning supposed deals or other developments are reckless, appear driven by malicious intent to distort good-faith diplomacy, and jeopardize the prospects for lasting peace.
𝗦𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶 𝗔𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗮 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗮 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗰 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗙𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀
RED SEA — Saudi Arabia has unveiled plans for a multinational maritime defence coalition spanning the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, bringing together eight coastal states including five African nations in a move that highlights the region's growing strategic importance as geopolitical tensions and shipping disruptions intensify.
Participating countries are #SaudiArabia, #Jordan, #Yemen, #Egypt, #Sudan, #Djibouti, #Eritrea, and #Somalia.
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WHAT A SPRINT! Natnael Tesfatsion lands a brilliant win at Spain's Circuito de Getxo. The Movistar rider bosses the 172km race to take the biggest one-day victory of his season.
#52ndEritreanFestival in the US (2026) held in Dallas, Texas, from July 31 - August 2 on the weekend under the theme: "Our Resilience: Our Guarantee!"
Festival graced by the presence of Mr. Yosuf Saiqh, Head of PFDJ Organizational Affairs. Opening speech by Mr. Berhane Ghebrehiwot, Charge d 'Affairs at the Eritrean Embassy in the US.
Rich variety of programmes in Festival (2026), which was attended by tens of thousands of Eritrean residents in the US, included: cultural and artistic shows; research-based presentation of Eritrea's archeological heritage; lectures/panel discussions on relevant themes by professionals in the respective fields; exhibitions on business entities owned by Eritrean entrepreneurs; seminars on current issues; books forum; as well as presentations on women's struggle for gender equity... etc.
Potemkin Party's official media outlets - Ethiopian News Agency (ENA), EBC, and FANA among others - are yet again on overdrive mode this week to churn out, particularly in their domestic broadcasts, fallacious and incendiary vitriol against Eritrea on a daily basis.
The stale and obsolete themes, the inflammatory and provocative packaging, remain the same; i.e.
1. Denigration and denial of Eritrea's hard-won independence that was achieved through precious sacrifices in Africa's longest liberation struggle when its right to decolonization was suppressed in the 1940s on the altar of "overarching" geopolitical interests of some global powers;
2. Repeated and bellicose pronouncements, accompanied by incessant saber-rattling, on the Potemkin Party's inexorable quest for "sovereign access to the sea... through negotiations if possible and force if necessary";
3. Rationalization of a "wider war that would expand to Eritrea's Dahlak Islands for reasons of strategic depth", in order to project and guarantee, in its convoluted views, "viable maritime power";
4. Banal and spurious "economic arguments" for rationalizing war and invasion in order to avoid exorbitant "port fees"; etc.
These are red lines and political blasphemies that should not be countenanced by any normal country.
The sad fact is these are normative for a callous and reckless Potemkin Party that seems to specialize in incubating endless conflicts both at home and in the wider Horn of Africa region (illicit MoU with Somaliland; active and surrogate role in the exacerbation of the conflict in Sudan etc.).
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A beautiful moment of respect in the Eritrean countryside: a young woman greets her elder with the traditional gesture of kissing the hand. This is how we honor those who came before us. #Eritrea#Culture#RespectForElders