Abiy made a fatal miscalculation: He underestimated the veracity of the Eritrean diaspora.
For years, they were dismissed as isolated. But they never stopped documenting, organizing, and exposing the truth. Now, they are not alone. Eritrean, Somali, Sudanese, and Egyptian voices have united.
The Alamein coalition is no longer just a diplomatic agreement between capitals; it is a united front of millions across the globe.
Abiy is fighting the wrong war against the wrong people.
#Eritrea #Somalia #Egypt #Sudan #Alamein #Ethiopia
ንጸላኢ ብብረቱ....ብጥይቱ!
#Eritrea’s history has demonstrated beyond doubt that it is courage and unwavering commitment to a cause—not steel or superior weaponry—that win battles and secure victory. The lesson is unmistakable: Fight the enemy with their own weapons and bullets; if not, turn their steel to ashes! #EritreaPrevails #Sudan #Ethiopia #Somalia
تعتبر السيادة الوطنية #لإريتريا🇪🇷 خطاً أحمر ومبدأً غير قابل للمساومة في العقيدة السياسية والعسكرية للدولة الإريترية
وتتسم السياسة الإريترية بالتشدد الكبير تجاه أي محاولات إقليمية أو دولية للتدخل في شؤونها الداخلية أو المساس بحدودها البرية والبحرية وتعتبر ذلك تهديداً وجودياً
Visited the Asia-Africa Conference Museum in #Bandung, Indonesia, the site of the historic 1955 Bandung Conference, which produced the Ten Principles of Bandung and laid the ideological groundwork for the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).
As an #Eritrean, the historical irony is profound. In 1952, #Eritrea was federated with #Ethiopia under UN General Assembly Resolution 390 A (V), resolution was engineered by its patrons.
Three years later, #Ethiopia attended Bandung, championing sovereign equality, self-determination, and the liberation of colonized peoples. Yet, even as European colonial rule was receding, Ethiopia dismantled #Eritrea’s federal status and annexed the country.
#Ethiopia championed freedom abroad while denying it to the Eritrean people. The international community’s acquiescence exposed, and continues to expose, the chasm between professed principles and political practice.
Decades of strategic indulgence emboldened successive Ethiopian regimes, fostering the belief that geopolitical importance confers immunity from accountability.
External powers cultivated Ethiopia’s image as an “indispensable regional anchor”, too useful to challenge, too important to scrutinize. That halo is fading, and the Prosperity Party (PP) leadership has accelerated its demise.
A government that deploys heavy artillery, missiles, tanks, and drones against its own people cannot credibly posture as a guarantor of regional peace while threatening the sovereignty of its neighbours. No state stands above the @UN Charter or acquires rights over another nation’s territory.
The international community must also confront its own complicity. Years of appeasement have sustained Ethiopia’s manufactured exceptionalism and shielded its leaders from scrutiny. But strategic flattery cannot indefinitely conceal militarism, repression, or unresolved nation-building challenges.
Ethiopia’s painful reckoning is no longer on the horizon; it is unfolding before our eyes. The #HornOfAfrica needs principled diplomacy, accountability, and respect for international law, not strategic indulgence and impunity.
#Eritrea’s position remains unequivocal: there can be no meaningful dialogue on future relations without an unequivocal renunciation of the threat or use of force and full respect for #Eritrea’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Bandung’s principles cannot be celebrated abroad while being denied when they constrain one’s ambitions.
No geopolitical halo lasts forever. No strategic patronage can erase historical contradictions. And no state can build a durable future by denying others the rights it claims for itself.
And, in one final irony…the narcissistic PP leader reportedly travelled to #Russia carrying his book Medemer, his self-styled philosophy of “synergy,” as though Russia’s formidable intellectual tradition needed instruction from Addis Ababa.
What does Medemer offer #Russia, and what has it delivered to Ethiopia beyond conflict, repression, and regional belligerence? Perhaps Prime Minister Abiy should explain the gulf between a philosophy of togetherness and a governing practice defined by coercion at home and confrontation abroad.
Eritrean Foreign Minister Osman Saleh and Ambassador Petros Tsegay join global and continental leaders in Moscow for the Third Russia–Africa Summit and Economic Forum.
Sputnik Africa Interview with President Isaias Afwerki
Healthy global order must discard "zero-sum" paradigm for cultivation of meaningful ties of cooperation.
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President Isaias Afwerki of #Eritrea is attending the Plenary Session of the Third Russia–Africa Summit, which got underway on October 29 at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow.
The summit is held under the motto “For Peace, Security and Development.”
Sputnik Africa Interview with President Isaias Afwerki
"Respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity are foundational pillars of international law and the global order (past or future)... these are the basis of bilateral and multilateral ties... Partnership cannot conceivably be nurtured when these fundamentals are violated and infringed upon. SOVEREIGNITY IS THE NAME OF THE GAME!"
Eritrea's national unity, the foundation of its strength, is essential to the country's security and development. Eritrea's national charter emphasises national unity as a key element of nation-building. The secular, nationalist government has adopted a policy of nationhood that celebrates the country's diverse cultures, turning them into sources of beauty, strength, and unity. This includes the Eritrean diaspora, which is an important part of these national values and unity, playing a vital role as part of the four fronts. #EritreaPrevails #HandsOffEritrea #DiscoverEritrea #EmbassyMedia
The Prosperity Party under Abiy Ahmed is perhaps the most fragile political party ever to lead #Ethiopia, leaving it highly vulnerable to a coup d’état or even a popular uprising. One of Abiy’s ministers has reportedly remarked, “When dealing with Abiy, you never know whether you are swimming or sinking.”
The Dergu under Menghistu Hailemariam managed to establish itself among the population through terror and its Workers’ Party, while the EPRDF enjoyed a broad popular base and commanded a military and security apparatus capable of controlling the population. Both regimes also benefited from substantial international backing, largely for ideological and political reasons.
Looking at Ethiopia under the Prosperity Party led by Abiy Ahmed today, the picture is starkly different. Not only does his government lack meaningful support among majority sections of the #Oromo, #Amhara and #Tigrayan populations, but the military is battered by prolonged warfare, the economy is fragile and teetering on the brink, and his principal external backer, the UAE, is highly transactional in its relationships.
Meanwhile, the population appears to be just one triggering incident away from a popular uprising.
All of #Ethiopia’s neighbouring countries are either suspicious of Abiy’s government or Abiy is openly hostile towards them.
It is therefore difficult to escape the conclusion that #Ethiopia, under Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity Party, is exceptionally vulnerable to either a coup d’état or a popular uprising.
The question is what is the triggering incident. Because the people who are disgusted by Abiy are too many to imagine.
Abiy Ahmed cannot guarantee the security of the most peaceful sections of his own population, let alone the security of foreign territories that do not fall under his administration.
The killing of Ethiopian Orthodox Christians has become so normalised that it no longer makes headline news and never even appears in the nation’s government-owned media outlets. @_AfricanUnion@US_SrAdvisorAF@antonioguterres@BBCAfrica@StateDept@realDonaldTrump@RealCandaceO
In 2018, #Eritrea, #Ethiopia & #Somalia had opened the door to peace & cooperation across the Horn. They had vowed to respect each other’s sovereignty. @AbiyAhmedAli slam-shut that opening for regional peace and cooperation with his delusional expansionist ambitions to occupy sovereign Somali and Eritrean territories. The world should know who betrayed the promise and is responsible for the chaos going on in the Horn. It is #Ethiopia’s narcissistic leader Abiy Ahmed. The Amhara have an apt saying for what is lost "የቆጡን አወርድ ብላ የብብቷን ጣለች" (In reaching for what he couldn’t reach, he lost what he already had under his arms.”
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ETHIOPIA SEEKS A PRETEXT FOR A WAR IT HAD DECLARED LONG AGO
Over the past three years, Ethiopia’s PM has repeatedly vowed to secure “#sovereign#access” to the #Red#Sea through negotiations if possible and by force if necessary. He questioned Eritrea’s very independence and sovereignty. In doing so, he used state institutions, including , but not limited to, Parliament, state media, and official meetings; not to mention his paid digital media mercenaries. His generals have repeatedly boasted that their war would erase the boundary, leaving neither a sovereign #Eritrea nor its government.
These are not isolated remarks. They reveal a dangerous pattern of threats against a sovereign state, undermining the #UN #Charter, #international #law, and treaties that govern #territorial #integrity.
Abiy’s regime evidently keeps shifting its false accusations: one moment alleging that Eritrea crossed the border, the next claiming that Eritrea arms and supports the Alliance Forces for Survival (AFS). Yet these allegations failed to provide a shred of evidence and remain unconfirmed by independently verified bodies. Such wild accusations cannot substitute for proof and should never be allowed to serve as a pretext for a dangerous and premeditated plan of aggression.
To cover up its wild plans, this PP government is struggling to manufacture “evidence” for a #war its leaders have already threatened publicly. The world must not mistake the pretext for the aggressor’s false accusations for evidence and call this aggressor by its name.
#EritreaPrevails
#StopEthiopianAggression
#HandsOffEritrea
#StopTheWarOnEthiopians