ቴድሮስ/Tedros

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

ቃል ፕረዚደንት ኢሳይያስ ኣፈወርቂ ኣብ ስነ-ስርዓት መመረቕታ መበል 38 ዙርያ ሃገራዊ ኣገልግሎት

https://t.co/lAtB4TQzKO

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

Graduation Ceremony of 38th Round of National Service held in Sawa this morning featuring variety of shows by graduating class. In his keynote speech, President Isaias Afwerki underlined imperative for all Graduates to pursue their academic studies through innovative initiatives.

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

In characteristic fashion, the Potemkin Party's erratic political pendulum is yet again swinging between two extreme positions:
i) A provocative and aggressive posturing that has been accompanied, for over two years now, by incessant saber-rattling to "acquire sovereign access to the sea", on the one hand;
ii) Simultaneous portrayal of itself as the "aggrieved party" and a "hapless victim of internal and external conspiracies", on the other.

This was indeed the gist of the PM's rambling at the House of Peoples Representatives earlier today.

Hyperbole and associated drama aside, the stubborn facts remain the same.

The sad truth is: the unnecessary and avoidable tensions in the region have and continue to be stoked by the very reckless policies of the Potemkin Party. For brief illustrations:

1. The palpable friction with the Sudan squarely emanates from the Potemkin Party's dangerous involvement in the conflict in the Sudan by hosting, under the bidding of certain extraneous forces, a secret military camp and base for the RSF in the Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia. The evidence, which is overwhelming, is already in the public domain.
2. The Potemkin Party's stealthily signed MOU with Somaliland a couple of years ago was another illicit and reckless misstep that aroused consternation in the region as a whole. This act remains in flagrant violation of the AU and IGAD Constitutive Acts as well as fundamental tenets of international law on sovereignty and territorial integrity of States.
3. The Potemkin Party has pursued, for over two and half years now, a toxic and revisionist policy against Eritrea by openly threatening to invade/acquire by any means, its Assab port and coastal areas for what it terms as "sovereign access to the sea".
4. In the event, its frequent reference to "conspiratorial forces disappointed by, and bent on, scuttling the Pretoria Agreement" is as disingenuous as it is untenable. In as far as Eritrea is concerned, the Pretoria Agreement is a purely Ethiopian affair. Let us also recall - the beans have been spilled now by Getachew Redda's multiple confessions - that the Potemkin Party was scheming against Eritrea (Djibouti and Seychelles events) months before the negotiations and signature of the Pretoria Agreement.

In a nutshell, the quest for enduring regional peace and stability that the peoples of the Horn of Africa deeply cherish and deserve has been, and continues to be, jeopardized by the Potemkin Party's delusional policies.
https://t.co/2MuR9MZUna

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

ንዓቕሊ ጽበት ሰልፊ ብልጽግና ዘግሃደ ህውተታ https://t.co/QIVpcPTg2H

[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]

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

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

President Isaias Afwerki and his delegation returned home in late morning hours today after a fruitful official visit to Egypt. Eritrea and Egypt have agreed to enhance their economic cooperation on several sectors as well as coordinate, through periodic consultations, their respective positions on vital regional and international issues of mutual interest.

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

President Isaias Afwerki received, at the Denden Guest House in the late morning hours today, senior Egyptian delegation composed of Foreign Minister Dr. Badr Abdelatty; the Minister of Transportation, Lt. General Engineer Kamel Alwazir; and CEO's of several companies involved in the transport, energy and mining sectors.

The extensive discussions centered on further enhancement of all-rounded bilateral ties of cooperation as well as regional and international issues of mutual importance.

President Isaias underlined the significance of consolidating the all-rounded ties between Eritrea and Egypt to advance the mutual interests of the Eritrean and Egyptian peoples. In this respect, President Isaias expressed Eritrea's readiness to implement common projects in collaboration with Egyptian economic and trade companies.

Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, for his part, stated that the current visit was a manifestation and expression of the brotherly ties of friendship and cooperation that exist between the peoples of Eritrea and Egypt.

The principal purpose of the visit was to further consolidate economic and trade ties between the two countries in accordance with the guidelines charted out by President Isaias Afwerki and President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Dr. Badr noted.

On the occasion, the two countries signed an Agreement on Marine Transport "for developing cooperation in the sector with a view to contributing to the development of international shipping on the basis of the principles of the freedom of navigation".

The Agreement was signed by Eritrea's Minister of Transport and Communications, Mr. Berhane Tesfaselassie, and Egyptian Minister of Transport, Lt. General Kamel Alwazir.

[DNE Africa @africa_dne]

Egypt and Eritrea Ink Maritime Transport Pact, Declare Red Sea Security Exclusive to Bordering States

Egypt and Eritrea are moving to boost economic integration and regional stability following a high-level meeting in Asmara today.

Key takeaways from the visit:
🚢 New Shipping Line: A maritime transport pact was signed to connect Egyptian and Eritrean ports, boosting logistics and trade.
🛡️ Red Sea Security: Egypt's FM Badr Abdelatty firmly stated that the governance and security of the Red Sea are the exclusive responsibility of its littoral states, rejecting outside interference.
🤝 Private Sector Push: An Egyptian business delegation joined the talks to explore partnerships in mining, transport, pharmaceuticals, and fisheries.
🌍 Horn of Africa: Cairo reaffirmed its commitment to the stability, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of nations in the Horn of Africa.

[➊➒➒➊ 🇪🇷 @Meconneno]

On May 6, 1998, the attack on Badme tested the strength, resilience, and unity of our people. It was a painful chapter that reminded us of the heavy price paid to defend our sovereignty, dignity, and independence. Today, we honor and remember the brave martyrs who sacrificed their lives so future generations could live in freedom and peace.

Time may pass, but their courage and sacrifice will never fade from our hearts. We may forgive, but we will never forget.

Glory and eternal honor to our heroes.
#Eritrea #EritreaPrevails #EritreaAt35

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

Press Statement

The Backdrop of Unwarranted Sanctions
Ministry of Information
Asmara, 6 May 2026

"There are reports these days that the illegal and unilateral US sanctions will soon be lifted. We earnestly hope that this act will indeed herald an enduring rectification of misguided policies to ensure justice, legality and fairness".

https://t.co/MBEsiS1lbc

[Ghideon Musa @GhideonMusa]

Press Statement
The Backdrop of Unwarranted Sanctions Ministry of Information Asmara, 6 May 2026

"There are reports these days that the illegal and unilateral US sanctions will soon be lifted. We earnestly hope that this act will indeed herald an enduring rectification of misguided policies to ensure justice, legality and fairness".

Full Press Statement 👇

https://t.co/lPJUX2k3xN

[Ghideon Musa @GhideonMusa]

Egypt Rejects Allegations of Red Sea Access Trade-Off with Ethiopia for GERD Flexibility

An official source, cited by the Middle East News Agency (MENA), has categorically denied reports claiming that Egypt is prepared to grant Ethiopia maritime access to the Red Sea in exchange for a shift in Ethiopia’s stance regarding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).

Reports Dismissed as ��Unfounded”

The source emphasized that the reports in circulation are entirely unfounded and lack any factual basis. He reaffirmed that Egypt’s position on its water security and the GERD remains steadfast and unchanged, characterized by:
* Strict adherence to the principles of international law.
* A firm rejection of all unilateral measures.
* The imperative of preventing any harm to Egypt’s established water share.
* The protection of the comprehensive rights of downstream nations, in accordance with international legal frameworks.

Egypt Rejects Allegations of Red Sea Access Trade-Off with Ethiopia for GERD Flexibility

https://t.co/kPwlWbisGu

[Ghideon Musa @GhideonMusa]

ብኣምሓርኛ ፈኸራ፡ ብኦሮሚፋ ጥበራ
ER MEDIA

ኣብዚ ቀረባ መዓልታት፡ ከም ኣካል ናይቲ “ኣእምን ኣደናግር” ዝብል ዕላማኡ፡ መራሒ ብልጽግና ንወለጋ (ምዕራብ ኢትዮጵያ) በጺሑ ነይሩ። እቲ ከባቢ ማእከል ሓያል ተቓውሞ ስርዓት “ብልጽግናን”፡ ደጀን ሰራዊት ሓርነት ኦሮሞን እዩ። ኣብቲ ተዋስኦ ዝቐረበ መደረ፡ ፍሽለት፡ ተነጽሎ፡ ዓቕለ-ጽበትን ቅብጸትን ናይቲ ስርዓት ዘንጸባረቐ’ዩ። ካብቲ ዝተባህለ - “ካራ ሒዞም ይመጹኻ’ለዉ”፡ “ዕድል ህዝቢ ኦሮሞ ክምንዝዑ’ዮ ድሌቶም”፡ “ዝተጋገናዮ ይኣክል፡ ኦሮሞ ክፈላለ የብሉን፡ ��ደ ንኹን” ወዘተ… ዝብሉ ይርከብዎ። እዚ ነቲ ሓደ እዋን ብቃልዕ፡ ኣብ ካልእ እዋን ድማ ብታሕቲ ታሕቲ ክብሎ ዘጸንሐ፡ “ደቂ ደ��ብ፡ ደቂ ሰሜን”፡ ሴም፡ ኩሽ ዝብል ጸወታ ብሓዊ ደጊሙ ዘረጋግጽ እዩ።

“ብልጽግና”፡ ብስም ህዝቢ ኦሮሞ ክነግድ፡ ተሓላቒ ወካሊ ህዝቢ ኦሮሞ ክመስል፡ ብልጽግናን ህዝቢ ኦሮሞን ሓደን ዘይነጻጸልን’ዩ ዝዓይነቱ ምስሊ ክፈጥር’ዩ ዝጽዕር። ሓጥያቱ ህዝቢ ኦሮሞ ክስከመሉ፡ ምስ ካልኦት ኣሕዋቱ ኢትዮጵያውያን ከራጽሞ፡ ኣብቲ ኣንጻር ካልኦት ህዝብታት ኢትዮጵያ ዝወልዖ ባርዕ፡ ከም ፈልጺ ዕንጸይትን መሕብእን ክጥቀመሉ ይደሊ። እቲ ሕልሚ ከምዚ ዝተጠቕሰ ይኹን እምበር፡ እቲ ሓቂ ግን ብኣንጻሩ “ብልጽግና” ኣብ ህዝቢ ኦሮሞ’ውን ዝተፈንፈነ እዩ። ስለዝኾነ ድማ እዩ ሽሕጣን መራሒ ብልጽግና ኣብ ወለጋ ንእለቱ ዝበነነ።

ሰራዊት ሓርነ�� ኦሮሞ፡ ንፈተነታት ኣብይ ኣብ ወለጋ ብትሪ ዝነጽግን ዘቃልዕን መግለጺ ሽዑ ንሽዑ ኣውጺኡ። ካልኦት ፖለቲከኛታት ኦሮሞ’ውን ብተመሳሳሊ “ዝተሰነዐ ደገፍ” ንምፍጣር’ዩ ዝብል ርእይቶ ሂቦም። ሰራዊት ሓርነት ኦሮሞ ኣብ መግለጺኦም፡ ዓቕምን ቁጽጽርን ከም ዘለዎ ከርኢ፡ ንፍትሓዊ ሕቶ ህዝቢ ኦሮሞ ሰላማዊ መፍትሒ ዘቕርብ ክመስል፡ ምስ ካልኦት ህዝብታት ኢትዮጵያ ጋድማዊ ምትፍናን ክፈጥር፡ ዝሃንደሶ ከንቱ ምውስዋስ እዩ ክብሉ ኣቃሊዖምዎ። ብርግጽ ናይቲ ኣብ ኢትዮጵያ ዘሎ ኩነታት ወድዓዊ መግለጺ’ዩ።

ቅድሚ ቅሩብ መዓልታት፡ ካብ ኣዲስ ኣበባ 55 ኪሎ ሜተር ርሕቀት ኣብ ዝርከብ መደበር ታዕሊም ሙሎ (Mulo)፡ ሰራዊት ሓርነት ኦሮሞ ዘካየዶ መጥቃዕቲ፡ ዝረብሕ ተቓውሞ ከየጋጠሞ፡ ኣስታት ሚእቲ ሚሊሺያ ኦሮሚያ ቀቲሉን፡ ነቲ ቦታ ንሓጺር ግዜ ተቘጻጺሩን። እዚ ንብልጽግና ዘሰንብደ ምዕባለ’ዚ፡ ምስሓብ ሰራዊት ፈደራል ካብቲ ከባቢ ዝፈጠሮ ሃጓፍ ክሳብ ክንደይ ጸጥታዊ ስግኣቱ ዓብዩ ከምዘሎ ዘረጋግጽ’ዩ። ስለዚ ብልጽግና፡ ብኣምሓርኛ እናፈከረ ብኦሮሚፋ እናጠበረ፡ ስልጣኑ ከድሕንን ከናውሕን ኣይክእልን’ዩ።

[Feven Yemane @FevenYemaney]

Miss me with that fabricated probaganda bullshit is the simple and clear message from Eritrea to latest provocation from Ethiopia.

[ⓉⓃ @tesfanews]

Turning Ethiopia into a place that feels unsafe, divided, and drained of hope, all on his own, is not an easy achievement ...

[ቴድሮስ/Tedros @TedrosERI]

How Eritrea Quietly Solved Water Scarcity While Others Struggle https://t.co/SjqcfD4STi via @YouTube

[Ghidewon Abay @Ghidewon]

“In 1905, German orientalist Enno Littmann led what was formally titled ‘The Princeton University Expedition to Abyssinia.’ History, however, tells a more precise and more honest story. The overwhelming body of research, collection, and documentation was conducted in what is today #Eritrea, among #Tigre/Tigrait-speaking communities. The landscapes, songs, folk narratives, and social traditions preserved in the expedition’s monumental volumes are #Eritrean in origin and Tigre/Tigrait in substance.
Had the project been titled with accuracy and integrity, it might have read: ‘The Princeton Expedition to Eritrea: Tigre/Tigrait Tales, Songs, and Traditions — with Nefae wad Etman.’”—@globalezra

https://t.co/RG52cSno1Z

@hawelti @GhideonMusa @RedSeaBeacon @EliasAmare @hadnetkeleta @EmbassyEritrea @DahlaKib @Yehdavid @ytmn2 @SirakBahlbi

[Biniam Berhe 🇪🇷 @biniamb]

Eritrea’s history—from ancient times to the present— is being rigorously studied and painstakingly documented by Eritrea’s own sons and daughters.
https://t.co/ZbDfimdDQ7