Reading from a teleprompter on Ethiopia's TV yesterday, the Potemkin Party's Prime Minister disparages Eritrea's economic development, and particularly its manufacturing sector, as "stagnant and in decline" since its independence in 1991.
The speech/interview was also laced with his three-year old threats of war of aggression and invasion unless Eritrea succumbs to his delusional projects of "sovereign access to the sea" and "Ethiopian naval presence" in Eritrea's coastal territory; packaged this time round in different pretexts, language, and format.
To revert to his disparaging discourse on Eritrea's economic performance and potential:
1. In the past 35 years, Ethiopia was the beneficiary of a whopping 80-90 billion US dollars of international multilateral and bilateral assistance;
2. Ethiopia went through two rounds of WB sponsored debt-cancellation rounds, as well as repetitive financial bailouts from the IMF and other donors. For almost ten years in -between, Ethiopia's dire humanitarian conditions were alleviated by the international community under a customized "social safety net" and other similar "intensive care" financial antidotes.
3. The current regime itself has received over 30 billion US dollars in international assistance in the last 8 years alone. In addition, its tattering economy is being resuscitated by another IMF bailout programme to the tune of 3.1 billion US dollars.
4. And yet, as the figures below illustrate, more than 68% Ethiopians are living under extreme poverty while close to 30 million people require urgent humanitarian relief assistance at this point in time.
5. In as far as the 300 manufacturing plants that the PP leader alludes to, these were old factories built during Italy's colonization of Eritrea from 1889 until 1941. The British Military Administration dismantled many of those factories - including the dock in Massawa - as "war booty" and sold them to other foreign countries. The occupationist Haile Selassie regime, in its turn, dismantled many of the remaining factories and transferred them to Ethiopia especially during the imposed "Federation" period.
6. After its hard-won independence in 1991, Eritrea registered rapid economic growth in the first seven years (WB reports). Imposed wars and unwarranted sanctions thereafter naturally affected the pace and magnitude of its economic trajectory.
7. These externalities have nothing to do with Eritrea's open investment and economic policies and visions.
8. And in any case, Eritrea has the abundant economic endowments (blue economy, extractive industry, educated and industrious human capital, and a civilized culture that celebrates religious and ethnic diversity within robust national unity) to excel and achieve its aspirations of rapid and sustainable growth in a conducive and enduring regional climate of peace and stability.
9. Finally, Ethiopia itself could do much better, extricate itself from debilitating dependency, and use its abundant resources for real development if its leaders abandon sectarian policies of division and polarization that incubate perennial cycles of internal turmoil as well as intertwined acts of regional destabilization in pursuit of delusional and expansionist projects.
Dear @BislaDiksha, as an advent follower of WION, I felt your recent reporting on the conflict in northern #Ethiopia was completely slanted. Let me break it down;
📍your reporting was 100% reverberated Ethiopia’s government argument while completely negated the argument of the other side. Did you read the other side argument before you decided to jump in for the task?
📍you stated “1000s of #Eritrea troops are in Ethiopia”. My question for you is, do you have proof? or your reporting was completely based on @MFAEthiopia allegations? If you have no proof, then it is “allegations”. Which is nothing is substantiated. And yet, you insinuated as if it is a founded fact.
Again, The Horn of #Africa needs peace. But as a media personality, you have an obligation not to play with innocent people & their lives. Thank you!
@StateDept@EUSR_Weber@antonioguterres@US_SrAdvisorAF@MFA_China@mfa_russia@MFAEgOfficial
#Tigray Defense Forces (#TDF) released new footage reportedly showing captured #Ethiopian army (ENDF) soldiers.
#ENDF units in Zalambessa and Adigrat reportedly withdrew to Idaga Hamus, while troops in Ahsea are said to have retreated to Adwa.
BREAKING NEWS:
#TDF has captured 23 military cargo trucks loaded near Abi Adi and in the surrounding districts of Mekele City just this afternoon.
May you live long and go forward, mighty #TDF ✊🏾
In an interview with CGTN, the unhinged and mercurial Getachew Redda resorts to his stock in trade: dwell on utter falsehoods to accomplish the specific task to which he is assigned at a given point in time.
His political allegiance has shifted from one extreme to the other in the past three years; (He is even on record for saying that when he is tipsy, he is in favor of Tigray's independence).
The link below enumerates some of the outlandish and disparaging labels he used to describe the Potemkin Party, and especially its leader; to whom he is aligned to now.
As it is, his current diatribe against Eritrea falls in the same mold; the cheap mutterings of a notorious hireling!
https://t.co/PnohQ4GGil