Tesfalem H. Yemane

@SamuelTsegai1 Also, if we follow Yifru's logic, we're downplaying the fact that Ethiopia's rationale for 'offering' educational opportunities for Eritreans was primarily driven by a logic of colonial facilitation. Some want us to take this up as Ethiopia's benevolent offer. I say ኣፍትሑላ.

Majority of African anticolonial leaders were educated in colonial metropoles. If we follow Yifru's brilliant logic, their anticolonial struggles were illegitimate or irrational.

Yesterday we held the final event of the Channel Crossings project, a 3-year ESCR funded research that investigated the UK response to (irregularised) migration in the English Channel. You can read our final report here: channelcrossings.org/home-2/outputs/

We have a poster now! Come join academics and activists involved in solidarity and resistance in the Med, the Channel, the Atlantic and beyond for a one-day conference in Brum ✨ Read more & apply here: tinyurl.com/seasof2026

@Aribanob I agree. In the context of Eritrea, it is the atemporal ascription of 'maryrdom' that is needs re-thinking (not questioning/trivialising Tegadelti's place our in history though).

@THYemane Meanings and understanding to some groups are (context as yourself academics say🫣🫣) situational.

#OppressiveReggime says “We don’t just rule your lives. We rule your grief and memory too”. When #dictatorial regimes like #Eritrean demand public mourning for deceased leaders or officials who were complicit in oppression, it is not about the actual legacy of the individual, but about maintaining control, rewriting history, and reinforcing ideological conformity. Public mourning is a ritual of allegiance, not of grief. The regime uses mourning to test and enforce conformity: people must demonstrate submission not only in action but in emotion. Not mourning (or not doing so convincingly) can be interpreted as dissent. Thought of the regime: #If you mourn our dead, you prove you are with us. If you don’t, you are against us. #Our officials, even in death, are symbols of the nation. To criticize them is to attack the nation. #You will not define our history—we will. Even our failures will be dressed in honor.

💬 "you are too friendly and smiley and polite" Was just one comment made by the company running the Bibby Stockholm barge to staff. Yet earlier this week, the Home Office gave Corporate Travel Management (CTM) an even bigger stake in the asylum industrial complex. 🧵

A war on Brigade N’Hamedu is a war on our diasporic struggle for justice. 6/6

If Brigade N’Hamedu were Russian opposition movements in Europe, we’d be seeing a flurry of solidarity speeches and support, not a concocted terrorismizability of a just fight against injustice. apnews.com/article/german… 5/6

Many European governments (Germany, UK, Sweden, Netherlands etc) move to hunt and suppress the [Eritrean] opposition group, Brigade N’Hamedu, under a tawdry cloak of deterring disorder. 1/6

With Arteta in charge, I think it's safe to conlude that @Arsenal won't win the #PremierLeague.

Our last podcast of the year on refugee-led scholarship is out! Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or on our website. @SohailJannesari speaks to @HyabYohannes and @THYemane quahrc.co.uk/resources/cont…

Statement from @nrc_norway @NRC_Egeland Sudan’s conflict has triggered the largest displacement crisis in the world with 11 mil+ uprooted within the country, & 3 mil outside it. An estimated 24 mil are in acute need of food, incl 1.5 mil "on the edge of famine." #keepeyesonsudan

@alison_phipps @Multi_Ling_Mat @HyabYohannes @Tawona_Sithole Huge congratulations to the team.

Books - A Thread on some of the new and forthcoming publications from @Multi_Ling_Mat enduringly brilliant list. 1. Well, we've a new book out, open access, so I'm going to be proud of the leading work of @HyabYohannes and @Tawona_Sithole here.

@wawisloyola @SoGLeeds Many congratulations, Laura.

@SamuelTsegai1 So, what does Isaias do to help Egypt advance its geostrategic interests in the region? Until recently, he was close friend with Abiy and mortgaged our youth for his personal goals. Could you also characterise this as two states forging alliance against a common threat?

@THYemane Egypt obviously has Nile water related interest to advance. Eritrea and Somalia have a neighbor which openly threatens their sovereignty and territorial integrity, and both countries seem to believe an alliance with Egypt would serve as a deterrence.

For the admirers of Isaias' 'Eritrea is not for sale', here he is, signing Eritrea's status as Egypt's vassal state in the HoA. Quite a turn from exchanging rings with Abiy to El-Sisi's errand boy. shabait.com/2024/10/10/pre…

@SamuelTsegai1 And I think I've tried to explain how I read it. You might disagree with my interpretation but you've to also tell why we should see this just as a normal IR practice b/n states. What do you think is Egypt up to in the HoA, & what does it offer Eritrea ( not Isaias)?

@THYemane I think the burden of proof is on you. You boldly pronounced your interpretation, which may or may not be true, and I asked you the basis of your interpretation.

@SamuelTsegai1 On what basis do you see then Isaias & Egypt entering into an alliance if he doesn't have anything to offer (Eritrea's spaces or being a proxy) to Egypt? Yes, he does have some political agency in all of this, but it's more of a petty & self-serving rentierism, I think.

@THYemane What you are saying now is different and I generally agree with this. However, in your original post, you claimed Isaias is turning Eritrea into an Egyptian vassal state, an interpretation which I asked you to provide the basis for.