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@MarioNawfal You just engagement farming.

If the Iranian regime does not accept Trump’s off-ramp, they shift from being the victim to becoming the aggressor

@MarioNawfal You sound stupid.

Fuel shortages hitting so hard that even donkeys are making a comeback. Just a few months ago, #Ethiopians were laughing at #Eritreans in for relying on “old-school” transport. Funny how fast things change… Turns out, when fuel runs out, tradition suddenly doesn’t look so backward after all.

According to the World Bank, extreme poverty is measured as the share of people living under $3.00/day (2021 PPP). Ethiopia’s most recent rate is about 38.6% (2021), placing it around 22nd globally among the highest-poverty countries. This supports data showing Sub-Saharan Africa dominates global poverty rankings. Additionally, the World Bank reports Ethiopia’s poverty rose from 33% (2016) to about 39% (2021), with projections up to 43% . This confirms Ethiopia remains among the most affected countries by extreme poverty. So why is #Ethiopia missing from this list?

The name ‘Eritrea’ was officially introduced in 1890 when Italy established the colony of Eritrea along the Red Sea. The name Ethiopia was established 1931, as confirmed by the constitution under Haile Selassie, which referred to the country as the ‘Empire of Ethiopia. So the modern Ethiopia is younger than Eritrea. Even in 1931 still landlocked country, Ethiopia just needs accept to live with it.

Plaut isn't historian, he is a propagandist. so take his commentaries as such. the connotation is that the timeline for everything begins when Europeans are introduced to it, It is colonial legacy same as the guy who is attributed to have 'discovered America.' European and external sources used "Abyssinia" while Ethiopian rulers and chroniclers had long employed "Ethiopia" in official correspondence and self-reference dating back centuries since the time of Aksum. As a matter of the fact most of the continent was known as Ethiopia as Aksum traded with the Persian, romans etc. Following the decisive victory at the Battle of Adwa in 1896, the international recognition was forced. Italy, British, French and Germans and others signed treaties with Ethiopia, the name on this treaties was Ethiopia rather than what Europeans refered to Abyssinia. Ethiopia is not a joiner but a founding member of UN. the fact is things don't start with european blessing particularly in Ethiopia.

@PeteHegseth Stupidity at the highest level.

Back to the Stone Age.

Humanity is gone. The world is allowing this to happen nonstop.

@MehariTekie1 You did that in 1998 and it only made the Eritrean people more stronger and patriotic.

🇪🇹 should round up all🇪🇷n refugees & send them back to Asmara. There are 450,000🇪🇷n refugees in🇪🇹today. Yes, there are few law abiding asylum seekers but there is no time to decode who's good & who's bad. Send them all to Sawa & let Essu worry abt that. @AsmeraReporter

Abiy Ahmed’s PP cadres sound ridiculous. Every time there’s a new headline, you try to link Eritrea to it, first the Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan, now the Houthis. It’s the same recycled narrative. Are you seriously hoping the U.S. will just accept that and punish Eritrea? How stupid do you think the U.S. is?

Sudan &Eritrea’s regime continues to fuel regional instability. By facilitating arms transfers for Houthi insurgents, Asmara is escalating tensions in the Horn of Africa. The cycle of disruption must end. ​#SecurityAlert #Geopolitics #EritreaCrisis

@YemaneGirum You need to operationally control your brain first. Accept that Ethiopia is landlocked country and it will remain so forever.

This is why Ethiopia took operational control of the Red Sea coastline. Terrorism on the Red Sea will not be tolerated.

These blood vampires continue to kill schoolchildren, showing a complete disregard for innocent lives.

You’re mixing legal terminology with selective history, and that’s exactly where your argument falls apart. First, UN Resolution 390(A)(V) did NOT erase Eritrea’s colonial status,it recognized it as a former Italian colony and created a federation, not absorption. Eritrea retained its own parliament, flag, and autonomy. That means it was never legally integrated as an ordinary province under international law. Second, Ethiopia unilaterally dismantled that federation in 1962. That act violated the UN-backed arrangement. Eritrea’s status changed by force, not by lawful process, so calling it a “self-administered province” ignores the illegality of that annexation. Third, the principle of uti possidetis juris absolutely applies. Why? Because Eritrea’s internationally recognized boundaries were those of the former Italian colony. That’s exactly what the doctrine protects, colonial borders at the moment of independence. You don’t get to erase that by pointing to a later illegal annexation. And finally, your Assab argument doesn’t hold. Assab was part of Eritrea under Italian administration, and therefore part of the same colonial territorial unit. Strategic value or ethnic composition doesn’t override internationally recognized borders. Bottom line: Eritrea’s independence wasn’t about “breaking away from a province.” It was the completion of a decolonization process interrupted by annexation. That’s why the international community recognized Eritrea as a separate state in 1993.

Eritreas last status was not a colony. Resolution 390(A)(V) (1950) established Eritrea as an autonomous unit federated with Ethiopia under the sovereignty of the Ethiopian Crown and later a self administered province. Assab was a separate province under Ethiopias full control because of its strategic port value to Ethiopia and its Afar population. colonial border principle of uti possidetis juris "as you possess under law" does not apply here and cannot be applied retroactively 41 years back to the time Eritrea was Italian colony by bypassing above mentioned facts. Uti possidetis is a principle primarily used in decolonization to freeze colonial administrative boundaries at independence for new states. Ethiopia is independent sovereign state and Eritrea was federation then a province making the application of colonial principles totally inapplicable.

@War_Radar2 I think the UAE kingdom will end soon.

BREAKING: 🇦🇪 UAE REJECTS ceasefire with Iran, demands Tehran’s full threat network be dismantled first. Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba confirms UAE will join efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a lifeline for global oil. Also reaffirms a staggering $1.4 TRILLION UAE investment commitment in the United States. Gulf tensions rising. Global stakes escalating. Source: Reuters / WSJ

It’s heartbreaking to see innocent lives being lost while the world just watches and does nothing. Why is Israel allowed to commit those inhumane acts?

@RobelYeshitla What a dreamer. 😂l 😂😳

The Saudis have a stronger financial and geopolitical incentive to invest in Ethiopia’s new mega airport than in any ports in Eritrea. They are fully aware that Isaias is more of a liability than a reliable investment partner in this rapidly changing region. Moreover, Riyadh has long known that neither the Assab nor the Massawa file is truly settled and can be reopened any time.

@RobelYeshitla She did her job, she helped liberate Eritrea so we can proudly call ourselves Eritrean. She’s truly admirable.”

Eritreans; It's been 34 solid years, how is the freedom going?

Sudan 🇸🇩: in the latest escalation of this war RSF militants launched a major cross border assault from Ethiopia into Sudan's Blue Nile state and seized control of the border town of Kurmuk. This attack painfully demonstrates Ethiopia's increasing role as an ally of the RSF.

@tigraionline Absolutely.

If the Ethiopian government restarts hostilities against #Tigrai and at the same time, it tries to invade #Eritrea to regain direct access to the Red Sea, it will be the end of #Ethiopia.

Israeli forces are present and active in their aggression inside Lebanese sovereign territory. Israel erased the border line and collapsed any claim of Israel’s sovereign legitimacy. At this point, this isn’t an inter-state dispute but an internal one. You cannot claim independence and sovereignty only when it suits you, This is basically what you sound like. Absolutely ridiculous.

EPLF forces are present and active in their aggression inside Ethiopian sovereign territory. EPLF erased the border line and collapsed any claim of Eritrea's sovereign legitimacy. At this point, this isn't inter-state dispute rather internal. you can not claim independence and sovereignty only when it suits you.

@RobelYeshitla @Ilyasdawaleh @Zemedeneh Now you learned how to keep Eritrea out of your mouth. Keep it up, but you should also learn to do the same about Djibouti too. Just accept that Ethiopia is landlocked nation and look for a better commercial access rate. That's it and peace will prevail.

Djibouti and Eritrea exist in strategic terms to constrain Ethiopia. there isn’t viability as extorting transit toll isn’t one.The French created Djibouti out of the Afar and Issa coast to constrain Ethiopia by controlling its access to the Red Sea. Djibouti should have ended with colonialism and its continued existence serves strategic gatekeeping and the constraining of Ethiopia. Earlier Ethiopian leadership made calculated strategic concessions out of necessity, albeit still strategic liability. Later leadership treated that temporary necessity as permanent doctrine, that was shortsighted. The current leadership has both the opportunity and the obligation to end this dependency and convert the inherited liability into strategic asset for future for coming generations. Umer Guile is uncomfortable with the idea of Somaliland- another Djibouti next door with same rent-based economic model that breaks his monopoly and decades of exploiting Ethiopia’s geopolitical misfortune. Before colonialism, the Red Sea corridor operated within an Ethiopian centered political order. French Somaliland emerged from Emperor Menelik II’s mutual recognition with France and subsequent concessions rooted in strategic maturity. The logic was clear. Djibouti existed as a functional maritime outlet for Ethiopia, not as a port divorced from its hinterland. Djibouti survived independence in 1977 by preserving this corridor logic, which sustained its economy, legitimacy and international relevance. Any Egyptian security apparatus presence in Djibouti threatens the very equilibrium that made French Somaliland and later Djibouti possible. Djibouti is a corridor state with non existent productive capablity and Ethiopia is the indispensable hinterland. Diluting this relationship destabilizes both and injects systemic risk into the Red Sea order. Ethiopia must assert this reality clearly, consistently and without ambiguity as long as this former French outpost exists. x.com/WWedelay3389/s…

To Mr. Zemedeneh Negatu @Zemedeneh, Your interview on Gazette Plus is deeply misleading and compelled me to respond. I normally don’t respond to armchair theorists, but I thought you were better informed than that. Indeed, You are free to please a narrative. I am equally free to challenge misinformation. With all due respect, claiming that 🇩🇯’s #ports are « expensive and inefficient » is not serious economics, it is simply a convenient talking point detached from facts. After Ethiopia lost direct access to the sea, Djibouti did not merely provide an alternative. Djibouti built the entire logistics backbone that enabled #Ethiopia’s #economic #transformation. More importantly, how can anyone credibly argue that Djibouti’s port investments are « insufficient »or « inappropriate »when over $10 billion has been invested in world-class infrastructure, including: • Deep-sea ports • Specialized terminals • An electrified railway • Integrated logistics corridors This is not inefficiency. This is strategic infrastructures built at scale and serving not only Ethiopia, but global trade and regional integration. Let me be absolutely clear: Without Djibouti, Ethiopia’s transformation at this scale would not have been possible. Djibouti has been an indispensable pillar of Ethiopia’s industrialization journey. As for the recurring narrative about the « billions paid to Djibouti». I welcome a transparent, fact-based debate with open books and verifiable data. Be my guest. I speak not from theory, but from direct involvement as one of the contributors and witnesses to this exceptional 🇩🇯🇪🇹 partnership journey. And also a great friend and lover of Ethiopia. You may well find that an apology to Djibouti is in order. Djibouti is not a burden. Djibouti is and has been a #strategic #multiplier for Ethiopia. It is time to move beyond misleading narratives and return to facts.