Ethiopia, papers have been signed and all hell has broke loose.
A new regional bloc has ALREADY been created on Jan 27, 2020 that flew under the radar and under reported on mainstream media: Horn of Africa Cooperation-HoAC.
Current members: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia
Current international reception has ranged from from unsupportive, negative to doom and gloom. In other words this is not a block that the west particularly wants in existence. But will they engage to stop it?
What do we know so far? 1. The US courting Sudan with better international status and perhaps looking for a TPLF replacement has made many more promises behind the scene.
2. July 9, 2018 Ethiopia restore relationship with Eritrea, July 25, 2018 The US blind sided by such an unexpected move restores $195 million in military aid to Egypt.
3. HoAC is signed Jan, 2020, Egypt receives Dec 23, 2020 $1.3 BILLION in military aid. According to Trump public phone call I can only assume he leaked private conversation in a way he could say "I told you so", but he already knew Egypt would militarily engage Eth.
4. Dec 4, the US orders withdrawal of its troops from Somalia. Expect "unexplained" increased Al Shabab activity destabilizing the region.
5. Month of Dec, the US and western media outlets refuse to recognize the Federal Government of Ethiopias operation in removing TPLF as a legitimate venture. repaints it as war on Tigray, defends TPLF.
6. Sudan moves military to Ethiopian border. For the first time the Sudan president makes public bravado statements although the issue was never new and skirmishes always took place. There is no question that the military aid from Egypt is funding the proxy war in Sudan.
7. Tension between Somalia and Kenya flare up
In other words, all US allies in the region are now actively engaged in hostile activity against the current members of the HoAC.
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Dear western media.
I really have to call you out on hypocrisy and agenda driven biased reporting. Because while you make it a point to continuously point out that Abiy is a failed "Nobel prize" winner taking the country to civil war with constant reruns of Tigray refugees...
and their harrowing stories, you have NOTHING critical to say about TPLF. Nothing of the human rights violations for 27 years, or the illegal monopolistic monetary empire they built in Ethiopia, how they made Ethiopia the top 5 jailers of journalists in the world,
how they won the past three election by over 99%, in fact in 2015, they won it by 100%...not one interview with thousands of maimed, blind, illegally imprisoned. They're not hard to find. For example Birtukan Mideksa, she is now the head of the National Election Board of Ethiopia
The world should know that TPLF in any other ethnically diverse African country is not only ILLEGAL but constitutionally BANNED, yet TPLF has ruled Ethiopia for 3 decades.
Here are some countries where TPLF would be banned:
It's very troubling how adamant we are about holding on to politically revised history that is not true.
The following thread is for those who don't fear being exposed to the truth about the real Amhara.
Together with Hiob Ludolf we will count the Kingdoms of Ethiopia.
Hiob Ludolf, a German historian and one of the leading authorities on Ethiopian history.
These are the accounts of the Kingdoms and their provinces he counted in the 17th century.
001- The first listed is Amhara. He notes that Amhara is at the center of Habessinia, it borders Gonder(Begemder) to the north, the Nile and Gojam on the west, south with Walake and East with Angota. That is the historical and scientific location documented by those where there.
Amhara vs Galla: A short story on the origins of hate.
While it is customary to associate Amhara and Galla to tribes, a lack of historical context has allowed for politics to hijack religious animosity and convert it into ethnic currency.
The two major players that birthed the Amhara/Galla animosity are the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi, other wise known as Gragn Mohammed. In the early 1531 Gragn began an incredible invasion of Ethiopia.
Unfortunately most Ethiopians are unaware of how devastating the invasion was. Ethiopia all but extinguished. In fact, it was nothing short of a miracle how Ethiopia survived. The destruction Gragn laid on Ethiopia was such a blow that it crippled Ethiopia for centuries to come.
Its time to put TPLF and Ethnic-Federalist on the wall and demand answers:
Where is Shoa(Shewa)?
They dissolved Shoa to make the "Oromo State". A nation that has been anointing its own kings for CENTURIES... gone. Destroyed to make way for an "Ethnic" state based on language.
They could have made a proper federation out of all the Kingdoms of Ethiopia, why didn't they? Why choose language as a border marker? Why wipe out a thousand year history? Where is Begemeder(Gonder), why was it crushed to make the "new Amhara" state molded by "language"?
Where is Gojjam, she anointed her kings for centuries and now instead of being a federal state, squashed into the "Amhara" state. If the case is being made that Ethnic-Federalism was chosen to "preserve our history", then, by the Holy Lord, kingdoms not language is our grouping!