Good Morning HoA, please remember that the *narrative manufacturing* in favor of one group/country over another that you see happening today isn't new. The West has been at it for decades. The difference right now is that *so many more of us* are aware of the game & fighting it!
Right now we have one common goal - #disarmTPLF & #SayNoMore to neocolonial tools that have held us hostage, deliberately keeping our energy and focus on wars, and even more deliberately kept us from talking/listening to each other & understanding that we're in this together!
...when the dust eventually settles - and it will - we will have ample time to correct narratives, and maybe even reach out across the isle to apologize for misunderstanding each other. Right now isn't the time to argue - it's time to say #NoMore hate, war, division!!
I understand that emotions are high but pragmatism requires sober minds to say "focus & remain focused!" Remember, TPLF's backers, the puppeteers running this show, would love nothing more than to see us divided. Let's stick it to them with a huge neon sign that reads: #NoMore!
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As someone who's familiar with the industrial aid complex & post-conflict reconstruction business, I sometimes cannot help but drive around Eritrea with a “what if…?” cloud hanging over my head. What if it was business as usual? What if we had leaders who settled for crumbs...?
✔️ Country signs declaration of independence at breakfast.
✔️ Country raises flag at lunch.
✔️ Country sings national anthem at dinner.
✔️ ...and before the break of dawn of the next day, development partners swoop in and take over the rest of the nation-building process...
What if NGOs/IOs roamed free with ridiculously high overheads & projects that have nothing to do with stakeholders’ needs & realities? What if the GoSE had handed over the design & implementation of national development plan to external forces in exchange for stale carrots? 🤔
The fact that we have people in our midst that believe there's "nothing to be outraged" by sanctions is outrageous. On moral grounds alone, what right does the US, a country that goes around the globe bombing others, killing/displacing millions, stealing trillions, have?
Plenty has been said about how #sanctionskill - directly and indirectly - no matter how "benign" the language & "targeted" the clauses are. This is said by the people on the ground & the voices/analysts/experts that mainstream media loves to ignore. Again, plenty and fact-based.
So let's just talk on moral grounds. The US of chaos & wars, of economic/political bullies & special interest groups, of homelessness & no health care, of marginalized Black/Brown people, etc etc, has no moral grounds to *suffocate* the victims of its own killing machine, TPLF.
Rolling my eyes, reading statements from different Europeans about what this summit aims to do. Not sure which one is more outrageous - one that injects a comment about "uncontrolled population growth" or one that's entirely based on how to "outcompete China". #notgood4Africa
Africa! I beg you, O! Speak in a united voice! Tell EU that investment/trade is welcome, but not in reaction to or to "control 🇨🇳's spread". Remind EU'ans that their developed countries are stained w/your people's blood. It's now time for Africa to get lion's share, not crumbs!
Most importantly, stick to last week's historic statement - where you condemned "continued unilateral application & enforcement of coercive measures by certain countries as tools of political & economic pressure" & called for lifting "unilateral coercive sanctions imposed on 🇪🇷"