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Oct 5 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
There's an elephant in the room that they're ignoring (perhaps deliberately sidelining?). So many questions. For one, if biased powers ("guarantors") from faraway continents are invited to the table, why isn't 🇪🇷 who has been the victim of these "guarantors" & their HoA lackey?
I don't think anyone can truly understand just how hungry Eritreans are for peace. For proof, look back at images from 2018 - openly embracing Ethiopians; looking/planning forward; actively shifting their energy from doubt & imposed wars to peaceful coexistence & shared growth...
At the same time, however, Eritreans have grown extremely weary of & understandably distrustful of "global" powers that prioritize their own geopolitical interests over regional peace/stability, as well as over development frameworks that anchor the longterm wellbeing of people!!
Furthermore, there's the bit about TPLF not respecting agreements & constantly shifting goalposts. Add to that, "guarantors" that very deliberately lay the groundwork for TPLF to find "loopholes" in binding agreements & look the other way when TPLF flaunts international law...
Long story short, good luck to our neighbours ✊🏿 because peace is priceless & peace is what we all want/stand for. I do hope that they don't compromise on the gentle request 🤷🏿‍♀️ to #DisarmTPLF. The mafia has done some serious damage so this is the least that should be expected...
p.s. Just had an enlightening conversation with a Warsai - those carrying on the legacy of defending/protecting this precious flag 🇪🇷 here - & he reminded me of the incredible confidence that comes w/knowing that "Eritrea is in good hands to see its security concerns addressed".

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Sep 18
Reminder - 🇪🇹 was untouchable for almost 3 decades (meaning the US/West's best friend, no matter how destructive its policies were within the country itself!) as long as it held the noose around 🇪🇷 - a country whose only sin was saying #NoMore, believing: Africa for Africans...
This is why when Eritreans #SayNoMore & join the call to #DisarmTPLF they're doing so b/c every aspect of their lives was affected by TPLF's warmongering in this region & by the US/West hostility & foreign policies that aimed at suffocating our development & peaceful coexistence!
& why every peace-craving Eritrean, especially those most affected by this - those at the border, forced to give up their youth to defend the country from constant threats - will not think twice about the need to support #NoMore & #DisarmTPLF to find lasting peace for all 🇪🇷🇪🇹🇸🇴
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Sep 16
There's an interview with Eritrea's Pres. Isaias where he breaks down the past eight decades into four stretches of time. Understanding each stretch is crucial to appreciating the sacrifices paid, the opportunities lost, the resilience needed to endure, and the strength gained...
...although there must always be forward movement, the knowledge, experiences, and lessons gained from the past must never be forgotten and must inform and serve as guide/compass, when making any plans for the future...
It was his first interview after the signing of the Joint Declaration of Peace & Friendship between 🇪🇷 & 🇪🇹. He placed this new period (post 2018) in a much broader/historical context that includes the now failed hegemonic maneuvering (West through TPLF) for the Horn of Africa...
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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? 🤔
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Sep 15
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!!
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Feb 18
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.
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Feb 16
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 🇪🇷"
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