๐ช๐ท Eritrea in my blood, God in my heart โ๏ธ | Rooted in culture โข Walking with purpose โข Proud of where I come from โค๏ธ
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แแญแแฑ แแฐแแก แจแ แณแฅแ แญแ แ! - แแฐแณ - November 09, 2026 | ERi-TV Editorial youtu.be/k8YECi9A_6o?si=dHyHโฆ via @YouTube
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'' #แขแตแฎแตแซ แ แแแจแต แแฐแต แแญ''
แแฎแแฐแญ แแซแแ แฅแแชแ - แจแแฆแแแฒแซ แฐแแณแ แฅแ แ แตแฐแซแจแต แฐแชแฃ แแแ แ แแแ แแญแถแฝ แฅแ แตแตแซแดแแซแ แตแแญแแถแฝ แฅแจแฐแแซแฉ แแแข
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Good read "My personal success is my countryโs success." ๐ช๐ท
Fresh off earning his Master's in Sustainability from the Netherlands, diaspora youth Yafiet Fitsum returned home to Eritrea to celebrate his graduation and outline his vision to contribute to national development.
On maintaining identity & fluent Tigrinya in the Netherlands:
"My parents raised us immersed in Eritrea's rich traditions, norms, and valuesโinstilling in us our countryโs history, traditional cuisine, clothing, and our mother tongue... Moments like those make me feel deeply connected to my homeland."
On putting education into practice back home:
"I believe that every skill and piece of knowledge I have acquired ultimately belongs to the Eritrean people... On my next return to Eritrea, I plan to explore opportunities with the Ministry of Agriculture, where I hope to apply my expertise in sustainability."
His message to Eritrean youth across the world:
"We must recognize the privileges we enjoy and consider how we can channel our knowledge, professional experience, and skills toward the prosperity of our homeland... Our education should open doors to serve our country."
Full interview by Kidane Shimendi in Eritrea Profile
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Recent statements by the commander of the Ethiopian Navy during a meeting of the Veterans Association of Military and Police Officers held in Addis Ababa on November 7, claiming Eritreaโs ports are "historically part of Ethiopia", calling Eritreaโs sovereignty as โan illegal divorceโ, and threatening the use of force ignore fundamental realities:
๐น Self-Determination: Eritreaโs hard earned independence was decided by its people and recognized globally in 1993 following a UN-monitored referendum.
๐น Sovereignty: Assab and Massawa lie within the sovereign, legally defined territory of Eritrea.
๐น International Order: Threatening neighboring states for maritime access violates the UN Charter and threatens Horn of Africa stability, creating a further domino effect to the larger continent.
Peace and development are built on respecting international borders and sovereign rightsโnot coercion.
#Eritrea #HornOfAfrica #InternationalLaw #RedSea #Sovereignty
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Deeply saddened to share that His Reverend Abune Lucas, Administrator of the Office of the Patriarch, Holy Synod Member, and Archbishop of the Central Region, has passed away at 94.
Prayer services will take place this Wednesday at St. Mary Church in Asmara, followed by the funeral service on Thursday, November 12, at the Debre Libanos Monastery. May his memory be eternal.
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#Condolences: His Reverend Abune Lucas, Administrator of the Office of the Patriarch, Member of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Tewahdo Church, and, Archbishop of the Central Region, has passed away at the age of 94 due to illness.
Prayer services for Abune Lucas will be held on Wednesday at Asmara's St. Mary Church and Funeral Services later on Thursday, 12 November, at Debre Libanos Monastery.
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Huge congratulations to Samuel Nguse on finishing 4th in the 3K at the World Youth Championships in Dakar yesterday! ๐ช๐ท He showed real talent and endurance in a tough race & to place that high in his first-ever international competition is a big achievement. Keep rising, Samuel!
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๐ญ A House Divided by Its Own Lies: Who Is Telling the Truth on the Red Sea? ๐ช๐ท ๐ช๐น
When a regime builds an expansionist foreign policy on historical fantasy, its own officials inevitably contradict each other on camera. In a striking side-by-side contrast, two prominent figures operating within the federal structureโthe Prosperity Party (PP) Navy Commander and Tigray Interim Administration President Getachew Redaโpresent irreconcilable realities regarding Eritreaโs sovereign coastlines.
๐ Summary of the Clash: Fantasy vs. Hard Facts
๐ด The Navy Chief's Revisionist Mirage:
Claims that the Red Sea, Assab, and Eritrea were historically integral parts of Ethiopia with legal foundations [00:01].
Asserts that Eritrea's separation was an "illegal divorce" that deprived Ethiopia of its legitimate rights [00:15].
Insists Ethiopia re-established its navy not to invade or threaten neighbors, but to "legally and diplomatically reclaim" ports that supposedly must be returned [00:27, 00:42].
๐ก Getachew Reda's Reality Check:
1) Bluntly calls out those in Addis Ababa peddling myths of "ancient sea outlets" sold off or separated as outright fabrications [00:55].
2) Clarifies that across centuries of Abyssinian governance, no Ethiopian ruler or regional monarch ever controlled Massawa [01:09].
3) Affirms the historical fact: over the past 500 years, Ethiopia only administered Eritrean ports for a brief 30-year windowโfrom the forced dissolution of the Federation up to Eritrea's liberation in 1991 [01:21, 01:37].
4) Emphasizes that from the 16th century until 1952, Eritrean ports were never administered under Ethiopian rulersโan inconvenient, bitter truth for expansionists, but an undeniable historical reality [01:45, 02:01].
๐ก Geopolitical Takeaway
๐ฃ The Truth Exposes the Expansionist Pretext: Getachew Reda dismantles the manufactured legal and historical claims used by federal elites to justify claims on sovereign Eritrean waters.
๐ข Inviolable Sovereignty: Sovereign maritime borders are governed by international law and established treaties, not by romanticized historical revisions or domestic political distractions.
๐ต Internal Dysfunction on Full Display: A government whose senior leadership cannot agree on basic historical geography cannot present a coherent policy to its neighbors or the international community.
"You cannot reclaim what you never possessed; history is not rewritten by maritime wishful thinking."
Who of the Two is Lying Here? They Both Work for the Same Abiy Gov't
#Eritrea #Ethiopia #RedSeaSecurity #HornOfAfrica #Assab #Massawa #InternationalLaw #Geopolitics #SovereigntyFirst
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Welcomed Ms. Elena Piriondi, Chief of the Executive Board Branch, and Mr. Robert Stevens for a briefing and exchange on the development of the new @UNFPA Country Programme for #Eritrea. Discussions focused on the programme's substantive elements, strategic orientation, development process and alignment with Eritrea's national development priorities.
The briefing provided an opportunity to review the proposed areas of cooperation, expected results and the framework for UNFPA's continued engagement in #Eritrea. Emphasis was placed on ensuring national ownership, meaningful consultation with relevant national institutions and coherence between the programme's objectives and Eritrea's development priorities.
The exchange also took place against the backdrop of wider UN reform discussions, including system-wide concerns surrounding the proposed mergers of UN entities, institutional restructuring and the broader implications of the reform process for the UN development system.
Issues of particular relevance include the potential implications for institutional mandates, accountability, governance arrangements, resource allocation, country-level presence and the delivery of development assistance.
The importance of ensuring that reform does not undermine specialized mandates, diminish Member State oversight or compromise the ability of UN entities to respond to the distinct priorities and circumstances of programme countries was highlighted.
The UNFPA representatives outlined the next steps in the programme development and approval process, confirming that the new Country Programme for #Eritrea will be presented to the @UNFPA Executive Board in 2027.
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A people forged by challenges, strengthened by struggles, united by courage, and driven by hope. We may bend, but we never break; we may fall, but we always rise. Our strength is our identity, and resilience is our legacy!
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A standout performance from Biniam Girmay (NSN) at the Tour de France EFGH Singapore Criterium: points classification winner, victories in intermediate sprints 1 & 4, and 6th overall, just 27s behind Isaac del Toro. Bini, keep shining. #Eritrea #SingaporeCriterium #Cycling
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Eritreaโs national football team has arrived in Conakry for the first leg of its AFCON 2027 qualifier against Guinea on November 12.
Eritreans residing in Conakry warmly welcomed the team, according to an MOI reporter traveling with the squad. Good luck, Red Sea Boys!๐ช๐ท #Eritrea
People say Ethiopia was never colonized. Then explain this: Assab was already part of Italian Eritrea decades before Ethiopia annexed Eritrea. We fought for 30 years on our own soil for independence. Assab is Eritreaโs Red Sea port. ๐ช๐ท
Ethiopian nation made with a false history.
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In the current international/diplomatic discourse regarding the imperative of adherence to, and respect of, foundational pillars of international law as well as the maintenance of regional peace and security, the following salient facts and sequence of events must be recognized, without any equivocation, as the kernel/principal causes behind the prevailing grave situation:
1. On 13 October 2023, the Potemkin Party willfully manufactured an unnecessary and avoidable crises between the two countries by formally and publicly declaring its hostile agenda of acquiring "sovereign access to the sea", apparently and ultimately through invasion and occupation of Eritrea's sovereign lands. This dangerous declaration constituted a flagrant violation of foundational pillars of international law as well as the Joint Declaration of Peace and Friendship signed between the two countries in Asmara on 9 July 2018.
2. This initial declaration was ramped up in subsequent years through relentless and incendiary media campaigns; associated saber-rattling, and massive rearmament. The scope of the PP's impending invasion was also broadened to include forcible incorporation of Eritrea's southern coastline (see attached map) for the establishment of "a sovereign naval force with strategic depth".
3. The war agenda was further ratcheted up and translated into an operational plan when the PP regime launched its military operations in the Tigray Administrative Region in mid-September this year. Indeed a couple of days after the eruption of the war, the PP's Deputy Chief of Staff announced that "Mekelle will be a mere stop-over... the main objective is to install our flag in the Red Sea".
4. And on 9 October last month, the PP regime went further to ominously "notify the UNSC" on the unleashing of its war of aggression against Eritrea under the spurious pretext of "self-defense".
The writing on the wall is thus crystal clear; eliciting, as it does, unequivocal condemnation as well as requisite deterrent measures in accordance with explicit provisions of the UN Charter and associated instruments.
