Author: saay

The official position of the Government of Eritrea to anything that cries for it to speak out is “we choose to be silent”, a culture that has failed Eritrea over, and over, and over.   This is how a normal government would have responded to Ethiopia’s second complaint to the UN.  This article is also entitled:…

Ethiopia wrote a letter to the UN, TPLF replied to the UN with a cc to everybody else, and Eritrea…posted an X post.   It all started on October 2, 2025 when Ethiopia’s Foreign Minister sent a letter to the UN Secretary General. It was a steaming pile of hypocritical horseshit so dense it would sink…

Imagine at every African Union General Assembly Meeting, every nation rises up to claim the ills of the continent are the fault of the African Union, because it yields too much to its host, Ethiopia.  Yet, that’s what happens, every September, at a building in Manhattan, New York City, NY:  our Foreign Minister addresses the…

Ambassador Sophia Tesfamariam, Eritrea’s Permanent Representative to the UN, addressed the 49th Annual Meeting of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the Group of 77 and China. She emphasized the UN’s founding principles—sovereign equality, peaceful dispute resolution, and territorial integrity—but criticized its manipulation by powerful nations (that’s how Eritrea spells A-M-E-R-I-C-A)  to enforce unilateral agendas…

From the minimal data we have, we can piece together how the Port of Assab fared when Ethiopia owned it, while waging war on Eritrea (1980s); when Eritrea owned it while enjoying excellent relationship with Ethiopia (1993-1998) and how it has fared with Eritrea’s ownership while having terrible relationship with Ethiopia (1998-2018.)  I say “minimal…

After the “border war” between #Eritrea and #Ethiopia broke in May 1998, the Eritrea state media shared private correspondence between the heads of governments of the two States: President Isaias Afwerki and Meles Zenawi. This is a useful reference point as, once again, Eritrea and Ethiopia slowly march to war. But not as useful as…

Religion is a deeply personal thing and how one chooses to worship (or not worship) The Creator is nobody’s business. Moreover, you can’t blame a belief system for all the sins of some of its strict adherents. So this is not about his faith but how he interprets his faith by surrounding himself with people…

In the Summer of 2018, Eritrea and Ethiopia entered into two peace agreements.   One was just the two parties, meeting in Asmara, Eritrea to sign their Joint Declaration of Peace and Friendship on July 9, 2018.   The other was the Agreement on Peace, Friendship and Comprehensive Cooperation Agreement signed in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on September…

The Eritrean Armed Struggle was initiated by the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) and it was brought to successful conclusion by the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF) now People’s Front for Democracy & Justice (PFDJ.)  To establish the continuity between EPLF and PFDJ, the ruling party often refers to itself by the words common to both…

1. Major General Teshome Gemechu is Director General of International Relations and Military Cooperation at #Ethiopia’s Ministry of Defense. He oversees Ethiopia’s military diplomacy, coordinating with foreign military attachés, briefing them on all of Ethiopia’s multiple military engagements (#Somalia, #Tigray, #FANO, #OLA, #Egypt, #Eritrea) 2. He was recently interviewed by Prime Media. Prime Media describes…

“Anything that we can say on the history of the Eritrean revolution, especially the armed struggle for independence, can only be brief, cursory and tenta­tive. At present, Eritrea’s revolutionary history is still dominated by contesting narratives, punctuated by partisan and polemical language.” – Alemseged Tesfai, Epilogue, A Note on the History of the Armed Struggle…

There are only three exceptions when thievery is allowed. And Ethiopia is making arguments for all three of them. 1. Before I address that, I want to take a paragraph to address those of you who tell me ተተሓሒዝካዮ ኣለኻ (you are obsessed) when I mention Abiy. First, I am not innately repulsed by Abiy,…