Afar people welcome the UAE government's decision to close its so called Assab military base.
According to africaintelligence site the Emirati armed forces stationed at the Assab base in Eritrea since 2015 have discreetly been packing their bags in recent days. Their departure, which is connected Abu Dhabi's decision to withdraw from the conflict in Yemen, could have repercussions as far afield as Tigray.
Well, africaintelligence is not a reliable source because their news stories are usually completely made up out of thin air but if it's true then it should change Afar coastal communities lives, Eritrean Afar coastal communities have traditionally depended on the sea for their livelihood and source for animal protein, However, Since 2015, Afar fishermen have been banned from fishing in their own god given waters, So this is a wonderful news for Afars while it's depressing news for Isaias Afwerki and his restless and already depressed cadres.
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Re: Eritrean welcome the UAE government's decision to close its Assab military base
They may get brief respite until he rents the shores to other armies. Knowing Isaias, he may not let them get back to their fishing shores at all.AbyssiniaLady wrote: ↑17 Feb 2021, 12:25So this is a wonderful news for Afars while it's depressing news for Isaias Afwerki and his restless and already depressed cadres.
Re: Eritrean welcome the UAE government's decision to close its Assab military base
You two dumb a'sses agames the Eritrean Afars didn't fight 30 years fight alone to free Eritrea, or the Eritrean Afar regions.
It is obvious that not a single Eritrean zone or as you call it awraja could have freed their own areas by themselves.
Every inch of Eritrea including our Afar were freed by overwhelming numbers of different zones aka awrajas residents of Eritrea. 9 tribes Eritreans with one ERITREAN HEART sacrificed their precious lives to free each others regions on behalf of the collective ERITREA.
So, shut the fu*ck up with your stupid division crap.
Asmara, Dekemhare, Mendefeta, Afar, Keren, Barentu, kunama and the rest of our people own every inch of Eritrea's land, sea and air.
Saying Asmara only belongs to the Eritreans who live in Asmara is stupid. Because an Eritrean Afar, a Serayan, an Akele, a saho, a bilen, an Eritrean kunama and the rest marched to Asmara after they liberated each other regions together for Eritrea.
So UAE or any other foreign entity being or not being inside Eritrea is not going to change a crap just like no foreign entity was fighting with us when we were fighting to free Eritrea.
Usually you agames are pathalogical liars. But in this instance even though the title of your thread is saying different, you actually are honest to say that the news is not reliable. LOL.
Why would you post an reliable news to begin with?
Again, not that we give a damn if UAE is in Assab or not but wasn't Assab....heck even all Eritrea at the hands of the facist ethiopian leaders in the past?
Stop worrying about the Eritrean people. We all are Eritreans and Eritrea belongs to all of us.
Afar region is inside Eritrea's internationally recognized territory.
It is obvious that not a single Eritrean zone or as you call it awraja could have freed their own areas by themselves.
Every inch of Eritrea including our Afar were freed by overwhelming numbers of different zones aka awrajas residents of Eritrea. 9 tribes Eritreans with one ERITREAN HEART sacrificed their precious lives to free each others regions on behalf of the collective ERITREA.
So, shut the fu*ck up with your stupid division crap.
Asmara, Dekemhare, Mendefeta, Afar, Keren, Barentu, kunama and the rest of our people own every inch of Eritrea's land, sea and air.
Saying Asmara only belongs to the Eritreans who live in Asmara is stupid. Because an Eritrean Afar, a Serayan, an Akele, a saho, a bilen, an Eritrean kunama and the rest marched to Asmara after they liberated each other regions together for Eritrea.
So UAE or any other foreign entity being or not being inside Eritrea is not going to change a crap just like no foreign entity was fighting with us when we were fighting to free Eritrea.
Usually you agames are pathalogical liars. But in this instance even though the title of your thread is saying different, you actually are honest to say that the news is not reliable. LOL.
Why would you post an reliable news to begin with?
Again, not that we give a damn if UAE is in Assab or not but wasn't Assab....heck even all Eritrea at the hands of the facist ethiopian leaders in the past?
Stop worrying about the Eritrean people. We all are Eritreans and Eritrea belongs to all of us.
Afar region is inside Eritrea's internationally recognized territory.
Re: Eritrean welcome the UAE government's decision to close its Assab military base
AbyssinaLady greetings,AbyssiniaLady wrote: ↑17 Feb 2021, 12:25Afar people welcome the UAE government's decision to close its so called Assab military base.
According to africaintelligence site the Emirati armed forces stationed at the Assab base in Eritrea since 2015 have discreetly been packing their bags in recent days. Their departure, which is connected Abu Dhabi's decision to withdraw from the conflict in Yemen, could have repercussions as far afield as Tigray.
Well, africaintelligence is not a reliable source because their news stories are usually completely made up out of thin air but if it's true then it should change Afar coastal communities lives, Eritrean Afar coastal communities have traditionally depended on the sea for their livelihood and source for animal protein, However, Since 2015, Afar fishermen have been banned from fishing in their own god given waters, So this is a wonderful news for Afars while it's depressing news for Isaias Afwerki and his restless and already depressed cadres.
Just for your information, as we speak eritrea is being ruled by a mafia regime, it doesn't give a rats asz about region or religion or ethnicity...etc...
I am of the opinion as an eritrean that most eris would agree with me on such.
Eris do not prioritize their love for their country based on region or religion or ethnicity and just for clarification purpose our afar eri ethnic groups have overwhelmingly voted for eritrea's independence in the 1993 referendum.
Selam
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Re: Eritrean welcome the UAE government's decision to close its Assab military base
kerenite wrote: ↑17 Feb 2021, 17:00
AbyssinaLady greetings,
Just for your information, as we speak eritrea is being ruled by a mafia regime, it doesn't give a rats asz about region or religion or ethnicity...etc...
I am of the opinion as an eritrean that most eris would agree with me on such.
Eris do not prioritize their love for their country based on region or religion or ethnicity and just for clarification purpose our afar eri ethnic groups have overwhelmingly voted for eritrea's independence in the 1993 referendum.
Selam
I don't believe that for a second, Afars have barely been consulted when issues about their land have been decided upon, when TPLF gave Afar land to Eritrea, No one consulted the Afars.
Re: Eritrean welcome the UAE government's decision to close its Assab military base
The [deleted] Agame! You better deal with your ethnic politics. No need to worry about Eritrea. Is that your prostitute mother who told you the lies & fairy tales. You Agames are gypsies of Africa 
AbyssiniaLady wrote: ↑17 Feb 2021, 22:21kerenite wrote: ↑17 Feb 2021, 17:00
AbyssinaLady greetings,
Just for your information, as we speak eritrea is being ruled by a mafia regime, it doesn't give a rats asz about region or religion or ethnicity...etc...
I am of the opinion as an eritrean that most eris would agree with me on such.
Eris do not prioritize their love for their country based on region or religion or ethnicity and just for clarification purpose our afar eri ethnic groups have overwhelmingly voted for eritrea's independence in the 1993 referendum.
Selam
I don't believe that for a second, Afars have barely been consulted when issues about their land have been decided upon, when TPLF gave Afar land to Eritrea, No one consulted the Afars.
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Re: Eritrean welcome the UAE government's decision to close its Assab military base
UAE Dismantles Eritrea Base as it Pulls Back After Yemen War
By Associated Press
February 18, 2021 08:52 AM
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - The United Arab Emirates is dismantling parts of a military base it runs in the East African nation of Eritrea after it pulled back from the grinding war in nearby Yemen, satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press show.
The UAE built a port and expanded an airstrip in Assab beginning in September 2015, using the facility as a base to ferry heavy weaponry and Sudanese troops into Yemen as it fought alongside a Saudi-led coalition against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels there.
But the country once praised as "Little Sparta" by former U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis appears to have found the limits of its military expansion in Yemen's stalemate conflict, experts say. After it withdrew troops from the conflict, the satellite photos show it began shipping off equipment and tearing down even newly built structures.
"The Emiratis are paring back their strategic ambitions and are pulling out of places where they had presences," said Ryan Bohl, an analyst at the Texas-based private intelligence firm Stratfor. "Having that hard-power deployment exposed them to more risk than the Emiratis are now willing to tolerate."
Emirati officials did not respond to questions from the AP. Eritrea, which gave a 30-year lease to the Emiratis for the base, similarly did not respond to questions sent to its embassy in Washington.
The UAE, a federation of seven sheikhdoms home to Abu Dhabi and Dubai, poured millions of dollars into improving the facility at Assab, only some 70 kilometers (40 miles) from Yemen. It dredged a port and improved the dusty airstrip's roughly 3,500-meter (11,500-foot) runway to allow for heavy support aircraft.
The Emiratis also built barracks, aircraft canopies and fencing across the 9-square-kilometer (3.5-square-mile) facility initially built in the 1930s by colonial power Italy.
Over time, the UAE stationed Leclerc battle tanks, G6 self-propelled howitzers and BMP-3 amphibious fighting vehicles at the airport, according to United Nations experts. Those types of heavy weapons have been seen on Yemeni battlefields. Attack helicopters, drones and other aircraft have been seen on its runways.
Barracks on the base housed Emirati and Yemeni troops, as well as Sudanese forces filmed disembarking in Yemen's port city of Aden. Records show the ship carrying them, the SWIFT-1, traveled back and forth to Assab. The vessel later came under attack by Houthi forces in 2016 and the Emirati government asserted it carried humanitarian aid, a claim for which U.N. experts later described themselves as being "unconvinced of its veracity."
The base also aided wounded soldiers by housing "one of the best field surgical hospitals anywhere in the Middle East," said Michael Knights, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near-East Policy who has studied the Assab base.
As Yemen's war dragged on, the Emiratis also used the base for holding prisoners as the Saudi-led coalition faced increasing international pressure over detainee abuse and airstrikes killing civilians. The UAE announced in the summer of 2019 it had begun withdrawing its troops from the war, which still rages today.
"There's only so far that they can punch above their weight, which they do militarily and economically," said Alex Almeida, a security analyst at Horizon Client Access who has studied Assab. "Once they figured out Yemen wasn't worth it for them, they decided, 'We're going to end it,' and they ended it pretty suddenly."
Satellite pictures from Planet Labs Inc., analyzed by the AP, show that decision appears to extend to Assab as well.
In June 2019, around the time the Emiratis made their withdrawal announcement, workers apparently razed structures believed to be barracks alongside the port, the satellite images show. Workers gathered neat rows of materiel just north of the port, apparently waiting to be shipped off.
In early January of this year, another photo showed what appeared to be vehicles and other equipment being loaded onto a waiting cargo ship. By Feb. 5, the ship and that equipment were gone.
The deconstruction included newly built canopies along a new tarmac near the facilities' runway as well. In the Feb. 5 images, another set of canopies that analysts earlier linked to the drones being flown out of the base had been dismantled as well. The UAE has used Chinese-made armed drones in the Yemen war to kill leaders among the Houthi rebels.
Destruction of the drone hangars come after rebels in Ethiopia's Tigray region in November alleged that Emirati drones from Assab had been used against their positions. The UAE hasn't commented on the allegation for which the rebels offered no evidence.
The U.N.-backed government in Libya also has alleged the UAE has flown weapons through Assab on its way there. U.N. experts have accused the UAE among other nations of funneling weapons into Libya amid its yearslong civil war.
Meanwhile, a Ukrainian-registered Antonov An-124 cargo plane flew several flights in late January back and forth to the Emirati city of Al Ain from Assab, according to flight data from FlightRadar24.com.
That aircraft, once linked to the Emirati military, now flies for an Ukrainian-Emirati company called Maximus Air. The firm did not return a request for comment left at its Abu Dhabi office.
Despite the dismantling work, Emirati attack helicopters still have been seen at the base. It remains a strategically important point as well, sitting just off the crucial Bab el-Mandeb strait connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden.
But the UAE may face more-pressing concerns. Since 2019, tensions between the U.S. and Iran have seen a series of escalating incidents, including attacks on ships off the Emirates. Those threats closer to home may take precedence over an expanded military footprint abroad.
"I think what 'Little Sparta' is doing is to keep its powder dry for whatever it needs to do next," Knights said.
https://www.voanews.com/africa/uae-dism ... -yemen-war
By Associated Press
February 18, 2021 08:52 AM
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - The United Arab Emirates is dismantling parts of a military base it runs in the East African nation of Eritrea after it pulled back from the grinding war in nearby Yemen, satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press show.
The UAE built a port and expanded an airstrip in Assab beginning in September 2015, using the facility as a base to ferry heavy weaponry and Sudanese troops into Yemen as it fought alongside a Saudi-led coalition against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels there.
But the country once praised as "Little Sparta" by former U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis appears to have found the limits of its military expansion in Yemen's stalemate conflict, experts say. After it withdrew troops from the conflict, the satellite photos show it began shipping off equipment and tearing down even newly built structures.
"The Emiratis are paring back their strategic ambitions and are pulling out of places where they had presences," said Ryan Bohl, an analyst at the Texas-based private intelligence firm Stratfor. "Having that hard-power deployment exposed them to more risk than the Emiratis are now willing to tolerate."
Emirati officials did not respond to questions from the AP. Eritrea, which gave a 30-year lease to the Emiratis for the base, similarly did not respond to questions sent to its embassy in Washington.
The UAE, a federation of seven sheikhdoms home to Abu Dhabi and Dubai, poured millions of dollars into improving the facility at Assab, only some 70 kilometers (40 miles) from Yemen. It dredged a port and improved the dusty airstrip's roughly 3,500-meter (11,500-foot) runway to allow for heavy support aircraft.
The Emiratis also built barracks, aircraft canopies and fencing across the 9-square-kilometer (3.5-square-mile) facility initially built in the 1930s by colonial power Italy.
Over time, the UAE stationed Leclerc battle tanks, G6 self-propelled howitzers and BMP-3 amphibious fighting vehicles at the airport, according to United Nations experts. Those types of heavy weapons have been seen on Yemeni battlefields. Attack helicopters, drones and other aircraft have been seen on its runways.
Barracks on the base housed Emirati and Yemeni troops, as well as Sudanese forces filmed disembarking in Yemen's port city of Aden. Records show the ship carrying them, the SWIFT-1, traveled back and forth to Assab. The vessel later came under attack by Houthi forces in 2016 and the Emirati government asserted it carried humanitarian aid, a claim for which U.N. experts later described themselves as being "unconvinced of its veracity."
The base also aided wounded soldiers by housing "one of the best field surgical hospitals anywhere in the Middle East," said Michael Knights, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near-East Policy who has studied the Assab base.
As Yemen's war dragged on, the Emiratis also used the base for holding prisoners as the Saudi-led coalition faced increasing international pressure over detainee abuse and airstrikes killing civilians. The UAE announced in the summer of 2019 it had begun withdrawing its troops from the war, which still rages today.
"There's only so far that they can punch above their weight, which they do militarily and economically," said Alex Almeida, a security analyst at Horizon Client Access who has studied Assab. "Once they figured out Yemen wasn't worth it for them, they decided, 'We're going to end it,' and they ended it pretty suddenly."
Satellite pictures from Planet Labs Inc., analyzed by the AP, show that decision appears to extend to Assab as well.
In June 2019, around the time the Emiratis made their withdrawal announcement, workers apparently razed structures believed to be barracks alongside the port, the satellite images show. Workers gathered neat rows of materiel just north of the port, apparently waiting to be shipped off.
In early January of this year, another photo showed what appeared to be vehicles and other equipment being loaded onto a waiting cargo ship. By Feb. 5, the ship and that equipment were gone.
The deconstruction included newly built canopies along a new tarmac near the facilities' runway as well. In the Feb. 5 images, another set of canopies that analysts earlier linked to the drones being flown out of the base had been dismantled as well. The UAE has used Chinese-made armed drones in the Yemen war to kill leaders among the Houthi rebels.
Destruction of the drone hangars come after rebels in Ethiopia's Tigray region in November alleged that Emirati drones from Assab had been used against their positions. The UAE hasn't commented on the allegation for which the rebels offered no evidence.
The U.N.-backed government in Libya also has alleged the UAE has flown weapons through Assab on its way there. U.N. experts have accused the UAE among other nations of funneling weapons into Libya amid its yearslong civil war.
Meanwhile, a Ukrainian-registered Antonov An-124 cargo plane flew several flights in late January back and forth to the Emirati city of Al Ain from Assab, according to flight data from FlightRadar24.com.
That aircraft, once linked to the Emirati military, now flies for an Ukrainian-Emirati company called Maximus Air. The firm did not return a request for comment left at its Abu Dhabi office.
Despite the dismantling work, Emirati attack helicopters still have been seen at the base. It remains a strategically important point as well, sitting just off the crucial Bab el-Mandeb strait connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden.
But the UAE may face more-pressing concerns. Since 2019, tensions between the U.S. and Iran have seen a series of escalating incidents, including attacks on ships off the Emirates. Those threats closer to home may take precedence over an expanded military footprint abroad.
"I think what 'Little Sparta' is doing is to keep its powder dry for whatever it needs to do next," Knights said.
https://www.voanews.com/africa/uae-dism ... -yemen-war
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Re: Eritrean welcome the UAE government's decision to close its Assab military base
Pushkin, Your whole family is a prostitutes that's why you shitfaced animal so obsessed with prostitutes, you grew up in a brothel.
Re: Eritrean welcome the UAE government's decision to close its Assab military base
Hey, you ሙሽሙሽ፡ ረሳሕ፡ ጋዕጋዕ፡ ዑጉም boy, STFU you SOB! There is nothing you can do about the fate of your evil Weyanes. Weyanes are obliterated for good. Deal with it! ወዲ ሻርሙጣ!AbyssiniaLady wrote: ↑18 Feb 2021, 12:02Pushkin, Your whole family is a prostitutes that's why you shitfaced animal so obsessed with prostitutes, you all grew up in a brothel.
Re: Eritrean welcome the UAE government's decision to close its Assab military base
Indeed.......!kerenite wrote: ↑17 Feb 2021, 17:00AbyssinaLady greetings,
Just for your information, as we speak eritrea is being ruled by a mafia regime, it doesn't give a rats asz about region or religion or ethnicity...etc...
I am of the opinion as an eritrean that most eris would agree with me on such.
Eris do not prioritize their love for their country based on region or religion or ethnicity and just for clarification purpose our afar eri ethnic groups have overwhelmingly voted for eritrea's independence in the 1993 referendum.
Selam
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Agame Bi-tch,
In case if you don't know, There are Ethiopian Afars in Afar killil, and there are Eritrean Afars in Eritrea. The border of Eritrea was delineated through the occupation of Italy. The UN recognizes the borders of newly emancipated countries from European occupation after the second world war as newly formed OAU suggested. Hence, every inhabitant within the border of Eritrea voted, including the inhabitants of Dankalia known as Afar Eritrea. Capisci che stupida stronza
In case if you don't know, There are Ethiopian Afars in Afar killil, and there are Eritrean Afars in Eritrea. The border of Eritrea was delineated through the occupation of Italy. The UN recognizes the borders of newly emancipated countries from European occupation after the second world war as newly formed OAU suggested. Hence, every inhabitant within the border of Eritrea voted, including the inhabitants of Dankalia known as Afar Eritrea. Capisci che stupida stronza