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It's disgusting when a man cries....

Post by Zmeselo » 14 Nov 2025, 08:53

....like a biiatch, after years of threats to smash your face and take what's yours.




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Post by Zmeselo » 14 Nov 2025, 08:58

ETHIOPIA — It feels as if a parallel government is operating in Ethiopia, run by militias that have grown powerful enough to collect taxes from anyone traveling outside the capital. Those who refuse to pay are killed on the spot.

The authority of PM Abiy Ahmed's administration is increasingly diminished and almost limited to the capital, and this has become the daily reality for many people in the country.

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Post by Zmeselo » 14 Nov 2025, 09:17



News | Sudan war
Mohammed bin Salman expected to lobby Trump over UAE role in Sudan, sources say

Saudi crown prince promised Sudanese general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan that he would raise the issue of UAE support for the RSF with the US president, sources say


Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman receiving UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Riyadh on 3 September 2025 (Abdulla al-Bedwani/UAE Presidency/AFP)

By Sean Mathews in Washington and Oscar Rickett

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saud ... n-rsf?s=09

13 November 2025

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/saudi-arabia Mohammad bin Salman is expected to lobby US https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/us President Donald Trump over the UAE’s support https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/uae for the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/sudan when the two leaders meet at the White House next week, multiple Arab and western officials have told Middle East Eye.

The move, which follows a phone call last week between Mohammed bin Salman and Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) commander Abdul Fattah al-Burhan, would mark a rare direct engagement between the Saudi ruler and Trump on Sudan.

Until now, the conflict, https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/sudan-war which has been raging since April 2023, has taken a backseat diplomatically to Israel's genocide in Gaza, https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/is ... ocide-gaza tensions with Iran https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/iran and Syria's entry https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/syria into the US-aligned regional fold.

But the RSF's takeover https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/rape ... -el-fasher of el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, where its fighters have carried out https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/rape ... -el-fasher rape and mass slaughter, has brought the war in Sudan into sharp focus.

The UAE has backed the RSF throughout the war using supply lines that run through southeastern Libya, https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/libya Chad and, increasingly, the port of Bosaso, on Somalia's Puntland coast. Abu Dhabi continues to deny the allegations.

Multiple sources monitoring the war told MEE that their internal traffic showed an information war was already under way between UAE and Saudi-backed social media accounts. Accounts linked to the UAE are looking to discredit journalists and organisations that report on RSF atrocities, while Saudi-linked accounts are boosting the same content.

A Sudanese source briefed on the call between Mohammed bin Salman and Burhan said that the general told the crown prince there was no way the war in Sudan would end without US pressure on the UAE. The source told MEE that Mohammed bin Salman promised Burhan he would raise the issue with Trump.

An Arab diplomat in the region told MEE that Abu Dhabi is anticipating Mohammed bin Salman's visit to Washington to result in such pressure.
He [the Saudi crown prince] sees an opportunity to drive a wedge between Trump and MBZ,
a western official familiar with plans to discuss Sudan told MEE, referring to Emirati President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

The Saudi and Emirati embassies did not respond to MEE's request for comment.

Saudi Arabia and the UAE: Falling out over Sudan?

The 64-year-old ruler of the UAE and the Saudi crown prince, 40, were once very close. Both men run monarchies that are key US security and economic partners. Their Al Saud and Al Nahyan families have also courted Trump directly with investments https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source= ... 4UJj9jAa7m and are especially close to his son-in-law Jared Kushner, who also has business dealings with Qatar. https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/qatar

Almost a decade ago, the UAE and Saudi Arabia engineered a blockade of Qatar and intervened in Yemen's civil war https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/yemen together. Sudanese fighters, mostly from the RSF, fought for the Saudi and UAE-led coalition in Yemen, and Sudanese sources told MEE that a small number of those fighters are still present in Saudi Arabia, close to the border with Yemen.

Diplomats in the region said the Saudis and Emiratis are now more like rivals in Yemen, where the UAE backs a separatist government in the south that is at odds with the internationally recognised Saudi-backed government.

After failing to unseat the Houthis, whose attacks on vessels in the Red Sea boosted their popularity in the region, Riyadh has sought a compromise with the group.

Still, Gulf monarchs are usually reluctant to air disagreements with each other at the White House, current and former Arab and US diplomats said.

Soliciting US support for the blockade of Qatar was an exception that the countries have tried to move past as they mend ties.

But Trump's White House functions differently than others.

The US president mistrusts the US's rank-and-file diplomats, making senior engagement more important. Saudi Arabia and Turkey had to directly lobby Trump to lift sanctions on Syria. Arab and Muslim leaders also pressed Trump in person at the United Nations General Assembly to move forward with a ceasefire deal in Gaza.

The crown prince's decision to engage Trump directly on Sudan is a recognition of how the administration works. But it also reflects the UAE's isolation on the war, experts say.

UAE out of step over Sudan

Egypt, https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/egypt an otherwise close partner of the UAE, is stepping up military support for the Sudanese army, alongside Turkey, https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/turkey as MEE recently reported. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egyp ... -el-fasher
When Egypt and Saudi Arabia align on an issue, you basically have an Arab consensus,
Hussein Ibish, a scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, told MEE.
On Sudan, and other files, the UAE is going against that consensus.
Ibish added that Saudi Arabia and the UAE are more comfortable airing their differences because of a reduced concern over Iran in their capitals.
If they don't feel under threat from Iran, they don't feel the need to cohere on every issue. Therefore, they feel free to compete.
Sudan sits just across the Red Sea from Saudi Arabia, but the UAE has been much more active on the ground.

MEE reported https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/suda ... -trade-rsf in January 2024 that the UAE was supplying the RSF with weapons through a complex network of supply lines and alliances stretching across Libya, Chad and Uganda.

More recently, MEE reported https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uae- ... lf-of-aden on the existence of two Emirati bases inside Sudan, as well as the use of Bosaso https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/insi ... dan-bosaso on Somalia's coast as part of the UAE's supply routes to the RSF.

Sudan's war began in April 2023, when long-simmering tensions between the SAF, led by Burhan, and the RSF, led by former Janjaweed commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, a close ally of the UAE's better known as Hemedti, spiralled into open conflict.

Saudi Arabia positioned itself as a mediator when the war broke out. Western and Arab diplomats say Riyadh saw an opportunity to put a new face on its diplomacy following its bloody intervention in Yemen.

Indeed, Saudi Arabia was so angry at the UAE's intervention in Sudan that at first it baulked at allowing Abu Dhabi into the so-called Quad, a group that includes the US and Egypt and is designed to mediate an end to the war, a former US official told MEE.

The Saudis conceded to the UAE's entry after high-level pressure from Washington, the former official said.

During his call with Mohammed bin Salman, Burhan said that the RSF had turned into a "killing machine", and that it could not have done this without the UAE. The Sudanese general, whose armed forces have been accused of war crimes, argued in the call that the war is not between "two generals", and detailed RSF atrocities across the country.

While Saudi Arabia has positioned itself as a mediator to the conflict, multiple Sudanese and western sources have told MEE that Riyadh's preference throughout the war has been the perceived stability offered by the SAF.

Few US or Arab diplomats expect Sudan to be the main topic of discussion on the crown prince's visit; with arms deals, artificial intelligence and nuclear energy in focus.

Tens of thousands of people have been killed by the war and at least 13 million displaced. RSF fighters have been accused of widespread massacres and abuses, including a genocide in Darfur. The SAF has also been accused of war crimes.

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Re: It's disgusting when a man cries....

Post by Fiyameta » 14 Nov 2025, 09:51

Why do the low IQ Ethiopian mercenaries pronounce the name Eritrea as "Er-Tea-Ri-Yah" (ኤር-ቲ-ሪያ) ? :lol: :lol: :lol: :mrgreen:

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Re: It's disgusting when a man cries....

Post by Cigar » 14 Nov 2025, 10:16

An illiterate Ethio official.while his country and people are fighting and massacring each other with ethnicity, unemployment and fu’cked up life and to try to advice the peaceful Eritrea how to be is laughable.
Man these leaders and their people are the dumbest people in the world.

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Re: It's disgusting when a man cries....

Post by Fiyameta » 14 Nov 2025, 10:27

:P :P :P :P


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Re: It's disgusting when a man cries....

Post by DefendTheTruth » 14 Nov 2025, 13:39

Zmeselo wrote:
14 Nov 2025, 08:58
ETHIOPIA — It feels as if a parallel government is operating in Ethiopia, run by militias that have grown powerful enough to collect taxes from anyone traveling outside the capital. Those who refuse to pay are killed on the spot.

The authority of PM Abiy Ahmed's administration is increasingly diminished and almost limited to the capital, and this has become the daily reality for many people in the country.
You must be a son of the b-word to call others the same.

You act someone knowledgeable of all issues pertaining to others, while the burden of culprit is mounting on your sick behind, you can't have both ways at the end.

Those who are coercing the poor farmers of the country are also supported and agitated by the b-word of Eritrea, giving Ethiopia an ample reasons to act at the time and place of her own choice in self-defense.

If you are coercing the people for ransom, what else should this government wait for?
Other allegiances have shifted, too. In the last war militias from the Amhara region, which borders Tigray to the south, fought alongside Ethiopia and Eritrea against the TPLF. Yet since 2023 those militias, known as the Fano, have been in open revolt against Mr Abiy. In a surprise offensive in late September, the Fano routed government forces in eastern Amhara. The scale of the offensive “sent shock waves through Addis,” says a former Ethiopian official. The Fano probably had help from Eritrea and the TPLF. Commanders from Tigray and Amhara, as well as Eritreans and rebels from Oromia, Mr Abiy’s home region, recently met in Sudan to discuss joint military planning.
Tigrayan and Eritrean commanders are understood to have been in frequent contact for more than a year. On a recent visit to Zalambessa, a border town just inside Tigray, The Economist encountered an Eritrean checkpoint and saw Eritrean soldiers walking freely within sight of Tigrayan militias. Eritrean bank notes were in circulation at the local market. If large-scale fighting erupts between the TPLF and the Ethiopian government, Eritrea is expected to come to Tigray’s aid.
https://www.economist.com/middle-east-a ... nother-war

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Re: It's disgusting when a man cries....

Post by Temt » 14 Nov 2025, 13:57

These idiots can't even pronounce "Eritrea" correctly. Yet they want to steal it when we, Eritreans, are there. LOL! How stupid and ignorant can these leaders be? I feel sorry for the people who are being governed abused by these regimes of terror. And what about the English language? I swear to god these "leaders have not gone to school past the 5th or the 6th grade level! :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: It's disgusting when a man cries....

Post by Dama » 14 Nov 2025, 14:17

I do not think he is "crying". He explained:
1. the nature of Eritrean government and its disconnect with the norms and behaviors of sovereign nations. Of course, he can be asked to support his plausible assumptions with proofs.

2. He also explained Ethiopia's need for a red sea access without which adequate economic growth and meaningful lives of 135million Ethiopians will be jeopardised.

3. Moral imperative is that Eritrea should not deny Ethiopia access to the red sea out of malice nor should Ethiopia use aggression.

Solutions to avoid the sufferings of the Eritrean and Ethiopian people are:

1)Ethiopia can offer land for Asseb as a substitute...Eritrea should not refuse it out of malice just so to hurt Ethiopia's need.
2) Or, Ethiopia can buy Asseb with a price of a current real estate valuation multiplied by a percentile factor that assumes its future value say 50 years or at agreed future number of years.

Eritrea denying Ethiopia access to the Red Sea ownership of Asseb rejecting the above options is malicious. This could lead to unpleasant outcomes. If you have nothing to lose, why should you be malicious?

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