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We overcame, lest we forget, 18 years of hegemonic brouhaha to usher in a new era of peace.





And let no Oscars, Nobels or other trophies or angelic sounding colonial messengers put asunder what we have bonded with much effort skill and sacrifice.

Amen!

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Peace in Ethiopia, Eritrea and All Africa: Congratulations PM Abiy Ahmed and President Isaias Afewerki!

Posted by almariam

http://almariam.com/2019/10/13/peace-in ... -afewerki/

The guns silenced, the suffering people of Ethiopia and Eritrea may now speak, shout out, that the two countries hereafter

shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.

Witnessing swords beaten into plowshares is a source of great joy for me. — Alemayehu G. Mariam, “Blessed are the Peacemakers http://almariam.com/2018/06/10/memorand ... -ethiopia/ in Ethiopia”, June 20, 2018

Today is Ethiopia’s finest hour upon the world stage. PM Abiy Ahmed winning the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize is one small step for Ethiopia and one giant leap for Africa. Give peace a chance. Dona nobis pacem (“Grant us peace”). Alemayehu G. Mariam, October 10, 2019, Twitter message: http://almariam.com/2019/10/13/peace-in ... %E2%80%9D).



Nobel Peace Prize for beating swords into plowshares, and spears into pruning hooks

The Nobel Peace Prize Committee announced H.E. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is awarded the 2019 Peace Prize

for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation and in particular his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighboring Eritrea. When Abiy Ahmed became prime minister in April 2018, he made it clear to resume peace talks with Eritrea in close cooperation with Isaias Afeworki, President of Eritrea. Abiy Ahmed quickly worked out the principles for a peace agreement to end the long no-peace, no-war stalemate between the two countries…

I congratulate H.E. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and H.E. President Isaias Afeworki for creating peace between Ethiopia and Eritrea and ending a 20-year no-peace, no-war situation between their countries.

The fast pace of peace began in June 2018.

PM Abiy made a surprise game-changing announcement https://www.addisherald.com/ethiopia-sa ... ed-border/ that Ethiopia will comply fully with the Ethio-Eritrea Boundary Commission’s Decision. https://www.usip.org/sites/default/file ... 122000.pdf

All that we have achieved from the [stalemate with Eritrea] situation of the last 20 years is tension. Neither Ethiopia nor Eritrea benefit from a stalemate. We need to expend all our efforts towards peace and reconciliation and extricate ourselves from petty conflicts and divisions and focus on eliminating poverty.

In July 2018, he made a historic official state visit to Eritrea and finally broke the ice.

PM Abiy received a reception fit for a rock star

in Asmara.

After his three-day meeting with President Isaias, PM Abiy announced [auth. translation]:

We have agreed

to have our airlines and ports to start working, our people to exchange [freely], our embassies to open and for us to come to Asmara with our families on the weekends and enjoy ourselves. Eritreans can come and visit their families in Ethiopia. The rest of the little items on the agenda we will solve by tearing down the border wall and building bridges. We have torn down the wall at the border and are building a bridge over it.

He said his core message

to the people of Eritrea is

Medemer: (synergistically come together as force multipliers for each other). If we [engage in] medemer, we could surmount all [our challenges]. We have a broad range of opportunities in Northeast Africa. We have amazing people who are brothers. What we need is to abandon hatred and come together in love in medemer. http://almariam.com/2019/03/07/the-prax ... of-africa/

Following PM Abiy’s visit, President Isaias traveled to Addis Ababa where the people gave him a reception

fit for a rock star.

In his Millennium Hall speech,

President Isaias said [auth. translation]:

I wish to express the happiness I feel as I bring the greetings, love and good wishes of the Eritrean people to you. I wish to congratulate you on the historic change you have achieved. Within the framework of our traditional and historic mutually beneficial relationship, we have defeated the conspiracy of those who sought to foster hatred and revenge among us. We are fully determined to now focus on development, prosperity and stability and march forward together in all fields of endeavor. Who, who will dare to ruin our love, sow discord and instability among us, damage us or thwart and destroy our development and progress? We will not allow anyone to [get in our way]. Together, we will recover our losses, work hard together and achieve victory. We will strive for a better future. I am certain of it.

In just a few meetings, the two leaders managed to dissolve the hardened enmity that had kept their countries apart for 20 years.

Waging peace was much easier than waging war.

For two years (1998-2000), the only sound that was heard between the two countries was the

crash of guns, the rattle of musketry and the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

For the next 20 years, in a no-peace, no-war situation, all that could be heard was the mournful silence of the thousands of young men who became dust in the battlefields of Zalambessa, Bure and elsewhere.

Families on both sides of the border suffered enforced separation. They were prevented from even attending funerals. All they could do was watch from a distance in sadness and despair.

There were mass expulsions and deportations of ethnic Eritreans from Ethiopia in flagrant violation https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/cgi/vie ... text=ncilj of international human rights conventions.

Ethiopia could no longer access the ports of Assab and Massawa and had to seek less favorable alternatives.

Eritrea could not access Ethiopian markets and imports.

The U.S. put Eritrea on the list of countries not cooperating with its anti-terrorism efforts followed by U.N. sanctions. https://www.voanews.com/africa/us-draws ... error-list

The Ethio-Eritrea border became a theater of no-war and no-peace, and indeed a theater of the absurd.

Fear and loathing characterized the relationship between the two countries for twenty years.

When the two-decade old no-peace, no-war status quo came to an official end in Bure and Zalambessa on September 11, 2018, I was present as an eyewitness.

I was supremely honored to accompany PM Abiy and President Isaias at the borders between Ethiopia and Eritrea. The historic moment https://almariam.com/2019/09/11/9-11-a- ... d-eritrea/ occurred at Bure, a desolate arid landscape with little vegetation on the border between Ethiopia and Eritrea and Zalambessa, a town located in Tigray region on the Ethio-Eritrean border.


The March for Peace — 9/11/18

I witnessed as the invisible wall of hate, suspicion and revenge came tumbling down and the foundation was laid for a new bridge to reconnect the two peoples for ages to come.

That was a crowning achievement for the two leaders.

Peace between the two countries would not have been possible but for the extraordinary hard work, goodwill, good faith and good offices of the two leaders.

The border opening event was also a moment of sober reflection and great expectation for me.

If ever someone had told me I would be present at the opening of the border between Ethiopia and Eritrea, I would have had that person involuntarily committed for psychiatric observation.

There were many poignant moments that gave me pause for reflection.

As I saw PM Abiy and President Isaias walking side by side on the dusty road in Bure to bury the hatchet at the border, I came to understand the futility and absurdity of war.

Is war ever necessary?

I remembered the lines from Robert Graves: https://www.bartleby.com/120/19.html

To you who’d read my songs of War
And only hear of blood and fame,
I’ll say (you’ve heard it said before)
“War’s Hell!”

It must have been hell in Bure

in February 1999. No one knows for sure how many died in that parched wasteland.

How many were buried or left abandoned in the trackless sand and turned to dust?

Bure is a surreal place. It reminded me of the sun-scorched Death Valley desert in Eastern California.

I tried to imagine the thousands from both sides who died in that desolate desert and their surviving families and loved ones.

What was gained for all the lives lost, for the broken bones and mangled and maimed bodies?

I paused to look for evidence of enmity between the people of Ethiopia and Eritrea in the rocks and sands of Bure.

Dead men speak never. But if only the rocks could speak. What horrors they would have related?

The sands of time speak only in the hourglass and rocks are stone deaf.

I remember a special moment when we were all walking to the ceremonial event venue in Zalambessa.

As I looked back, thousands of people were following them at a distance.

I paused for a moment and asked myself, “Who is really leading this march for peace? Are the people leading the leaders from behind or the leaders leading the people from the front?”

There was no question in my mind that the people were leading the leaders to peace from behind, thousands strong. The two leaders and their officials were being shepherded by the people.

I lapsed poetic.

How beautiful to see the sheep finally herding their shepherds!

If the two leaders for any reason had wanted to change their minds that day and decided not to go through with it, could they have done so?

I had agonized over the Ethio-Eritrean conflict for a very long time because I have always believed the two people are one and the same.

Kings, princes, presidents, prime ministers and even colonial powers had reasons to divide the two peoples.

I agonized because untold numbers of Ethiopians have died defending Eritrea and untold number of Eritreans have died defending Ethiopia.

If only the dead could speak.

I always hoped (to a point of conviction) peace will reign between Ethiopia and Eritrea in the not too distant future.

But often, my hopes for peace were dashed.

Hope crushed to earth has risen in Ethiopia.

My dream of PEACE for all Ethiopians

In my July 22, 2012 commentary entitled my “Dream of an Ethiopia at Peace”, http://almariam.com/2012/07/22/dreams-o ... -in-peace/ I wrote:

No individual leader or single organization in Ethiopia can take on the enormous task of uniting the people. It is the task of all leaders of political organizations, faith institutions, civic associations, youth and women’s groups and others to inspire the people to come together, to unite and to dream together about a new Ethiopia where no one shall again experience the oppression of one by another. It is impossible to unite the people without detoxifying the conversation and abandoning the obsession about one man. To do what Madiba did in South Africa, we must commit to the important task now, and that is “uniting the people of our country.”

I concluded:

But before rushing to judge me harshly or kindly, forget not that I am just a utopian Ethiopian.

Some men see things and say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’

Why not dream of Ethiopia with her children at peace? Why not outdream each other about what is possible, viable and attainable in beautiful Ethiopia? Let us all become utopian Ethiopians! Why not?

My dreams are coming true before my eyes.

I shall prophesy that Abiy Ahmed will bring peace to Ethiopia, and like the sun Ethiopia shall rise over the African horizon.

In my January 2017 commentary, “Dare to Dream With Me http://almariam.com/2017/01/01/dare-to- ... a-in-2017/ About the New Ethiopia in 2017”, I cited Scripture,

Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,… [and] see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.

This old man had 17 dreams for Ethiopia.

No. 1 on his list: “I dream of ONE Ethiopia at Peace.”

Thomas Hobbes opined the rule of human existence in the state of nature was

the war of all against all.

In two countries that were one for eons, with their civilization that goes back for thousands of years, the rule should be “the peace of all for all.”

Ethiopia and Eritrea shall know peace because that is their common destiny. Peace is the common destiny of the countries of the Horn.



Paraphrasing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ethiopia and Eritrea and all the countries in the Horn of Africa and beyond

must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Abiy Ahmed: Our man for all seasons

In my October 8, 2018 commentary, http://almariam.com/2018/10/08/abiy-ahm ... f-medemer/ “Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s Youth and the Power of Medemer”, I wrote Abiy Ahmed is Ethiopia’s “man for all seasons”.

In that commentary, I reviewed http://almariam.com/2018/10/02/ethiopia ... days-make/ his extraordinary achievements of the preceding past six months since he took office.

I waxed poetic:

He brought us the sun and flowers after 27 years of darkness and gloom.
He brought back the lost rainbow to our rainbow nation.
Today, the stormy skies over the Ethiopian rainbow nation have turned azure and we can see clearly over the horizon.
And what difference did Abiy Ahmed make in 180 days?
Abiy Ahmed made a difference not by changing Ethiopia but by changing the hearts and minds of Ethiopians.

I concluded that commentary as follows,

Here is a man who has been in office less than six months and the world is touting him as a strong candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.

On October 10, 2019, I am happy to say,

Our man for all seasons is the 2019 Nobel Laureate for Peace.

As I celebrate this great occasion with the people of Ethiopia and Africa, I have not forgotten.

I remember the past 27 years of tears in Ethiopia.

I remember those who who stood up for human rights, equality, justice, democracy and the rule of law, but are not around to enjoy this moment of honor for Ethiopia.

The Peace Prize is for them too.

I remember the long years I felt deep despair and concluded Ethiopia must be a cursed nation, the damned and wretched of the earth. http://almariam.com/2015/10/04/why-cant ... ike-ghana/

I cannot remember how many times over the years I read Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/ ... -mens-eyes

And troubled deaf heaven with my bootless cries.

Now, I have learned

Weeping may stay for the night (for 27 years) but rejoicing comes in the morning (18 months).

After a 27 year-long night of weeping and mourning, it is morning time in Ethiopia as the sun is rising over a Rising Ethiopia. http://almariam.com/2018/05/27/memorand ... hall-rise/

Let us rejoice and make sure to count our blessings!

Afterthought: On July 30, 2019, as part of PM Abiy Ahmed’s reforestation campaign named “Green Legacy”, Ethiopia planted more than 353 million trees https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/29/africa/e ... index.html in 12 hours.

What better weapon to fight climate change?

Next stop: Climate Change Leadership Award for PM Abiy?

CONGRATULATIONS TO PM ABIY AND PRESIDENT ISAIAS!

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL ETHIOPIANS, ERITREANS AND AFRICANS!

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Ugum shabo wants to be Nobel Peace Prize winner

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One more evidence of your ignorance/illiteracy & above all UNERITREANNESS!

You exposed your ugly naked self, this time.

The medal wrapping the Eritrean wrist is not THE NOBEL, you piece of shít..

It's our emblem, you caca.

They can shove the Nobel in Norway's behind, as far as Eritreans is concerned.

Ugum shabo wants to be Nobel Peace Prize winner

No prize for you, savage Agame boy.
Read more: https://eastafricamonitor.com/as-abiy-w ... he-shadows

This is what I wrote, just under that pic.

And let no Oscars, Nobels or other trophies or angelic sounding colonial messengers put asunder what we have bonded with much effort skill and sacrifice.

Amen!

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National Service: Synopsis of Underlying Rationale and Past Trajectory



Monday, 14 October 2019

Written by shabait Administrator

http://www.shabait.com/categoryblog/294 ... rajectory-

Underlying Rationale

The Government of Eritrea enacted the law on National Service in 1992, in the immediate aftermath of the country’s independence after a tortuous, three-decades long, war of national liberation. The original law was further amended in 1995 and enacted as Proclamation 82/1995.

The overarching reasons for launching the National Service Programme were profound and multi-faceted. The wider objective was prompted by and encompassed security, developmental, cultural, educational and nation-building considerations and dimensions.

In regard to security, the exigency of charting out a comprehensive demobilization programme of the relatively large liberation army was evident from the outset. The liberation army consisted of over 100,000 freedom fighters – with varying levels of education and professional expertise – at the time of independence. This was necessary, as the EPLF had to confront and vanquish sub-Saharan Africa’s largest army.

This configuration had to change in view of the new regional reality. Eritrea was not only independent but it had also forged new ties of friendship and cooperation with Ethiopia and with all its neighbours in the Horn of Africa and Middle East region in the new climate of peace. The prospect of new or renewed hostilities was not, thus, looming on the horizon or contemplated, even as worst-case scenario, in the calculus of policy makers in the region in those promising times.

In the event, Eritrea’s security architecture and military doctrine were mapped out on the basis of minimal defense expenditure to build and sustain a very small professional army. In this spirit, 65% of the freedom fighters were demobilized between 1992/3 within the framework of a remuneration package that was limited to cash payments without associated training and credit components.

The National Service was conceived in this context; merely as a long-term contingency plan to búttréss a small, professional army, in the event of war, improbable as it seemed in those times although not entirely inconceivable in abstract terms in the distant future. In brief, this was really a residual option whose actual application was more abstract and hypothetical than concrete and real.

As intimated above, security considerations were merely one component within the much wider objectives and features of National Service. Indispensable contribution to nation building was a more important and urgent element as National Service entrants were expected to render 12 months (after six months of military training) public service in critical sectors of development in the nascent nation.

Fostering national cohesion within the social setting of a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic nascent nation was another objective whose fruits were distinctly illustrated in the decades that followed. The reality was National Service had become a melting pot where the youth in the same age group from different ethnic groups and socio-economic status mingled and shared transformative experiences for the entire 18-months duration of National Service of their specific group.

Past Trajectory

In the subsequent years too, when the duration of high school education was extended from 11 to 12 years and all 11th grade graduates went to Sawa both for the four-months long military training and 8 months of education and examination for the National High School Leaving Certificate (University admission exams), the National Service became a useful tool for educational standardization.

In the early six years until the eruption of war with Ethiopia in May 1998, the National Service programme functioned seamlessly in accordance with the explicit statutory provisions in terms of its duration as well as the obligations and rights of NS members.



When Ethiopia declared war against Eritrea in May 1998 and unleashed a huge force of invasion, the non-active members of the National Service had to be recalled and mobilized.

The Government of Eritrea launched a second phase of demobilization in September 2001 following the UNSC-guaranteed Algiers Peace Agreement between the two warring parties. This was done long before the announcement of the Arbitral Award of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission, which was in fact delivered on 13 April 2002. Eritrea had wrongly assumed that the internationally guaranteed arbitral award would be strictly accepted and adhered by both parties; especially since there were explicit clauses in the Algiers Agreement that provided for imposition of punitive measures by the UNSC against the recalcitrant party.

But Ethiopia rejected the EEBC decision, formally and without equivocation, in September 2003 after obstructing implementation of the Award for more than a year through various dilatory tactics. As it happened, the then Prime Minister wrote an ignominious letter to UN Secretary General stating that Ethiopia cannot accept what he termed as the “unfair, unjust and irresponsible” Award of the Arbitral Body.

Ethiopia’s reckless action and flagrant violation of international law should have elicited appropriate punitive action by the UNSC. But this never happened as the US used its diplomatic clout and leverage to block any lawful action.

In the circumstances, the GOE had no option but to extend the duration of the National Service. The subsequent 16 years until Ethiopia’s full and unequivocal acceptance of the EEBC decision in June last year, was a period of intermittent provocations and military assaults by the TPLF regime against Eritrea and the resultant situation of permanent regional tension.

This imposed reality entailed onerous obligations to members of the National Service and to the Eritrean people as a whole. Eritrea’s earnest determination and drive to funnel all its resources, energy and time towards nation-building and development – after thirty years of war – could not but be adversely affected in spite of the GOE’s desire not to be entangled in and be kept hostage by Ethiopia’s policies of pronounced belligerence and “regime change”.

Some of the negative economic consequences included a total freeze in the salary of all Civil Servants, and a nominal and uniform pay to all National Services members irrespective of seniority and academic/technical qualification. Prolongation of National Service beyond its 18-months statutory limitations also entailed other restrictions, including derogation of the right to travel abroad etc.



The adverse conditions notwithstanding, the GOE continued to periodically take various measures to mitigate the hardship. For women, National Service was usually limited to few years and not beyond the age of 27. Marriage was another factor that women could invoke for demobilization. All national service members were allowed to travel abroad for educational and compelling medical reasons. National Service members of both sexes were demobilized in cases where initial or periodic medical check-ups established lack of physical fitness.

Prolonged National Service also rarely meant deployment in the army. The majority (90%) of National Service Members were usually and routinely assigned to civilian jobs in the Civil Service or other public institutions.

In August 2015, the GOE began to implement the first phase of salary increments and adjustments in the Civil Service and Eritrea’s Defense Forces. The new Salary Scale, which envisaged a substantial improvement of the economy as a whole in the period ahead, involved almost three-fold increment in all categories of employee professional qualification and job classification.

(Table of Comparative Salary scales for new entrants in the Civil Service/Army attached below).



In the new Salary Scale, priority was given to National Service Members. As a matter of fact, all National Service members with post-secondary academic qualifications as well as those assigned to the Army are remunerated in accordance with the new, much higher, Salary Scale. A new Salary Scale for Permanent Civil Servants who hold 2nd degree or above and for those whose academic qualifications is high school or below has not been implemented as yet.

Two issues that are often confounded – unwittingly or for some ulterior motives – are the presumed use of unremunerated or underpaid National Service labour in commercial enterprises – public or foreign – and deployment of National Service in public infrastructural projects.

In regard to the first issue, the presumption is false and unfounded. National Military Service members have to be demobilized first to be employed by commercial enterprises. But in regard to non-profit public infrastructural projects and programmes, National Service members can be engaged fully. This is an accepted and normative practice everywhere; members of the Army can always be deployed in major infrastructural work when required by the circumstances; (publications by the US army deployed in AFRICOM, for instance, routinely highlight the developmental contributions of the various units in commendable projects of road, water and other infrastructure in the host country).

The Period Ahead

The Peace and Friendship Agreement signed between Eritrea and Ethiopia in July last year will certainly entail policy implications on a raft of vital domestic and regional issues in both countries. In terms of National Service, the elimination of war and the threat of war and the full restoration of peace will have far-reaching consequences on its future configuration.

A congenial security environment both in terms of Eritrea’s ties with Ethiopia as well as its neighbours is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for adjustment of the National Service; in its duration and other institutional features. This will not require new statutory acts as the substantive law has not been altered in the past 25 years.

Indeed, there are other vital parameters that need to be addressed in a satisfactory manner for demobilization and the peace-time, normative, re-configuration of the National Service. There are important lessons that have been gleaned from the previous demobilization programmes. The viability of the various packages implemented, their current relevance and ways and means of enhancing them for greater outcome for the prospective beneficiaries are issues that will require comprehensive and meticulous appraisal.

In brief, the challenge is not one of policy but the design of comprehensive and concrete blueprints and programmes that will ensure full and gainful integration of National Service members in a vibrant economy. These are tasks that fall within the purview of relevant government institutions and sectors. They will be accomplished meticulously and with the necessary detail in due time.

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As Abiy wins Nobel Peace Prize, Afwerki’s Eritrea remains in the shadows

October 14, 2019. Aaron Brooks

...Abiy Ahmed has embarked on a sweeping campaign of reforms since coming into power last April, addressing some of the country’s most pressing issues, such as human rights and political freedoms. Meanwhile, Afwerki’s Eritrea remains one of the worst countries in the world for its record on human rights.

Last year’s landmark peace deal sparked optimism that Eritrea’s reclusive leader might be ready to step out of isolation from the international community and address his country’s atrocious human rights record.

This simply hasn’t happened.

In July, UN experts warned there no signs of any improvements since the peace deal was signed. UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea, Daniela Kravetz, said at the time:

“The dividends of peace are not yet benefiting ordinary Eritreans, nor are there any signs to suggest they will. Eritrean authorities remain unwilling to tolerate any expression of dissent.”

Rights groups have heavily criticised the country for failing to address any of its ongoing human rights issues, despite benefiting politically and financially from last year’s peace deal. Economic agreements with Ethiopia featured heavily in peace talks and sanctions lifted by both the UN and the EU.

In October 2018, Eritrea was even elected as a member of the UN Human Rights Council by the UN General Assembly, despite having one of the world’s worst records. The country still holds this seat while having made no recognisable progress on the issue of human rights or showing any intention to do so.

The Eritrea-Ethiopia peace deal was signed by the countries’ two leaders in July 2018. Yet, while Abiy Ahmed becomes the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Isais Afwerki’s Eritrea remains in the shadows – and rightfully so until genuine progress is made on human rights in the country.

https://eastafricamonitor.com/as-abiy-w ... e-shadows/

One more evidence of your ignorance/illiteracy & above all UNERITREANNESS!

You exposed your ugly naked self, this time.

The medal wrapping the Eritrean wrist is not THE NOBEL, you piece of shít..

It's our emblem, you caca.

They can shove the Nobel in Norway's behind, as far as Eritreans is concerned.

Ugum shabo wants to be Nobel Peace Prize winner

No prize for you, savage Agame boy.
Read more: https://eastafricamonitor.com/as-abiy-w ... he-shadows

This is what I wrote, just under that pic.

And let no Oscars, Nobels or other trophies or angelic sounding colonial messengers put asunder what we have bonded with much effort skill and sacrifice.

Heil Hitler!

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Ambassador Estifanos (@AmbassadorEstif) tweeted:

Congratulations to Anur & Dejen, on their graduation. Pleased to share the moment of success with them, today.

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The demon in garbage clothing.

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The demon in garbage clothing.

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Bushtin,
Tell me about it.

The demon in garbage clothing.

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Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed Wins Nobel Peace Prize; It Takes Two to Make Peace

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize for Peace which begs the question, if it takes two sides to fight a war doesn't it take two sides to make peace? Just as it takes two hands to clap it takes two to make peace and P.M. Abiy has taken pains to give credit where credit is due, that Eritrea President Isaias Aferwerki, his partner in the peace process was the leader in this process. Abiy said it unequivocally on July 8, 2018 at the end of his speech welcoming Isaias for the first time to Addis Ababa, stating that

Isaias is leading us.

Abiy is 43 years old, leading Ethiopia only since April of last year, 2018. Issias is well into his 70’s and a gray haired battle hardened veteran with almost 60 years of revolutionary leadership under his belt. Who do you think was the primary party responsible for peace between Ethiopia and Eritrea, Abiy or “Isaias is leading us”?

Abiy has been unstinting is his praise for Eritrea and our leadership, saying how, during his first visit here in June 2018, that he would like to be an unofficial foreign minister for Eritrea so he could let the truth be known and help fight the lies being told about our country.

Not a word of this is being mentioned in any of the international media other than in pages such as these and we here in Eritrea have learned to expect nothing else. For how can so called “democracy’s” allow praise for a leader who came to power through the armed struggle, by

the barrel of a gun?

Revolutionary and socialist, Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki is an anathema to those perpetrating neo-colonialism to maintain control of the wealth of the richest continent on the planet, Africa. They do it through elections and the IMF, who supposedly saw their recent offer of $1.6 billion to “modernize” Eritrea’s economy ignored. Issias is not about to sell the future to pay for non essentials today and fall into the trap of economic debt bondage that inflicts the rest of Africa.

In other words, Eritrea will

never kneel down

as the national motto goes and the western powers will not recognize anything positive about us, to the point of ignoring reality when it comes to making peace.

It takes two hands to clap and it takes two parties to make peace. The Nobel Peace Prize Committee showed it’s real agenda in this case. Then again, this award was given to Barack “The Libya War Criminal” Obama so it's not like Abiy is joining any sort of honorable inner circle, far from it.

We will wait and see what P.M. Abiy has to say when he accepts his award in Stockholm, though somehow his words will be twisted away from their real meaning and only one party will be praised for the impossible task of making peace all by themselves.

Thomas C. Mountain is an educator and historian living and reporting from Eritrea since 2006. See thomascmountain on Facebook or best reach him at [email protected]

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Tell me about it.

The demon in garbage clothing.

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Learning from a proven success