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No country on earth, in this day in age, will face the type of enemy the people of Eritrea faced.

We have an enemy that knows how, where we live, eat & sleep. An enemy that lived with us & knows how we do things, how we support each other, how we send money home, celebrate & gather.



They know our music talent, even eschewed version of our history. They know, how we honor our heroes. Know everything, & wanted to take it & replace us. They wanted us. This is the worst kind of enemy. Worse yet, the powers that be sided with them, which made them deadly. Yet, we overcame!

They’re looking at their graves & being dragged to it, like rabid dogs. The lesson in this; we must cut ties. Everything. These people have to be ejected from our life because they’re the very definition of an enemy, so jealouse, they're willing to exterminate us to take over. We must disconnect!

No one tries to take away the history of others, & try to make it theirs. That is the only & best option



(Amanuel Biedemariam: @Amanbiede)

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Love this dude!

COMMODITIES NEWS

JUNE 24, 2020

Ethiopia rejects Tigray region's call for election, citing pandemic



Dawit Endeshaw

https://af.reuters.com/article/commodit ... FL8N2E150K

ADDIS ABABA, June 24 (Reuters) - Ethiopia rejected a request by its northernmost Tigray region on Wednesday to hold elections in August due to the coronavirus outbreak, likely widening the gulf between the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and the ruling Prosperity Party.

The TPLF, the governing party of the region, split acrimoniously from the national Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) coalition last year when its three other parties merged to form the new Prosperity Party.

The Horn of Africa country in March postponed parliamentary and regional elections scheduled for August due to the coronavirus. The TPLF said last month it would go ahead with elections in Tigray.

Because of COVID-19 there are no favourable conditions to hold elections,

the National Electoral Board said in an Amharic-language statement.

It also said that Tigray’s regional council did not have the mandate to hold elections.

The TPLF did not respond to requests for comment.

The elections scheduled for August had been regarded as a litmus test for the country’s fragile unity, challenged by many newly resurgent regional and ethnically based parties.

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been positioning himself as a unity candidate whose reform agenda could serve as the glue holding often fractious federal regions together.

He promised to hold a free and fair vote in a nation where elections have historically marred by allegations of rigging and intimidation.

Ethiopia has reported 5,032 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 78 deaths.

Reporting by Dawit Endeshaw, Writing by Giulia Paravicini, Editing by Nick Macfie

NEWS/ETHIOPIA
Sudan: Millions at risk if Ethiopia fills mega dam without deal

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/06/ ... 31487.html

Khartoum sends letter to UN Security Council after talks also including Addis Ababa and Cairo failed to produce a deal.

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Sudan warned the UN that millions of people would be at risk if Ethiopia fills the dam next month, regardless of whether a deal has been reached [File: Eduardo Soteras/AFP]

Sudan has sent a letter to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) warning the lives of millions of people will be endangered if Ethiopia moves ahead with its plan to fill a reservoir on the Blue Nile before an agreement has been reached.

Ethiopia's unilateral action would

compromise the safety of Sudan's Roseires Dam and thus subject millions of people living downstream to great risk,

Sudan's water ministry said in a statement on Thursday, adding it had sent a letter to the UN body.

Tensions have been running high between the two countries and Egypt after recent talks failed to produce a deal on the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a giant hydroelectric project built near Ethiopia's border with Sudan and the centrepiece in Addis Ababa's bid to become Africa's biggest power exporter.

Egypt, which is almost entirely dependent on the Nile for its freshwater supplies, is anxious to secure a legally binding deal that would guarantee minimum flows and a mechanism for resolving disputes before the dam starts operating.

Al Jazeera's Hiba Morgan, reporting from Sudan's capital, Khartoum, said nearly all technical issues have been resolved after several rounds of on-and-off negotiations.

Yet, legal issues remain unresolved, including whether the agreement will be binding under international law. During the latest round of talks last week, Sudanese negotiator Hisham Abdalla said Ethiopia had suggested

the deal to be a guiding one that could be modified or cancelled,

adding that this was

a very serious situation.

Sudan wants to ensure water releases from the Blue Nile dam to be coordinated with water levels at its Roseires Dam, some 100km (62 miles) from the GERD.

Addis Ababa remains undeterred from starting to fill the dam on the Blue Nile next month regardless of a deal being reached.

It seems like the political will is not equally shared between the three sides and that is why they cannot come back together to the negotiating table to resume talks,

Morgan said.


Ethiopian Minister for Foreign Affairs Gedu Andargachew, right, gives a news conference jointly with Ethiopia's Minister of Water, Irrigation and Energy Seleshi Bekele where they accused the US of being 'undiplomatic' in its push to resolve a dispute over a giant dam on the Nile River [Michael/Tewelde/AFP]

On Sunday, Sudan's Water Resources Minister Yasser Abbas said it was important Ethiopia shared information about water supplied from the dam, otherwise

we will not know the amount of water discharged from the Renaissance Dam, which might cause flooding and the Roseires dam itself will be at risk

of being overwhelmed.

The ministry warned the remaining time for the countries to agree is

tight and critical.

It also urged the UNSC to

invite leaders of the three countries to show political will and commitment to resolve the few remaining issues.

Khartoum recently proposed breaking the continuing deadlock by raising the status of the talks to prime ministerial level.

Cairo, which views the hydroelectric barrage as an existential threat, itself appealed on Friday
for the UNSC to intervene in the dispute, citing Addis Ababa's "non-positive stances".

Egypt fears the dam would severely cut its Nile water supply, which provides nearly 97 percent of the country's freshwater needs.

Ethiopia, from its side, says the project is indispensable for its development, and insists downstream countries' water supply will be unaffected.