Eritrea has indeed offered Ethiopia access to its ports, a significant proposal since Ethiopia, a landlocked country, but Ethiopia has refused the offer from Eritrea. This means that current and former Ethiopian officials who are Oromo (Mengistu and Abiy) do not want access to the Red Sea ports, but rather expand Oromo territory into the Red Sea and Gulf Countries, as well as Kenya to destabilize maritime and trade in the Red Sea. Unfortunately Ethiopia has refused the offer from Eritrea and Somalia as well, and there is a possibility that Ethiopian officials will refuse any offer from Sudan and Kenya in the future
https://www.blackagendareport.com/ethio ... rean_ports
Re: Eritrea has offered Ethiopia access to its ports but Ethiopia refuses
Since Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia, Ethiopian officials have continued to refuse Eritrea's offer to use its ports.
https://reliefweb.int/report/ethiopia/e ... port-offer
https://reliefweb.int/report/ethiopia/e ... port-offer
Re: Eritrea has offered Ethiopia access to its ports but Ethiopia refuses
FACTS: Ethiopia was given an order to invade Eritrea during a time it was using both Eritrean ports FOR FREE. 
The Neo-colonial powers that ordered the invasion promised Ethiopia that, if the invasions were to fail, they could arrange with France to let Ethiopia use Djibouti's port.
But what they didn't tell Ethiopia was that it was going to cost the country $1.6 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR to use Djibouti's port-- a huge amount of money that Ethiopia could not afford to pay-- which forced Ethiopia to borrow from the IMF, a staggering $44 BILLION DOLLARS during the course of the last 27 years just to use Djibouti's port services that was first operated by the UAE, then by China.
If the benevolent Eritrea were to charge Ethiopia $1.6 billion dollars a year during the 1991 to 1998 period, the amount of payments to Eritrea would be $10.5 BILLION DOLLARS!
As an Eritrean, I feel we got cheated, and I say NEVER, EVER, AGAIN!
The Neo-colonial powers that ordered the invasion promised Ethiopia that, if the invasions were to fail, they could arrange with France to let Ethiopia use Djibouti's port.
But what they didn't tell Ethiopia was that it was going to cost the country $1.6 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR to use Djibouti's port-- a huge amount of money that Ethiopia could not afford to pay-- which forced Ethiopia to borrow from the IMF, a staggering $44 BILLION DOLLARS during the course of the last 27 years just to use Djibouti's port services that was first operated by the UAE, then by China.
If the benevolent Eritrea were to charge Ethiopia $1.6 billion dollars a year during the 1991 to 1998 period, the amount of payments to Eritrea would be $10.5 BILLION DOLLARS!
As an Eritrean, I feel we got cheated, and I say NEVER, EVER, AGAIN!
Re: Eritrea has offered Ethiopia access to its ports but Ethiopia refuses
Yakume,
As someone from Eritrea that is what you suppose to be sticking with in order to reason as if Assab is Eritrea's possession. Why on earth would Ethiopia pay rent for a port stolen from her. And why would Ethiopia fund terrorist Shabia to do more harm? If someone steals you, you do not buy back your own stolen property nor buy something else, because a thief is always thief. Eritrea is ruled by bandit, it is as anarchic as Al Shabab run Somalia. You are dying as if you had a country and government
As someone from Eritrea that is what you suppose to be sticking with in order to reason as if Assab is Eritrea's possession. Why on earth would Ethiopia pay rent for a port stolen from her. And why would Ethiopia fund terrorist Shabia to do more harm? If someone steals you, you do not buy back your own stolen property nor buy something else, because a thief is always thief. Eritrea is ruled by bandit, it is as anarchic as Al Shabab run Somalia. You are dying as if you had a country and government