Celebrating 32nd anniv. of Fenkil Operations, with Gen. Philippos & Amb Sophia.
AMB. Beyene Russom: @BeyeneRussom
The man who called them, "rats out of their holes"!
Celebrating 32nd anniv. of Fenkil Operations, with Gen. Philippos & Amb Sophia.
AMB. Beyene Russom: @BeyeneRussom
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This day in Eritrea's history:
On 15 Feb.1880 Ras Alula pillaged for 2 days in Ad-Tamaryam & Bedjuk villages & stole 8000 sheep & goats, almost as many cattle & some 15,000 thalers (Maria Theresa dollars). On Feb. 1, 1877, Alula raided the village of Aylet, pillaged it & took all the cattle.
On 22 Nov 1886, Ras Alula, the army chief of Atze Yohannes IV of Tigray ordered the ruthless massacre of the Nara & Kunama ethnic groups in Eritrea & by the last week of Nov of that year his army massacred about 67% of the Nara & Kunama. This was genocide, by Alula & Yohannes.
History of Eritrea
ታሪኽ ኤርትራ.تاريخ إريتريا@Erihistory
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On 15 Feb.1880 Ras Alula pillaged for 2 days in Ad-Tamaryam & Bedjuk villages & stole 8000 sheep & goats, almost as many cattle & some 15,000 thalers (Maria Theresa dollars). On Feb. 1, 1877, Alula raided the village of Aylet, pillaged it & took all the cattle.
On 22 Nov 1886, Ras Alula, the army chief of Atze Yohannes IV of Tigray ordered the ruthless massacre of the Nara & Kunama ethnic groups in Eritrea & by the last week of Nov of that year his army massacred about 67% of the Nara & Kunama. This was genocide, by Alula & Yohannes.
History of Eritrea
ታሪኽ ኤርትራ.تاريخ إريتريا@Erihistory___________
Re: The man who called them, "rats out of their holes"!
Zmeselo Wesfatsm !! The hero of the nakfa who saved the front in 79 has been fired according to the qomalat news. Why are you debunking the truth(lies) now ? Awetash aka As'swash is not happy about this.
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Well I guess now, he'll call upon the UNSC to convene a meeting to sanction me.
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AFRICA
Eritrean Skier Only African to Finish Men’s Olympic Slalom
February 14, 2022
Ignatius Annor
https://www.voanews.com/a/eritrean-skie ... 41584.html
Skier Shannon Ogbnai-Abeda of Eritrea reacts after completing his run during the men's giant slalom event at the Winter Olympics, Feb. 13, 2022.
Eritrea's Shannon Ogbnai-Abeda placed 39th in the men’s giant slalom, the only African who managed to complete his run in the event.
A double blast of heavy snow and temperatures dropping to minus 22 degrees Celsius made the downhill race treacherous on Sunday, and only 46 of 87 skiers were able to finish the course.
Abeda clocked runs of one minute, 17.95 seconds and one minute, 22.50 seconds, totaling 2 minutes, 40.45 seconds.
Skiers from Ghana, Morocco and Madagascar were among those who did not complete the race.
The only African female skier in the women's giant slalom, Madagascar's Mialitiana Clerc, placed 41st out of the 49 skiers who finished the race.
In the men’s cross-country sprint, Nigeria’s Samuel Ikpefan came in 73rd out of 88 contestants.
Meanwhile, Jamaica made history at the Olympics fielding by its first Alpine skier.
Benjamin Alexander, a former DJ who took to the sport at age 32 six years ago, came in last out of the 46 skiers that completed the men's giant slalom.
The 38-year-old said he was hopeful that his participation in the Olympics would be an inspiration to others. In December last year, Alexander told Time.com that '
my gold medal is walking in the opening ceremonies.
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Well Zmeselo, now you get a sanction, Shannon Ogbnai-Abeda gets a sanction, Siem Iyob get a sanction and general Philipos get a sanction. Per Awetash, Abaq aka As'swash.
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Yesterday, @GrmayeBiniam
worked for the team and helped his 'hawey' @LoicVliegen get a podium place on @ClasicaJaen 
Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert: @IntermarcheWG
Eritrean Pro riders Henok Mulubrhan (Bike Aid) & Metkel Eyob (Terengganu), are confirmed to participate in the @tour_du_Rwanda. Team Eritrea won't participate as organizers reportedly declined
's assurances for negative PCR test results, before and after arrival in Kigali.TN: @tesfanews
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Awetash may be on a suicide watch. She needs a voice and I volunteered for the job !! Not psych !! As'swash can eat sh!t and die no eritrean gives a fig about Agame lives. I bet the qomal Abaq is twerking her fingers to come up with some anti Eritrean thread to ease her jealousy and envy laced pain. Agames held Eritreanism hostage in cahoots with uncle Sam like a hen that lays a golden egg for long time. Now they lost the gamble, they are back to begging and 80 s era. soon there will be USA for CHIGRAY mark my words.
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Asmaras bars & cafés, are bustling again!
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Thread by: Estifanos እስጢፋኖስ @EstifanosSamuel (Economist | CEO EAP Consulting | German-Ethiopian Business | Swiss-Ethiopian Business | Economic representative of Baden-Württemberg to East Africa)
Achtung! This thread might change your perception of Eritrea
Last week, we decided to travel to Eritrea for an extended weekend. Spent 5 beautiful days in Asmara, Keren & Massawa. Peaceful, breathtakingly beautiful and exciting trip! Here are some images we took.
Asmara: first impression!
Trip to Keren - it takes you 2 to 3 hours, with a few stops for taking pictures and having some road side tea. Keren deserves more than a day-trip, though. The city is vibrant, only in the mornings/late afternoons. We were there from 12 - 3:30
- not the smartest decision, but okay.
Asmara is at the same altitude as Addis and the roads down to Keren and Massawa are challenging, with many serpentines. Easily accessible only for a few hours a day, the road to Massawa can be very foggy.
Wallpaper material - I am not competing with @HilenaTafesse, here.
Old ship wreck is home to thousands of sea species and coral- riffs, just few hundred meters before the port of massawa. I think, Nemo would’ve found dory here.
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In 1998, the terrorist agame Gebru As'RAT and Seye Abraha, as they made preparation to invade Eritrea, and in their attempt to turn their coward agame soldiers into blood-thirsty zombies, they told them that they have heard Eritreans saying: "One cat for 50 mice," and "One can of insecticide for 50 houseflies," apparently in reference to the invading agame horde.
Although we Eritreans never said such things about the agame, and those kind of thoughts only exist on the minds of the inferior sadist agame, their 3 consecutive invasion attempts were successfully repelled with the ratio of 1 to 50 rule made by the Eritrean Defense Forces, and I swear it was purely coincidental.
Although we Eritreans never said such things about the agame, and those kind of thoughts only exist on the minds of the inferior sadist agame, their 3 consecutive invasion attempts were successfully repelled with the ratio of 1 to 50 rule made by the Eritrean Defense Forces, and I swear it was purely coincidental.
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Photo Credit: @Alex.kleis_.jpeg
How Zewdi, Berlin's First Black-Owned Travel Agency, Highlights Black German History
Ayah A.
https://travelnoire.com/how-zewdi-berli ... an-history
15 feb. 2022
Meet 27-year-old Miriam Fisshaye, founder of Zewdi, the first decolonial Black travel agency in Berlin, https://legacy.travelnoire.com/eat-berlin-germany/ where she is based. Born in Ethiopia to Eritrean https://legacy.travelnoire.com/sabrina- ... -refugees/ parents, Miriam was raised in Frankfurt, Germany, but always maintained a bond to her African heritage.
Growing up, Miriam lived in a neighborhood full of immigrants, which she describes as “the UN” due to its diversity. However, despite being inhabited by Sudanese, Togolese, Afghanis, and people of various other origins, most of the teachers in the schools were white Germans who reproduced structural racism.
@Alex.kleis_.jpeg
said Miriam.In school, the Black history of Germany never appeared in our history books, unless it was referring to colonialism or the trans-Atlantic slave trade,
Miriam recalls asking her teacher, during her studies of the National Socialism era, if Black people died in concentration camps, https://legacy.travelnoire.com/german-m ... holocaust/ as well. The answer was succinct, bordering on derogatory:The colonial past of Germany, besides its role in the Berlin conference of 1884, was not mentioned at all, and our teachers were not equipped by the school curriculum to bring forth diverse stories.
Her story echoes those of Black children throughout the diaspora living in primarily white societies, whose schools and teachers have failed miserably at providing the truth and depth of their people and histories. So, it’s unsurprising that Miriam was able to relate to Black youth in countries like the United States and United Kingdom.I don’t think so. Black people didn’t exist in the past.
With travel having always been a part of Miriam’s family’s life, it provided a gateway to knowledge. They had relatives in several European countries, such as the Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, Norway, and the United Kingdom, who they visited during summer holidays.For issues of diversity, racial equality, and injustice, it was common to look to the USA or the UK. We often didn’t have a word for our injustice, and adopted the American words to use as our own. Studying African American history and books gave me at least the universal understanding of intersectional injustice and racial based inequalities.
To see the world is to learn, and I became aware that although Black people were present, our history was somehow invisible. It may have been the occasional museum painting with a Black person in it, but without a name or backstory given. What I also observed through these childhood travels was the predominance of the European perspective in the global travel narrative, despite travel itself being broader. I didn’t see, in my youth, Black explorers on TV or in travel and leisure advertisements. Black or brown people were refugees; displaced, migrating, but not traveling.
Photo courtesy of Zewdi
Thanks to her grandfather, who was an Askari–a soldier in Italy’s Regio Corpo Truppe Coloniali (Royal Colonial Corps)–and a passionate storyteller, Miriam knew Germany had a colony in East Africa, and that some of the soldiers migrated to Germany in the 20th century. Finding the evidence that they existed, however, was a mammoth task.
Inspired by her findings, Miriam desired to share the history of Black Germany with others. She moved to Berlin to study, and in June 2021, she completed her master’s degree in sustainable tourism.Organizations such as Initiative Schwarze Deutch, Each One Teach One eV, and Afrika Median Zentrum partly helped me understand and reveal the hidden history of Black people in Germany.
Miriam founded Zewdi, which means “queen” in the Tigrinya language spoken in Eritrea and Northern Ethiopia, https://legacy.travelnoire.com/easter-a ... er-forget/ in June 2020. She named the company after her paternal grandmother, a proud, beautiful, Black woman who embraced her culture and stayed true to her heritage in the face of racism and discrimination during the colonial era in Eritrea.
The very first tour Zewdi offered was the Black bike tour, in which participants explored the history of the city together via bicycle. Today, in addition to this tour, Zewdi offers post-colonial walking tours, package tours to Zanzibar, https://legacy.travelnoire.com/3-week-v ... -zanzibar/ startup group tours, and exclusive events, such as a Kemetic yoga workshop in collaboration with Jamaican yoga instructor Akosua Aset.Having a love-hate relationship with Berlin, I realized some time ago that I can use my passion for Black history and my knowledge of tourism to showcase Berlin’s little-known Black history. In my experience, even local Berliners are not aware of Black German history, as early as the 17th or 18th century. They would not know names such as, Gustav Sabac el Cher and Martin Dibobe. They would not have taken a tour through Berlin focused on Black heritage.
Photo courtesy of Zewdi and Cinna Solar
Quite popular and always fully booked, all bike tours are individually curated, unique experiences where Miriam matches the route and history together for a compelling journey. For those seeking an introduction to Berlin’s Black history, the post-colonial walking tour is ideal. It takes participants through the Afrikanische Viertel or “African Quarter” in Berlin.
Through the work of Zewdi, its collaborators, and other organizations, people of all races are learning about Germany’s Black history and culture. Miriam has built herself a seat at the travel and leisure industry table to help fill a gaping void and provide a valuable and much-needed learning experience.This tour aims to draw attention to Germany’s colonial past and its presence today in Wedding, Berlin. I do this tour in collaboration with Mnayaka Sururu Mboro, a prominent Afro-German activist and one of the founders of Berlin Postkolonial e.V., which has done a wonderful job making colonial places in the city visible.
With February also being Black History Month in Germany, Zewdi is hosting two special events on February 20 and 27.The Afro diaspora community increasingly wants to have travel and leisure experiences reflecting their identity and reality. The demand is there, but the supply in Germany is limited. With Zewdi, I am working on that. I think exploring Berlin’s Black history makes this city more welcoming and more accessible to Black people. Berlin is not only Brandenburger Tor, but it is the African Quarter, as well.
In the future, Miriam would like to create travel experiences, both virtual and analog, that cut across intersectionally to reach a diverse audience, not only in Germany, but globally.Both are an invitation to look back into German history to learn the stories of 106 individuals who were abducted from Africa, Oceana, and America to be put on display as colonial subjects.
For more information, visit the travel agency’s website http://www.zewdi.de/. You can also connect with Zewdi on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/Zewditravel/ Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/zewditravel/ and TikTok. https://www.tiktok.com/@zewditravelMy dream is that from Basra and Cape Town to Brasilia and Stockholm, people will have the possibility to explore and connect to the Afro diaspora community. I am following with interest the huge possibility to create virtual travel experiences on the metaverse. I would like to be a pioneer in this area, especially the possibility of creating a virtual travel experience where you can do things like learn about pre-colonial era Africa or experience an Afrofuturistic city.