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[eritrea]

AU, US urge respect for Somalia's sovereignty amid row

The African Union and the US have called for the respect of Somalia's sovereignty and territorial integrity, in response to a controversial sea access deal that Ethiopia struck with the self-declared republic of Somaliland.

Somaliland seceded from Somalia in 1991 but is not internationally recognised as an independent state.

US Department of State spokesperson Matthew Miller on Wednesday said that "the United States recognises the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Federal Republic of Somalia within its borders".

AU Commission chair Moussa Faki has also urged for the respect of the "unity, territorial integrity and full sovereignty of Somalia and Ethiopia".

Both the US and AU have also asked the involved parties to pursue diplomatic dialogue to peacefully resolve the row, amid concerns that the deal could escalate tensions in the Horn of Africa region.

[Somaliman]

These are the residents of the purported area where the mindless power hungry rulers of the northern enclave said is the location.

They're all out protesting against the MoU .

This protest took place this morning.

You fuc.king Ethiopians who are jumping up and down with joy, like stupid monkeys, about this baseless MoU, mark my words: this will never materialise.

Daydreaming is totally free.

[Somaliman]

BTW, although this area is part of the northern enclave and, of course, Somalia, without the approval of these residents nothing can happen and no one can force them. whoever this could be.

And guess what - people in this area are passionate unionists, despite being part of the northern enclave, aka Somaliland.

[Fiyameta]

International law is written in the English language, which is why some countries find it very difficult to understand the law that they continue to live by the Law of the Jungle. If size matters the elephant would be the king of the jungle, but that's not the case, even in the Law of the Jungle.

[Zack]

BTW, although this area is part of the northern enclave and, of course, Somalia, without the approval of these residents nothing can happen and no one can force them. whoever this could be.

And guess what - people in this area are passionate unionists, despite being part of the northern enclave, aka Somaliland.

Though I commend them for protesting I wouldn’t call them passionate unionist they are the most cowardice docile community they haven’t lifted one gun to fight the separatists that treats them as second clas citizens

Dr Zackovich

[Zack]

International law is written in the English language, which is why some countries find it very difficult to understand the law that they continue to live by the Law of the Jungle. If size matters the elephant would be the king of the jungle, but that's not the case, even in the Law of the Jungle.

International laws if flawd it is all about the way ur read it and how un interpret it. International law defends the territorial integrity of a country . At the same time it illustrates the fact that there can be a sort of self determination. So which one is if
For example iraqi Kurdistan. Held a referendum though the west was initially in different but because of pressure form Iran turkey. They said we can’t accept ur referendum . Give and take if it wasn’t for Turks strongly oppposed to the Kurds the west wouldn’t care if carve a Kurdish territory out of Iraq


Dr Zackovich

[Abere]

I do not think they matter as far as telling with whom Somaliland can make political affairs - It is Somaliland's internal affairs. Noises of these sort are merely confounding, but cannot have resultant substantive effect on changing the future course of Somaliland.

Recognitions and congratulations to Somaliland is a sure thing to happen following Ethiopia's bold yet tacit recognition being the first to make history again.

[DefendTheTruth]

BTW, although this area is part of the northern enclave and, of course, Somalia, without the approval of these residents nothing can happen and no one can force them. whoever this could be.

And guess what - people in this area are passionate unionists, despite being part of the northern enclave, aka Somaliland.

Though I commend them for protesting I wouldn’t call them passionate unionist they are the most cowardice docile community they haven’t lifted one gun to fight the separatists that treats them as second clas citizens

Dr Zackovich

Somaliland is administered democratically, we were told and no one denied that.

In democracy there is also pluralism (of views and opinions), no one should be expected to think and handle uniformly. Decisions are made by those in power at the time of decision making.

The rest can have a differing opinion and the decision is by those in power. ABC of democracy.

[Right]

Eritreans, you will be better off to focus on your dying banana republic. You can’t blackmail Ethiopia, it is over.

Here is the latest from Washington Post.

An African gulag so ghastly that inmates risk death to escape

Forty-two former prisoners in Eritrea’s sprawling detention system described horrific conditions and frequent torture.

Washngton Post By Katharine Houreld, January 6, 2024

NAIROBI — The tiny African nation of Eritrea is a sliver of fear wedged between Ethiopia and the Red Sea, a land that has known only a single strongman leader and the shadow of repression since independence three decades ago. Nothing exemplifies the reach and cruelty of the state today as much as its prison system.

Eritrea is riddled with an appalling variety of prisons: Underground cells of crumbling concrete, and sweltering jails fashioned from converted metal cargo containers. Cages crammed with hundreds of men who must sleep on their sides like sardines, as their cellmates wearily stand to make room, and shallow holes scraped from the earth with log and dirt ceilings so low that inmates cannot stand up.

The conditions, former prisoners recounted, are often so ghastly and the prison terms so open-ended that desperate inmates frequently attempt to escape, but those who try are often gunned down. ....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/20 .

[DefendTheTruth]

Eritreans, you will be better off to focus on your dying banana republic. You can’t blackmail Ethiopia, it is over.

Here is the latest from Washington Post.

An African gulag so ghastly that inmates risk death to escape

Forty-two former prisoners in Eritrea’s sprawling detention system described horrific conditions and frequent torture.

Washngton Post By Katharine Houreld, January 6, 2024

NAIROBI — The tiny African nation of Eritrea is a sliver of fear wedged between Ethiopia and the Red Sea, a land that has known only a single strongman leader and the shadow of repression since independence three decades ago. Nothing exemplifies the reach and cruelty of the state today as much as its prison system.

Eritrea is riddled with an appalling variety of prisons: Underground cells of crumbling concrete, and sweltering jails fashioned from converted metal cargo containers. Cages crammed with hundreds of men who must sleep on their sides like sardines, as their cellmates wearily stand to make room, and shallow holes scraped from the earth with log and dirt ceilings so low that inmates cannot stand up.

The conditions, former prisoners recounted, are often so ghastly and the prison terms so open-ended that desperate inmates frequently attempt to escape, but those who try are often gunned down. ....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/20 .

That must be what the despot is enjoying, like we were told recently. That is what "the beauty of being Eritrean" means. How a beauty indeed?

He is calmly enjoying drinking his coffee which he got as a gift from the King of UAE's boyfriend without worrying about any conditionality from the IMF, the World Bank or any other borrower country.
That is the beauty of being Eritrean. We do not fill our stomach today to put our future children in a chain of debt from which they cannot free themselves for generations to come.