I have no idea how it operates, apparently it claims to be a socialist state but I have no idea if it is or not and it is barley ever discussed in leftist spaces.
It's run by Maoists. Westoid glowies have flooded the media with spooky "documentaries" about how le authoritarian and le repressive it is but they've been careful to leave out that the leaders of the country were Maoists trained in China.
Eritrean diaspora seems to be the most nationalistic and least "please mr trump sanction and bomb my country" out there
>>2651669Right, they are the maoists, the Oromo first goverment was hoxhaist
>>2651669they call it the north korea of africa
>>2651688
Until they give Ethiopia the same media treatment it's clear bias.
>>2651669 (You)
(Me)
Here is proof btw in case anyone wants to read more. From Wikileaks (god bless Julian Assange)
https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09ASMARA363_a.html
<SUMMARY: Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, who trained as a political commissar in China during the depths of the Cultural Revolution, continues to idolize Mao, remains fond of China, and governs Eritrea and its relations with the outside world based on his decades of experience as a revolutionary guerrilla leader combined with his interpretation of Maoist philosophy. END SUMMARY.>President Isaias made a surprise appearance at the Chinese Embassy's reception celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Communist takeover of China. In a rare breech of Eritrea's strictly observed protocol, Isaias interacted with the Chinese ambassador, despite not having officially received his credentials. Isaias was quickly ushered into a private dining room where he, five Chinese diplomats, and six senior Eritrean officials ate Chinese food, drank Moutai, and fondly discussed Sino-Eritrean relations. Romedan Mohamed Nur, who trained in China with Isaias in the mid-1960s, was present but largely ignored by the Eritrean president. Chinese Ambassador Li Liansheng later provided a detailed read-out to the ambassador. President Isaias mentioned ten times during the course of the evening his "42-year long relationship with China," dating from his 1967 training as a political commissar during Mao's Cultural Revolution. >Isaias ate little during the meal but drank almost a whole bottle of high-proof Moutai, becoming visibly inebriated and sentimental as the evening drew on. He remarked repeatedly on his admiration of Chairman Mao and claimed that Mao laid the foundation for all of China's subsequent achievements. Other Chinese diplomats tell us Isaias dislikes Deng Xiaoping because Deng attempted to undermine Mao's legacy. Isaias avidly consumes biographies of Mao and has refused offers of books on Deng and modern China. On a monthly basis the Chinese ambassador's chef gets a request from Isaias to send over a Chinese meal. Ambassador Li reported that Isaias watches Chinese news on television. Now 63 years old, President Isaias still plays a mean game of ping pong, according to some observers, when his chronic lower back pain permits.
<COMMENT: The influence of Maoist China on Isaias should not be overdrawn, but it is there, perhaps most importantly as a philosophical lodestone for Eritrea's isolated and mercurial dictator. Despite China's evolution beyond Maoist politics and economics, Isaias remains fond of the PRC. Today China provides about $12m of "no questions asked" assistance, is a source of easy-term military purchases, has invested in Eritrea's promising mining sector, and provides political top-cover in multilateral fora. While Chinese today allow that Mao "was 70 percent correct," Isaias seems to have adopted many of his policies from the other 30 percent. End Comment. Also this relationship just serves as further proof that if you take control of your homeland with a vanguard party China is willing and able to secretly provide your new government assistance. Western leftists and mautists are just mad because they want China to do everything for them immediately including fighting their own civil war for them. This guy literally got a Chinese ambassador's chef as a free meal provider lmao.
Edit: Formatting screwed up my bad
Basically what I was trying to ask is if it is good or bad? and if I should support it?
>>2651669they also heavily supported it during its "war of independence" in the 80s and 90s, likewise the clinton administration made themselves even more allied to it, they only oppose it now because ethiopia is strong enough and aligned to them that they don't need it anymore
>>2651700If some normie asks you you can say that it is a missunderstood country, that mantains a framework of solidarity between the people. Is there an economical analysis of the country? Is it more socialist than Saudi Arabia lol?
>>2651695Eritrea is also right next door to the Suez Canal, a vital trade route. It simply makes geopolitical sense for China to cozy up to Eritrea.
>>2651699
>rightful coastline
Spooky!
>>2681930
>Also, military service is mandatory and can last a lifetime, but Eritrea is not currently at war, however Eritrea is extremely hostile to Ethiopia, because their negro tribal nation can't develop like Ethiopia and tries to take its ethnic tribal anger out on Ethiopia.
Pure lies. It is completely from the other direction. For one it's not an ethnic thing because Eritrea is a multiethnic society. For two, Ethiopia and Eritrea were finally at peace and opening up the border and relations when Abiy Ahmed got into power because prior to that Ethiopia had been headed by the TPLF(Tigrayan's People Liberation Front.) which have a long standing grudge against Eritrea, which is ironic, since the ELF(Eritrean Liberation Front) are the ones who defeated the Derg and basically put them in power. The TPLF were more just along for the ride. When the Derg was toppled, the ELF said we just want Eritrea and you guys do whatever you wqant over here and that's how the TPLF came to power and Eritrea became an independent state. So Abiy comes to power,he opens up relations, he gives back the territory that the UN said Ethiopia had to give back to Eritrea they were still holding since the 2000 war because that's just following international law. Then when the TPLF launched their surprise attack on the national army, they retreated into Eritrea because they were allies at that time. The TPLF also launched unprovoked attacks on Eritrea itself and even Pompeo and the State Department called them out for trying to start a big regional conflict by attacking Eritrea. Then because the Ethiopian army is so shit, Abiy had to invite the Eritrean army into Ethiopia to defeat the TPLF and they left right after.
Man the sheer amount of bullshit in 3 posts going to have to write a long ass deboonk. What compels White guys to just talk out there ass on every subject under the son?
>>2681948And the reason relations soured again is because crackhead Abiy said out of the blue that he is going to take a port from Eritrea, Djbouti, or Somalia by any means necessary including war. So yeah, understandably Somalians and Eritreans and Djboutians were not happy about that.
>>2681948> Then when the TPLF launched their surprise attack on the national army, they retreated into Eritrea because they were allies at that time. *When the TPLF started the Tigray war by launching a surprise attack on the local ENDF(Ethiopian National Defense Force) base the ENDF retreated into Eritrea. For clarity.
So what to know about Eritrea and Afwerki? Afwerki is like the OG Zigga. He was a zigga before it was cool. He's kinda like Luka in that regard. He goes to Moscow and tells Putin. LET'S FUCKING DO IT! LET'S MAKE THE USSR AGAIN! WE'RE FUCKING READY! PUT ME IN COACH! FUCK FUKUYAMA! LET'S MAKE HISTORY!
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/71830July 28, 2023
>President of Eritrea Isaias Afwerki: I have been patiently listening to people talking at these meetings and there is one issue that worries me. I just want to articulate that issue and tell you our views, at least how we see the situation from our perspective.
>When people talk about Russia and Ukraine, I say that there is no Russia-Ukraine war at all, there is no Russia-Ukraine conflict. This is a war that was declared by NATO on Russia. The war declared by NATO on Russia is not only against Russia; its aim is to dominate the whole world.
>This is an agenda they developed after the end of the Cold War. They came up with this fantasy about containing Russia, containing any power – small or big – that challenges them technologically, economically, socially, culturally. They have to contain everybody.
>This is a defunct ideology. I say Russia did not prepare to face this declared war, even though Russia was aware of the dynamics of what was going on. NATO is defunct. NATO does not exist. NATO is in intensive care. The EU does not exist. The EU is in intensive care. Thirty years ago, when they decided to contain Russia, they felt that it was a major threat for them.
>China was not considered a threat at that time. Now they know that they missed the point. They could not contain Russia. They will never contain Russia. Ukraine is a sacrifice. Ukraine is a price they have to pay. They are not paying on their own: they will provide billions and billions even trillions to continue this war.
>Now we need to look at the narrative thread: this is not a war between Russia and Ukraine; this is a declared war against Russia because Russia was a major threat to them. Now they have to defeat Russia so that they hegemonise everything.
>They need to be your equals technologically, militarily, they have to be superior economically, they have to control everything, grab every resource here and there, and get technology under their control. That dream is no more.
>The fighting going on in Ukraine is their battleground. That battleground is a sacrifice for them. We need to put this thread on the record, when a big meeting like this Russia-Africa summit is held, people will have to come to a consensus – this is not a war between Russia and Ukraine to me, and anyone who has a different explanation will have to tell me.
>This is a war declared on Russia but a war declared to achieve hegemony. In the last 30 years I have seen the details of the mechanism of this declared war; this last event is the final phase to me. It will end sometime. NATO will not get out of intensive care. The EU will not get out of intensive care. These systems are crumbling. It is only a matter of time.
>The whole world will have to be prepared not to defend Russia but to stand with Russia so that this hegemonistic ideology does not prevail at any point in history.
>How do we design a plan? How do we make their plan fail without any further cost? They are printing money. They are not manufacturing anything at all; it is all about printing money. And this is one of their weapons. The global monetary system controlled by the dollar and the euro is being used. They are introducing sanctions and freezing accounts – these are their tools. This is not going to continue indefinitely.
>We need a new financial architecture, globally, one that is not controlled by the euro, the dollar or other currencies. Following this failed attempt to contain Russia they will immediately move to the East: containing China is their next agenda. They are playing a very deceptive tactic, telling everyone: “Oh, no, we have to work with China, we have to do this and that.”
>Their calculation about China has proved to be wrong. They have failed: they probably have the technology, they have everything, the Chinese can only copy those things, but they will never equal them. So, they will contain Russia while promoting friendship with China and continuing to use it so that containing Russia would be easier for them.
>Now China is out of control. Containing China from Taiwan, from India, from Japan, from the South Kurils, from Australia – how do they do it, how will they do it? That challenge is coming next, but first they need to deal with Russia. How do they want to deal with Russia and then move on to China? How can they deal with everybody? How do they contain us?
>Imagine, this time Eritrea is being contained by them. We are being punished with their sanctions all the time. We have to be punished because we are not bowing to their conditionalities. We are a very small threat; we are not even a threat to them. But they have to contain us: sanctions, sanctions, sanctions, conflict here, conflict there.
>I think we need to strategise and I say Russia will have to lead this strategy. Russia will have to design a plan on facing this declared war, not only on Russia, but this is a global war. Everybody should come and join Russia in this strategy, and the sooner, the better. The easiest way for us to control their hegemonistic strategy and frustrate that strategy is to have peace, and then development will come.
>Nobody is going to bother us, nobody is going to bully anybody. They are using defamation, demonisation, psychological warfare, sanctions. We will need an alternative strategy to deal with this hegemonistic declaration of war. And every event – bilateral or multilateral – will have to adopt this strategy, and that is why I say during my remarks that Russia should design a strategy.
>It is not because Russia will have to do everything; we can make our contribution. It is a matter of ideas: how do we face this hegemonistic strategy in a way that we are able implement bilateral programmes, technology, industrialisation, agriculture, energy, water management, services, tourism, life in general – how do we do that?
>Now, we have to look at this in the historical context. This is a continuation of classical slavery. After slavery came colonialism. Slavery was exterminating populations. Nine million people were exterminated in the Congo, Indians were exterminated in North America and in Canada. They were exterminating indigenous populations and grabbing control of their land.
>And when they got control of the land, they had to bring slaves from Africa for their cotton plantations in the United States. That was slavery, and it continues. Then the industrialisation came. That was a matter of grabbing other countries’ resources and the continuation of slavery. Then a different form – colonialism – came: they colonised territories so that they could grab control of the land, and then they controlled labour and enslaved everybody.
<Then there was neo-colonialism and the Cold War. Russia was the hope of the people of the world during the period of the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, leaders in the Soviet Union made mistakes that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union, which was a historic tragedy, as you said at one point. That was a historic tragedy: in the course of the history of humanity that was a catastrophe.
<.That was one of the reasons that encouraged people like Fukuyama and Huntington to design their strategy of hegemony. Because the Soviet Union collapsed, the Soviet Union disintegrated, and they felt that they could control the world for the coming 50 or 100 years without anyone challenging them.
>That was when this hegemonistic fantasy emerged. We have seen what they have done over the last 30 years. It is a continuation of the same ideology of slavery, colonialism, neo-colonialism, and then hegemony.
>The world will have to overcome this state of affairs. We are at a crossroads. We believe we are in transition to a new world order. How do we design a new world order? How can we possibly strategise, how do we use the resources, how do we make people everywhere aware that this threat exists. And if they get out of this situation, they can enjoy their liberty, their freedom, their development without this hegemonistic idea.
>I think this issue will have to be thoroughly addressed and we need to come up with concrete plans. We will make our modest contribution, but we have the understanding that this Russia-Africa partnership is one part of the bigger global partnership that we will have to develop.
>Russia will have to take the lead, because Russia has been targeted and is still being targeted. They might dream of using the war in Ukraine now to weaken Russia and they probably dream about the same event happening. The collapse of Russia will be a big advantage for them. It is a dream. They are now spending trillions and trillions by printing money to run the show in Ukraine. This will have to end at some point.
<We need to look beyond that. Our bilateral partnership is based on our understanding of this historic mission of Russia. Russia has a historic mission to play. On behalf of everybody in the world I can say who is the leader of this show – Mr Vladimir Putin is the leader of the show. Russia should take the lead because of the challenge that we are facing.
>I am not flattering anyone. I am not doing any favour to you. I say this is a global challenge and we have to overcome it by identifying the role of each and every one of us in the whole story.
>Economic programmes, energy, water, infrastructure – you name it. Everyone will have a strategy and will define their goals and objectives. Once we have a strategy in place, we will draw detailed plans on each and every sector, each and every industry. We will mobilise the resources for implementing those programmes and we will see that implementing them will change people’s lives in Africa, Asia, Latin America, even Europe and the United States also.
>Our detailed plans for sectoral programmes are ready: on each and every sector we have our own strategic plan. We have considered the details of each and every item of an infrastructure programme: roads, ports, airports, railway, energy programmes, water preservation and water management programmes, irrigation, introducing technologies, and our human resource development strategies. We discussed it yesterday with one of your ministers. We agreed on the details of how we will go about this because the development of our human resources is a priority for us. There could be other resources: oil, gas, minerals, and so on. But human resources are our human capital. We need to invest in that and we can rely on the Russian Federation to help develop our capacity to implement developmental programmes by guaranteeing the qualified human resources that we need. The details are there.
>Do we have the money? We will try to mobilise every single penny, and if we cannot mobilise this resource, we will say to our partners in the Russian Federation: “These are our plans and if you have an idea or an opinion, or alternatives we would like to listen.”
>Mobilising resources is a shared responsibility and we can mobilise our own resources from whatever is available: mining, agriculture, manufacturing. We can do that.
>Thank you for your patience. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/world/africa/18iht-eritrea.1.7548054.htmlEritreans are a very militant people. There is this famous saying they have: "Eritreans kneel on only two occasions, when they pray and when they shoot."
<Responding to U.S. accusations that they have abetted terrorists in the volatile Horn of Africa, Eritrean officials have defended their actions and said that while they would like to have better relations with the United States, they had no intention of bowing to its pressure.
<During the weekend, the Eritrean government held a conference for Somali opposition leaders that included some prominent Islamists whom Jendayi Frazer, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs, has called terrorists.
<U.S. officials have threatened to list Eritrea as a state sponsor of terrorism, accusing it of funneling weapons to Somali insurgents. But Monday, Eritrean officials denied that they were trying to destabilize Somalia and said their conference was a legitimate way to rebuild the shattered country.
<More than that, said Ali Abdu, Eritrea's information minister, if Frazer was trying to make "Eritrea kneel down in front of her," she had better learn what he called a basic Eritrean fact.
<"Eritreans kneel on only two occasions," he said. "When they pray and when they shoot."The women are also soldiers there since before they got independence. Afwerki and his wife were both soldiers and pic 1 is his daughter who is a soldier now. They're very big on pushing on gender equality and all that since they started as a communist org. As you are I'm sure aware, Christianity and Islam have a lot or patriarchal tendencies, don't treat women very well.
>>2682072I don't get why everyone stabs Eritrea in the back. They do it for absolutely no reason too. Eritrea fucking saved Ethiopia and Abiy Ahmed. TPLF was almost to Addis before Eritrea stepped in and defeated TPLF.
Picrel:
>“ኢሱ የቁርጥ ቀን ልጅ Issu the savior” is what is written on the poster. A truck in the Wolqayit Amhara region. Man I kept seeing this thread and resisted engaging with it but it kept popping up in the overboard, now I post and none of you are interested in talking about Eritrea anymore. There isn't much information you can get out there about Eritrea that isn't either from the Eritrean government or glowie news. I read this interesting RT article back from 2014.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/216831-eritrea-africa-west-conflict-propaganda/
>Sanctions, psychological warfare, propaganda, funding of its opposition, support for often hostile neighbors – the West has tried everything to break Eritrea. But here it is, undefeated and proud, marching forward.
>Some call it the “African Cuba”, or it could also be named the “African Vietnam”, but the truth is that Eritrea is like no other country on Earth, and it is happy to remain as such, unique.
>“We do not want to be categorized”, I am told over and over again, and whenever I ask whether Eritrea is a socialist country.
>“Look at Amílcar Cabral, from Guinea-Bissau”, I am told by Elias Amare, one of the most accomplished writers and thinkers in Eritrea, who is also a Senior Fellow at the ‘Peace Building Center for The Horn of Africa’ (PCHA). “Cabral always said: ‘Judge us on what we are doing on the ground’. The same can be applied to Eritrea.”
<Most of the leaders of Eritrea, most of its thinkers, are either Marxists, or at least their hearts are very close to socialist ideals. But there is very little talk about socialism here, and there are almost no red banners. The Eritrean national flag is at the center of all that is happening, while independence, self-reliance, social justice and unity should be considered as basic pillars of the national ideology.
> According to Elias Amare:
>“Eritrea registered success, substantial achievements, in what the United Nations defines as ‘Millennium Development Goals’, in particular ensuring free primary education for all; ensuring women’s emancipation and equality of women in all fields. In healthcare, it achieved a dramatic reduction in infant mortality, as well as the reduction of maternal mortality. In this regard, Eritrea is considered exemplary in Africa; few other countries have attained that much. So, despite all the obstacles that the country faces, the picture is positive.”
>“Eritrea continues on the national independent path. It has a progressive view in building national unity. Eritrea is a multi-ethnic, multi-religious society. It has nine ethnic groups, and two major religions: Christianity and Islam. The two religions co-exist harmoniously, and this is mainly due to the tolerant culture, that the society has built. There is no conflict or animosity between the ethnic groups or religious groups. The government and the people are keen to maintain this national unity.”
<But is Eritrea really a socialist country? I want to know, I insist. “Go find out for yourself,” I hear repeatedly.
> I go. I am allowed to come and see. I am taken to the places that I want to comprehend. I make friends here; determined, educated and well-informed friends.
> The propaganda pouring out of the West is defining Eritrea as a hermit ‘pariah’ state, closed to the rest of the world, militarized and oppressed.
>But after the six years that I have lived and worked in Africa, I quickly managed to realize that the opposite is true.
>In Eritrea I see great hope for the country itself and for the continent; I see education, hard work, meticulous planning for a better future, I see a new and sound development model.
>There are brand new schools and colleges, rural medical posts, cancer and heart clinics, roads cutting through the mountains followed by electricity poles. There are dams that are used for irrigation - important elements in the ‘food security’ project.
> Eritrea is poor, but it is poor with dignity. And it is clear that it is getting better, its social indicators are improving. Literacy is up from 20 percent right after independence in 1991 (only 10 percent for women), to the predicted 80 percent in 2015. Life expectancy, according to Dr. Misray Ghebrehiwet, the Adviser to the Minister of Health, went up from 49 to 63 years, which is very high by African standards. There is a compulsory and free vaccination program, and all Eritreans are enjoying almost free medical care, even medicine.
>It soon becomes clear to me that all this is exactly the reason why Eritrea is sidelined, demonized and even feared by the West: it is actually doing “too much” for its people, and too little or nothing for the multi-national corporations and for the Empire.
>It refuses to accept ‘help’, and it rejects loans. What it wants is respect, cooperation and equal treatment. It wants investment, even in the strategic mining sector, but only if the state retains controlling shares over at least 40 to 50 percent of the mining production.
> When at the end of my stay, the “ERI-TV” interviewed me, I pointed out that Eritrea is to the West like a dangerous virus, ‘an ideological, anti-imperialist Ebola’.
>And it is easy to see why:
>This entire part of Africa is now under the absolute and brutal control of the West: Somalia and Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as well as South Sudan.
>It is mainly because this is one of the richest parts of the world, in terms of its raw materials - one of the richest and therefore, one of the most devastated. In just the two last decades Western countries, and their multi-national companies, mostly though their proxies (client-states like Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya) have managed to murder around 10 million human beings. And in terms of the standard of living, the people in this part of Africa are patently the poorest on Earth.
> Then comes Eritrea, which fought for decades for its independence, and then demands that its resources should be used to feed, heal, educate and house its own people. It also insists that the entire Horn of Africa should enjoy freedom and self-determination.
>‘Dangerous’, isn’t it?
>What if the people in neighboring Ethiopia, Somalia, or DRC, begin paying attention and demanding a similar type of a society and government?
>What if they demand a social net? What if they insist that, like in Eritrea, cabinet members just walk down the streets, without any guards.
> Dr. Mohamed Hassan, a former Ethiopian diplomat in Washington, Beijing and Brussels, as well as an MP representing the militant Belgian Labor Party, explained to me, during our meeting in Asmara:
>“Eritrea is not a neo-colonial state. Eritrea is an independent state. Eritrea does not host any military bases, any external forces. Eritrea has the vision, and not only for Eritrea, but also for the region. It is also promoting self-reliance and regional integration. It is also built on the ideal: ‘let us use our own resources, and let us build our independence. It means elevating the life of Eritrean people, particularly those in the rural areas. This approach was considered in the West, as Chomsky said, as ‘a rotten apple’.”
>I ask him: Is it the main thing that the West is afraid of? Is it a ‘domino effect’ that the West fears?
>He replies readily:
>“Of course! Africa has some 50 percent of the world’s natural resources… Then consider this: the leadership of this country – they don’t steal. They are living a normal life, that of normal people. No leadership in any other country in Africa lives like ours here. You go next door – the Prime Minister of Ethiopia who just died, left his family some 8 billion dollars.”
< That is, of course, dangerous as well. Corruption is one of the tools used by foreign powers in enslaving the countries. Corrupt leaders are easy to manipulate, and as a rule, they do very little for their own people, and everything for their families and for the Empire.
> Elias Amare confirms:
<“Big powers do not want the Eritrean example to be replicated in Africa. I say again, Africa has huge natural resources. Big powers are now trying to grab these resources. What will happen if other governments in Africa were to try to follow Eritrea’s example? It would definitely not be beneficial to them.”
>For lack of a more realistic argument, Western powers are accusing Eritrea of “supporting terrorism,” particularly Somali ‘al-Shabaab’, which is also allegedly operating in Kenya. But Eritrea has no air force capable of transporting weapons, and between its ports and Somalia sits one of the most advanced surveillance systems on earth – that in Djibouti, a country which is hosting US and French military bases.*
>As a result of its policies, Eritrea is experiencing relentless ideological and propaganda attacks from abroad; it is clearly on the “hit list” compiled in the West, on the same list on which countries like Iraq, Libya and Syria were and are.
> It is also systematically boosting, financing and manufacturing ‘the opposition’ here, as it does all over the world in the countries it considers to be “hostile.”
>Aside of the usual political and propaganda tools, the West has even been implanting in Eritrea, extreme right-wing Pentecostal religious movements.
>Periodically, huge campaigns from the BBC or Al-Jazeera get pointed, directly, at Asmara, trying to trigger rebellion: the President, a revered former freedom fighter, is ‘constantly dying’, and ‘the government is regularly overthrown’.
>False news is spread, shamelessly and regularly.
>Milena Bereket told me that at the height of the “coup that never was” (January 2012), “African Strategies”, her political think-tank based in Asmara, had to serve as a defying force that helped Eritrean patriots around the world counter the barrage of disinformation spread by the so-called “experts”.
>That was the time when the Western news channels and Al-Jazeera were reporting on the ‘rebellion’ in the capital city.
> My local cameraman Mr. Azmera, summarized the event:
<“As the ‘coup’ was taking place, I was just leaving the Presidential compound, after working there for some time. I walked out, ate lunch… Then at 4PM I was called and told: ‘Al-Jazeera is reporting that there was a coup in Asmara!’ I just ignored them, and walked home.”
>The attacks against Eritrea are unabashed, but praise is rare.
>“You can find out how much we have achieved, if you read specialized UN reports,” explains Dr. Misray Ghebrehiwet. “But the mass media never quotes these reports and so the general public abroad mostly gets fabrications and negative propaganda about our country.”*
>Eritrea works extremely hard to build its own country, as well as a sound alternative development model for the rest of Africa.
> It is one of the countries that are facing, with courage and dignity, the most powerful adversary on earth.
>Although Eritrea is used to great tests, it deserves support from much bigger countries that are presently facing similar challenges. It is because Eritrean people are not struggling only for themselves, but for all of us, who are unwilling to surrender to imperialism!
>The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.The West is using its toxic propaganda to the maximum, in order to smear the country, to confuse its people, and to force the most educated ones into exile by twisting data and painting the country as hell on Earth. The US even issues, periodically, visas to those Eritreans who are not in possession of a passport.
>>2682125>Eritrea was uniquely unaffected as the only African country not to receive US aid last year.>The country is hardly an exemplar, trapped as it is in a state of permanent war mobilisation since winning independence from Ethiopia in 1993 and with few personal or political freedoms permitted under Isaias’s continuing rule.Got to shit on Eritrea in the middle of the glowing praise lol.
>But, spurred by an almost bloody-minded sense of self-reliance, on some development indicators it has fared as well over the past two decades as other countries that have benefited from billions in donor largesse.>bloody-minded sense of self-relianceBegrudging respect.
>According to UN data, life expectancy at 68 is the same as in Rwanda, which has been receiving in excess of $1bn in aid each year. More Eritreans proportionally have access to electricity, according to the World Bank, than people in Uganda, which in 2022 received $2.1bn compared with just $55mn, from UN agencies, for Eritrea.>“Eritrea’s approach from the outset, was anchored on avoiding structural dependency,” said Yemane Gebremeskel, the long-standing information minister. He said this made Eritrea immune to the vagaries and demands of donors. “More importantly, [aid] stifles local initiative and capacity,” he said. >>2682804> Thank you dear for visiting Eritrea. But, i was a bit wondering why you was afraid when you were alone? People was not shouting on you bad things, only appreciating. Eritrea is the most safe country in the world. But you have travelled a lot i thing you have realized by yourself. I think you have only misunderstood the attitude for pur people. ❤️🇪🇷✊🏽 < I think it's cultural difference they probably calling you. Eritrea is the safest place in to be 🇪🇷🙏🇪🇷 <I am wondering when she said ‘I am scared’ <Come on this is Eritrea no body cares about you may be they can see you because you have different skin colour otherwise whether you have money Gold nobody cares
>Thank you for sharing your passion for Eritrea and its people. I do wish you had asked your tour guides more about the buildings you highlighted. Not everything was built during the colonial era—for example, the beautiful Nakfa building you praised was actually constructed after Eritrea’s independence from Ethiopian rule.
>While the Italians did colonize Eritrea, many of the buildings were created in partnership with locals. You placed heavy emphasis on the Italian legacy, but it’s important to note that the Italians left in the 1940s, not the 1960s. Eritreans preserved and adapted the best of that era to fit their own culture, including the café culture and architectural style. The cleanliness and upkeep you noticed reflect Eritrean values.
>Some buildings you admired were actually less than 30 years old but were intentionally designed in the Italian style. As for your comments about feeling unsafe walking alone, those were your personal experiences. However, many women travelers say Eritrea is the one place they feel safe walking at night.
>That said, I appreciate your blog and the attention you brought to Eritrea!
< As a Somali women I went to Eritrea and absolutely LOVED it felt safe and not one person bothered me and I was walking everywhere by myself one thing I can honestly say is lot of people lie about Eritrea for a lot of reasons but truth is they are what every African country needs to be motivated self sufficient and honest.
> Omg u were practically in tears lmao……relax ur in Eritrea….ur safer in Asmara than an American city or any other African city……jesus u have lived in a safe place all ur life White woman tears… Lol and still the comments are all positive.
Eritrea also partnered with this guy to make the world's first Seawater farm in Eritrea back in 1998 but it threatened European money so they SHUT IT DOWN!
https://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/follow-the-food/the-people-creating-an-oasis-with-seawater.html>Like many green industries, seawater greenhouses have faced challenges. At the outset, Paton says they were perceived as a threat to existing agricultural policies and partnerships. The technological success of an early pilot project in the Canary Islands led to pushback from stakeholders concerned about undermining the monopoly European growers benefited from under the Common Agricultural Policy. Seawater greenhouses could enable growers in places like <Eritrea, for example – where an NGO had plans for a seawater greenhouse project – to compete with Europeans. So funding was pulled and the project shut down. https://carlhodges.life/seawater-projects>In 1998, his Seaphire International company signed a deal with the Eritrean government to build the first seawater farm. While the deal was easy, the initial start up was a bit rocky due to a border war between Eritrea and Ethiopia. Hodges showed up with the first shrimps and the seeds for the specialty crop called salicornia and immediately had to make a decision between his personal safety and following his vision. While colleagues left the country, Hodges stayed behind to take care of the baby shrimp.https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Saltwater-Farm-Irrigates-Desert-On-Eritrea-Coast-2941102.php>2001-03-18 04:00:00 PDT Massawa, Eritrea – Imagine a farm where water is never in short supply and each crop leaves the soil more fertile. Now imagine that farm offering a solution to the most vexing environmental issues of our times: global warming, declining water tables, loss of arable land, collapsing fisheries, and shrinking biodiversity. Finally, imagine that farm making money – real wealth, not just enough to pay the bills.
>After more than 30 years of restless research, Carl Hodges, an atmospheric physicist from the University of Arizona, no longer imagines such a farm. He has built one, and his secret might sound surprising: irrigating with saltwater.
>Seawater Farms, a joint venture with the government of Eritrea on the Red Sea, is the first commercial-sized saltwater farm in the world. The project is still being constructed, but Hodges expects it to produce $10 million in shrimp, fish, and products from an edible succulent called salicornia in its first harvests this year.
>By 2005, he and Eritrean fisheries officials estimate, the returns will increase tenfold.https://www.jns.org/eritrea-is-uniquely-situated-to-help-israel-in-africa-and-beyond/Just openly plotting how they're going to coup Eritrea.
>Iran is also allying with dictators who share its anti-Western narrative, such as the Eritrean dictator Isaias Afwerki. This network represents one of the greatest emerging threats to Israel’s security, yet Israel remains largely disengaged from the region, effectively self-isolating.
>The Gulf states, already deterred by the Houthis, will face greater pressure if another Iranian-backed Islamist group takes control of Sudan, further undermining the Abraham Accords. This is why the United Arab Emirates is trying to prevent it, backing the Rapid Support Forces, unfortunately, without support from Israel or America.I really don't know enough about the Sudan conflict but the RSF are the ones that are accused of genocide.
>It is not a question of if, but when Sudan will be captured by Islamists aligned with Iran. Eritrea’s geography gives its dictator veto power over Sudan because Port Sudan, the country’s only logistical lifeline, and the road from the port to Khartoum pass near Eritrea’s border. The Eritrean dictator and Iran can easily blackmail Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, leader of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), by leveraging the Eastern Sudan Beja tribes supporting Islamist militias within the SAF to seize control.
>While Iran builds alliances with Islamist militias and dictators, Israel isolates itself from people who share “Orit,” an ancient biblical text of Ethiopian Jews, and a cultural, historical and strategic affinity, the overwhelming majority indigenous Tigrinya nation of Eritrea, the only nation in black Africa with no tribal or clan structure. Honestly, this is difficult to understand.
>Eritrea is entering a period of inevitable change. Israel must not miss this moment. The dictator is old, ill and deeply unpopular, remaining in power mainly through absolute control of the media, narrative and isolation. Israel cannot simply sit back; it must play a role in shaping the transition.
>Turkey is supporting the Eritrean Muslim Brotherhood minority, even though they have little chance of success. Meanwhile, Iran continues to cooperate with the dictator and his cronies. Israel should work with the Tigrinya nationalists, who are highly organized, enjoy widespread popular support and maintain a clandestine presence within the Eritrean army—and whose success is almost certain. The stakes are too high to ignore.
>Eritrea, today the de facto nation-state of the Tigrinya, should become an official nation-state that prioritizes economic prosperity, the dignity of its citizens and democracy. An official Tigrinya nation-state will need Israel’s technology, expertise, capital, markets, networks and more to industrialize, urbanize and digitalize its coastal areas.https://www.reddit.com/r/Sudan/comments/13r0s6t/are_both_sides_equally_bad_in_this_war_is_there/< As with a lot of political disputes, it's complicated, we have many unknowns and everyone has an opinion. Here is my take generally. Sudan's military leadership, is the root cause of this problem, they managed the country with the understanding that the solution to most of their political problems were bombs/bribes/political suppression, and routinely combated any attempt at a civilian transition/democratic process. They facilitated the rise of the RSF, through training, financing and a media propaganda campaign, despite the majority of the civilian population being being weary of the Janjaweed/RSF.
<That being said, I think they are the clear "lesser of two evils" in this context. They are corrupt, they have structural and management problems, but the alternative, the RSF are effectively barely-literate chimps with guns, who are conducting a campaign of rape and pillage against civilians now. There isn't really a way around it, the RSF has to be stopped, and the only party with anywhere near the capability to do that, is the SAF.<Hope this helps, https://hornreview.org/2025/12/06/destabilization-as-modus-operandi-eritrea-and-the-sudan-conflict/>First, Eritrea has provided all sorts of support to SAF while maintaining a tactical posture against RSF. Various credible evidence from UN Monitoring groups and independent intelligence reports indicates that Asmara has politically and militarily aligned with SAF. This support reportedly includes military training, logistical assistance, and facilitation of drone operations using the Asmara and Massawa airfields, and arms transshipment, including anti-aircraft systems, barrel bombs, spare parts, and ammunition through Eritrean territory. It is also hosting SAF aligned armed fronts in camps located in the Gash-Barka Zone in Western Eritrea. Groups receiving training and support include the Sudan Liberation Movement under Minni Arko Minnawi, the Popular Front for Liberation and Justice in Eastern Sudan led by al-Amin Daoud, and the Eastern Sudan Liberation Force commanded by Ibrahim Dunia, a prominent figure in Kassala State.
>Second, Eritrea has reportedly deployed military personnel clandestinely inside Sudan. Conflict monitoring organizations have documented the presence of approximately 5,000 Eritrean soldiers positioned near strategic bridges along the Atbara River and in support of SAF operations in Kassala and Gedaref (Conflict Arms Research, 2025). This mirrors Asmara’s repeated use of proxy and shadow forces in the regional conflicts. >>2682835I have a stupid, naive question, is saltwater a renewable resource?
>>2682932>>2682835I also have a stupid, naive question, isn't saltwater bad for the earth cus the salt?
>>2682835No it's not possible to measurably drain the ocean, also the ocean is rising anyways.
>>2682942The land is already unusable because it is too dry and sandy. Also they are specifically growing plants that can grow in sea water. They explain it all in the video and you can see it in operation:
>>2682835
>Along the Sonoran coast of Mexico, Carl Hodges must be looked upon as a modern-day alchemist. Who else could turn a barren desert into fertile farmland?
>But Hodges did just that. Since founding the Seawater Foundation in 1977, the 70-year-old atmospheric scientist has become one of the world's leading thinkers when it comes to solving some of the world's complex ecological problems, and has met with everyone from Fidel Castro to Al Gore.
>Hodges's desert transformations begin with the digging of a single canal inland from the ocean. Pumps lift the seawater several meters in elevation; gravity does the rest, moving the water inland to a secondary series of canals and lakes that become home to a flourishing aquaculture of fish, shrimp, and mollusks. The seawater, now nutrient-rich with biological waste from the assorted marine life, serves as an excellent fertilizer, irrigating nearby fields of salt-tolerant plants. On its final journey, to Earth's aquifers, it replenishes depleted wetlands, whose rejuvenated mangrove trees attract fish, birds, and other wildlife.
>Salt accumulation, which has ruined farmers in the Aral Sea basin and California's Imperial Valley, isn't a problem. The plain and underground water table are already salty, and the constant flushing of irrigation, Hodges says, ensures that the fields won't exceed the salinity of the water. Nutrients from the effluent, meanwhile, do build up, improving soil fertility over time. >>2682958Thanks.any updates from the last few years.
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