Isaias Afwerki: Africa's Kim Jong Un? 

You must be Texan, since you are giving zero fks! 😂😂 From England, I hope you’re all holding up well at your end with minimal casualties. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤️🇺🇸

Stay safe. What did you do in the navy?

Damn it str8 to hell brother 😂😂😂😂 u got ya priorities aligned Simon comes first 🤣

Hope you're well and fine as well as your dear ones ! Tbh I didn't even know there had been a hurricane. And we're in the year of B's already ? :o

Sorry my fellow Texan. I live in Fulshear, we got our power back on at 6pm yesterday. I hear even banks are closed (haven't left my house yet) out there. Stay strong, Center point says about 1.5+ mil still without power in our general area.

Isaias's pfdj is mainly a puppet of Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. At times those masters has disposed him from puppetry but he keeps changing masters to survive. Isaias is the cheapest servant to buy affordable even for rogue terrorists. That is the truth!

I think you should let people who actually live in the country comment 😂

It doesn't matter what the excuses but the country need fare election and freedom of citizens.....I think u missed how the people are living in the hell under his rule... why are the people of eritrea fleeing the country..is it forced by ethiopia regime or Western countries... I don't think so. u just trying to deceive the truth caused by your dictator......how can u say he is not a dictator.......he is not represented by people. He just took over the power and ruled the country for 33 years without election ....no sense bariya

@@yohannese.1164 You didn't mention what happened right after the final and binding decision following the Algiers Agreement.

Really

I could be wrong (might be a different African country). But I think Eritrea sent officers to NK to get tips and training on suppressing the population.

I know that Equatorial Guinea sent members of the dictators family to NK. One of them stayed, she preferred it there - which says something about things at home

*Turkmenistan has entered the chat*

You are wrong, eritrea have never done that, they dont even have any contact with north korea matter of fact they have really good relation with south korea since independence

😂😂

Use your own mind not Issayas's.

Are you serious? Let’s say you're right. What about after 2018? Don't be trapped by the dictators' excuses.

You have that kind of understanding, you should stay there and fight. You ran away and you telling us because of the war. Don’t be the dictator’s puppet .

@@politics9714you, use your own mind and be critical reader to know the real history of eritrea, and how it was betrayed by usa and Ethiopia for more than 80 years

You dumb

They were rushing to overthrow the emperor, they didn't have time to receive soviet artists apparently

@@TheAussie800 totally missed that thanks what a flag haha

It’s still on AddisAbaba Ambessa buses.

It looks like a comedy genre anime lion getting surprised/horrified by something. The eyes😂😂😂.

I don't know what sort of lion I was expecting to see, but it wasn't that.

100% right

exactly!

The official name of Eritrea is "The state of Eritrea" No adjectives. I like it

Grand -- gop Great -- maga 🤔

If you want to hear from Eritrean perspective, 1. The reason none stop military service, is because Ethiopia didn't leave Eritrea land from the Badme War 1998 until 2018, which is 21 years of Eritrea land under Ethiopian occupation and it was called no war no peace, and that also the reason why Isaias been ruling the country becouse he but Eritrea under emergency state since 1998 and since the forginer didn't leave out Eritrean land he didn't remove it! 2, The reason he have bad relations with west becouse for 16 years the US and western countries sanctioned Eritrea and they lifted up for one year but then they added sanctions again and isaias said that enough and went to Allie himself with sanctioned countries like Russia and the reason the sanctions they put aginst Eritrea becouse Eritrea stoped being democratic state. what do i think of this as Eritrean thier things a like and i don't like about our government but i certainly don't like the west especially USA because of their sanction there is no economic movement it stoped trade with other counties and development, which force people to move out off our country.

Xbuku gerki sister nezom gebeti hasewti natom zeygebru isaias aforki hero

100% yes

Gunufat hgdef

ብዕራይ!🤔🤔 ሃገር ምልእቲ ብቢንያም ግርማይ ክትልውጣ : ደንቆሮ ካልኣይ ክፍሊ ትምህርቲ ጀምር

how could a father be called a hero when you yourself can't appreciate him from the most comfortable place called home..you yourself are enjoying life in western countries not Eritrea for God sake 🙏..... please be true to yourself just yourself...50k Eritreans are languishing in Uganda alone and you in West...be honest to yourself just yourself...I know deep down you are saying they are right but you can't bring yourself to admit the truth and yet you are suffering deep down for I too was in your position for a very long time till I came out from my cave...

Now with a hat trick under his belt!

Don’t believe this video it’s lies about my country

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Who is we? 😂 Donkoro doesn't have internet, jobs or free speech but loves him?

😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

😂😂😂​@@NatE1

Stupid is as stupid does

nobody wants to buy it anyway

How can it be for sale, all you guys are leaving? Eritreans don't even want to buy it.

Agree. haters will always hate. Eritrea is not for sale

It's already sold😂

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Eritrea has been destroyed by essais and his goons. 😢

I'm Eritrean, what This gay is talking all wrong. 1. Dictator Isaias is a CIA Agent. 2.with Billions Dollars from America he holds power in Eritrea, Ethippia, Djubuty, South Sudan and Sudan. All over Horn Africa he has recruited around 2 million Soldiers all financed by America. 3. Since he came to power he craeted many wars all over in Horn Afrik and he killed millions of people. 4. Like this gay here, millions of Journalisten make propaganda for Isais all remoted by the CIA via media central agency. 5. He has killed or expelled 90% of the Eritrean People all financed ba the CIA and America.

Hell, with a friends list like that, who needs enemies 😂

😂😂what a joker

good and thank you very much. In politics you can go lost in deteils. The conclusion can give you better insight, like This. Do you know Isaias,? Isaias is the one Who killed or expelled 90% of the Eritrean People. Ask yourself where are you now. Where are the others?? Politics is not easy. Read here: Isaias Afeworki has been conispiring with Weyane against the Eritrean people since 1975 until now 2024. As you know Isaias is still a CIA Agent. All remoted CIA Agents and propogandist who help Isaias to keep power represent Weyane as the enemy of Isaias inorder to hide and manipulate the fact that Isias Afeworki and Weyane have been working together to kill and expell the Eritrean people out of Eritrea and empitize Eritrea. Weyane has not only expelled Eritreans out of Ethiopia but also refused to help the Eritrean people to fight and overthrow Isaias Afeworki out of Power. And this is the truth. What is the aim of Weyan and Isaias Afeworki. They implemented artificial hunger and poverty in Eritrea and artificial permanent war between ERITREA and Weyane-Ethiopia to kill and expell the Eritrean people and empitize Eritrea. Finaly they wish to create greater Tigray after the extintion of the Eritrean People. And this is the truth.

…how do you get worse than North Korea in terms of Press Freedom?

The latter is not true. In North Korea, simply consuming foreign media is a criminal offence and in Eritrea international news is broadcast in every café. Simon has never been to Eritrea.

​@@chrislorin9837 bump. I wanna know how

Reminds me of the Antifags and blm here in the usa. all the power of the courts, yet still bitch.

It is possible ! Eritrea is one example unfortunately !

Bit cliche

He doesn't see himself as the villain though :D

God reveals himself in man, and his country.

😮

I aspire to be like him. Revolutionary hero into absolute dictator

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I had to like this comment simply for using the word howdy

Suck it.

Nice to see someone spreading something other than hate

@@bandit5875 thank you. Appreciated

Sell out

@@traveltoeritrea7557 in your perspective. Don't speak for the majority.

Do not include me in your comment "our". I am not tyrant supporter.

@user-iq1rd2yu3h so why are you living in the West again? Why not go back to no democracy instead of living in the wests fake democracy as you claim? Why?

ok if you truly truly believe what you wrote why don't you go to where true democracy is..what are you doing here in western world..yes, you love your country but you can't feed your family in your country but then the west gave you a chance to better yourself and also allow you to take good care of your family and your relatives back home and yet you are complaining about not experiencing true democracy here in the USA...way good..please please go home to Eritrea tomorrow and pray from there for another chance to get back here again for I you wouldn't last more than three months and then you will ask for someone to help you survive...please please be true to your self for at the moment you are lying to your self and your family for your family wouldn't survive if you are not here in the USA...again when you go to bed this evening ask the deepest questions and truly be honest to your self...ask if you go home tomorrow how long you will survive and ask you decide to stay in Eritrea for good 👍 be brave and take action if you believe what you utter here...but I doubt for you are not brave enough to do what you feel deeply..

I am Eritrean , well said. He denailing the truth.​@@mannieberhanu3469

You are right 🎉🎉🎉❤❤ most yotuber they don't want speak about eritrean

I cannot understand why Eritreans want to deny the fact that the main reason for our situation is the leader himself. People are in fear not to fight hin

@@searis3624 yea we won't forget the warming up to Ethiopia and sanctioning Eritrea while Ethiopia invaded and occupied our lands for more than two decades. two decades of travesty of justice culminated in more sanctions towards us and more funding and supporting our aggressors despite trampling international law and order. AU, EU and UN looked away despite being the guarantors of Algiers peace treaty. History stands witness to the unfair treatment and collusion of western nations in denying peace a chance and emboldening Ethiopia to continue to occupy our sovereign lands.

@@searis3624 you are so ignorant how is that the leaders are the problem? Just because they said you are not touch Eritrea. Are u normal??? God your kind of ppl are problem to this country. Read research open your eye.. God 🙄

Eritrea should have not left.

If you want to hear from Eritrean perspective, 1. The reason none stop military service, is because Ethiopia didn't leave Eritrea land from the Badme War 1998 until 2018, which is 21 years of Eritrea land under Ethiopian occupation and it was called no war no peace, and that also the reason why Isaias been ruling the country becouse he but Eritrea under emergency state since 1998 and since the forginer didn't leave out Eritrean land he didn't remove it! 2, The reason he have bad relations with west becouse for 16 years the US and western countries sanctioned Eritrea and they lifted up for one year but then they added sanctions again and isaias said that enough and went to Allie himself with sanctioned countries like Russia and the reason the sanctions they put aginst Eritrea becouse Eritrea stoped being democratic state. what do i think of this as Eritrean thier things a like and i don't like about our government but i certainly don't like the west especially USA because of their sanction there is no economic movement it stoped trade with other counties and development, which force people to move out off our country.

@heavent883 speaking as an Ethiopian with Eritrean friends who heard their first-hand account from Eritrea, he has made life utterly miserable. Eritrean people deserve better and not see their country become a police state they have to escape from in the millions

@@nearly_epic the only reasen the Eritreans are moving out because of economic reason, and do to sanctions by the west, even if he is gone noting will change as long as they the sanctions are not gone, that why Eritrean don't remove him they know noting will change except eritrea going into to civi war, we are not stupid

Isaias's pfdj is mainly a puppet of Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. At times those masters has disposed him from puppetry but he keeps changing masters to survive. Isaias is the cheapest servant to buy affordable even for rogue terrorists. That is the truth! And which economy are you referring as our economy?😂 Even Derg era economy was much better and Isaiyas destroyed it.

U right bro

​@samuelsamuel8377 Indeed this Racists Evel RU-vidr is Pro Ethiopia, claims and predictes the possibility of war with Ethiopia any time due to Redsea.

@@semereberhane6807 are you sure that you're not a puppet..are you sure?..look I used to say exactly what you are saying but then I went home to Eritrea and realized we are more than a puppet..infact beggars if you want the truth..if not why not stay home in Eritrea do the true work we have to do to make sure the next generations are not beggars like me and you...true to be hold if we were what we preach to ourselves and others we should have made the sacrifice to better our lives and the lives of Eritreans at our cost but the truth is that we love ourselves to the point we beg the west to accommodate us so that we can take care of our beloved people of Eritrea from the west

@mannieberhanu3469 you misunderstood my comment. I said that we don't rely on foreign aids and that's 100% fact. We have problems within our society, and I completely understand and mention it also. I am residing outside my country because I can't have the opportunities I want, and it's not a sin. People were migrating since Abrham and Sarah in the Bible. But 100% we are not puppets of US or other countries. We have a hardworking society and you can travel to East Africa and see by yourself. All the business and investments in South Sudan, Uganda, Angola, and so on.

100%YES 🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🙏💯🐪

You and your kids are refugge.

Isaias's pfdj is mainly a puppet of Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. At times those masters has disposed him from puppetry but he keeps changing masters to survive. Isaias is the cheapest servant to buy affordable even for rogue terrorists. That is the truth!

😂😂😂😂 🐂🐂🐂🐂🐂🐂

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So why are Eritreans running away to other African countries instead of staying home?

@@STS-u1r They leave their country because of prolonged wars, and unjust sanctions. Please go deeper and learn who is motivating the wars and sanctions and you will find out who to blame.

Why are so many Eritreans fleeing to the west? Eritrea can't be that great, otherwise we wouldn't see them pouring into the US, UK, and EU. They will be sent back!

Isaias Afwerki*

Eritrea, often described as the “North Korea of Africa,” has never had a national election; there is no free press and citizens are not allowed to leave without an exit visa issued by the government.

Shortly after Ali Abdu fled Eritrea, his 87-year-old father, Abdu Ahmed Younis, was arrested and put in prison for five years. He died months after his release, according to Younis. It was not the first time he was detained by authorities. A 2004 Amnesty International report stated that the elder Younis was held in late 2001 for attempting to mediate between dissidents and the President. Ali Abdu’s younger brother Hassen Abdu Ahmed was also detained at the Sembel prison, where visitation rights are allowed, Younis said.

The country does not have legal opposition parties and Afewerki does not permit national elections, establishing a one-party state .

And why did you run away from the most conscious leader in the world? Why not go live under his amazing rule?

Well why don't U go & live there?

Go live there 😂

You hypocrite go and live there then 😂

😂😂😂 Isaias's pfdj is mainly a puppet of Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. At times those masters has disposed him from puppetry but he keeps changing masters to survive. Isaias is the cheapest servant to buy affordable even for rogue terrorists. That is the truth!

massive aid, they literally brought Ethiopia back to life from the brink of collapse. Heavy Weapons and soldiers

And Zoomalia was supported by US, UK, FRANCE and all the wester country's AKA NATO

​@@ibrahimhassan711And Zoomalia was supported by US, UK, FRANCE and all the wester country's AKA NATO

Living under the colonial boot after you ran off from home, what a joke

15:10 JENOVA

Eritreans future is bright- Bini, Bini- we will win every game.

Bini rides bicycles. What that got to do with the down fall of Eritrea under the dictatorship of essais afwerki. Wake up

I'm Eritrean, what This gay is talking all wrong. 1. Dictator Isaias is a CIA Agent. 2.with Billions Dollars from America he holds power in Eritrea, Ethippia, Djubuty, South Sudan and Sudan. All over Horn Africa he has recruited around 2 million Soldiers all financed by America. 3. Since he came to power he craeted many wars all over in Horn Afrik and he killed millions of people. 4. Like this gay here, millions of Journalisten make propaganda for Isais all remoted by the CIA via media central agency. 5. He has killed or expelled 90% of the Eritrean People all financed ba the CIA and America.

It can't be helped, because he has to record those in a different room

Except that one time, prematurely early.

Be honest, that was the only mistake there was in the video.

@senaisimon5802 he called Badme, Bad-way multiple times. He suggested that the TPLF and Eritrean government should have been natural allies based on ethnicity in 2020 which should have prevented the war. They haven't been anywhere close to allies for over 25 years and the idea that they should be allies because parts of Eritrea are ethnically similar to Tigray is wishful thinking and excludes the various geopolitical and historical issues in the region. My point is if you're going to make a video about this kind of topic, you should be buttoned up and crisp on your understanding of the situation. Everybody knows the situation in Eritrea is not great.

@@RealTalk2000 Leaving pronunciation aside, his analysis of the situation was spot on. If you listen to the build up of the recent conflict, he begins by mentioning that Ethiopians were upset with the ruling Tigray government, which was a point of ethic conflict. As an outsider watching the events, anyone would assume that ethic peoples side with each other in conflict. It isn't unreasonable for someone to place emphasis that the people fighting are from the same ethic group. It would make news if Kurds in Turkey and Iraq started fighting each other or if Armenians in Armenia and Iran went to war.

@STS-u1r I hear you and agree that this surface level analysis would be valuable for outsiders. With that said there are multiple instances of people from similar ethnic groups fighting (see Somali, Sudan and even Russia/East Ukraine and spots in the Middle East). Again, my point is if you're an outsider attempting to paint a picture of what is going on within another country, these mistakes/gaffes hurt the message, even if the message is generally "correct". The 1st time he showed Sebhat Ephraim and called him Isaias was a small gaffe but he did it again at the 7:03. At that point, I had to question if this video is serious or not.

@@RealTalk2000 I'm not saying similar ethnic groups fighting each other, but ethic groups fighting each other in an ethic conflict. If we are going to be honest, the HOA is worse than the Game of Thrones, he's right to be confused.

Isaias's pfdj is mainly a puppet of Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. At times those masters has disposed him from puppetry but he keeps changing masters to survive. Isaias is the cheapest servant to buy affordable even for rogue terrorists. That is the truth!

If you choose ignorance be sure that ignorance will always choose you.

​@@politics9714Don't interfere in Eritrean issues.

You are ignorant

I prefer the term “Simonverse,” but I think most people have settled on “Wistlerverse”

You marvel nerds gotta stop with this “multiverse” crap. It’s getting lame 🤡

All what he said is all false

@@ryannarcisse lmao ….you the only clown I see. why you mad cause I used “multiverse”? No one even thinking about marvel…go cry somewhere 🌽🏀

Only after the dictatorship comes to a halt !

I visited Eritrea last year- did not see a single homeless person. They are doing much better than filthy inner cities of USA.

@@yayatore3962that’s because the regime arrests homeless people and puts them in camps. Basically sweeps the problem under the rug

​@@yayatore3962😂 I like Issayas but truth is that shabiya failed that nation period.

⁠@@amourgagnetoujoursmaybe if you know each detail about that country you’re not going to say that Shabiya is trying to keep that country still stand with the help of the people there you know how many times try to fail that country Ethiopia or western

And your point is?

You are wrong. We Eritreans are all Isaias

​@@Zeyede_Seyum Freed from Ethiopia? Btw he is Ethiopian(Gojame) don't forget. We Ethiopian will reclaim Qafar back to their people. You should thank Somalia for those helps. Asab is Ethiopia.

​@et_matrix Dream all you life time, my friend from neighbor country, you will be land locked all your lifetime and my be divided into 3-6 countries soon

@@et_matrixthe Eritrean Afar are waiting for you and they’ll show you what Eritrean Afar means good luck

Don't trust the media

​@@GG-lh2ywConflict with Ethiopia means our whole country would be involved for the war. But we only have ourselves to blame for not dividing Ethiopia and annexing her territory when we had the opportunity to do so.

Yes, that's a Biographics video.

I am a student at the University of Asmara, and I say it's false. You guys are always talking nonsense. God simply created you landlocked. Neither TDF nor Afar gives access. And do you know there are also Afars who live in Eritrea?

Every country will teach you whatever is in favor of their interests. The U.S will not tell you how they took the land from the natives and so on and so forth with every country. You know how the saying goes the winner writes the history but whatever the case may be yall lost.

@@tekk7298 we aren't taught this by the university, but suddenly old professors start to say "when we were young..." so what I'm saying is not in our official courses

Tplf had nothing to do with it. At the time we were allies. We trained and armed Tplf and helped them capture Addis Ababa and in exchange they didn’t interfere with Eritreas independence. Btw 99% of eritreans voted for independence.

@@Omer1996E.C I did not try to assume but by saying “our professors, doctors and lecturers” you sure did make it seem like it was a part of your history classes but regardless of that I would like to ask you what do you think Eritrean elder citizens will preach about the history of Eritrea/Assab, if you think it is “Assab is rightfully Ethiopia’s” let me tell you are wrong. I would like to also point out that after the Algiers agreement Eritrea wasn’t the one trespassing the border agreement but Ethiopia. Let’s be frank do you think Assab is the key reason to Ethiopia not being stable at the moment? I feel like it should first and foremost solve the problems within its own borders.

He has on his channel called Places. Search for "Turkmenistan; the world's wackiest president," or something very close to that 💜 Edit; Found it, it's called -- Turkmenistan; the worlds wackiest dictatorship.

Not all I am Eritrean, but I do not like killers like your Lord. He is evil

Don't trust this journalist, I am from Eritrea all What he said is 98% fabrication of false information that want to Blake mail Eritrea. I wish to see and visit first hand.

Don't trust this journalist, I am from Eritrea all What he said is 98% fabrication of false information that want to Blake mail Eritrea. I wish to see and visit first hand.

Ethiopia was colonized by Italy right before WW2 for a short period so there is Ethiopian independence.

@@yousufaman1738 Please differentiate between colonization and occupation.

@@condoaddis you like to use it for your country as an occupation when Italy took over but when we Eritreans say the same about Ethiopia’s occupation on our lands from 1952 till 1991. You are no different than the white man trying to use words to manipulate and twist things around.

@@yousufaman1738 in order to declare a region colony u need to have total administrative control & total control of local politic. the italians had none of them they couldn't administrate the rural area which are the largest part of ethiopia compared to cities, northen shewa & eastern gojjam were specially notorious, belay zeleke was appointing governers in gojjam who were more powerful and had more authority that italian appointed governers the patroit local politics was also total chaos as local grivances b/n them result in them fighting each other when they were not fighting italians and finaly ethiopian occupation is similar to the frecnh, polish, yugoslavian and greek occupation literally as they share similar patterns

Well they won’t by this debunked video. 😂

@@rozinamisghina2565who debunked it? i’d like to watch that vid

@@cwj2733 let me rephrase easily debunkable , I’m not a video gropher/editor. debunked was more of a statement…. I wouldn’t doubt one would come out soon or later, at this point, it’s almost pointless.. there are actually videos of Eritrea everywhere, that already debunked smilar videos , this videos is just a copy cat.

Why do people need to know about it?

@@rozinamisghina2565 what’s easily debunkable then? you still haven’t iterated which points in this vid are false.

Actually, the EEBC-Hague REITERATED that Badme was Eritrea's. Big difference. Then PM M. Zenawi knew that, but that war, backed and pushed by the US, was just to reverse Eritrea's independence and create a vassal state, install a puppet so they could steal our resources and control Eritrea's part of the Red Sea!

What is the good that it is doing, just curious?

​@@STS-u1r just wait and see. Even if anyone tells you, you won't get it.

@@zakhakim7257 Interesting, we have been waiting for over 30 years.

@@STS-u1r 30 years isn't too much to wait for nation building. Especially if you are just waiting for someone to do it for you.

Excellent observation wawwww I like your comment. That is the reason of this narrative. He don't care about Eritrean people his care is about destabilizing the region.

How do you paid the mimc your lies 🤑

this is propaganda man

I am Eritrean . Born and raised in Eritrea. Left the country in 2010 at 20. Everything he said in this video is totally true ! I love my country, i should have denied everything just to try to give it a good image. However, thats the truth!

Might just be a mistake on one end or the other. Had a form in my grandfathers PIF where he was engaged in a kamikaze attack against his ship in 1844. Sometimes we just get records that are wrong. Or, all the numbers are right, and they were still there afterwards. Could be any number of things. But, if you're an American, I'd suggest checking the National Archives. catalog.archives.gov/ Looking around I found my grandfathers entire service in WW2, the entire military careers on ancestors in the Civil War, and some immigration paperwork from when my family originally came over during the Revolution. Might find some info there.

The narrator is simply a mercenary. With no knowledge of the region and history.

You are from Tigrai. You can't be Eritrean. Big difference.

😂 I hate to say That he is narrating the worst part of out history at least we had some how better history at the time Italian colony plus we get free education and health care which is not found in other countries but he never mentioned the recent conflicts..

Yessss 1000 times

Colonialism is inherently dictatorial so

Those clips are before Eritrea gained independence-debunked comment- Videos from the independent Eritrea 2024 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7Jsnd3DTDJ0.htmlfeature=shared at the time this video came out , which is the tour the France. Eritrea 🇪🇷 is in tune, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7Jsnd3DTDJ0.htmlfeature=shared Debunked videos, are also what the people will champion to do as well . When people try to tell our story for their interest , we’ll be there to debunk as well. 🪽🌎new world

@@calebbean1384 no its not

Eh, it's hard to say... Colonialism sets up extractive institutions against the marginalized, no doubt. However, inclusive economic and political institutions heavily depend on pre-colonial outlook on institutions. Prior to colonialism, Eritrea was divided into different polities: Some were an Islamic vassal state of notables to the Ottomans (Habesh Eyalet), others being centralized Christian kingdoms (Hamassien). Based on what I read so far in Lords of the Red Sea by D'Auvray, it looks like they were pretty extractive, especially the Christian polities that were similar to the Ethiopian Empire in political structure: feudal, absolutist, and militarized extractive institutions. Those polities weren't united either, at least from what I understood. Its good to note that Ethiopia was never colonized, yet still had these characteristics that squandered it's chances of becoming a developed nation, despite it's strong history of centralization. Maybe it ends up being similar? It's also hard to see Eritrea ever uniting into the nation that it is today without one common enemy that created artificial borders, and another common enemy that helped solidify those borders by annexing it and subsequently committing some nasty atrocities. EDIT: I must note two things. Firstly, polities in the region we now know of today as Eritrea we're not static. They were subject to change. Secondly, in an alternate timeline where that region is never colonized by the Italians and is united into a nation parallel to Eritrea, it would be very difficult for that administration to destroy institutions of old and create new institutions that would turn out successful. There's only two nations I know of that did this: Turkey and Botswana. It's rare, very rare.

@@DavidGidey A couple of disagreements: -Inclusive economic and political institutions didn't exist in the majority of African polities (very few, expect the Tigrinya in "Hamassien", had a direct form of voting. However, you will be hard press to find one that included women, making them by definition extractive) -Prior to colonialism, ALL of Africa was divided into different polities. However, the Christian polities that you speak of in "Hamassien" (Modern Day Eritrea) practiced a form of direct democracy, including written by laws and penalties that were followed. This was in complete contrast to the political structure of Feudal Ethiopia. The form of self government was inclusive to members of villages, often times sharing land within a village between families and preventing land ownership to outsiders. -Although Ethiopia was not colonized it's formation as a nation happened in conjunction with the creation of the political entity of Eritrea. Menelik, our the father of modern day Ethiopia, created the borders through his expansion of the south, southwest and west, he never ruled over Eritrea or present day Eritrean land. He claimed Yohannes' kingdom after his death, but what is failed to be remembered is that the "Hamassien" was paying often in open conflict with Yohannes. It was a conquered land, never indigenous to the Tigray feudal order. Beyond that, the historic and demographic realties are actually different. Eritrea has more of a harmonious ethic relationship without the historical grievous that Ethiopia harbors. Lets not forget, Hadiya, Welega, Oromo, Harar, and Wolaita are all conquered land and all have a claim to some type of independence. Eritrea on the other hand doesn't have that issue, once their replace their awful government, they have a inclusive economic and political institutions to build on. Ethiopia is an empire, extractive in nature and can not stop.

@@EritreanPost it's about a brutal dictator.

refugee propaganda

Thank you for speaking the truth Rose 🙌

@@KINGKING-pi9wu Western media sheep

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@@setsunatenma9467 bot is the one who agrees with western media bullshit.

Because you don't know, you have no mind at all. you're as empty as a can.

We? who is we? Am not proud! I am ashamed that's some Eritreans like you worship him when he plays with your land money.. and more jails than school

Mercenary. Clueless analyst.

@@tesfaiasbu6694do you know what a mercenary is? Calm your nationalism.

Was that not what the war was about? Are you trying to argue that Somalia didn’t want to annex the Ogaden?

@@Tom-2142 The Ogaden rightly belongs to Somalia, annexation is the wrong word, the correct term would be reunification. Over 90% of the Ogadens inhabitants are ethnic Somalis who were separated from their kin by an artificial colonial border. It is not a natural border. Ethnic Somalis have lived in those lands for centuries, To reiterate the correct term is reunification not annexation. Annexation implies a land grab for territory that doesn't historically belong to you and is illegitimate in nature, for example, the annexation of Hawaii by the USA in 1898. That isn't what Somalia attempted to do. It was far more legitimate in basis, more like an attempt at something like the Italian reunification of 1871 (Risorgimento) or the Spanish Reconquista of 1492. I can't think of a more moral reason to conduct warfare than for the reunification of a people. There is no better justification, they will likely attempt it again once they rebuild their military. They are a people nationalism comes easy to.

@@ibrahimhassan711 Well meaning of words aside, the Ethiopian kingdom has Ogaden within its borders before the Italians invaded, and when the British kicked the Italians out of the Horn of Africa in ww2, they restored Ethiopia under its pre war borders, it’s not as if the British had taken Ogaden from Italian Somalia is it? Besides how is Somalia going to get it back? It doesn’t even fully control its own borders and its states have a lot more autonomy than a central government should allow. Not to mention the population imbalance between Ethiopia and Somalia, the very weak Somali economy, lack of military or even much civilian industry in Somalia compared to Ethiopia which has a domestic military industry. Somalia cannot produce its own weapons and so must buy them from abroad, but if it wants to launch a war against Ethiopia, with what money would it buy the necessary massive quantities of ammunition, weapons etc?

If it was the best, you would live there my friend.

You are refugge

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​@@peacetotheworld1737Eritrea don't accept any aid like other African countries from USA and western countries that's why they put sanctions on Eritrea for 2 decades,

You are Liar we Don.t have such you damn in Eritrea thinks undernational and who is trying to sell lies to Western countries and Washington gov.

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😂😂😂 How you visited Singapore. I don't think so

Man had his dictator game in point

Well you know where is the killer it’s not in Eritrea it’s in your country and you know where it is