He also accuses Eritrea of exploiting the tension between TPLF factions
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Toronto – Eritrea is facing accusations this time from Ethiopia’s former president, Mulatu Teshome. In an Op-Ed piece he published on Al Jazeera on Monday, Mulatu, who described the Horn of Africa as “a theatre of fierce geopolitical rivalry” because “Great powers and regional players perpetually circle its vast strategic resources,” painted Eritrea as a destabilizing actor in the region.
He linked Eritrea to conflicts in the region, including those in Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, and Somalia. He made strong accusations saying “War is the main business and preoccupation of the Eritrean state. Stirring conflict here and there, supporting rebels, insurgents, or governments seeking war and division throughout the region seems to be the raison d’être of the Eritrean state.”
Mulatu also accused Eritrea of opposing the Pretoria Agreement, which ended the bloody two-year war between the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF)-led Tigray regional state and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s federal government. Eritrea was involved in the war after the TPLF fired rockets targeting locations in Eritrea, as the TPLF saw it then as an ally of Abiy Ahmed’s government. However, Teshome argued that Eritrea was opposed to the agreement because Isaias Afwerki, as he put it, has an interest in “continued conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.” Some analysts, however, have suggested that Eritrea opposed the agreement because it sought a total military defeat of the TPLF and believed that Abiy Ahmed’s government would not be able to meaningfully disarm the TPLF – which was one of the core element in the agreement.
Furthermore, Teshome accused President Isaias Afwerki’s government of being connected to the Fano movement in Ethiopia’s Amhara region and the recent tensions in the Tigray region, where two factions of the TPLF are struggling for power. He accused Isais of engineering “a militia in Ethiopia’s Amhara [regional] state.”
Teshome sees one faction of the TPLF as “unhappy” with the Pretoria Agreement, but for a different reason. There are now credible reports—including from Tigray regional state officials—that one faction, which is unhappy with the agreement, is working with the Eritrean government. Some even believe that it could go to war against the federal government—a scenario that aligns with recent reports that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed met with his military generals as African heads of state flocked to Addis Ababa for the 38th AU Heads of State Summit and told them “to be ready.”
Another major accusation made by Ethiopia’s former president in his article is that Eritrea, or Isaias as he puts it, is “trying to exploit divisions within the group’s ranks.” He warned of potential war if stakeholders do not act through diplomatic means to pressure Eritrea to pursue peace. If war were to break out, it would have a domino effect, destabilizing the entire region and beyond, impacting all stakeholders.
He wrote: “The stakes couldn’t be higher. To Ethiopia’s west, Sudan is consumed by civil war. To the east, Somalia is struggling to rebuild after decades of gradual collapse. Across the Sahel, extremist groups are gaining ground. A possible return of conflict to the Tigray region must be assessed in this context. A belt of chaos stretching from the Sahel to the Horn of Africa would be catastrophic. It would embolden groups like al-Shabab and ISIL (ISIS), creating new havens for terror and disrupting global trade through the Red Sea.”
His message to those with geopolitical and other interests in the Horn of Africa is: “The consequences of renewed conflict in the Horn wouldn’t stop at Africa’s borders. Waves of refugees would head for Europe and beyond, further straining already fragile systems. Extremist ideologies would find fertile ground, their reach extending into the Middle East. Global powers, from Washington to Beijing to Brussels, have a stake in what happens here. The Horn’s stability is a shared interest.”
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The former prsident Mulatu Teshome thinks that the Tigrayans have short memory and postes what is possibly Abiy Ahmed`s deceptive propaganda. It was Abiiy himself who requested the Eritean government to intervene iin the Tigray war following the total victory of the TDF over his army. The Eritrean forces palyed a leading role in the war and reversed the initial military gains of the TDF. Their officers commanded the two wars in Tigray and forces looted properties. From this propaganda piece by Mulatu, one can see that Abiy Ahmed is in fear of being ousted by Eritrea as his Oomo dominated army is incapacitated and can not defend his power. Oromia is the gift of Tigray to the Oromo people and the TDF will defend it.
Here goes the neighborhood! Them niggers are itching for a turf war. You think the Bloods and Cribs live only in Compton and South Side Chicago? You won’t be surprised to find the real originals in Asmara, Mogadishu and Addis/Finfinne. The only difference is the hardware on their laps. These days their show-off on their own citizens has been carpet bombing drones. I’ve told you a million times that those niggers were born for violence and live on violence. They don’t even feel it. They are totally numb. For them, it seems human blood is like fresh red roses, budding. So, the grim reality continues.
“It is true —War is the Eritrean state’s main business and preoccupation.” The Eritrean regime must stop sending its poverty-stricken citizens as mercenaries to destabilize nations of East Africa. Some disillusioned pro-Eritrean regimes have been heard to declare that no country on the earth can bring the Eritrean army to its knees. . With this disillusionment, they took the role of mercenaries all over the place to fill their regime’s coffers in order to earn a miserable living and resort to plundering to supplement their gains from the fight.
Just curious. How come the photo of the former President Mulatu is not used on this article when the photo of the Eritrea Minister of Information was in the headliner responding to the accusation? Is that being so hateful of one and in somehow cahoot with the other one? It looks so soiled up landscape out there. That reinvented lasagna could be working. Bravo Al-Toweel!!!