Eritrea, located on the Red Sea coast of the Horn of Africa, was the ‘firstborn’ colony of Italy. #History #Africa #Colonization #Eritrea #HornOfAfrica #ItalianEritrea #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2695-en/
Social Media Platforms Are Spreading Violent Warmongering Content Encouraging All-Out War Between Ethiopia and Eritrea, Again
A statement from @DAIR at https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/tigray-social/
"For the last 3 years, we have been researching and documenting the role of social media platforms in exacerbating the 2020-2022 Tigray war. We performed computational analyses to quantify the level of hate speech on these platforms, and interviewed content moderators to better understand the organizational practices that have resulted in the platforms’ failures to adequately curb genocidal language. These platforms pledged to do better following the revelation that they promoted violence that incited genocide against the Rohingya in 2016. Facebook claimed to do “longstanging work to protect people in Ethiopia” when confronted with its moderation failures during the 2020-2022 Tigray war which resulted in the genocide of Tigrayans. But we are seeing an acceleration of the same type of warmongering on social media platforms that we documented at the beginning of the catastrophic Tigray war in 2020.
It's not enough to perform a postmortem analysis after millions have been killed, maimed, or displaced, and merely promise to do better without delivering on that promise....
This spread of violent language is not unique to Facebook. Clear calls for mass violence and warmongering on TikTok, X (formerly Twitter), and YouTube are exponentially growing with no signs of action by these companies. Supporters and opponents of both the Ethiopian and Eritrean governments have spent months antagonizing each other on these platforms, threatening to destroy each other on the battlefield, promoting the recruitment of fighters, and demonizing enemy factions. Renowned Ethiopian government-backed activists with hundreds of thousands of followers have flooded these platforms with clear calls for all-out war against Eritrea and the annexation of its territory."
Afewerki beherrscht Eritrea: Afrikas letztes Einparteiensystem
Seitdem es das ostafrikanische Land Eritrea gibt, gibt es dort nur einen Herrscher: Diktator Afewerki denkt nicht daran, die Macht abzugeben. Die Jugend flieht vor dem Militärdienst - wenn sie kann. Von Antje Diekhans.
Razzia gegen mutmaßliche Eritrea-Terrorgruppe
Wegen Terrorverdachts laufen seit den Morgenstunden Durchsuchungen in Deutschland und Dänemark. Die Razzien richten sich gegen Menschen aus Eritrea, die für Attacken auf Landsleute bei Eritrea-Festivals verantwortlich sein sollen.
This is absolutely crazy, as if central/horn of #Africa is about to errupt into full-on warefare: #SouthSudan, #Sudan, #Ethiopia, #Eritrea, #DRC, #Rwanda and now #Burundi. .../2 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq5znee2dxno
Egypt’s FM delivers message from Sisi to Eritrean President https://www.byteseu.com/789325/ #Egypt #Eritrea #HornOfAfrica #RedSea #somalia
The list of countries voting against condemning Putin for the invasion of Ukraine reads like The League Of Failed Democracies (other than North Korea, which never bothered pretending to be a democracy).
joining the same team as north korea, russia, sudan, and equatorial guinea feels like a real "jumping the shark" moment for america.
p.s. people wondering why #Palau is on the list may be unaware that Palau is a real up and comer in the global #MoneyLaundering industry and has become infested with russian money in the aftermath of the sanction regime.
In my opinion, the source of all the disinformation about non-existent Israeli &Iranian military bases in #Eritrea is none other than #Israel & Stratfor, the shadow CIA. It's sad that such outright lies are regurgitated by media outlets of #Russia & #Iran.
https://x.com/EliasAmare/status/1888037264460235136
@palestine@a.gup.pe @palestine@lemmygrad.ml @gazawatch @flawed @lebanon @irannachrichten @yemen @blackvoices @politics
UPDATE
I too posted this video from Pelham here, but never ignore what Elias has to say about the ACCURACY of all the information on the said video(not difficult to verify):
Why is Saskiya Taylor peddling such blatant lie about #Eritrea?
https://x.com/EliasAmare/status/1888034426946470322
#Gaza
#Palestine
#Syria
#iran
#lebanon
#Genocide
#geopolitics
@palestine@a.gup.pe
@palestine@lemmygrad.ml
@gazawatch @flawed @lebanon @irannachrichten @yemen #AntiImperialism
#russia
#blackmastodon
#china
@blackvoices
@politics
Meta has so many blood on their hands, that it is unbelievable people are still using their products. And also don't forget companies like Sama, who are also into the #AI scam. Using people from the global south for mentally damaging (and underpaid) social media moderation and AI training! Just 
STOP using #Meta products! Yes that means #Instagram, #Threads and #WhatsApp as well!
DW: *How social media was weaponized in Ethiopia’s Tigray War *
#Earthquake M4.4 strikes 63 km NE of #Massawa (#Eritrea) 29 min ago. More info: https://m.emsc.eu/?id=1747036
Katharine Houreld: How a brutally repressive African country freely raises money in the U.S.: Eritrea’s embassy has helped raise millions of dollars to promote the interests of the cash-strapped country. Its ruling party is under U.S. sanctions.
"Three years ago, the United States imposed sanctions against the ruling party of #Eritrea a small and brutally repressive country in the Horn of Africa.
And yet, Eritrea’s embassy in Washington has helped raise millions of dollars on behalf of the cash-strapped country since then, while Eritrean officials acknowledge that the government and the ruling party are one.
#Sanctions
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/11/20/eritrea-sanctions-ruling-party-pfdj/
■ Viaja a la 'Corea del Norte de África' y confirma las atrocidades: "El país número 1 en violación de derechos humanos" ■ "Es un país absolutamente hermético", relatan.
https://www.huffingtonpost.es/global/viaja-corea-norte-africa-confirma-atrocidades-el-pais-numero-1-violacion-derechos-humanos.html?int=MASTODON_WORLD
The Edelstam Prize 2024 is awarded to Mr. Dawit Isaak for his outstanding contributions and exceptional courage in standing up for freedom of expression, one’s beliefs, and in the defence of Human Rights.
Eritrean journalist Akberet Beyene was placed under house arrest in her home country as part of a crackdown on the media, and eventually fled the country dressed in her mother’s clothes and carrying her sister’s passport. It was just the first step in her journey to Canada as an asylum seeker. She tells her story in a new book, Geographies of the Heart,
which is excerpted in @thetyee.
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2024/10/31/Journalist-Escapes-Eritrea-Geographies-Heart/
#RefugeesWelcome #Books @bookstodon #Culture #Canada #Journalism #Media #Eritrea #AsylumSeeker #Immigration #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
Idag fyller Dawit Isaak 60 år. Han gör det i Eritreansk fängelse. https://etidning.dn.se/shared/article/bjorn-wiman-de-kom-for-marcus-och-martinus-och-motte-dawit-i/11k-BGlt #DawitIsaak #eritrea
"I've shared this before, but it needs repeating!"
#Russia's allies:
#Belarus , the country, has been ruled by #Lukashenko for 30 years.
#Eritrea , the country has been ruled by #Afewerki for 31 years.
#Iran , the country has been ruled by #Ali_Khamenei for 35 years.
#Syria , the country has been ruled by the #Assad dynasty for 53 years.
#DPRK , the country has been ruled by the #Kim dynasty for 76 years.
Tell me who your friend is...
New friends who I met at the ribbon skirt workshop today. Mom & daughter. They're from #Eritrea - in the Horn of #Africa region. They've been in Canada for 12 years. I kept the little one entertained & played catch the plushie with her, when her Mom was working on their matching yellow ribbon skirts. The little one liked my purple ribbon skirt layout 
