Historic Visit: Abiy of Ethiopia State Visit...

[Jabuutawi]

To Eritrea. What are the political and economic ramifications of this momentous occasion. Have your say!

[bareento]

Tears in my eyes!
Woow we love our Eretrean brothers

B.

[Khalid Ali]

Mashallah long live the unity of the tigray and tigrinya people. The habasha leadership is gonna emerge soon.
Another yekunu amlak or king ezana will be born soon

Meles zenawi must be smiling in his grave

Allow dhowr biladul habasha.

[AbdiWahab252]

Berbera value dropped by 50%. Who wants to invest to develop infrastructure to an underdeveloped port when Massawa and Assab are open for business?

[Jabuutawi]

Truth be told, it will take billions of dollars of foreign investment (FDI) and many years to develop Assab and Massawa ports to international standards. That is assuming Eritrea's pariah state is off the list of the United Nations and other international bodies. They have to settle their border disputes with their neighbors before one dollar of foreign investment shows up its way to Asmara. That is a long, difficult task and process for Isias Afwerki to understand the dynamics happening in the region. I am not sure he'll be around to see the end process.

Ethiopia is a huge country, even if Assab/Massawa ports are up to par (difficult to envision in the next decade or so), they can only service northern region, in particular Tigray (small population) and some Amhara region.

Djibouti ports have qualitative and quantitative advantages over Eritrea's. Distance wise, centers of populations in Ethiopia are closer to Djibouti ports (and Berbera if it comes to fruition), read Addis, Dire Dhabe, and Oromia regions in west, central and south of the country. These are where most Ethiopians live. Added advantage for Djibouti is the DIFTZ, just inaugurated couple days ago. The continent businesses (and Europe's) do not have to travel to Singapore, Dubai, Honk Kong and Guandong to transact businesses. They come to Djibouti and seal the deal, saves them time and money.

Finally, there is the security issue with respect to Massawa's port. A rebel group (Afars) opposed to the regime has been waging a low-key disturbances with Asmara. They have been historically marginalized and feel this is time to flex their leverage over the whole Ethio-Eritrea love fest for what it's worth.

[original dervish]

If Ethiopia pulls the plug on these trouble makers........they're finished.

[HabarGidir1]

never trust an eritrean.. they look habashi but at the same time look arab... a confusing place with people who are unpredictable..

[HabarGidir1]

Truth be told, it will take billions of dollars of foreign investment (FDI) and many years to develop Assab and Massawa ports to international standards. That is assuming Eritrea's pariah state is off the list of the United Nations and other international bodies. They have to settle their border disputes with their neighbors before one dollar of foreign investment shows up its way to Asmara. That is a long, difficult task and process for Isias Afwerki to understand the dynamics happening in the region. I am not sure he'll be around to see the end process.

Ethiopia is a huge country, even if Assab/Massawa ports are up to par (difficult to envision in the next decade or so), they can only service northern region, in particular Tigray (small population) and some Amhara region.

Djibouti ports have qualitative and quantitative advantages over Eritrea's. Distance wise, centers of populations in Ethiopia are closer to Djibouti ports (and Berbera if it comes to fruition), read Addis, Dire Dhabe, and Oromia regions in west, central and south of the country. These are where most Ethiopians live. Added advantage for Djibouti is the DIFTZ, just inaugurated couple days ago. The continent businesses (and Europe's) do not have to travel to Singapore, Dubai, Honk Kong and Guandong to transact businesses. They come to Djibouti and seal the deal, saves them time and money.

Finally, there is the security issue with respect to Massawa's port. A rebel group (Afars) opposed to the regime has been waging a low-key disturbances with Asmara. They have been historically marginalized and feel this is time to flex their leverage over the whole Ethio-Eritrea love fest for what it's worth.

good info... gonna use this for my spying trip to Ethiopian cities.. hopefully i dont get caught..

[Khalid Ali]

Eritrea is a strong state it as an army of of million men ready for combat isias use totalitarian ruler the country has no constitution. Isias afewerki is a strong and smart statesmen he drove jebha remnant mostly muslim army in Sudan. He conscripted all young people in the sawa military camp. The Arabs and Saudis Emirates want Eritrea to be on their side of the geopolitical war against Iran houthis. Remember the Emirates gave Ethiopia 3 billion dollars. For us in Somaliland it's good and bad their unity our main concern is djibouti the Arabs want to punish djibouti because Dubai port world had a need with ina cumar geele. And Eritrea still occupies part of our land ras domairaa we must stand with djibouti agaist Eritrean aggression. Also djibouti ports assab can't compete with djiboutian ports