Eritrea has no interest in dismantling the Pretoria Peace Agreement
In any war, the first victim is truth. Accurate information is often suppressed, distorted, or manipulated to control public opinion or justify actions. In the Horn of Africa, Abiy Ahmed is inexplicably waging war—both internally against fellow Ethiopians, including the Tigray, Amhara, Oromo, and Somali people, and externally against Eritrea and Somalia. In doing so, he spreads lies while aimlessly maneuvering across the region like a headless chicken.
One of the most absurd lies propagated by Abiy’s unimpressive camp is that Eritrea seeks to dismantle the Pretoria Agreement. The reasoning behind this claim is riddled with contradictions:
- Eritrea allegedly wants to dismantle the agreement because it was prevented from completely eradicating its former enemy, the TPLF.
- Eritrea allegedly wants to collaborate with the TPLF to overthrow Abiy.
Neither claim holds water. Both are fabrications designed to mask the real reason why the Pretoria Agreement is failing. The signatories of the agreement are the TPLF and the Ethiopian Federal Government, making it an internal Ethiopian matter. If blame is to be assigned for its failure, then both parties’ motives and actions must be examined.
Unfortunately, Abiy Ahmed fancies himself a modern-day Machiavelli, believing he can lie, cheat, and kill his way toward his vision of an Prosperity Party centered weak Ethiopia. What he fails to realize is that he neither possesses Machiavelli’s cunning nor the political connivance of Meles Zenawi to make any real progress toward his ambitions.
The real death of the Pretoria Agreement came when Abiy first reached out to Tigrayan military generals and the TPLF, attempting to turn them against Eritrea. His goal was twofold:
*Divert attention from his complete leadership failure.
*Stoke conflict to satisfy his narcissistic dream of claiming victory in securing sea access for landlocked Ethiopia.
Rather than ensuring Ethiopia’s peace, Abiy’s reckless and deceitful tactics are driving it toward collapse by dividing the TPLF leadership into those who comply with his agenda and those who resist.
In this context, constant inflammatory statements issued day-in and day-out by various political forces in Ethiopia regarding the Red Sea continue to be a recipes for unnecessary tension. This must be condemned in the strongest terms without any equivocation
