Meanwhile, in Medemerville…

The great negotiators who run the Eritrean Government gave this building to the Ethiopian government to make it its Embassy in Eritrea.

This gorgeous Art Deco building is in the upscale neighborhood of Cinema Croce Rossa hills en route to the American Embassy (warehouse of Bess company)

The beautiful villa was given in exchange for this beauty, which is the old Eritrean Embassy in Addis Abeba, complete with dusty beer bottles and dusty cars in the rowdy Meskel area on the wrong side of the Chinese light rail system. 

(Plastic arches and dragons not included)

The Eritrean president, who hasn’t passed on a bad deal for Eritrea yet, was back to his giddy self. At the ribbon-cutting ceremony, he forgot the laws of physics and didn’t know that a ribbon cut the wrong way results in the wrong piece falling to the ground but was characteristically lecturing the Ethiopians how to do it.  They gave him the bemused look you reserve for your great grandfather. At some point, the Ethiopian Foreign Minister, who was the police commissioner in the 2005 Ethiopian elections who gave the orders to shoot live bullets at the demonstrators, which began Isaias Afwerki’s 12 years of brooding and self-destruction (but hush, don’t remind him as he may close the opened embassy), stepped in to help our president with the very complicated task of cutting a ribbon.

Upstairs, in the balcony, the Ethiopians admired the great view of Asmara from the posh neighborhood and a villa with 17 rooms,  they noted, only to be interrupted by Isaias Afwerki to tell them on how even greater it is.

Meanwhile, Eritrea’s Ambassador to Ethiopia, Minister Semere Russom, was still in his Meskel Square warehouse, which goes for Eritrean embassy.

The dividends keep on coming.  Are you tired of winning yet?