How To Speak Like An Eritrean Official
…and by “how to speak” we mean “how to speak in public” because that’s not how government officials speak in private, among people they trust. It’s not easy but you can do it. Here’s how to practice:...
View ArticleTaking the Temperature of Eritrea’s Health
What is the state of healthcare in Eritrea? What is the “before” and what is the “after”? What are the objective ways to measure if the health of Eritreans is progressing, regressing or at a...
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Eritrea Travel Advisory for Young Eritreans
This is your forecast for the week of January 9th, 2017. If you are traveling to Eritrea, be sure to “regularize” your relationship with the Government of Eritrea by filling out a repentance form. Its...
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Don’t Tell Eri-TV But UNICEF Is Telling
In Eritrea, where the vast majority of livelihoods depend on subsistence agriculture and pastoralism, 80 per cent of the population is vulnerable to recurrent drought. Since 2015, Eritrea has...
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Africa: Where Un-elected Leaders Elect A Leader
I am teary-eyed, and you may want to have some tissues ready because you will, too, by the time you are done with this article. It is about the impossible–democracy in Africa–and how 54 individuals are...
View ArticleSub-Saharan Blues
The World Bank has come up with its forecast for 2017. It calls it Global Economic Prospects and it’s 276 pages. You can read it here: Here are the four most interesting tables, from its regional...
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Corrupting Eritrea In Broad Daylight
“Such rankings may, of course, be distorted due to poor international perceptions of, or a lack of access to, the country. (For example, although donors and investors universally acknowledge that...
View ArticleShortest Version of Isaias Afwerki’s Interviews
You don’t have to watch the annual interviews of President Isaias Afwerki to understand his viewpoint. Just apply the Isaias Afwerki Constant (iak) and you are there: Domestic Affairs A sector by...
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Why Did Amina Mohammed Lose A Sure Thing?
Writing for Aljazeera, Hamza Mohammed gave a lot of reasons why Amina Mohammed, Kenya’s foreign minister, who was the favorite to win the Capo di tutti capi of the African Union, lose. Here they are,...
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Elections and Children of the Horn
When you hear Horn of Africa all you are thinking is drought, famine and conflict. But wait: this is the birth of humanity. It is the area that ancient Egyptians called “Punt” (land of gods); it is...
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The DP Is In The Details
ED’s picks for the week “Pulse”, is harvested from all over, and deals with news and commentary on the Horn of Africa. Human Rights in Eritrea: On March 12, the Special Rapporteur on human rights in...
View ArticleWhy Eritrean Govt’s Diplomacy Will Always Fail
The job duty of a foreign mission anywhere in the world is this: to represent the interest of their country to the host country. This requires meeting with government officials of the host country,...
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When Challenged, The Gov of Eritrea’s First Instinct Is To Lie
Almost everything in this article published by State website shabait.com is wrong, misleading or false. This would be beginning with the byline: the ministry it is attributed to, the Ministry of...
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The Hood – Spring Edition
KENYA’S Daily Nation has the backgrounder which preceded the reconciliation between Kenyan President Uhuru and opposition leader Raila Odinga. It includes (1) elders of the the tribes the two...
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Why Eritrea Didn’t Sign The Africa Free Trade Area
Last Wednesday, March 21 ,2018, at the 10th extraordinary session of the African union, held at Rwanda’s capital Kigali, forty-seven (47) African countries signed their consent to make Africa continent...
View ArticleLike a Pinball, Eritrea’s Foreign Policy Bounces All Over
March 2011: Following the emergence of the Arab Spring, Mr. Mohammed Juma “Abu Rashid”, is interviewed by London-based Al-Hiwar TV. The Eritrea activist tells factual developments in Eritrea since...
View ArticleEducating PFDJ On Its Own Law
Copied: Wide-eyed part-time YPFDJ cadres, misty-eyed perfervid patriots, new atheists who speak in feverish secular fundamentalist tongues, epigones of modernity, Western ‘experts’ who are so incurably...
View ArticleIt Knows You Are Deaf
Publisher: This Is Being Published Until The Author Starts Being: It Knows You Are Deaf By Desert Wasp Resurrected Wounds Don’t Open Up To Bleed They Stand Tall To Announce Your Own Death When GoD...
View ArticleYamamoto’s Visit To Eritrea
Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Ambassador Donald Y. Yamamoto is scheduled to visit Eritrea, as part of his swing in the Horn between April 22nd and April 26. The itinerary, according to...
View ArticleOverdue Eritrea Visits ACHPR
“The State of Eritrea presents its initial and combined reports that encompass eight periodic reports overdue since its accession to the Charter.” So begins the first sentence of a 100-page report...
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