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We Can Matter If We Want To

This is about Eritrea.  But since Eritrea’s sole agenda has been Ethiopia for two years now, we have to begin there, with our neighbors down south. Have you ever tried to discuss a conflict, any...

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NTT-on-GiE: Final Assessment

  NTT on GiE - Final Assessment

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Yowhannes Tquabo Reinterprets Victory and the Masses

“Victory to the Masses” is a phrase that the EPLF can truly say it invented.  So I argued, at least, with an Ethiopian on Twitter, for reasons I thought were nationalistic then–wasted time, now.  No...

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How 9/18 Changed Eritrea Forever

On September 18 & 19, 2001, the Government of Eritrea enforced the disappearance of a group of Eritreans who had called for reform, and the reporters who reported on them.  This article is not...

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What Eritrea Must Do Now To Close All Venues To War

There are reasons to believe that Prime Minister Abiy’s address to the Ethiopian parliamentarians on the Red Sea is a rationale for war. The address went above and beyond the concerns of a land-locked...

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Season of the Undead

How Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy came to power is worthy of a short book by an author like John Lee Anderson, who already got him to tell us a lot, including his contempt for his predecessor...

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Assab: Whose Port Is It, Anyway?

Since 1889, Ethiopia has signed 8 treaties forfeiting its claims on Eritrea. With prompts from the host, Reyot Media’s Tewodros Tsegaye, the guest, Dr Yacob Hailemariam, tells us in an interview why...

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PM Abiy & Co: Bullying, Belaboring, Big Lying

“What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive” (Sir. Walter Scott, 1808) Towards the end of his talk to his parliament (November 14, 2023) on the Red Sea controversy of his own...

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Of Honey and Vinegar: US-Eritrea Integrated Country Strategy

According to the US Department of State, the “four-year strategy that articulates the U.S. priorities in a given country” is referred to as the Integrated Country Strategy (ICS). It is led by the...

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የቀንየለይ ትስፉው ተስፋልደት!

ተስፋልደት ኣለም መሓረና ዓሪፉ ምስ ሰማዕኩ ክልተ ነገር ኣሰንቢዱኒ። እቲ ሓደ ህይወቱ ምሕላፋ። ኣምላኽ ኣብ የማናይ ክንፉ ይቀበሎ። እቲ ካልኣይ ግን ጣዕሳይ ዝፈጠሮ ስንባደ – ውሽጠይ ኢዩ። ንተስፋልደት ብኣካል ይኹን ብቴሌፎን ረኺበዮ ወይ ኣዘራሪበዮ ኣይፈልጥን። ከምቲ ኩሉሻዕ ኣብ ባህሊ ትግርኛ እነዘውትሮ ግን፡...

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Testifying for Tes: A Life Well-Lived

There is a traditional Tigrina blues song, from the 1800s which was repackaged in the 1970s, which narrates the story of Neguse, wedi degiat Geretsadek, from Areza. It has many memorable lines, such...

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The Horseshoeing of Eritrean Politics

Politics is a line, a continuum, where the far right and far left are far apart on every issue.  No, politics resembles more like a horseshoe than a line, argued a French artist, where the far right...

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Clarifying Shabait’s Clarification RE Commission Ruling

In an article entitled “To Clarify Our Understanding,”the Eritrean “Editorial Board of Newspapers” adds further confusion to people’s understanding on the origins of the Eritrea-Ethiopia border...

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Decolonize Our Justice System

I get a warm and fuzzy feeling when I attend graduation ceremonies, something I have done twice a year, for thirty years now.   They are warmer and fuzzier when they are of Eritreans. And Ethiopians,...

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PLO Lumumba in Asmara, Eritrea

On April 29-30, Eritrea’s Ministry of Justice hosted a conference at Hotel Asmara Palace entitled “Values & Justice” purportedly to integrate “Eritrean values” to its legal framework.  We will save...

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Friends, Fiends & Foes of UN Charter

You know how you are reading an email or a message from someone claiming to be from America and then you realize there is something off about their English and it’s probably some hacker from Russia...

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Damages: What Eritreans and Ethiopians Did To Each Other

Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up, argued Ronald Wright, rightfully. Take Eritrea and Ethiopia, for example.   After the 1998-2000 Eritrea-Ethiopia border war, the two countries...

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“It’ll Be Revealed In Due Course”

Independence Day addresses follow this formula: (1) This is why this day is important [insert brief history of what it took for us to be independent.] (2) This is what we have accomplished so far since...

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Summoning The Unrepresented

The post-Tigray War Eritrean politics has left us with four groups.  There are Eritreans who have always felt and still feel perfectly represented by: (1) the Government of Eritrea (Theme: “NNNN. My...

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