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Eritrea-Ethiopia: A Confederation We Didn’t Vote On
A confederation is an institutional arrangment in which the policies of different districts are, at least in part, influenced by the preferences of voters from other districts in the confederation....
View ArticleReports on Eritrean Demonstration in Geneva: 08.31.18
Sights and sounds of Eritrean demonstration for “full peace” or “peace-with-justice” at Geneva on August 31, 2018. While welcoming the Eritrea-Ethiopia peace, the call is for peace with peace-dividend:...
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Happy September 1, Eritrea
The reason Eritreans stood up for themselves on September 1, 1961 is not because they hated Ethiopians. It is because the Ethiopian ruling regime (the government of Emperor Haile Selasse) took away...
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Dr. Newitol Answers Your Weird Questions (11-20)
11. Ashenafi Honelign (from Bahir Dar): OMG! OMG! OMG! I hear Issu Wedi Afey His Excellency Girmawi Isaiyyyas Afeworq is coming to my town! I am pleased and honoured that he is coming! But since you...
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Pride and Happiness
What is happiness, anyway? Scientists will tell you it is about dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins. But what do they know. I mean, have you ever met a happy scientist? Plus, they are always...
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Eritrea In Pictures: Geneva, Massawa, Asab
In a hall full to capacity, Eritrean demonstrators for justice assembled to plan the next steps for taking their movement forward. A day earlier, on August 31, a large crowd variously estimated at...
View ArticleMinister Berhane Abrehe Message of Defiance From Eritrea
This audio message is sent by Eritrea’s former Minister of Finance, Berhane Abrehe, which he recorded from Asmara, Eritrea on September 1, 2018. The video is hosted by Eritreanliberty.com, which is...
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There are few certain things: 1. Any government however liberal or conservative, left or right, will find a way to tax you; 2. You may live the right way or the wrong way; but, eventually, you will...
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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...
View ArticleEritrea: Promises of More of the Same
Eritrea’s Charge d’Affaires to the United States is Berhane G Solomon. A protege of Yemane Gebreab, the ruling party’s Director of Political Affairs, Berhane even has Yemane’s body language: the...
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Refreshing: An Honest Ethiopian Reportage On Eritrea
If you have been watching Ethiopian media in Eritrea, whether due to its desire not to be a “downer”, or its fear that it will spoil the environment of peace, or because it genuinely believes it, the...
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Finally, Our Peace Dividend
The much-anticipated opening of the Zalambesa and Bure points on the Eritrea-Ethiopia border, occurred today. Zalambesa connects Eritrea capital Asmara to Tigrayan capital Mekele and towns further...
View ArticleUS To Eritrea: Nice Try, But No Reform, No Sanctions Relief
It is a bad day for PFDJ which almost always means it is a good day for the Eritrean people. The Isaias Afwerki regime appears to have calculated that if it makes peace with Ethiopia, Somalia and...
View ArticleContempt
Since June 5, 2018, when Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed expressed his government’s intent to accept the Algiers peace Agreement with Eritrea without reservation, the leaders of both countries...
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Dr. Newitol Is Here To Add To Your Confusion: (21-30)
21. Curious from Hmeret Kelboy asks, ” why did Eritrea and Ethiopia sign their peace agreements 3 times? Dr. Newitol: One for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, now, go, cat, go. The one...
View ArticleWorld Reacts To Arrest of Minister Berhane Abrehe
On Monday morning, September 17, the Government of Eritrea arrested former Finance Minister Berhane Abrehe in Asmara, Eritrea. The former minister had published a two-part book in Tigrinya highly...
View ArticleGeography Foils Government of Eritrea
The Government of Eritrea, which has a long history of exhausting every bad idea before grudgingly accepting the good one, is on to its next bad idea: making peace with Ethiopia by bypassing the...
View ArticleEritreans Single Right: The Right To Smoke Anywhere
This was originally posted in Facebook by an Ethiopian visitor to Asmara. It is consistent with another report by an Ethiopian journalist and presents an unblemished report of Asmara, far different...
View ArticleIn Eritrea, the Peace Dividend Is Same As The War Dividend: Migrants
Whether Eritrea is in a state of war, in a state of no-war-no-peace, or in a state of peace, it appears to have one export: migrants. Consider: Eighty-eight (88) days after Eritrean politicians went...
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