Day: March 3, 2018
we like this (and we don’t like many things)
you have heard of Humans of New York (HoNY). if you haven’t, it is a photo blog of random people in New York City. its creator, Brandon Stanton, has hundreds of thousand of tweeter followers and the blog’s Facebook has 18 million likes. why? it probably has tapped into a primal need of human beings to…
How Eritrea Benefits From Institutionalized Short Memory
[spider_facebook id=”4″] Whenever the Government of Isaias Afwerki is challenged to meet the demands of a UN-impaneled body, whether that is the Special Rapporteur or the Commission of Inquiry, it has a uniform reply: we are engaged with the UN via the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and we reject targeted mandates. And, in that regard,…
Please Hold While I Transfer Your Call To Nobody
Thanks for calling the hotline. Songs won’t do it. You can go all pop and repeat “And that’s the sound of me not calling you back” and even admit Lizzo is clever, but it is just a song and it will be over in minutes. Nor will Tigrinya music and its earnest sameness do, with…
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 Eritrea has very little corruption, it is nevertheless ranked by Transparency International as one of the most corrupt in the world).[71] They may also reflect…
Get To Know Your Africa
Your continent has five subregions. And it is your continent: if you didn’t think God has a sense of humor consider this: Eritreans, Ethiopians and all Habesha-types are fond of saying “I am not black, I am Habesha!” So, who is the world’s most famous Eritrean now? An American of Eritrean ancestry. And what does…
President Isaias Afwerki’s Acquiesence to Saudi Arabia
[spider_facebook id=”4″] Saudi Arabia and its allies–Qatar and Emirates–now have effective control of Eritrea’s coastline and its air space. How Eritrea, a fiercely independent country, got itself into such dependency is a subject that occupies the minds of all thinking Eritreans, including senior members of the ruling party, People’s Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ). Although…