Author: saay
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Hamdan: Eritrea Is Run By A Deep-Faking Deep State
By all measures, says Abdulkader Hamdan, the government of Eritrea and the Eritrean opposition have failed. He says this in his channel HoA TV (link below) He attributes the failure of both due to something very Eritrean: the strive for Oneness, the strive for Conformity, the strive of Exclusive Representation of the Eritrean people. This…
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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 President Is Always Right”) ; (2) Brigade Nehamedu, Bright Future, Felsi et al (Vibe: “By Any Means Necessary”); (3) there are Eritreans who…
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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 independence [insert list of achievements.] (3) These are some of the challenges which remain [insert list of challenges.] (4)…
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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 produced many expert cartographers who can tell you which hamlet falls on which side of the new officiated border as ruled by the Eritrea-Ethiopia Border Commission (EEBC.)…
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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 (Boris or Sergei) writing you? Whenever I hear of “Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the…
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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 why this is “purportedly” and not real for later, but for now we will address the address given by one of the invited guests: Professor…
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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, for that matter, with their stoles and stashes declaring their political statements: this year’s special is the green-yellow-red tricolor: arengwadie…
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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 conflict of 1998-2000; questions whether it was a “border conflict” to begin with; is mum on the policies and practices of the Eritrean government in inflaming and sustaining the…
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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 and far left are closest to, and bend towards to, each other. By that, he meant that both…
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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 U.S.A’s Chief of Mission to a country–in the case of Eritrea, the U.S. only has Deputy of Mission Leslie Freriksen since July…
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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 none are binding & why Eritrean port Assab belongs to Ethiopia. Let’s look at all his arguments, with a brief intro to the…
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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 Hailemariam Desalegn and his love for America, so much so, he would die for her. His version of The…