Author: saay
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Abiy Ahmed Explains Meddemerism
Rejoice, Africa! Nobel laureate Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, has introduced an indigenous ideology which replaces all the ideologies Africans have experimented with: Marxism, Leninism, Maoism & Stalinism. What is it? What is the ideology of Meddemerism? Well, um, I was hoping you would tell me. All I know is he said, “if you don’t…
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Farewell, Elias Melka
Recently, Ethiopia lost of one of its greatest composers. In this season of death and destruction, we think it is a good time to remind all that we can be forces for good or forces for evil to be remembered, if we ever will for our fleeting time (613,200 hours, if we are lucky) here…
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ኣብ ምምዛን ብዕራይ ካብ በጻሕና ቀሪብና ኢና
ኣብዚ ምዕራባዊ ሸነኽ ናይ ዓለምና ሰባት ኣብ እዋን ሌላ ዝጻወትዎ “ክልተ ሓቂታት ሓንቲ ሓሶት” ዝበሃል ዓይነት ገበጣ ኣሎ። ንሱ ድማ ብፉኹስ ዝበለ መንገዲ እንዳተዘናግዑ ንኺላለዩ መታን ክሕግዞም እቲ ዝላለ ዘሎ ሰብ ነቶም ዝላለይዮም ዘሎ ሰባት ብዛዕባ ነብሱ ሰለስተ ነገራት ማለት 2 ሓቒታት ሓንቲ ሓሶት ይነግሮም እሞ፡ ኣይነየቲ ኢያ እታ ዘይቅንዕቲ (ዘይሓቂ) ፍለጥዋ ይብሎም። በዚ መንገዲ…
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Eritrea’s Authoritarians Attempt Totalitarianism
Eritrea’s sole legal party vision for its economy has been a “mixed economy.” This, of course, means nothing. “Mixed economy” means nothing because it means everything. In theory, it is a system where there is a role for the private sector to own the means of production and the public sector to regulate it while,…
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9.18: The Day Isaias Ran A Coup On Eritrea
My friends and I at awate.com called the G-15 [Group of 15] Eritrea’s reformers. To us, this was common sense: after all, here were a group of 15 members of the ruling party, People’s Front for Democracy & Justice (PFDJ) writing an open letter to PFDJ Members and describing their letter as “a call for…
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It’s Not Over ‘Til The Cow Is Weighed
Two truths and a lie is one of those games people play when they are trying to introduce themselves. Supposing Abraham Lincoln was at a party and he said “I am a licensed bartender, a licensed doctor and a licensed lawyer”, and you were guessing which one was the lie? The correct answer would be:…
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Isaias Afwerki Unhinged (Sawa Edition)
Yeah, but what is new? Confession: what I really want to call this article is “Isaias Afwerki Said Some Crazy Shit Again” but that is not befitting a head of state. There was a time when Isaias Afwerki used to pretend that he is not a dictator because (circular argument alert!) the Eritrean people would…
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For Eritreans, Every Day Is Half-Mast Day
The media has reported. The human rights groups are outraged. The pope has prayed. But everywhere else, but especially in the State media, it is radio silence. One hundred fifty individuals, mostly Africans, mostly female and underaged, most of the most being Eritreans, drowned in the Mediterranean Sea. These Eritreans, like the ones before them,…
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A Day In The Life Of Sawa High School Students
To give its readers perspective of what life is like in Sawa for those who attend the Sawa High School (officially the Warsay-Yikealo Secondary School), Eritrea Digest interviewed two individuals, a male and a female. While the answers they provided are comprehensive, it may not be representative of what every Sawa High School student experiences…
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Congress of Eritrean Bishops Letter of Protest
English translation of letter in Tigrinya addressing Eritrea’s Minister of Health Amna Nurhussein. 13 June 2019 RE: Institutions of Health Owned by the Catholic Church Respected Minister: God’s Peace be Upon You. It is to be recalled that since 1995 the Catholic Church of Eritrea has notified the Government of Eritrea of its mission in…
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The End of The Shitara Code
Of late, the government of President Isaias Afwerki has been issuing a series of Red Sea Doctrine papers. These are supposed to outline the government’s assessment of how Eritrea, other Red Sea states and their neighbors can optimize its use to maximize trade and security while maintaining paramount autonomy and sovereignty. “Surely,” will say some…
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Enough To the Politics of Pacification (ፖለቲካ ቺቸቶ)
If you thought Eritrea joining the Human Rights Council would improve its government’s ability to package its lies better–never mind to stop lying, never mind to eliminate the reasons for its lies–you will be sorely disappointed. It is determined to pursue the path of giving political pacifiers (ፖለቲካ ቺቸቶ) to its own people and bald-faced…