Category: Dig
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Eritrea 2024: What Monocracy And Pragmatism Yield 30 Years Later
Due to huge blind spot and hubris, Eritrea’s ruling party (PFDJ) considers its weakest link—foreign policy—its strongest asset. But catalog the outcome of its foreign policy since 1991–its policy towards Sudan, Yemen, Ethiopia, USA, Djibouti, Qatar, UAE, —and all you see is a debris of blunders engineered by self-conceit. This, I submit to you, is…
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Sudan: Another Strike for Self-Inflicted Deafness
…when self-reliance is no more than a call for no witnesses When Sudan’s Islamist party assumed power, it had a message of “self reliance” and a catchy slogan: na’kul min ma nazra’e: nalbas min ma nasnaE. We shall eat what we sow; we shall wear what we manufacture. That was in 1989, thirty years ago.…