Two Videos: Pro & Anti-Government Forces Mobilize
The Commission of Inquiry’s (CoI) much anticipated report on human rights in Eritrea is expected to be provided to the Human Rights Council (HRC), which convenes in Geneva from June 13 to July 1st. As they did last year, the exiled Eritrean civil society–community-based organizations, youth and women groups, professional associations–and opposition parties are conducting…
Eritrean Regime’s Strategy To Deal With Geneva
[spider_facebook id=”4″] While Eritrea has been under UN sanctions since 2009, it is the potential act of another UN agency, that of the Geneva-based Human Rights Council (HRC), that has been keeping the ruling clique in Eritrea worried. The UN’s HRC, which mandated the Commission of Inquiry on Eritrea (CoIE) to conduct an investigation on…
Melancholy (Wo)Men
[spider_facebook id=”4″] In sorrow, Eritrea’s aging revolutionaries stood on the stands, accepting the salute of a once-glorious army they helped degrade, by allowing a mad man in their midst to demean them. In some ways, they are like the Soviet Union’s aging custodians of the Bolshevik revolution who held fearsome May Day parades, as they…
Eritrea This Week – 20160523
[spider_facebook id=”4″] At Eritrean independence silver jubilee, after telling Eritreans that everything that is right with Eritrea is credited to his government and everything that is wrong can be blamed on the United States, the 70-year old President Isaias Afwerki told his audience: “may we meet for our golden anniversary.” This is consistent with wikileaks…
Government of Eritrea and the Commission of Inquiry
[spider_facebook id=”4″] The mouthpiece of the Government of Eritrea, shabait.com, has published a Ministry of Foreign Affairs press release to complain about the timing of the release of the report by the Commission of Inquiry on Eritrea (CoIE.) The statement goes on to describe such a release, whose timing it considers “credible information” as an…
Eritrea’s Descent Into Barter Economy
[spider_facebook id=”4″] It has been over four months since the Government of Eritrea announced a new monetary policy which included issuing new currency, restricting the amount of money that individuals can withdraw and moving, in principle, from a cash-transaction economy to one based on checks. Though its purpose was not announced, the goal appears to…
Eritrea: Too Independent To Be Free?
[spider_facebook id=”4″] On May 24, 1991, Eritreans, for the first time in their history, earned an opportunity to govern themselves free from any foreign power. This was a hard-fought outcome which came about as a result of People Power: 1890 – 1941: Eritreans chafed under the rule of colonial Italy. 1941 – 1951: Eritreans, then administered by the…
A Tale of Two Colonies
The Atlantic ROBERT D. KAPLAN APRIL 2003 ISSUE GLOBAL Source: The Atlantic. Click here for the 2003 colonial mindset of Isaias Afwerki Yemen The ruins of the 3,000-year-old desert capital of the kingdom of Saba (the biblical Sheba), outside the Yemeni city of Ma’rib, should be overrun by tourists. Mud-brick towers tilt crazily on…
Eritrea Macro Policy – 1994
Here’s the pdf of Eritrea’s macro-economic policy of 1994. Eritrea macro-policy