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    Ethiopia: In Search of Casus Belli To Get Assab


    Eritrea and Ethiopia have gone to war twice now.   One, the War for Independence (1961-1991), took 30 years.  The other, the War for Border Demarcation (1998-2000) lasted two years.  During …

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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 …

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    Trump Election Explained To Eritreans (in Europe, Canada, Australia)


    It's not about Kamala Harris.  Or that she was a woman.  Or that she was Indian-Black. After all, she got more votes than Obama (male) did in 2012, and about as …

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    Eritrea & Its Party Congresses (1971-2024)


    Buckle up. This will be a long post. Before I get there: Radio Erena is the closest thing we have (imo) to the inheritors of Eritrea’s disappeared journalists. It’s not …

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    Dr Newitol – Why The Horners Are Horny For War


    161. Ferej from Asagale, Southern Red Sea, Eritrea: The last time we heard from you was in November 2022 before South Africa. Since then, Abiy, referencing some warlord, made a …

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    Eritrea By The Numbers 2024


    Notwithstanding the deliberate efforts by Eritrean state media to hide them and their contributions from the Eritrean public, there are 11 UN agencies in Eritrea.  Some of them issue annual …


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Decolonize Our Justice System

Posted On May 5, 2024

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 […]


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Clarifying Shabait’s Clarification RE Commission Ruling

April 13, 2024

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 …


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The Horseshoeing of Eritrean Politics

February 25, 2024

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 …


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Testifying for Tes: A Life Well-Lived

February 4, 2024

There is a traditional Tigrina blues song, repackaged in the 1970s, which narrates the story of Neguse, wedi degiat Geretsadek, from Areza, from the 1800s.   It has many memorable lines, …


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የቀንየለይ ትስፉው ተስፋልደት!

January 29, 2024

ተስፋልደት ኣለም መሓረና ዓሪፉ ምስ ሰማዕኩ ክልተ ነገር ኣሰንቢዱኒ። እቲ ሓደ ህይወቱ ምሕላፋ። ኣምላኽ ኣብ የማናይ ክንፉ ይቀበሎ። እቲ ካልኣይ ግን ጣዕሳይ ዝፈጠሮ ስንባደ - ውሽጠይ ኢዩ። ንተስፋልደት ብኣካል ይኹን ብቴሌፎን …


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Of Honey and Vinegar: US-Eritrea Integrated Country Strategy

December 23, 2023

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 …


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PM Abiy & Co: Bullying, Belaboring, Big Lying

November 23, 2023

“What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive” (Sir. Walter Scott, 1808) Towards the end of his talk to his parliament (November 14, 2023) on the Red …


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Assab: Whose Port Is It, Anyway?

November 11, 2023

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 …


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Season of the Undead

October 26, 2023

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, …


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What Eritrea Must Do Now To Close All Venues To War

October 25, 2023

There are reasons to believe that Prime Minister Abiy’s address to the Ethiopian parliamentarians on the Red Sea is a rationale for war. The address went above and beyond the …


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How 9/18 Changed Eritrea Forever

September 18, 2023

On September 18 & 19, 2001, the Government of Eritrea enforced the disappearance of a group of Eritreans who had called for reform, and the reporters who reported on them.  …


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Yowhannes Tquabo Reinterprets Victory and the Masses

April 23, 2023

"Victory to the Masses" is a phrase that the EPLF can truly say it invented.  So I argued, at least, with an Ethiopian on Twitter, for reasons I thought were …

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