Tag: EPLF
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It’s Time For A Unity Government In Exile
Nineteen years ago today, on February 2nd 2002, Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki corrupted the Eritrean Parliament into taking measures that were effectively institutional suicide. How and why it took this shameful and fatal step is chronicled here. Unquestionably, the removal of an institution that was the last check on the executive accelerated Eritrea’s slide into…
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Kiss in the Teahouse
It has been months or years since you left home and joined one of the liberation fronts for independence. Meanwhile your family has been searching for you and, if you are lucky, they will succeed in meeting you. The trip was mostly complicated, especially for the visitors living in the non-liberated areas. Passing the military…
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Eritrea: Betrayals and Pyrrhic Victories
What was the war about? And what is this peace about? And why did peace happen in June 2018 and not, for example, in November 2004? Why was there a “border war” in May 1998 to begin with? What is our peace dividend? It was not about borders or demarcation. If it was, 7 weeks…