Tag: Eritrea
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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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Bishop Fikremariam Hagos Address in Segeneyti
The following is an English translation of Bishop of Segeneyti Eparchy, Father Fikremariam Hagos’s address to the parish on Sunday June 16. The original (in Tigrinya) was posted by Asenna TV (ATV) and can be found in the link below: A loving person is someone who receives everything done unto him with gratitude and admiration…
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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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On Eritrea’s 1997 Constitution
This interview was originally published by awate.com on February 28, 2001. It was continuously updated to include follow-up questions by the interviewer and in response to readers’ questions, posed directly to the interviewee, until May 17, 2001. This will be first in a series of research documents on Eritrea which will be published in this…
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Eritrea – State of the Nation
INTRODUCTION (1) Between December 2018 and May 2019, a diverse group of Eritrean professionals met in Nairobi, Kenya and online to evaluate developments since the rapprochement between Eritrea and Ethiopia (“ERITREAN THOUGHT LEADERS ON THE PRESENT DYNAMICS IN THE HORN OF AFRICA”). While we welcome the Eritrea-Ethiopia peace process and appreciate the Ethiopian leadership for…
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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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Dr. Newitol: So Big It’s Sponsored
Dr. Newitol is a composite of three characters, one of whom is the editor. He takes questions from Horn Africans (yes, it is a thing now) and pretends to give answers. Dr. Newitol is now so popular, so big, it is sponsored. This edition is brought to you by “Senhit Dental” (slogan: we take any…
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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…
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Slouching Towards Asmara
Yes, Isaias is to blame. Probably. Once upon a time–actually, April 1, 2018–a bold man arrived in the horizons of the Horn of Africa. And almost immediately–actually immediately–he began clearing the debris of a century–actually, longer–of misrule in his country. Jails were opened and prisoners were freed. Enemies were forgiven and exiles returned. The disenfranchised…
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Dr Newitol’s Readers Are Tired of Ethiopia
91. Awadallah from Gedaref, Sudan writes: I am told you don’t always talk about Ethiopia and sometimes you mention other countries. My question: Now that it is a given we have defeated Omar Albashir, where will he go? Qatar? Turkey? Malaysia? Dr. Newitol: My bet is on Ethiopia. Sure Qatar and Turkey make ideological sense,…
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Eritrea’s Gov-People Dialogue
Nobody will ever accuse the PFDJ of being an overachiever, but few will describe it as a learning organization. The brief feud with Yemen (Dec 1995 – Feb 1996) bled to a one month feud with Djibouti (April 1996), which led to two year plus epic battle with Ethiopia (May 1998 – Dec 2000), which…
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The Slick & The Shell-shocked
Psychologists say that human emotions can be reduced to only four: sorrow, happiness, fear and anger. And of the four, the only one that is socially acceptable for men (in most societies) is anger. A man will brag about his capacity for anger (“dont make me angry; you wouldn’t like me when I am angry”,…