Tag: National Service
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Isaias Afwerki Unhinged (Sawa Edition)
Yeah, but what is new? Confession: what I really want to call this article is “Isaias Afwerki Said Some Crazy Shit Again” but that is not befitting a head of state. There was a time when Isaias Afwerki used to pretend that he is not a dictator because (circular argument alert!) the Eritrean people would…
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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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PFDJ’s Eritrea: Neither Boots Nor Pushkin
[spider_facebook id=”4″]As widely reported, the UN Commission of Inquiry which was set up to investigate the human rights situation in Eritrea has last week announced that Eritrean authorities have committed crimes against humanity, which, inter alia, includes crimes of enslavement, unlawful imprisonment, enforced disappearance, torture, persecution, rape and murder in a widespread and systematic manner…
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Eritrea This Week 20160612
[spider_facebook id=”4″]There were two Eritrean headlines this week: (1) the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in Eritrea (CoI-E) published its report based on its 12-month inquiry and it said that it found that crimes committed by Eritrean officials constitute “crimes against humanity”; (2) Eritrea and Ethiopia had a military clash along their common border.…