Eritrea: Caught In A Trap
We are stuck in a rut, going nowhere fast, running on a treadmill. There is this crushing familiarity…
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Eritrean Regime’s Narrative Runs Into The Wall Of Reality
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” Philip K. Dick The best…
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The Eritrean Scream
This was going to be the second installment of the Eritrean Spring, of events from ten years ago,…
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Eritrean Spring: Oqbe Abraha Edition
This being ten years after 2001, I have been thinking a great deal about what happened in Eritrea…
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To The East! To The East!
My New Year resolution (which usually lasts all of January) was to get all my news and entertainment…
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Isaias Afwerki And The Eritrean People (Part 3 of 3)
Does our different background translate to different “attitudes and subsequent behavior”? Does our religious, regional, ethnic identity trump…
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Isaias Afwerki And The Eritrean People (Part 2 of 3)
To recap, in Part 1, this column argued that one of the primary reasons that Eritrea is in…
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Isaias Afwerki And The Eritrean People – Part 1
Would the same Isaias Afwerki, but born a Somali, be able to acquire and hold on to dictatorial…
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Win, Lose Or Draw? ICG Always Says “Draw”
Consequently, the ICG reports were always famous for their string of non sequiturs. Their conclusions could never be…
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National Conference: An Affirmation Of Eritrea’s Founding Principles
Yemane Gebreab, the political director of Eritrea’s ruling party, the PFDJ (who is also a “special advisor” to…
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Of Kings And Bandits: A Book Review
“Of Kings And Bandits” is described by its author as the story of Jemal, a young Eritrean boy…
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From Each According To His Bahli…
On June 2nd, awate.com’s Gedab News broke the news (you are most welcome) that the government of Qatar…
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The Shitara Code
You know those kids who stood outside movie theatres and told the patrons that they were only 5…
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Neither A Blessing Nor A Short-Cut
Isaias Afwerki, the Muscle Man, model 1966, is a lot like the muscle cars of the 1960s: you…
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Change We Can’t Believe In
Does the UN sanction (actually, santions) target the Eritrean regime or the State of Eritrea? To answer the…
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“Wey Gud” Is Not A Good Strategy
Writing for dehai.org and, undoubtedly speaking for many Eritreans, the astute and well-read Ghidewon Abay Asmerom has dismissed…
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What Springs Eternal
My business partner just sued me for a $1,000,000. He says we have a deal, detailed in a…
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Injustice & The PFDJ Way
I was introduced to a young Eritrean: Vasco da Gama, was his name. Not his given name of…
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Let’s Build A Monument To Paranoia
I was introduced to a young Eritrean: Vasco da Gama, was his name. Not his given name of…
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Injustice & The PFDJ Way
Justice is derived from customs, culture, and faith, which in civilized societies, are codified into law. Ask a…
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