Category: Articles
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Expecting Aguagudom (ኣጓጉዶም):A Play Act (VII)
Setting: Misyam, Seraye (Zoba Debub), Eritrea Character’s Name Sobriquet Party/Affiliation Yemane Baliho Wedi-Baliho Selfi-Swa Mohamed Birhan Imam Wedi-Zemzem Selfi-Alamel Abdela A Zerom Wed-Inharish Selfi-Gebil Amanuel ReDae Wedi-Tiebe Selfi-L’fnti Tirhas Kindya Trishi (Gual ‘Gbitan) Demit Eritrea Mohammed I Abdella Wed-Sudan Hizb Aljemahir Zewdi Andemariam Gual Bashay ?????????? Najib A Khasay Hargets Selfi-Abaeke Dr. Basilios Angesom Gnogno…
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The Struggle Ahead: A Matter of Perspective
It is amazing that Ghadafi is still in power. There can only be two explanations for this. The firs is either his children are still loyal to him—remember when he told the World. ‘My Beable love me, all my Beable they love me”, nobody believed him. Even the hapless Susan Rice said he was then…
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When You Wield Your Sword
Following the collapse of the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) in the early eighties, I came across an Arabic poem, written by a Saudi poet whose name I can’t recall right now. The poem describes adolescent love: سلام عليك يذيب الجليد يبث اليك شجون فؤادي ويزرع في راحتيك الورود . . .. .…… . .. ….. اعذني…
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The Fall Of Gazafi & The Eritrean-Libyan Relations (Part II)
If one were to re-compose an old Eritrean Tigrinya song to describe how many times the Eritrean President has visited Libya in the last decade, one of the verses would read like this: ‘Tezewery nefarit tezewereyeTribolin-Asmaran kuynu mezawereye’ (Fly Airplane, fly, the Asmara Tripoli journey has become an entertainment). Part I focused on the pre-liberation…
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Positive Engagement
The dictator and his different faces (PFDJ, YPFDJ and his media outlets including meskerem.net), have, for years now, and for obvious reasons, waged and still continue to wage defaming campaigns against the opposition with the intention of undermining its resolve and at the same time defeat its self confidence. Also, in parallel, a similar defamation…
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PFDJ Understands Only Force
Before I proceed to the main subject of this article, I would like to congratulate the Tunisian and Egyptian people for waging a successful revolutions and ousting the longtime dictators, thus being able to decide the future of their nations. The audacious popular uprising that emerged in Tunisia indeed inspired many Arab nations that suffered…
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Middle East Quagmire: A Matter Of Perspective
Ghadafi has refused to go. He claims he holds no elected Office. That is no news. Libyans never had elections since independence anyway. So the issue of him resigning is absurd. He is not a head of State. He is the Head of his own creation, ‘The Jamharia.’ Unlike Isaias, Ghadafi does not have subjects.…
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The Fall Of Gazafi And The Eritrean-Libyan Relations
“I was the one who created Libya and I will be the one to destroy it.” Qazafi as cited in The Economist1 “Mercenaries, Eritrean mercenaries!” they shouted and attacked Eritreans every here. Word spread by the agents of the regime that Eritreans were behind the failed coup attempt. Eritreans were shown as mercenaries on TV…
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Towards The National Conference
I don’t want to dwell in the details of who said what or whose position was the correct one. It suffices to say that the EDA with all its 11 member organizations was part of the discord/conflict that resulted in EPDP’s boycotting the Addis conference in the past and then the subsequent withdrawal from the…
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At The Crossroad (3rd & Final Part)
‘’They are capable of loving only the dead.’’ A. Pushkin The new mantra for the just ended 21st Anniversary of Massawa’s liberation goes: ‘’Fenkel: Apiary of Eritrea’s Independence’’. Sounds cute and clever. Full of meaning. Intelligent. Nationalistic. I am sorry if I am being a spoiler, but frankly, after twenty years of listening to this…
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Building Democracy And Democratic Institutions In Eritrea
(This is a speech presented at the Eritrean Civic Society Public Meeting organized by the People’s Committee for National Congress of Greater Los Angeles, CA, February 19, 2011. Dr. Afeworki Paulos teaches African politics and International Relations at Carnegie Mellon University. In addition to his teaching, he also serves as Assistant to the Dean of Libraries and…
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Expecting Aguagudom (ኣጎጉዶም): A Play-Act VI
Characters’ Name Sobriquet Party/Affiliation Yemane Baliho Wedi-Baliho Selfi-Swa Mohamed Birhan Imam Wedi-Zemzem Selfi-Alamel Abdella A zerom Wed-Inharish Selfi-Gebil Amanuel ReDae Wedi-Tiebe Selfi-L’fnti Tirhas Kindya Trishi(Gual ‘Gbitan) Demit Eritrea Mohamed I Abdella Wed-Sudan Hizb Aljemahir Zewdi Andemariam Gual Bashay ???? Najib A Khahsay Hargets Selfi-Abaeka Dr. Basilios Angesom Gnogno Selfi-Bun Osmano Ibrahimo YaAsina Selfi-Shahi Melake Gebrekidan…
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Two Out: Who Is No. 3?
The Tunisian people have taken to the streets and succeeded in deposing a dictator, and the popular uprising in Egypt has forced the modern pharaoh to make three consecutive concessions within a week. For the first time in 30 years he appointed a vice-president (we do not have one in Eritrea yet) and promised to…
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Eritreans Must Unite To Overthrow The Dictatorship
As Eritreans, we find ourselves at a cross-road. Our nation is going through a traumatic time; our people are suffering under a tyrannical regime, led by a narcissistic creature. No offense to army sergeants, but as one Sudanese leader put it, Isaias “has the mentality of an army sergeant who thinks he can rule the…
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The Olive (AwLi’e) Revolution In Eritrea: A Satire
Prelude: The Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak was forced to make “concessions” (please! I can’t overemphasize the importance of them quotation marks) to the historic protests currently unfolding in his country. After report of major announcement was coming up from the Egyptian leader, the protesters were eager to hear them. So was I. Here is the…
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At The Crossroads (Part II)
A chilly Mediterranean wind is blowing across the stale political landscape of Africa’s Arab north, and it has turned a new page, and a new chapter has just begun. In Tunisia an iron fist that ruled for 23 years was unraveled a few days back by popular unarmed street strikes. Despots in the neighboring countries…
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“It Is Better To Die A Thousand Times, Than Live Without Dignity….”
The young defendant was barely 20 years old. He is accused of killing a fellow friend and a neighborhood buddy for a mere five dollars. Five dollars? It might seem an outright cruelty and even barbarity, to take the life of a person for such trivial matter. But wait, there is a lot for the…
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Un Peace Keeping Operations: Between A Rock And A Hard Place
I. Introduction Peace keeping is one of the most important works undertaken by the United Nations Organization, involving enormous financial burden and the use of military forces coming from different countries. Peacekeeping has become one of the functions for which the United Nations has become well-known, with the blue helmets of its forces patrolling areas…
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Expecting Aguagudom: A Play – ACT V
Setting: Misyam, Seraye (Zoba Debub), Eritrea Characters’ Name Sobriquet Party/Affiliation Yemane Baliho Wedi-Baliho Selfi- Swa Mohammed Birhan Imam Wedi-Zemzem Selfi-Alamel Abdella A Zerom Wed-Inharish Selfi-Gebil Amanuel ReDae Wedi-Tiebe Selfi-L’fnti Tirhas Kindya Trishi (Gual G’bitan) Demit Eritrea Mohammed I Abdella Wed-Sudan Hizb Aljemahir Zewdi Andemariam Gual Bashay Gual Bashay ? Najib A Kahsay Hargetz Selfi-Abaeke…
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Tigrigna Domination: Myth Vs Reality (perspective II)
Politics is science. Not exact science but still science. In science and mathematics, if you collect a lot of data and analyze your data with meticulous attention to each and every detail, you will see a pattern emerging. If you observe and study the pattern, you can come-up with a working formula that won’t fail…