Dear supporters and friends of awate.com, and all readers, Today, Feb 3, 2019, friends of awate.com held their second fundraising meeting in Toronto, Canada. The message above was prepared for that event. We take that opportunity to pass the same message to all friends and patrons of awate.com. Thank you …
Read More »Diplomatic Frenzy in Absence of Stakeholders Participation
Since early 2018, the Horn of Africa region has been going through dramatic developments. The shaky security situation could get worse before it gets better if it does. In Ethiopia, though popular uprising has forced changes, there is fear that some of the mobs could be thinking of running the country …
Read More »Eritrean Ambassador: The USA and Gulf States Want to “Make Egypt Thirsty”
(Archive of September 18, 2017. 13:55 Editor) On Thursday, September 7, 2017, Al Masri Al Youm published an interview it conducted with the Eritrean ruling party ambassador in Cairo. Here we present the English version of the Arabic original, which was translated by the Awatestaff. The Ambassador says, “some Gulf …
Read More »An Intimate Report: Year-End Fundraising Campaign
Dear colleagues and friends of Awate.com, This is our first report for the Year-End Fundraising Campaign that we launched last week. First, we thank the few who reacted to the call immediately, we are grateful to you all. We hope the rest of you will also react and help. At …
Read More »Year-end Fundraising Campaign: Support awate.com
Support awate.com to keep providing reliable information, news, and a vibrant discussion platform. The last six months have been tumultuous for our region and in the midst of very challenging times, we have been holding down the forte as we stayed on top of providing news, perspectives, analysis, translations, and …
Read More »Archive: awate.com Interview: Meles Zenawi Sizes Up The Region
According to the Eritrean regime, we have been on the verge of collapse, for what...ten years now! And these ten years happen to be, in the eyes of a neutral observer, the golden years of Ethiopia. We have been growing at a double digit rate for seven, eight years now. The country is stable from end to end. Obviously we have our own challenges; we are still a very poor country.
Read More »His Excellency Dr. Abiy Ahmed, PM of Ethiopia
His Excellency Dr. Abiy Ahmed The Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Dear Dr. Abiy, Your Excellency, so far, you managed to give Ethiopia a powerful jolt of a positive energy while giving an energetic boost to the politics of the region. You admirably kept the momentum and direction of Ethiopian politics …
Read More »An Appeal to Dr. Tedros Adhanom: Kassala in Distress
To Dr. Tedros Adhanom, Director General of the World Health Organization September 25, 2018 Dear Dr. Adhanom, This is an appeal to you as a director general of the World Health Organization—please consider it a distress call on behalf of our people in Eastern Sudan. The mosquito-borne chikungunya epidemic is …
Read More »Profiling Our Martyrs: Ethiopia-Eritrea Border War (1998-2000) (Part 1)
This document was compiled from the Eritrean Government data leaked to awate.com in December 2004. The Awate Team studied the data, organized and analyzed it and then published in on January 16, 2005. We will republish the entire document in five parts. Today we provide you with Part 1. (The Awate …
Read More »If You Shall Do Wicked Things, Don’t Brag About It
[this archive material was fist published on Dec 12, 2002 @13:47] Arabic saying: إذا ابتليتم فاستتروا fe’iza abteleytum, fe’estetiru. (If you shall do wicked things, don’t brag about it.) In Alamin Mohammed Said’s The Tale of Internal Division in The Eritrean Revolusion” ( page 84), there is a very unflattering statement about …
Read More »Djibouti Annuls Dubai Ports Concession Contract
In a press release issued on Thursday, the Djiboutian government said, it “has decided to proceed with the unilateral termination, with immediate effect, of the concession contract awarded to DP World for the operation of the Doreleh Container Terminal (DCT).” In 2006, Dubai Ports World (DPW) signed a 30-year concession …
Read More »Announcing Awate IGAD Forum
Dear friends, Two days ago, we launched the 2018 fundraising entitled “Support Awate.com” campaign which will continue for some time. The response during the last two days has been encouraging to the extent that it inspired us so much we have decided to announce one of our enhancement plans ahead …
Read More »Dear friends and readers of Awate.com
The political situation in the immediate neighborhood of Eritrea is becoming increasingly risky, and the situations inside Eritrea are calling on all citizens to do their utmost to stop the regime that continues to destroy the fabric of our society. There have been episodic resistances in that regard, the most …
Read More »Hajji Mussa: Awate.com 2017 Man of The Year
On Friday, October 20, 2017, the Eritrean security forces arrested Hajji Mussa Mohamed Nur and scores of others from different parts of Asmara. He is the Board Director of Al-Diaa Islamic school. The school is a private community school established in the 1960s by the late Ustaz Mohammed Bashir Ahmed. …
Read More »Awate Archives: Why Idris Aba Arre Is Arrested
[The following archived article is being republished for the fourth time] Seven months after this controversial article was published, Idris Aba Are, a severely handicapped veteran EPLF fighter, was arrested. The article deals with the author’s observations of the government’s policy regarding “education in mother tongue.” At the time of his arrest, …
Read More »Qatar: Al Jazeera in the Middle
Though the diplomatic crisis in the Arabian Gulf seemed to be moving fast, it was headed to a predetermined destination: a standstill. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were set to punish Qatar, a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council that was born in 1976 and that is now crippled …
Read More »Eritrean Businesses: Between Loyalists and Others
In recent months, the Eritrean government has been carrying out a heightened surveillance on the Eritrean commercial sector, and reports of spies working for the security departments is focused on merchants and traders suspected of transacting in cash, in violation of the government directive that requires them to deal in checks …
Read More »Apologies And Appeal
Dear Awate friends and supporters, First, our apologies for the service interruption during the weekend. This is the first time since its launching that awate.com has been offline for such a long time; it was very frustrating to us as it is to you. Our apologies again because we failed …
Read More »Undercover Lobbyist Rethinking Eritrea
The Atlantic Council (AC), an American Think Tank, is hosting a seminar, aptly entitled, “Rethinking Eritrea.” There is no Eritrean in the list of panelists, unless Dan Connell, a longtime friend of Eritrea is considered one. The meeting is scheduled for today, December 8, 2016, in Washington, DC, for the …
Read More »Ahmed Suwera: An Honorable Man Departs
Today, the Khartoum sun didn’t shine on the selfless Ahmed Suwera. He departed this world leaving behind a legacy of a dignified and inspirational life despite old age and neglect. The country for which he spent all his life was not welcoming. It has become a private ranch for a …
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