“Military Communique #1: Coup d’ Etat”
This was a common radio announcement, preceded by martial music and read in the deep voice of an…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar5 min read
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Support the 2025 Awate & Negarit Fundraising Drive
(REPUBLISHED) This year, we’re launching the 2025 fundraising drive five months behind schedule—we trust you’ll understand. For decades,…
Awate Team2 min read
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The UAE and the Horn of Africa – A Swirl of Interests and Alliances
Last time I said I would cover the UAE… Here it is. Now, this isn’t a comprehensive history.…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar6 min read
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صِمْدو : مقاربة جديدة للسلام، أم مناورة سياسية ؟
لا يختلفُ عاقِلان حول حاجة الشعوب والبلدان للسلام. فهو ليس محض خيار بل ضرورة ملحة للحياة البشرية على…
صلاح محمد زين5 min read
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Gaza Asab: A Peace to Start More Wars
“Ports are traditionally built to host ships that encourage trade. But Abiy envisions a port to launch his…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar5 min read
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The Literary Works of Bereket Habte Selassie (LL.B., Ph.D.)
A Portrait of a Political Thinker and Freedom Fighter Ladies and gentlemen, It is a great honor to…
Semere T Habtemariam11 min read
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When the Archive Refuses to Speak (IV)
The River Remembers series “In the next part of this series, we will turn toward what fills the…
Beyan Negash5 min read
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Hail Ethiopia, Hail Peace!
“Abiy’s provocative declaration has now become a rallying cry for some Ethiopian extremists.” “No claimed ancient bloodline can…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar5 min read
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A Voice Between the Banks: A Letter from Sumaya
Narrator of I & Eye: The Mirror, Exile & the Nile Editor’s Note: The following letter comes from…
Beyan Negash4 min read
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The Unspoken Debt: Sacrifice, Power, and Consent in Eritrea
Author’s Note: This short essay is written as a reflection on Eritrea’s independence narrative and the moral contradictions…
Dr. Filmon Wolde9 min read
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The River Remembers: The Silence Between Names (Part III)
“From the eye that remembers to the I still learning to see—memory doesn’t merely recall, it refracts.” “What…
Beyan Negash6 min read
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How Eritrean PFDJ Propaganda Twists Routine Diplomacy
"A YouTuber presented the two messages as proof that the U.S. was warming up to Eritrea. He interpreted…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar4 min read
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The Blame Loop Has Expired
Nearly a quarter-century after the ministers of Eritrea were made to disappear into silence on September 18, 2001,…
Beyan Negash8 min read
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The Debt-Free Illusion: Rethinking Eritrea’s Economic Self-Reliance
“The myth of Eritrean self-reliance… has helped justify authoritarianism, isolation, and indefinite national service.”
Dr. Filmon Wolde8 min read
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Eritrea: How President Isaias Afwerki took everyone, including the Veteran Freedom Fighters, for a Ride
I aim to demonstrate not only how the former freedom fighters were misled, lied to, and exploited by…
Dawit Mesfin10 min read
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The Fiddle and the Fiddler:
The Fiddle and the Fiddler: How the Arabs and TPLF Undermined the Eritrean Revolution The story goes: when…
Semere Andom (iSem)6 min read
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Delusion and Confusion: Awet NeHafash or Awet Nwedi Afom
Isaias Afwerki vs. Reality: A Speech Drenched in Delusion. That was illustrated in his last public appearance to…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar5 min read
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The River Remembers (Part II): The Archive of the Unsaid
In this installment of The River Remembers, the author dives beneath the surface of colonial history to explore…
Beyan Negash6 min read
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Review:To challenge the writing of Eritrean history is neither to rubbish nor to denigrate
A reflective piece on personal memories of imprisonment and exile, exploring the resilience of identity under barbed boundaries.…
Tekeste Negash (Prof)67 min read
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What Memory Chooses, and What It Omits
A lyrical excavation of memory, empire, and resistance, Of Trains, Turkays, and Tongues explores how colonial infrastructures—both physical…
Beyan Negash6 min read
