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Who Is To Blame?
Are some of the issues that are recently raised in a number of articles a tip of an iceberg, or they are tiny ripples in a cup that will ultimately vanish? Are they objective manifestations of a grim reality that some of us didn’t notice? Are they subjective issues which exist only in the minds…
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Promoting National Unity And Co-existence In Eritrea
Promoting National Unity, Cultural And Religious Co-existence In Eritrea Nowadays, the Eritrean arena is full of political contradictions that reflect the historical, cultural, religious, social and other accumulated issues that express the sum of the Eritrean situation. It represents all of the country’s factions and communities that are destined to live in one…
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Hgi Endaba: The Laws of our Ancestors
Megedi ArbiAa: Part I In the small but highly diversified ethnic and cultural make up of the Eritrean population, there is something called Hgi Endaba which literally means the laws and or customs inherited from our ancestors. In the Christian/ Tygrina/highland population category, the word “Mother Land” is rarely used when referring to our…
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مدخل لمشروع إريتري من أجل الوحدة والبناء الوطني
مدخل لمشروع إريتري من أجل الوحدة والبناء الوطني دولة التعايش الديني والثقافي والحضاري من أجل ضمان السلم الأهلي في اريتريا إن الساحة الإريترية في الوقت الراهن مليئة بالتناقضات السياسية التي تعكس تراكمات تاريخية وثقافية ودينية واجتماعية تعبر عن مجمل معطيات الواقع الأريتري بكل فئاته وطوائفه التي قدر الله لها أن تعيش في رقعة جغرافية واحدة،…
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The World Cup And National Anthem: A Matter of Perspective
I love to watch the World Cup. Who doesn’t? It is entertaining. It is dazzling. It is emotional, riveting and almost all of the time, highly exciting. Above all, it is a good pastime. What I hate about the World Cup however is the singing of the National anthem when ever two teams are about…
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Keren High School Reunion: A Missing Perspective and a Way Forward (Part I)
Author’s Comment: – the appropriate website for this article would have been sweetkeren.net, but I have posted it at Awate.com, as the policies of the former ban articles that may have political influence. I do understand Sweet Keren is a social club and I respect the idea that the reunion focus is on promoting social…
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Timar, The Rebel (Part 1)
The following is Part 1 of a four-part series. It is condensed from yet not published a manuscript of the same title, by Amanuel Sahle. In the 1980s Asmara was a sort of military garrison. The Derg (the communist oriented Ethiopian military junta) soldiers seemed to have lost all hope of carrying on the bloody…
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Of Kings And Bandits
Today’s Negarit is somewhat of a commercial; Negarit has begotten negaritmedia.com. And Negarit Media has begotten its first book, ‘Of Kings And Bandits.’ What led into all of that? Four of every five people I know have urged me to write a book; I know what it takes to write and I would just…
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Reflections On The Eritrean Youth
What comes to our mind when the term youth is raised? Where does the position of the Eritrean youth lie when it comes to meet the general characteristics and uniqueness of a particular age group? What is the position of the youths from the existing opposition camp? I tried to present modest highlights about the…
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Food & Eating Etiquettes In Kebesa
People eat to live or to enjoy food if they are from the lands of abundance, but not in Kebesa. Eritrean highlanders ate to survive. They would do anything to survive and preserve their being because they valued the sanctity of life. They feared and hated death and they abhorred nihilism. In the lands…
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الموت يغيب سفير إرتريا في الإعلام السوداني والعربي
غيب الموت الكاتب والصحفي صديق الثورة الإرترية الأستاذ سيد أحمد خليفة الذي وفاته المنية يوم الأحد في القاهرة التي نقل إليها اثر وعكة صحية عن عمر يناهز السبعين عاما ليفقد بذلك الشعب الإرتري أحد أبرز المناصرين لقضيته وبمزيد من الأسى والحزن العميق يتقدم مركز الخليج للخدمات الإعلامية لأسرته الكريمة وللشعب الإرتري ونسأل الله أن يتغمده…
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EDA: Glitches & Deadlock Resurface
Gedab News (June 21, 2010): Almost a week after the mediation talks between the designated representatives of the opposition umbrella group of the Eritrean Democratic Alliance (EDA) and one of its member organizations, the Eritrean People’s Democratic Party (EPDP) ended, neither the EDA nor the EPDP has issued a statement declaring the final outcome of the…
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The Wise Man And The Sea
Some wise people liken the present state of many nations unto a ship that has gone a-drifting. The captain of the ship is a crook, the sailors are all drunk and in a trance, the sea is billowing with fury, and some pirate ships yonder have espied the helpless vessel and have made their mind…
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The Eritrea-Djibouti Border Dispute Agreement
The President of the Security Council presents his compliments to the members of the Council and has the honour to transmit herewith, for their information, a copy of a letter dated 7 June 2010 from the Charge d’affaires of the Permanent Mission of Qatar to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security…
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What Type Of Unity?
Eritrea‘s current geographical borders, and the people within that Domain, had not emerged through a natural process of development to form a nation state. Like most African states, Eritrea is an outcome of a colonial scramble in search of raw materials and new markets which the then developing economies of the West required; the colonialists…
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Dilemma of the Decade: Betting On the Eritrean Opposition
“There is no such thing as a Good Opinion or A Bad Opinion if we stand for free speech” We all have heard numerous times this triangle of hate kind of a story involving three players. The Eritrean regime, the opposition and the real or imagined “enemies” of the Eritrean regime ranging…
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EDA Member Organizations Iron Out Glitches To Hold A National Conference
Gedab News (June 14, 2010): After a week long discussion mediated by Ethiopian authorities in Addis Ababa, the Eritrean People’s Democratic Party (EPDP) has indicated its readiness to attend the Nation Conference for Democratic Change (NCDC) which is being organized by the Eritrean Democratic Alliance (EDA), an umbrella of eleven Eritrean parties and organizations posed…
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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 brokered an agreement between the governments of Eritrea and Djibouti. It took five days (June 7th) for Somaliland (Somalilandpress.com) to confirm the news, 6 days (June 8th) for Qatar and Djibouti to follow suit, and then the…
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Realisation One’s Wrong Deed Is A Virtue
Really an astonishing and a historical revelation was made by the Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in one of his last election campaigns. He definitely has a strong ethnic, cultural and (until recently) political ties with the kebesa community in Eritrea that no one can deny. Thus, no reasonable person can accuse him of trying to…
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“Majority Rule” and “Minority Rights”
I have great respect for Semere Tesfai for boldly articulating his views. There are crucial points that he and I are in complete concurrence, in particular his analysis of not resorting to group rights to solve Eritrea’s problems; that is the main crux of his analysis. I believe the solution still remains a state that…
