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ዘና ገዳብ: ዳይረክተር EEPA ነቲ “ታስክ ፎርስ” ከፍልጦ ዘይደለየ ሓቂ ናይ
ዓዋተ ዶት ኮም ምስ ዶክቶር ሚርያም ቫን ራይሰን (Dr. Mirijam Van Reisen) ኣብ ዘካይዶ ቃለ-መሓትት፡ እታ ሓንቲ ጽልግልግ ኢላ በቶም ተኻፈልቲ ዋዕላ ብራስልስ መልሲ ዘይረኸበት ዝነበረት ሕቶ መልሲ ሂባትላ። ድርጅታ EEPA እቲ ነዞም ኤርትራውያን “ናይ ውከሳ ጉጅለ” “reference group” ንክቖሙ ዝተጠቕመሉ መምዘኒ ከመይ ኢዩ ነይሩ? ብኣበሃህላ ዶክቶር ሚርያም ቫን ራይሰን ሓደ ካብቲ ዝተጠቀሙሉ ናይ ኣመራርጻ መምዘኒ፡ ማለት…
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Brussels: Excuses worse than the Sin
Competent politicians advocate for diversity and are always among the diverse constituents of their people to win their hearts and minds; they abhor disguise, the attitude of failed politicians. Many articles have been written in the past weeks that hurled stones in all directions and justified the secrecy that led to the Brussels conference. Most…
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EEPA’s Director Discloses What The Eritrean “Task Force” Wouldn’t: The Selection Criteria
In an interview with awate.com, Dr. Mirijam Van Reisen has answered one question that had thus far been made vague by the Eritrean attendants of the Brussels Conference: what was the selection criteria that her organization, the European External Policy Advisory (EEPA), used to assemble the Eritrean “reference group”? According to Dr. Van Reisen: the…
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ቃለ-መሓትት ዓዋተ ዶት ኮም ምስ ዶክቶር ቫን ራይሰን ዳይረክተር AT
ብዓዋተ – ሕዳር 23, 2009 ገዳብ ዜና ናይ ዓዋተ.ኮም ወረ ከማዕብል ከሎ ካብ ኩሉ ጎድንታት ሓበሬታታት እዩ ዝእክብ። ናይ ብራስለስ ዋዕላ ዜና ክንከታተል ምስ ጀመርና ‘ውን ንዶክቶር ቫን ራይሰን፡ ዳይረክተር ናይ ኤውሮጳ ናይ ወጻኢ ጉዳያት ኣማኸርቲ (EEPA) ክንራኸባ ፈቲንና። ግን ክሳዕ ‘ቲ ዜና ዝወጽእ ክትምልሰልና ኣይከኣለትን። እዚ እነቕርቦ ዘለና ምክትታል እዚ ንስለ ግሉጽነትን ተሓታትነትን ‘ዩ። …
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General Sebhat Ephrem’s Schedule Fuels Speculation In Asmara
On November 12, General Sebhat Efrem, Eritrea’s minister of defense, left Eritrea accompanying a military team that included a cartographer, communication officer (code operator) and an intelligence officer. The destination or the purpose of the visit is unknown: it was not announced in the state-owned media and even senior military officers are unaware. But he has,…
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Eritrean Democratic Struggle: The Missing Gaps
In my previous article I attempted to identify the missing gaps in our democratic struggle. From Brussels Conference (BC) we have learnt that the democratic struggle has been hampered not only by missing gaps in our knowledge of democratic struggle but also by not filling them properly. Others may reach to a different conclusion. In…
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Idaga Derhu: Chicken Market
On October 29, 2009, Awate’s Gedab broke the news about a US-EU conference (organized by a European External Policy Advisory (EEPA), a Belgian NGO) on Eritrea to be attended by a number of honorable Eritrean (Tigrigna or Tigrigna-satellite) politicians and civil society activists with an esteemed spokesperson, Mr. Abdulrahman Alsaid. Mr. Spokesman in turn confirmed…
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Who Is Petrified Of Democracy?
As the English adage goes “a fault confessed is half redressed” – it would have been much easier for CDRiE and the other Eritrean participants at the Brussels conference to say that they made a mistake, plain and simple, in not making the group of participants more diverse, by inviting others from a larger pool…
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Engaging The Brussels Belle
Of course, it is not a journey for requesting the hand of a blue-eyed blonde Brussels belle or visiting Belgians infatuated by convening conferences. I wish our brother Habtom Yohannes has left us with the information furnished by Gedab News. His “clarification” displayed his attempt to cover the gravity of the mistake they have done…
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Eritreans Attending UPR Session In Geneva
Between November 30 and December 11, 2009, the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, will conduct the 6th session of its Universal Periodic Review (UPR). As with all other countries, the UPR will review human right reports submitted by the government of Eritrea and other stakeholders, including Awate. The independent report on Eritrea…
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Cabbages and Kings and Why the Sea is Boiling Hot – IX
“The time has come,” the Walrus said – “To talk of many things: Of shoes and ships and sealing wax – Of cabbages and kings And why the sea is boiling hot – And whether pigs have wings” Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll In the last two issues of this series it was…
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Brussels Conference: Will It Add Value To The Democratic Struggle?
It has been more than 10 years since different Eritrean opposition groups officially united under the umbrella of what was then called ENA and now EDA. Many Eritreans hoped for better and were optimistic about the future of Eritrea. Due to the absence of clear vision, strategic plan and lack of access to information about…
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No, The Sky Is Not Falling, It’s Just That Not All That Glitters Is Gold!
By Berhane M Tekeste When a covert, exclusionary, and discriminatory activity is busted, it triggers suspicion and mistrust by nature and necessity. And where there is suspicion and mistrust, say all you want, not all that glitters is gold! In an open letter addressed to the president of the EU on the eve of the…
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The Brussels Conference: A Democratic Right
The coming days a conference will be held in the Belgian capital Brussels on the policies of the United States (US) and European Union (EU) towards The Horn of Africa in general and our country Eritrea in particular. In this article, I will refer to this Brussels Conference 2009 as (BC-2009). The purpose of this…
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Calling A Spade A Spade
Is HGDEF a chauvinist Tigrigna regime? Did the ethnic Tigrignas benefit from HGDEF’s sadistic and illegal reign of terror of the past 18 or so years? If your answers to these two questions are in the affirmative, then you are absolutely right. And if your answers are in the negative, well, you are still right,…
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Color Blindness: The Bubbles Of Political Gimmicks
“The key to wisdom is constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.” (Peter Abelard a French Philosopher) Crystal ball is still cloudy It was Macbeth who spoke wearily of life as “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury…
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EU’s NGOs & Their Viceroys
On October 29th, Gedab News reported about the November 9-10 conference on aligning EU and US policies towards Eritrea. We entitled the piece “Engagement and Exclusion: US, EU & Eritrea.” The piece was almost entirely about the EU and US and almost in passing mentioned the Eritreans who will be attending. Some thought that the “engagement and exclusion”…
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EU’s NGOs & Their Viceroys
On October 29th, Gedab News reported about the November 9-10 conference on aligning EU and US policies towards Eritrea. We entitled the piece “Engagement and Exclusion: US, EU & Eritrea.” The piece was almost entirely about the EU and US and almost in passing mentioned the Eritreans who will be attending. Some thought that the “engagement and exclusion”…
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Watchdog Journalism And Vigilant Society
A group of freedom fighters that we thought of as lambs turned out to be as beasts of prey. I am writing this piece in reaction to what our respected sister Selam Kidane published under the title of, “No The Sky Isn’t Falling … But Foxy Loxy Does Exist”. My focus will be on the…
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Louis Michel’s letter to Isaias Afwerki
LOUIS MICHELMEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION Brussels, HD/fb — D(9)662 — A (09) 1636 Dear President, Over the last years, the European commission has been committed to fostering its cooperation with Eritrea. We consider that the cooperation programme established in the spirit of the Cotonou Agreement is an essential means in…
