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Searches, Arrests, and Tension in Eritrea
The repercussions from the interference of Eritrean forces in the Ethiopian civil war is being felt in Eritrea. Activities of rounding up citizens who can join the war efforts has started a few months ago. Reports indicate rounding up of youth is continuing. Families whose children didn’t report to the authorities to join the military…
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Negarit 199: Perfecting the Resistance
In English and Arabic, opposition (معارضة) and resistance (مقاومة) are different, but in Tigrigna the word for both is (ተቃውሞ). Conceptually the terms are similar in usage though different essence. Generally, opposition describes a political party operating in a system of government based on democratic competition through elections. In Eritrea organizing outside the ruling party…
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Maryam Asmereyti
One of the unfortunate victims of the Tigray whirlwind, especially in its subsiding phase when Tigray intellectuals, its diaspora tentacles and their sympathizers recoiled & huddled physically or mentally in Mekelle, was the capital city of Eritrea, Asmara, and particularly its ancient church of St Mary or Enda Maryam also known as Maryam Asmereyti. These…
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Negarit 198: Catch22-Nationalists or Patriots?
Your always long for Gondar Will you go to it or it will come to you! (a traditional wailing in Tigrinya) When famine was spreading in Tigray due to the war, I suggested that Assab and Massawa ports be accessible for receiving aid for shipment to the suffering regions of Ethiopia. A few who were…
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Filling and Feeling the Failing West
Co-authors, Haile S. and Beyan Negash Africans owning and charting their future of hopes and dreams can be understood better when seen through the lens of master and slave narrative that had been made to exist eons back. Consider the history of Africans who were enslaved across the Atlantic shores into the new world. Clint…
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African Generals Appointed, POWs Not Mentioned
A team of ten African generals are named by the AU to monitor the process of the peace deal to end the Ethiopian civil war. The selected generals selected from the national armies of South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria are experts in different fields. They who will operate out of several cities will coordinate with…
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Football, Rebellion, Justice
I never liked football, or soccer; when many children spent their time playing football, I sat under the chairs of old men at my fathers’ place in between school time. I listened to them and run their errands: my son Saleh, get me tobacco. Get me cigarettes. Order some tea for us. And of course…
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Awate.com and Negarit 2022 Fundraising Drive
Dear colleagues and supporters, Below is all the information you need for making a donation to support awate.com and Negarit that some would like to silence. But the voice of concern for the people, being the voice of voiceless, promoting liberal values and peaceful coexistence, including promoting justice and freedom of the people, will not…
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The Land Surveying Engineer
I hold that the problems of our region are mainly cultural, and it can only be ameliorated by fighting illiteracy and adopting proper social policies. Sedentary communities’ land demarcation(m’Terar) is or region’s popular hobby, more nuanced within the PFDJ cult. In recent years the hobby went to the extreme, down to demarcating clan, religious, and…
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Transforming ENCDC & EPF to a Higher National Unity Platform
Honoring the 2021 Agreement on a Draft Political Charter & holding a broader national congress urgently is the only way to transform the Eritrean National Congress for Democratic Change (ENCDC) & the Eritrean Political Forces (EPF) into a higher national unity platform The historic National conference of the Eritrean National Council for Democratic Change (ENCDC)…
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Abiy and Isaias, Radwan in the Middle.
Ser’e is something forbidden by tradition be it mentioning or consuming. For instance, traditional women do not mention the name of their husbands and must refer to them as “father of so-and so”. Ser’e also forbids the consumption of certain foods and additives, like goat meat or salt. Likewise, partisans have Ser’e not to appreciate…
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Time To Clean Your Own Courtyard
Hopefully, the guns will stop. Hopefully those drunk with lust for blood will sober up. Hopefully, those who have nothing to sell but hate, destruction and bloodletting will reevaluate their position. Hopefully the poor victims of this war will breathe a sigh of relief. Hopefully the farmers will go to their farms, the shepherds will…
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War-Caused Friction Among Eritreans
A government employee said, “In addition to the house-to-house search, uncles and aunts are forced to spy on their own children; spying and snitching on relatives, friends, and neighbors is tearing the Eritrean society apart.”
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Severe Anxiety Attacks Eritreans
Since the Eritrean government allied itself with the Federal Ethiopian army and started to participate in the Ethiopian civil war, it has been mobilizing the old and the young who now are part of the hostilities. In the last two months, however, the mobilization evolved into a house-to-house search for those who didn’t report to…
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Inter-Ethiopian Peace Talks
As many arrows, loos’d several ways, Come to one mark, as many ways meet in one town, As many fresh streams meet in one salt sea, As many lines close in the dial’s centre, So may a thousand actions, once afoot, End in one purpose, and be all well borne Without defeat! Shakespeare’s Play: Henry…
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Machoism Is Vengeans
For centuries, the Horn of Africa region has been plagued by a violent culture of war. And almost all wars are motivated by vengeance (Hne mefday). It’s the animal extinct in human beings, the Darwinian survival of the fittest. Nations explain it by saying, “If we let a tribe get away their aggression, they will…
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Abba Fikremariam Arrested In Asmara
On Saturday October 15, 2022, Abba Fikremariam Hagos arrived at the Asmara airport from Europe. Eritrean security officers whisked away the bishop of Segeneity Diocese and took him to unknown location. Nothing has been heard of him since. The Eritrean government is notorious for arresting people without charge and making them disappear. Since it took…
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Invaders or Defenders?
Today I will formally introduce the background intro music of Negarit, that you hear in the intro and outro. It is the work of my youngest brother Ahmed Abdulrahim. On behalf of myself and the audience of Negarit, I express my appreciation and gratitude to Ahmed for the gift. Thank you. I always avoid mentioning…
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Uthman Sabe, A Towering Intellectual and a Prolific Writer!
Uthman Sabe was a household name in Eritrea in the ‘70s and ‘80s and his legacy remains to be one of the most profound and enduring. Sabe has left indelible mark on the contemporary Eritrean history. No book on Eritrean struggle from the ‘60s onward can be complete without the mention of Sabe. To many…
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A Possible Political Collusion Course
Tigray’s TPLF, Eritrea’s EPLF, and Ethiopia’s Prosperity Party at a Possible Political Collusion Course: Whatever the Outcome, it will Redefine the Horn of Africa for Decades to Come. Respectful, rigorous, and intellectually engaging confrontation of ideas is always a welcome gesture; one that focuses on ideas rather than on a person; one that focuses on…
