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Breaking Through Our Dejavu of Disasters
You could spend a lifetime marveling at the criminality of the Eritrean government, if you were not so awestruck by its stupidity. I am saying the Eritrean government because using its substitute—Isaias Afwerki, Isaias Afwerki regime, PFDJ—will get in the way of my argument here. In any event, I will come to that near the…
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The Ruling Party Of Eritrea And Its Ethiopian Allies
On October 24, a website affiliated with the Eritrean ruling party carried a news item stating that, “The Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) Executive Committee today announced the removal of General Kemal Gelchu as its Chairman and purged him from the organization effective immediately.” An allegedly “OLF” official press release supporting the news was made available…
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The Plight Of “Zuria 26” Enrages Eritrean Youth
Over the last few weeks unusually widespread arrests has been reported from Eritrea. Most of the arrested individuals used to report to senior officials and commanders who seem to have fallen out of favor. A number of civilian and military personnel who reported to Major General Tekle Manjus were arrested. Until recently, Major General Tekhle…
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An Interview With Dr. Berhan Ahmed
About 7700 miles away from his birthplace in Keren, Eritrea, Dr. Berhan Ahmed is now an established Australian politician and a social activist in Melbourne. The official website of “Voice for The West” introduces him as follows: “Berhan was born in Eritrea, studied agriculture at the University of Alexandria in Egypt, and came to Australia…
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Intense Anxiety Engulfing Eritrea
Since last Spring, when the army started to instruct conscripts returning to their units to stay at home until further notice, the Eritrean government has been facing difficulties in maintaining a properly manned army. A conscript who has escaped Eritrea informed Gedab News, “the government can’t feed the army, so they told us to stay…
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A New Wave Of Escapees Leaving Eritrea
News coming out of Eritrea indicates that refugees are escaping from the country at the rate of about 7,000 people every month. Since the beginning of September, the situation in Eritrea has become tense and that the population is nervous and living in anxiety and panic. In the first half of October 2014 alone, the United…
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Eritrean Tewahdo Church Excommunicates Two Persons
Introduction by the translator (Semere T Habtemariam): In the absence of civic associations, communitarian and religious organizations usually fill the gap; and that is the case in Eritrea. The recent pastoral letter of the Catholic Church of Eritrea, the Solidarity letter of the North American Diocese of the Tewahdo Church and now the letter of…
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Eritrea At A Crossroads: A Book By Andeberhan Welde Giorgis
The 660 – page book is written by the scholar, fighter, statesman, Ambassador Andebrhan Welde Giorgis, where he eloquently exposes the ills of the power hungry dictator, Isaias Afwerki. To be fair to the author, he does not engage in nasty and sour personal attacks of the president, rather, he artfully shines light on his…
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The Commission of Inquiry on Eritrea: How Did We Get Here?
If one were to take a glance at the Eritrean history pages that desperately await an objective scribe and flip from the page of September 1st, 1961 to October 3rd, 2013, the vines of time that bind these two dates would surely appear as if poisoned by a tragic irony. Hamed Idris Awate’s first shot…
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Eritrea Watches The Houthi Advance In Yemen
On Monday September 22, 2014, the Yemeni capital city, Sana’a, fell to the Houthi rebels with relatively little media coverage. Since then, the Houthi rebellion that started in the Sa’ada region of North Yemen, under the leadership of Abdulmalik AlHouthi, has controlled more territories; in the last two days alone they took over three regions,…
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Eritrea: Few Embassies, Many Chanceries
The democratic regime of Isaias Afwerki is known for its extensive informational (not propaganda) activities and thankfully it enjoys full monopoly over Eritrea’s airwaves and print media through which it has always been “Serving The Truth.” The nascent Eritrean free press was squashed in 2001, as soon as it began to open its mouth and…
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A Coup In Eritrea: Reality Check
I would like to thank Amanuel Hidrat for his well researched and educational article. I really appreciate the time and energy he spent to make his articles educational; I can only say he has expanded the subject matter and it’s going to be helpful in understanding articles and arguments which revolve around it in the…
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UN Sanctions On Eritrea Will Continue Indefinitely
On May 23, 2014 Gedab News predicted that UN Sanctions against Eritrea will stay in limbo, today it has been confirmed that the Sanctions will continue indefinitely. Last year Eritrea complained that it didn’t have a chance to review or comment on the report of the United Nations Somalia-Eritrea Monitoring Group (SEMG) though it refused…
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Democratic Coup In Eritrea: Unrealistic Utopian Project
[quote style=”4″ author=”Comte de Mirabeau“]When you undertake a revolution, the difficulty is not to make it go; it is to hold it in check.[/quote] Prelude In October 5, 2008, I called on the Eritrean Defense Force (EDF) to avoid the war and defend the rights of our people. In that article, I clearly stated without…
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Sheikh Hamid Saleh Turki Passed Away In Khartoum, Sudan
Sheikh Hamid Turki died today (Wednesday) in a Khartoum hospital at the age of 70. He is a veteran of the Eritrean struggle for self determination. Sheikh Hamid joined the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) in the mid 1960s and later studied law in an Iraqi university. He served in different position before being appointed as…
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Eritrean Secret Financial Network Unravels
[quote style=”4″]remittances from the Eritrean Diaspora is drying up quickly and dropped by about a third in the first half of 2014 compared to the same period in 2013.[/quote] Gedab News learned that the Eritrean regime is going through a crisis exasperated by the unraveling of the secret operations of Himbol, the ruling party’s foreign…
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Andebrhan Welde Giorgis’ Book: A Commentary
Title: Eritrea At A Crossroads: A Narrative of Triumph, Betrayal and Hope Author: Andebrhan Welde Giorgis Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co. ISBN: 978-1-62857-331-2 Pages: 661 Price: $36.50 Website: http://sbprabooks.com/AndebrhanWeldeGiorgis Eritrea At a Crossroads is a compelling story of people who had waged an epic struggle for self-determination and succeeded, albeit for a short…
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Shortage of Nakfa Bills Reported Outside Eritrea
For the last few days, Eritrean money exchange transactions in the Middle East has been hampered due to shortage of Nakfa bills or difficulty in transferring money to Eritrea. The shortage of Nakfa supply has marginally increased its value. Agents affiliated to the financial arm of the ruling party and its business unit commonly known…
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Sheikh Hassen Died After Seven Years In Detention
Sheikh Hassan Ibrahim Salem, the previous head of the Department of the Muslim Endowments for Massawa, and later for Semhar region, died at Sembel hospital. He was brought from prison to the hospital in bad health only two days before he died on Wednesday September 24, 2014. Sheikh Hassen was detained in 2007 after he…
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Being Right vs Being Prudent
[quote style=”4″ author=”Saleh Younis“]In the Year of Our Lord Final & Binding, ‘twas Annum Duece. Behold King Isaias the Lionhearted, Conqueror of the Red Sea and Islands Beyond! Yey, slay he the capitulationist as he smiteth the cowards within with his Excalibur. Yey, forbadeth he pant-wetting and demanded he that the Ethiopics obey the tablets…
