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Aljazeera Interviews “May 24 Youth Movement” Rep
Following up on the occupation of the Eritrean embassy in Egypt, Al Jazeera (Arabic) had a brief interview with a representative (Hamed Al Ajab) of the “May 24th Youth Movement”, which is based in Cairo, Egypt. After the Aljazeera journalist gave an introduction to the events of January 21 and the demands of those who…
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Ciao Roma: Eritreans In Italy Occupy Eritrean Embassy
Eritreans for change have been paying a visit to Eritrean embassies…and not to pay the mandatory 2% but to demand change in the way Eritrea is being governed. Topping their list for change is the resignation of self-declared president, Isaias Afwerki, the release of political prisoners, and replacement of rule by man with rule of…
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Egypt Answers The Call: Forto 2013
The “May 24th Movement”, Eritrean youth calling for freedom and democracy in Eritrea, stormed the Eritrean embassy in Cairo, Egypt. A statement from May 24th on the “Eritreans For Action” and “Eritrean Youth for Solidary and Change” pages reads: May24 youth movement are conducting a demo now from 7am cairo time, inside the Eritrean embassy…
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Forto 2013 – Sweden – Eritrean Demonstration
Eritreans for democracy and human rights demonstrate in front of the Eritrean embassy in Stockholm on January 25, 2013.
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January 21: As Told By Official Isaias Afwerki Apologists
On January 28, a representative from the pro-Isaias regime “Eritrean community” in the US made the following “official” announcement at a Paltalk room (Eritrean unity worldwide-EPLF 1). What follows is a summary of the 9-minute audio presentation in Tigrinya. Words in brackets are ours. 1. On January 21, at 10:00 am the Ministry of Information…
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UNHCR Calls For Help To Stop Abduction In East Sudan
On January 25, briefing reporters from the Palais des Nations in Geneva, UNHCR spokesperson Melissa Fleming described the dire circumstances in the Shegerab refugee camp of Eastern Sudan, which hosts tens of thousands of refugees, and the “rising incidents of abductions and disappearances of mainly Eritrean refugees.” UNHCR reports that the disappearances from the camp…
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Leaders of Banned Churches Hunted, Arrested
The Christian News Network, a US-based news and information provider, reported yesterday that the Eritrean regime has arrested 10 leaders of Christian denominations who were officially banned in 2002. The report says that the arrests started on Thursday the 17th of January and it quotes a source who explains that what makes this campaign different…
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Eritreans In London Demonstrate: Call To End Dictatorship In Eritrea
On Sunday, January 27, a coalition of Eritrean opposition members and sympathizers demonstrate in London in front of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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Brigadier General Tekeste Haile: Background On January 21
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January 21: A Closer Look
It’s much bigger than we thought. The events of January 21st, the takeover of Eritrea’s Ministry of Information by members of Eritrea’s military for twelve hours, cannot be understood properly unless one has been following Eritrea’s exiled opposition media for the preceding 3-4 months. These include the Paltalk rooms in Europe that cater to Eritrean…
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Achtung: Forto 2013 in Frankfurt
From Eritrean activists for democracy and human rights in Frankfurt, Germany: “After some heated exchange, the group of activists were asked by police to make their way downstairs into the lobby for a major body search operation (to ensure that the visit had been one of peaceful intent). One activist was asked to remain upstairs…
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Down (Literally) With Nevsun
Schadenfreude (ˈʃaːdənfrɔydə) (noun): “malicious joy in the misfortunes of others,” 1922, from Ger., lit. “damage-joy,” from schaden “damage, harm, injury” (see scathe) + freude, from O.H.G. frewida “joy,” from fro “happy,” lit. “hopping for joy,” from P.Gmc. *frawa- (see frolic). Application: I feel a delicious sense of schadenfreude when Nevsun stock goes down. Justification: Human…
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Its Not True–But At Least It Is Coherent
Well, when you say nothing happened, you can’t explain what happened. But the world knows something happened and you know you can’t go on saying nothing happened. That’s the quandary of the Eritrean regime. But it is not its first quandary, and it always stumbles around for an answer. It feeds its surrogates some misinformation…
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We Missed You Too…
… our loyal readers, writers, commenters… but that is another story, a much, much smaller story compared to what is going on back home. So that story will have to wait. gedabnews.com has been re-purposed and, until awate.com returns, it will be our meeting place. 1. To contact us by email–comment, article submission, news, inquiries–…
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London Calling: Forto 2013
London Calling… Eritreans in the UK occupy the Eritrean embassy in solidarity with Eritrean soldiers who occupied the Eritrean Ministry of Information at Forto in Asmara. They call their campaign “Forto 2013” and, in symbolic move, remove rule by man (Isaias Afwerki’s picture) and replace it with rule of law (the demands of the young…
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The View From The Dark Side
When we last read madote.com, it had told us (on 11/27) that Ali Abdu had returned to Eritrea*. Now, madote.com is saying nothing happened on Monday except that a handful of “terrorists” threatened to kill MoI employees , that the government gave them–the terrorists, that is, safe passage (“they were not apprehended for their terrorist…
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Eritrean Regime Rounds Up Suspects Behind The Siege
1. As we reported yesterday, while the Eritrean regime publicly downplays the Monday siege of Eritrea’s Ministry of Information (MoI), it has cast a wide net to arrest anyone it suspects of having anything to do with the one-day occupation of the MoI building, aka “Forto” or “enda zena” and it has started, at its…
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The Uprising In Eritrea: A Prologue, Not An Epilogue
A day after young soldiers stormed the Ministry of Information and held in captivity the employees of the ministry, resulting in the state television, Eri-TV, to go off-air, Eritreans have more questions than answers. Who were the soldiers? Did they really hold the Ministry of Information employees captive? Who was responsible for the state television…
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What (Italian) Colonialism Did To My People Of (Eritrean) Kebessa
[Editor’s note: We usually try to limit article lengths to 5-7 pages, and when a piece is longer, we will usually serialize it. But then, there are some articles that have to be read at one sitting…preferably printed, preferably on a lazy Sunday morning. This article by Aklilu Zere–all 26 pages, all of the nearly…
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Ghedli Defamers And The Appeal Of Inevitability
In “Eritrea: the illusion of independence-liberation dichotomy” (asmarino.com, January 11), Zekre Lebonna attempts to frame the positions of the “gedli romanticizing” and “gedli de-romanticizing” writers debating the role of the Eritrean revolution in the creation of totalitarianism in Eritrea. Regretfully, however, the author, far from clarifying the issue, muddies it up by caricaturing and misrepresenting the…
