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The Faucet Festival

A satirical take on Isaias Afwerki’s mysterious faucet sculpture, comparing it to Pharaoh Khufu’s pyramid and the Syrian…

Saleh "Gadi" Johar · October 6, 2025 · 5 min read

Perspective

The Refugee Act of 1980 and the Quiet Burial of the ELF

The U.S. Refugee Act of 1980 is occasionally invoked—most notably by Eritreans, and rarely in writing, and, at…

Semere T Habtemariam · October 5, 2025 · 11 min read

Articles

Reflection on the North Star

Editor’s note: the byline data is corrupted; so far we couldn’t resolve the technical problem. The writer of…

awatestaff · October 2, 2025 · 7 min read

Negarit

Blame It on Moses

A young student and her classmate graduated together; she became a geography teacher, while her bright classmate was…

Saleh "Gadi" Johar · September 29, 2025 · 6 min read

Perspective

Ts’əmdi and Ts’imdo: Joined for Utility, Not Unity

In the semi-fertile soil of Tigrinya, the words ጽምዲ (Ts’əmdi) and ጽምዶ (Ts’imdo) bloom with layered meaning—practical, poetic,…

Semere T Habtemariam · September 28, 2025 · 14 min read

Articles

Refugees Speak Back: Unsettling Exile and Home

In 2007, the Red Sea Press published Sadia Hassanen’s Repatriation, Integration, or Resettlement? The Dilemmas of Migration among Eritrean…

Beyan Negash · September 24, 2025 · 5 min read

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Penicillin Overdose Killed the Camel

Dr. Abiy Ahmed keeps me thinking these days, though not in the way I wanted to. During the…

Saleh "Gadi" Johar · September 22, 2025 · 5 min read

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Downfall of an Emperor: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia

Book Review By Semere T Habtemariam Downfall of an Emperor: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia and the Derg’s Creeping…

Semere T Habtemariam · September 21, 2025 · 11 min read

Articles

A Return of Sorts to Religion

In a much-publicized recent religious event at the Anda Mariam Tewahdo church, many of the top Eritrean officials…

Ismael Ibraheem Al-Mukhtar · September 16, 2025 · 6 min read

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Nepal: A Lesson for the PFDJ and the Youth

Every era popularizes certain names—mainly names of rulers and prominent people of the time. Since the nineteen-forties and…

Saleh "Gadi" Johar · September 15, 2025 · 6 min read

Negarit

A Shepherd, A Tiger Cub, and A Village

A shepherd boy, bored while tending his goats on the edge of a village, cried, “HELP! A tiger…

Saleh "Gadi" Johar · September 9, 2025 · 4 min read

Perspective

Horn of Africa: A Unity Deferred: Between Memory and Possibility

The Horn of Africa remains one of the world’s most fragile political landscapes. State legitimacy is contested, nation-building…

Semere T Habtemariam · September 7, 2025 · 8 min read

Horn Echoes

In Conversation with History

The history of Eritrea cannot be reduced to isolated dates that mark the fall of emperors or the…

Beyan Negash · September 4, 2025 · 6 min read

Videos

Ageb and Eb, are these words alive in our languages!

I have talked and written hundreds of essays about reconciliation; the website I founded carried the slogan of…

Saleh "Gadi" Johar · September 2, 2025 · 6 min read

Articles

A Critique of Bereket Habtemariam’s Proposal on Sea Access and Sovereignty

Author’s Note: This essay is written in response to a document recently shared by Bereket Habtemariam on his…

Dr. Filmon Wolde · September 1, 2025 · 9 min read

Perspective

The Eritrean Opposition’s Double Bind

Semere T Habtemariam · August 31, 2025 · 9 min read

Gedab News

Eritrean Opposition Group Move Towards Merger

• “This move signals a potential end to decades of fragmentation among Eritrean opposition forces.”

Gedab News · August 30, 2025 · 3 min read

Articles

More Reflections on Alemseged Tesfai’s Epilogue

This is not a proper article but rather a collection of thoughts … I started off well, but…

Dawit Mesfin · August 29, 2025 · 7 min read

Horn Echoes

Why Alemseged, Why? In Context

“History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our…

Beyan Negash · August 25, 2025 · 7 min read