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Rumors about Isaias Afwerki grooming his son, Abraham, to take over the presidency of Eritrea. Is it just…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar6 min read
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Rumors about Isaias Afwerki grooming his son, Abraham, to take over the presidency of Eritrea. Is it just…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar6 min read
Over a week ago, I started to record an episode that I didn’t finish. This is what I…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar9 min read
If you are oblivious to how things work, you risk feeding on every propaganda or rumor and endlessly…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar7 min read
Usually, there are a few people who get knee jerk reaction whenever Isaias is mentioned in a negative…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar11 min read
Recently a usual “interview” of Isaias Afwerki was aired on Eritrean television; none of the people I talked…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar6 min read
Satire: republished twice since 2016, and the following is a slightly updated version of it.11 Eight years ago,…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar15 min read
Often times, news surfaces only to be quickly subdued and forgotten, though it occasionally reemerges in surprising ways.…
Awate Team7 min read
In 2021, Negarit 147, I raised the issue of SFO Safer, an oil tanker that was stranded across…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar6 min read
Isaias Afwerki. The most mentioned. The most criticized. The most admired, and at the same time, the most…
Awate Team8 min read
The three-card Monte, known to us as Telate-werega, is a classical swindling trick. There is also the wheel…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar6 min read
Twelve years ago, a creative friend came up with a T-shirt design of the original Eritrean flag; I…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar7 min read
After the downfall of the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the liberation of Eritrea in 1991, the Sudanese…
Awate Team3 min read
Culturally, Abyssinia still clings to its archaic, arguably primitive, mindset. Attempts at modernization have not yielded the needed…
Awate Team8 min read
Introduction. The birth of Brighed N’Hamedu (BNH), in Cologne, Germany, in 2022, has greatly energized justice-seeking Eritrean youth…
Prof. Araya Debessay,7 min read
Book Review An African Revolution Reclaimed: A Memoir of Eritrean Freedom Fighter Mesfin Hagos. By Mesfin Hagos with…
Tekeste Negash (Prof)29 min read
[Editor’s note: This article was published on August 14, 2010, it’s being republished] …And my companion subscribed to it…
Aklilu Zere20 min read
Last Saturday, Isaias hastily met the Sudanese envoy Ambassador Daffalah, and soon left for China. Not many discussed…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar8 min read
Isais Afwerki of Eritrea: an unelected dictator tells Sudan how to solve their problems
Saleh "Gadi" Johar8 min read
This week, both Eid and Fasiga came a few days apart; on this occasion, I wish Christians and…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar8 min read
The events that have damaged Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, and Somalia for decades is still devastating the entire region.…
Awate Team7 min read