Eritrea at Year’s End: Between Endurance and Exhaustion
As another year closes—the thirty‑fourth since independence—Eritrea stands as a nation defined by contradiction. It is a country…
Semere T Habtemariam8 min read
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From Geneva to the Present: The Long Arc of International Scrutiny on Eritrea
Semere T Habtemariam11 min read
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The Extraction of Heroic Capital in Eritrea
Dr. Filmon Wolde8 min read
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Eritrea at 35: A Regime Out of Words, Out of Time
A sharp, uncompromising critique of Eritrea’s 35th anniversary narrative, exposing the regime’s empty propaganda, extractive elite, and decades of national stagnation while calling for a new political imagination beyond Isaias Afwerki and…
Semere T Habtemariam8 min read
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Eritrea Celebrates — but Its President Is Somewhere Else
Semere T Habtemariam11 min read
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The Day After: Preparing Eritrea for its Most Dangerous Transition
Semere T Habtemariam11 min read
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When Liberation Becomes a Cage: Eritrea’s Unlearned Lessons
Eritrea’s tragic trajectory—after one of the most heroic and costly struggles for independence in modern African history—remains one…
Semere T Habtemariam6 min read
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The Debt-Free Illusion: Rethinking Eritrea’s Economic Self-Reliance
“The myth of Eritrean self-reliance… has helped justify authoritarianism, isolation, and indefinite national service.”
Dr. Filmon Wolde8 min read
