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Will they make peace?
Culturally, Abyssinia still clings to its archaic, arguably primitive, mindset. Attempts at modernization have not yielded the needed results. From early on, the developed West has portrayed the nation as a Christian island amidst a Muslim sea. But the unlimited support and goodwill the developed West provided didn’t help much. Since the Middle Ages, the
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Book Review: An African Revolution Reclaimed
Book Reviewer: Semere T HabtemariamTittle: An African Revolution Reclaimed: A Memoir of Eritrean Freedom Fighter Mesfin Hagos Author(s): Mesfin Hagos and Awet Tewelde Weldemichael Publisher: Red Sea Press Year: 2023 Pages: 436 First impression is the best impression: For the last two decades, the idea of writing a memoir has been a constant theme in
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Critical Thinking and Critical Dialogue in A Plural Society like Eritrea
Critical Thinking and Critical Dialogue in A Plural Society like Eritrea Call it serendipity or call it a delightful coincidence, right at the time when the discussion at Awate.com is revolving around discourse and its discursive elements, dialogue and its attendant tentacles, there comes a presenter who seems to be telling us to consider something
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The PFDJ’s Graduation Ceremonies
The PFDJ regularly announced the graduation of doctors, nurses, and pharmacists and general medicine. It also announces the graduation of engineers, journalists, and a host of other disciplines. I will take two of those, the medical graduates, and journalists. Medical Professionals If Eritrea graduates such a big number of medical professionals, why is the medical
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PFDJ Members Also Betrayed By the Eritrean Regime
This is an Account presented through the Story of Gebremeskel Tekle. “A profound chaos descended on our lives in the mid-1960s, whose rights and wrongs were obscured by the brutalities that accompanied the changes brought about by the revolution in 1964: detentions, executions, expulsions, and endless small and large indignities and oppressions.” The above citation
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Awate.com and Negarit 2022 Fundraising Drive
Dear colleagues and supporters, Below is all the information you need for making a donation to support awate.on-forge.com and Negarit that some would like to silence. But the voice of concern for the people, being the voice of voiceless, promoting liberal values and peaceful coexistence, including promoting justice and freedom of the people, will not
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A Call To Help Awate and Negarit
Dear Friends and supporters of Awate-com and Negarit, Since its inception on September 1, 2000, Awate.com has been serving you consistently by providing information, analysis, and general educational content under the theme of Reconciliation. Throughout the journey, we depended on our personal resources and the little support we got from a few genuine supporters out
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Ethiopians Still Talking About Talking
Since Abiy Ahmed took office as Ethiopia’s prime minister in 2018, the region is entangled in a civil war. So far, hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced, the economy sustained heavy damages, and ethnic conflicts are spreading to every corner of the already unstable region. Preaching hate and violence has become the daily
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Our Condolences to the Alem Meharenna Family
Our deepest condolences to the bereaved Family of Ato Alem Meharenna, particularly to our longtime friend and colleague Tesfalidet Alem Meharenna.. May the late Zufan’s family be blessed with patience and strength to deal with the loss, and MAY SHE REST IN PEACE. Saleh Johar On Behalf of myself and The Awate Team
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Happy Eid Al Fitr
Happy Eid to all
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Eritrea: “the Wisdom of Government in Exile”
[This post by HaileTG is brought to the Frontpage from the Awate Discussion Forum.] I understand where [the discussion is] coming from. I also know that the concerns are shared by many. However, in most instances, I try to avoid [mentioning] entities such as those who profess their inner desires on how they would like to make a
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News and Information, Life and Property
My generation grew up consuming news. In Teashops, particularly in the morning, radios blasting, news bulletins from BBC Arabic, VoA, Monte Carlo, and many others. Every artisan on the streets had radios on the shopfronts. Each day I walked to school through the textile and grocery shops, tailors, tin artifact makers who made pots (jebena),
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A Book Review of “Desecrators of the Sacred Trust”
Review by Semere T Habtemariam Title: Desecrators of the Sacred Trust: The Apotheoses of Donald J. Trump and Isaias Afwerki, Two Preening Would Be Kings and their Dark Agendas. Author: Bereket Habte Selassie Publisher: authorhouse Year: 2020, Pages: 183 In Desecrators of the Sacred Trust, Dr. Bereket Habte Selassie has the audacity to compare an elephant
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Support Awate.com – Report #2:
The Awate Team is grateful for the positive responses to the “Support Awate.com” fundraising call. We hope the enthusiasm is kept alive until we meet our goal. As of today, we are closer to reaching 50% of our goal and hoping to receive the pledged amounts soon. Until then, we will report to you regularly,
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A Glimpse at Gedli Boulevard, From the sidewalk
Exactly a year and a few weeks ago I wrote a draft article to post on Awate in the form of a letter to Tzigereda. It was a kind of encouragement and response to her after she wrote “Gejeret 1975: Life Under Mengistu’s Derg.” Seeing people criticising her on writing personal stuff as well as
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Tyranny: Slavery Of the 21st century
The last twenty-six years have been the most painful years for the Eritrean people. For more than two decades Eritreans went through the most brutal acts of evil. Here, I would like to share my personal experience and testimony. I vividly remember the colorful and joyful day when Eritrea was liberated after ending the Ethiopian
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Ali Saleh Faced Muammer Gaddafi’s Fate
Two days after he disowned his Houthi allies in a television interview, and calling on Saudi Arabia to end its hostilities in Yemen, armed Houthis stopped his convoy south of Sanaa and shot him in the head. Yemeni sources indicated he was on his way to being smuggled out of the country by UAE forces.
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To Nobody’s Surprise, Sanctions on Eritrea Renewed
(1) The Security Council voted to extend the mandate of the Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea (SEMG) and to continue the sanctions on Eritrea for another year. (2) The vote was 11 in favor, 4 abstentions and 0 against. The abstentions were Russia, China, Bolivia and Egypt. (3) This means that in addition to
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Eritrea: Choosing Love, Hope Over Hate, Fear
The events at Aldia Islamic School, the address of its Chairman of the Board Mr. Mussa Mohammed Nur; his arrest on October 27, the October 31 demonstrations that followed it and the series of cellphone videos that were shared with the world (this, and this) the arrest of the demonstrators, followed by cordoning off neighborhoods
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Eritrea: The Constitution
Here is a follow-up on “gual mengedi” – the constitution. I will stick to word limit and make it short. Maybe I should just have posted it as comment. Anyway, for some reason people seem interested in revisiting the subject. I tried to read as much of the discussion on the subject as possible. Things