Category: Articles
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Eritrea & Egypt: State Vs. Regime Security
A man came to my office at the Paradiso Campus of the University of Asmara, showed me his ID card, placed a revolver on the desk in front of me, and asked to use the phone; he called his headquarters report that he was with me. He then began questioning me in detail about my
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Rage! Rage! Rage!
Dear Eritrean Youth, I feel your pain; I feel your pain. Oh, Sunset’s Children! Remember the 80s, waiting for the ‘To’Qae’! Remember when we hoped for the coming of our older brothers and sisters. Remember when we prayed. We saw tomorrow. Remember when we fought our own little battles, in our own way. ‘ELPA’, the
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Fighting for France: A Matter of Perspective
Ghadafi is still in power. It is amazing that he is still in power considering the amount of firepower and the number of forces arrayed against him. I have always wanted Ghadafi to disappear even more than I had wanted Isaise to disappear even though I am and never was or has been a Libyan
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A political Tsunami
A Tsunami of popular upheavals has hit the region and on its way it has swept two of the most brutal and deeply entrenched dictatorial regimes: Bin Ali of Tunisia and Mubarak of Egypt. Others will hopefully follow them soon, Inshaa Allah. The unabated waves are still spreading over, shaking the foundations of many regimes
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Peaceful Resistance: A Window To Progress And Tranquility Is That The Whole Truth?
I read an interesting article, PEACEFUL RESISTANCE: A WINDOW TO PROGRESS AND TRANQUILITY (NHARNET.COM – 5.11.2010) a couple of months ago. It grandly pronounced EPDP’s art of struggle in a nutshell – Peaceful Resistance. A tactic which is also the strategy. The article further boasts EPDP is the first Eritrean party to officially endorse such
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The Beauty And Complexity Of Diversity
Alem was not even ten when he joined the Tzebah (meaning dawn—a name given to the young of the ELF). Tzebah was a project set up to indoctrinate the young generation with Marxist ideology and was administered by the Union of Eritrean Youth under the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF); and Marxism is an atheist ideology
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An Eritrean Diplomats’ Guide To South Sudan
Introduction of the issue It is said that diplomacy is the art of persuasion, and together with money and military force an ability to persuade sets a Government’s power to shape the unraveling of international events to meet its own interests. Persuasion is an art requiring myriad alliances – not forgetting careful agreements and a
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Expecting Aguagudom (ኣጓጉዶም):A Play Act (VII)
Setting: Misyam, Seraye (Zoba Debub), Eritrea Character’s Name Sobriquet Party/Affiliation Yemane Baliho Wedi-Baliho Selfi-Swa Mohamed Birhan Imam Wedi-Zemzem Selfi-Alamel Abdela A Zerom Wed-Inharish Selfi-Gebil Amanuel ReDae Wedi-Tiebe Selfi-L’fnti Tirhas Kindya Trishi (Gual ‘Gbitan) Demit Eritrea Mohammed I Abdella Wed-Sudan Hizb Aljemahir Zewdi Andemariam Gual Bashay ?????????? Najib A Khasay Hargets Selfi-Abaeke Dr. Basilios Angesom Gnogno
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The Struggle Ahead: A Matter of Perspective
It is amazing that Ghadafi is still in power. There can only be two explanations for this. The firs is either his children are still loyal to him—remember when he told the World. ‘My Beable love me, all my Beable they love me”, nobody believed him. Even the hapless Susan Rice said he was then
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When You Wield Your Sword
Following the collapse of the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) in the early eighties, I came across an Arabic poem, written by a Saudi poet whose name I can’t recall right now. The poem describes adolescent love: سلام عليك يذيب الجليد يبث اليك شجون فؤادي ويزرع في راحتيك الورود . . .. .…… . .. ….. اعذني
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The Fall Of Gazafi & The Eritrean-Libyan Relations (Part II)
If one were to re-compose an old Eritrean Tigrinya song to describe how many times the Eritrean President has visited Libya in the last decade, one of the verses would read like this: ‘Tezewery nefarit tezewereyeTribolin-Asmaran kuynu mezawereye’ (Fly Airplane, fly, the Asmara Tripoli journey has become an entertainment). Part I focused on the pre-liberation
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Positive Engagement
The dictator and his different faces (PFDJ, YPFDJ and his media outlets including meskerem.net), have, for years now, and for obvious reasons, waged and still continue to wage defaming campaigns against the opposition with the intention of undermining its resolve and at the same time defeat its self confidence. Also, in parallel, a similar defamation
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PFDJ Understands Only Force
Before I proceed to the main subject of this article, I would like to congratulate the Tunisian and Egyptian people for waging a successful revolutions and ousting the longtime dictators, thus being able to decide the future of their nations. The audacious popular uprising that emerged in Tunisia indeed inspired many Arab nations that suffered
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Middle East Quagmire: A Matter Of Perspective
Ghadafi has refused to go. He claims he holds no elected Office. That is no news. Libyans never had elections since independence anyway. So the issue of him resigning is absurd. He is not a head of State. He is the Head of his own creation, ‘The Jamharia.’ Unlike Isaias, Ghadafi does not have subjects.
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The Fall Of Gazafi And The Eritrean-Libyan Relations
“I was the one who created Libya and I will be the one to destroy it.” Qazafi as cited in The Economist1 “Mercenaries, Eritrean mercenaries!” they shouted and attacked Eritreans every here. Word spread by the agents of the regime that Eritreans were behind the failed coup attempt. Eritreans were shown as mercenaries on TV
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Towards The National Conference
I don’t want to dwell in the details of who said what or whose position was the correct one. It suffices to say that the EDA with all its 11 member organizations was part of the discord/conflict that resulted in EPDP’s boycotting the Addis conference in the past and then the subsequent withdrawal from the
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At The Crossroad (3rd & Final Part)
‘’They are capable of loving only the dead.’’ A. Pushkin The new mantra for the just ended 21st Anniversary of Massawa’s liberation goes: ‘’Fenkel: Apiary of Eritrea’s Independence’’. Sounds cute and clever. Full of meaning. Intelligent. Nationalistic. I am sorry if I am being a spoiler, but frankly, after twenty years of listening to this
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Building Democracy And Democratic Institutions In Eritrea
(This is a speech presented at the Eritrean Civic Society Public Meeting organized by the People’s Committee for National Congress of Greater Los Angeles, CA, February 19, 2011. Dr. Afeworki Paulos teaches African politics and International Relations at Carnegie Mellon University. In addition to his teaching, he also serves as Assistant to the Dean of Libraries and
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Expecting Aguagudom (ኣጎጉዶም): A Play-Act VI
Characters’ Name Sobriquet Party/Affiliation Yemane Baliho Wedi-Baliho Selfi-Swa Mohamed Birhan Imam Wedi-Zemzem Selfi-Alamel Abdella A zerom Wed-Inharish Selfi-Gebil Amanuel ReDae Wedi-Tiebe Selfi-L’fnti Tirhas Kindya Trishi(Gual ‘Gbitan) Demit Eritrea Mohamed I Abdella Wed-Sudan Hizb Aljemahir Zewdi Andemariam Gual Bashay ???? Najib A Khahsay Hargets Selfi-Abaeka Dr. Basilios Angesom Gnogno Selfi-Bun Osmano Ibrahimo YaAsina Selfi-Shahi Melake Gebrekidan
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Two Out: Who Is No. 3?
The Tunisian people have taken to the streets and succeeded in deposing a dictator, and the popular uprising in Egypt has forced the modern pharaoh to make three consecutive concessions within a week. For the first time in 30 years he appointed a vice-president (we do not have one in Eritrea yet) and promised to