Category: Awate Team
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Support the 2025 Awate & Negarit Fundraising Drive
(REPUBLISHED) This year, we’re launching the 2025 fundraising drive five months behind schedule—we trust you’ll understand. For decades, awate.on-forge.com and Negarit have served you as a labor of love. Our mission has always been to promote awareness and work tirelessly toward the goal of national reconciliation—a goal we remain committed to until it’s fully realized.
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The Eritrean Dilemma with Its President
Isaias Afwerki. The most mentioned. The most criticized. The most admired, and at the same time, the most despised. He’s a prominent character in most dialogues, debates and discussions among Eritreans. Some admire him as the most accomplished person because he successfully led the struggle for the independence of Eritrea. To others, he’s notorious for
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Too Many Lemons to Carry
Dear Friends of Awate and Negarit (please scroll down for details), When we launched the 2024 fundraising in January, we were (and still are) counting on the thousands of fans, friends and colleagues to chip in. Fundraising is the most difficult part of the tasks. So far, only 52 friends have responded; the ratio of
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Please respond to the call
Dear Friends of Awate and Negarit When we launched the 2024 fundraising in January, we were (and still are) counting on the thousands of fans, friends and colleagues to chip in. Fundraising is the most difficult part of the tasks. So far, only 41 donators have responded; the ratio of those who responded compared to
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Awate-Negarit Fundraising Drive 2024
You can donate using the method you think is most convenient to you, using the links provided below. Please chip in generously. Contribution addresses and account details: Credit and Debit Cards: Below the “Support awate.on-forge.com” icon on the front page, there is a form through which you can make your donation. PayPal: Click the orange
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Announcement: awate.on-forge.com restored
Awate.com is back alive. Since September 2023, awate.on-forge.com was crippled due to unexpected internal logistical/technical issues. That was the longest disruption since it was launched on September 1, 2000. Luckily, with the help of a few concerned people, we have overcome the problems, and we are on. In the coming weeks, we plan to adopt
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Eritrean Refugees in Ethiopia Brace for the Rainy Season
Eritrean refugees at Alemwach refugee camp in Gondar are bracing for another uncomfortable rainy season. Some of the camp’s residents came as children in Tigray escaping from Eritrea. The refugees fled from the Tigray camps amidst the Ethiopian civil war that raged between Tigray’s regional government and the Ethiopian federal government forces with its allied
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
May the year 2023 be the best year for all of you
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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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Awate.com is released from Intensive Care
After operating at a minimum capacity for a while, awate.on-forge.com is now back–after improving website security and renewed drive.
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Awate.com’s Saleh Johar interviews Meles Zenawi (2008)
The following was first published in May 26, 2008. It’s the first ever interview with the late PM Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia by an Eritreans entity since 1997. The file was lost around 2012 due to some server mishap. Thereafter, several people have asked us about it but we couldn’t find it until recently. This republishing is dedicated
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Happy Awate Day: September 1, 2021
Today is Awate Day. It is the day on which we remember our hero Hamid Idris Awate who on September 1, 1961 raised his gun with determination, and started the Eritrean revolution that would rid Eritrea of Ethiopian occupation. His dream and that of his colleagues and followers was achieved in May 24, 1991. However,
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The Horn of Africa: From Unitarianism to Medemerism
Sifting through endless mazes of social media outlets to find a discourse that engages one’s intellectual faculty requires ample patience and restraints of the highest order. The attendant subject matter, namely, The Horn of Africa, is no exception in that it has proliferated in magnitude, in volume, proportional to the virtual world at large. When
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The Lampedusa Tragedy: A Chronicle
[This was first published on October 2, 2014 @14:33] Tomorrow, Eritreans all over the world will observe a day of remembrance for the victims of Lampedusa, the tragedy that shook their being on October 3, 2013. The tragedy was not the first incident where Eritreans died, but it was the first of its kind considering the
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PEN Eritrea Names 2020 Freedom of Expression Award Winner
(Sept. 18, 2020): Awate.com’s founding editor, novelist, and activist, Saleh “Gadi” Johar has been named PEN Eritrea’s annual Freedom of Expression Award winner, a recognition that awards $1,000.00 and a trophy. The award ceremony was hosted virtually on Friday, September 18, 2020. On behalf of the award committee, Dr. Daniel R. Mekonnen noted that the prize
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Pandemic and Government Induced Oppression in Dankalia
The home of Eritrean Afar people, in the southern tip of Eritrea bordering the Red sea, Djibouti and Ethiopia, is going through calamities where the basic food has become scarce. The region is historically known as Dankalia though almost two-decades ago it was renamed the Southern Red Sea region by the ruling party of Eritrea.
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Happy Eid – ዒድ ሙባረክ – عيد مبارك
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Launching the 2020 Awate Fundraising Drive
Dear Friends of awate, This is the most unpleasant time for us because we have to announce the launch of our 2020 Fundraising drive. We are hoping our call will resonate with all friends of awate. Last year was the first time since this website was launched that we met our yearly goal. Your donations
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Two Pictures of a Man Five Years Apart
The above is a composite image, part of which appeared with an editorial by the Awate Team in 2014 while the second part is a propaganda image widely distributed over the last few days. In Eritrea and in other parts of the world, the PFDJ has been busy celebrating the 25th anniversary of Sawa military training
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Last Appeal: 2019 Fundraising Campaign
Dear Friends, Thank you for your support, but here we are making our last appeal for 2019. This time, the campaign, though not consistent, was very long. It has been doing it for seven months and it is time to wrap up this year’s campaign before we get into 2020. Firstly, we would like to thank all