Category: Awate Team
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Eritrea: US State Department Report 2010
There were credible reports that several military conscripts died following torture and beatings. Security forces tortured and beat army deserters, draft evaders, persons living near mining camps, persons attempting to flee the country without travel documents, and members of certain religious groups. Examples of torture and mistreatment include: prolonged sun exposure in temperatures of up…
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Eritrea: Amnesty International Report 2010
The authorities interrogated, tortured and otherwise ill-treated critics of the government in an attempt to deter dissenting opinion. Prisoners were often whipped, kicked or tied with ropes in painful positions for prolonged periods. Prison conditions were dire. Many prisoners were held in underground cells or shipping containers and denied access to daylight. Conditions were overcrowded,…
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Flawed Elections Are Better Than No Elections
The supporters of dictatorship (including the supporters of Isaias Afwerki’s one-man rule) often state that it is better to have no elections than “sham elections.” Djibouti is scheduled to hold presidential elections on April 8, 2011. The current president, Ismail Omar Guelleh, who has been Djibouti’s president since May 8, 1999 is expected to be
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Fox News Gets It Wrong On Eritrea
In a news article entitled “Eritrea to UN: Take This Aid And Shove It”, foxnews.com characterizes a letter from Berhane Abrehe, Eritrea’s Minister of Finance, to Dr. Mamadou Diallo, the UN Resident/Humanitarian Co-ordinator in Asmara, as a case of Eritrea offering a “stinging rebuff” to the United Nations. While this description may please those who hate
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2011: An Inspirational Year
Inspiring events are engulfing the Middle East region. So far, the Tunisian dictator has been overthrown, quickly followed by the Egyptian despot. Third in line is the Libyan mad man who will hopefully, along with his spoiled brat of a son, be thrown away soon. As these dynamic events are unfolding for the world to see, Eritreans
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Alnahda.com: PFDJ Snares Ansaba And Meskerem
The following item was published in Arabic at www.alnahda1.8m.com. Awate.com has translated it and is publishing it for the benefit of its English readers. Awate Team The Eritrean Regime Begins The New Year With A Public Information Campaign Through Agents Nominally Affiliated With The Eritrea Opposition: Ansaba.com brought news and it was translated into Tigrigna by
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A profile of A Poet: Kiros Yohannes
Some say he is a reincarnation of the late poet Dr. Reesom Haile; others say he is a case of the student surpassing his teacher. But however you see him, Kiros Yohannes is a talented poet. He was born in Asmara in 1973. He completed his elementary schooling at Amanuel (now called Awet); his
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Eritrea: The Madness Of King Isaias Afwerki
“In views the President expressed regarding the confidential secretes [sic] leaked by the Wikileaks online network, President Isaias noted that the issue is not something surprising. “For some countries, diplomacy means lies, intrigue and hegemony, and as such an exposure of this type only demonstrates concrete evidence,” he elaborated. The President underscored that the dissemination
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Plagiarism And Quotation Marks
On Dec. 14, 2010, Mr. Goitom Emam, in an article which appeared at harnnet.org, (EPDP’s official website), accused one of our columnists, Amanuel Hidrat, of plagiarism. Amanuel has explained his position in his article of today, Dec. 29, 2010. Some writers have an understanding contrary to our understanding of plagiarism. We have informed Amanuel that our editorial
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Joining My Awate
As we stated in our introductory article (“New Look, Same Attitude”), our goal is to break down the wall between those who opinionate and those who debate. But it is even more: we want to break down the wall between the thinkers and the activists. We want to create a community where networks are made,
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Different Look, Same Attitude
This website, awate.on-forge.com, was launched on September 1, 2000. The name and its launch date are not a coincidence: it is named after Hamid Idris Awate who, in our opinion, is one of the great founders of Eritrea. Awate launched Eritrea’s armed struggle for independence—liberty, right for self-dertermination—on September 1, 1961, DESPITE the overwhelming odds
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The Eritrea-Djibouti Border Dispute Agreement
The President of the Security Council presents his compliments to the members of the Council and has the honour to transmit herewith, for their information, a copy of a letter dated 7 June 2010 from the Charge d’affaires of the Permanent Mission of Qatar to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security
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Norwegian Parliament And The Issue of Harassment of Eritrean Norwegians
the original minutes of ‘Question Time’ on issues raised by MP Torbjørn Isaksen, a Parliament (Stortinget) member from the Conservative Party of Norway (Høyre) and responses by the Justice Minister, Knut Storberget in the Norwegian Parliament on 08.04.2010. MP Isaksen was interviewed by Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) during a demonstration by Eritreans against the Eritrean regime
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Amanuel Sahle Joins Awate Writers
Awate.com is pleased to announce that the prolific writer Amanuel Sahle has joined the team of its writers. His column at awate.on-forge.com is called Eri-Post and readers can reach him at. Amanuel Sahle was born in Asmara in 1944 and went to school at the Swedish Evangelical School and Haile Selassie High School in Asmara
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Wanted: A Few Good Women
This website prides itself on being the most diverse. More than any other Eritrean website, it reflects the kaleidoscope that is Eritrea. While other websites were rationalizing the uniformity of their writers with sophisticated sophistry (how many times have you heard of “digital divide”?), we worked hard to make everybody feel welcome at awate. The
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Behind The Remote Controlled Demonstration: India Edition
Editor’s Note: The Eritrean regime has claimed that it has nothing to do with demonstrations which have been organized to protest UN Resolution 1907, the targeted sanctions against the political and military leadership of the self-imposed government. It, and its loyalists and affiliates, have attempted to characterize the demonstrations as spontaneous grassroots movement from ordinary
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Meet Mahmoud Jaber Debrom
Mr. Mahmoud Debrom is an artist who has depicting powerful images of traditional Eritrea. He is comfortable working with oil paints, water colors, pastel and pencil sketches across various styles including Abstract (Cubism, Realism, Surrealism.) Awate.com has presented a few of his pieces depicting Eritrean culture; we will share his vast collection in installments. Anyone
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Louis Michel’s letter to Isaias Afwerki
LOUIS MICHELMEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION Brussels, HD/fb — D(9)662 — A (09) 1636 Dear President, Over the last years, the European commission has been committed to fostering its cooperation with Eritrea. We consider that the cooperation programme established in the spirit of the Cotonou Agreement is an essential means in
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September 1: It Is About The Man, Not The Date
Almost every English-language book written about Eritrea over the past four decades– the most recent being Michela Wrong’s I Didn’t Do It For You—is the history of Eritrea as seen by people who belonged, or were sympathetic, to the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF.) It is, to put it charitably, an incomplete story. And sometimes,
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Press Release: Eritrean Anti-Tyranny Global Solidarity
On Wednesday, March 29th 2006, the Eritrean Anti-Tyranny Global Solidarity 1, a task force composed of 15 associations, media outlets and human rights advocacy groups, submitted a petition 2 signed by 4,781 Eritreans and friends of Eritrea to the government of the United States. Similar petitions are simultaneously in the process of being submitted to the