Category: Gedab News
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UK Retaliates Against Eritrean Regime’s Obfuscation
The United Kingdom’s Foreign Office has made good on its threat to retaliate against the Eritrean regime’s decision to hold British nationals and to deny them consular access: it has restricted the movement of the Eritrean regime’s ambassador to the UK and told him that his regime is no longer allowed to impose “2% tax”
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NATO Navy Captures Armament-Filled Ship, Bound For Eritrea
A small ship, originating from North Korea and carrying rockets and other armaments destined for Eritrea, was intercepted in the international waters of the Indian Ocean by international navy enforcing sanctions against Eritrea. There are 15 tons of rockets, surface to air missiles and explosives worth USD $15 million on the ship which had sailed
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Opposition Chairman: “International Community Must Support Eritreans Just Cause”
In an interview with Walta, Ethiopia’s state media, Tewelde Gebreselasse, the Chairman of the Eritrean Democratic Alliance (EDA), called upon the international community to support the just cause of the Eritrean people. Contrasting the situation in Eritrea with that of Egypt and Tunisia, and answering the interviewer’s question as to why the North African uprising
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Uprising Realigns Qatar, Egypt Relations With Eritrea, Ethiopia
The North African uprising is having a dramatic impact on Egyptian and Qatari relationships with bitter rivals Eritrea and Ethiopia, with the latter benefiting from the new developments and Eritrea finding itself, once again, on the wrong side of the popular wave. Prior to the uprising, Ethiopia regularly complained about Qatar and Egypt. In 2008, Ethiopia
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Isaias Afwerki Interview: On North African Uprisings And The Horn
In part 2 of his interview with state-owned Eri-TV, Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki explained that the North African and Middle Eastern uprisings are the result of popular displeasure with vertical polarization and power/financial concentration in the hands of the elite coupled with external intervention by the practioners of “creative chaos”, who were caught by surprise
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Isaias Afwerki Interview: On British Nationals, Sanctions, Civil Society
In a wide-ranging interview broadcast on state media on Friday, Eritrea’s president Isaias Afwerki commented on the four British ex-Marines who have been detained in Eritrea since December 2010; the sanctions imposed by United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in December 2009, and the absence of civil society in Eritrea President Isaias dismissed the British government’s
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Prime Minister Meles Zenawi: No Longer Playing Defense
In a wide ranging interview with awate.on-forge.com on April 13th, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi discussed the economic progress in Ethiopia, as well as developments in the region particularly Eritrea, Libya, Egypt and South Sudan, and how that has, in some cases, brought about changes to Ethiopia’s policy. Referencing his government’s recently announced change of
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Outlaw Eritrean Regime Kidnaps Akito From Yemen
Sheikh Mohammed Omar Akito, one of the lions of Eritrea’s patriotic movements of the 1950s, has been kidnapped by the PFDJ from Yemen and is now languishing in an Eritrean prison. Akito, believed to be in his late 80s, was living in Djibouti when he was taken ill, and went to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for
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Djibouti: Guelleh wins presidential bid; opponent concedes
Djibouti’s incumbent president, Ismail Omar Guelleh, was re-elected to the presidency by a nearly four to one margin in Friday’s polls. The challenger, Mohammed Wersama, has conceded. Across the country, Djiboutians went to polls starting at six am on Friday and voting stations were open until late at night, and the process was conducted peacefully.
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Djibouti President: Opposition Wants To Lead “Without Struggling”
Gedab News, Djibouti, April 7, 2011: Today, in a press conference at the presidential palace, Djibouti President Ismail Guelleh criticized the opposition for having no alternative program and its forerunners for wanting “to be leaders without struggling.” “Opposition is necessary because it prevents what is happening in other countries from happening here,” he said, “When
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Djibouti Presidential Election Campaign Ends Today
The Djiboutian presidential election winded up today, Wednesday, April 6, 2011, with rallies of thousands of Djiboutians at stadiums. For a country with a population of 650,000, attendance was exceptionally large. 152,000 are registered voters, of whom 92,000 are from the capital city Djibouti. The candidates’ last campaigns were accompanied with colorful show of support
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Eritrea And Its Unusual Embassies: Part 4
Washington DC: In With A Whimper, Out With A Whimper In mid-March 2011, Ghirmai “Santim” Ghebremariam, who became Eritrea’s ambassador to the United States on September 12, 2006, was given ten days to pack up and leave the country. Ghirmai “Santim” excels in the ruling party’s definition of “ambassador”, which is to say he made
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Three Eritreans Brutally Killed In Libya
Gedab News has learned that, last week, three Eritreans were killed brutally by roaming Libyan armed gangs. The names of the three Eritreans are: Ahmed Mohamed Ali, Habtes Gebremariam and Gebremeskel Yohannes. According to our source, the three Eritreans were attacked in their residence and beaten to death. We have no additional information on the circumstances of
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Eritrean Strongman Isaias Afwerki: Still The Regional Spoiler
The recent North African revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya may have temporarily put a pause on Isaias Afwerki’s preternaturally spoiler role in the region, but the strongman has not entirely curtailed his adventures. In February 2011, Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi accused Eritrea of sending militants from the port of Asseb to Ethiopia and
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UN Monitoring Group Provides Damning Report On Eritrean Regime
Over the last six months, a UN-authorized Somalia Eritrea Monitoring group has been visiting a number of African countries to investigate and gather evidence about the Eritrean regime’s role in funding, arming, and training armed groups in defiance of Security Council resolution 1907. According to our sources, the Monitoring Group has gathered damning evidence which it
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Isaias Afwerki Suffering From Liver Ailment
Reliable sources from Eritrea tell awate.on-forge.com’s Gedab News that Eritrean strongman Isaias Afwerki is seriously sick and was in Qatar for medical treatment. The ailment is reported to be liver disease which has manifested itself on his eyes, his face and his stomach. Isaias Afwerki has lost weight; his stomach is bloated; his eyes jaundiced
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Eritrea: A Conference To Groom PFDJ 2.0
On Sunday, January 23 2011, the Young People’s Front for Democracy and Justice (Y-PFDJ), the youth franchise of Eritrea’s ruling and sole legal political entity, convened a conference in Oslo, Norway at the pricey Radisson Blu hotel. The conference was addressed by Eritrea’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, Tesfamichael Gerahtu. No journalists were allowed: a
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Eritrean Officials Panicked By Egypt’s Popular Uprising
As the people’s rage moves from Tunisia to Egypt and possibly to Yemen, the Eritrean regime is in a state of panic and is trying to engineer a total news blackout in Eritrea. The State media, which is the only legal medium of information dissemination in Eritrea, has maintained total silence on the Tunisian and Egyptian
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Eritrean Airlines: Take Four
Eritrea’s dictator Isaias Afwerki is personally supervising the negotiations to bring in Pakistani Airways to manage Eritrean Airlines. The agreement envisions a Pakistani management, which includes a General Manager, a Chief Operating Officer and a Financial manager, to take over the administration of Eritrean Airlines. If the negotiations succeed, this will be the fourth launch
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Egypt Arrests Nearly 100 Eritrean, Ethiopian Refugees
Close to one hundred Eritreans and Ethiopians were arrested in the last two days in Egypt. Also arrested were about four people of other nationalities. The official Egyptian television, which has yet to provide uncensored coverage of the unrest roiling Egypt, brought the news from Sinai as it showed a line up of the arrested