Tag: West Africa

  • Trust Over Terror: Unity Built on a Minimum Agenda

    Trust Over Terror: Unity Built on a Minimum Agenda

    Accra, Ghana. The very air here reminds me of what could have been for Eritrea. In the early 1990s, two nations stood at a crossroads. Ghana chose democracy, and today it stands as West Africa’s most stable and consolidated democracy. Eritrea, tragically, chose tyranny and has become a cautionary tale of what is broken in

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  • Negarit 308: The Ethiopian Red Sea Craze

    Negarit 308: The Ethiopian Red Sea Craze

    Over a week ago, I started to record an episode that I didn’t finish. This is what I prepared: For the last five or six months, I have been suffering from a nasty papilloma growth in my nostril. Tomorrow, I will lie on an operation table to get rid of it. Those of you who

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