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View ArticleOur Condolences to the Alem Meharenna Family
Our deepest condolences to the bereaved Family of Ato Alem Meharenna, particularly to our longtime friend and colleague Tesfalidet Alem Meharenna.. May the late Zufan’s family be blessed with patience...
View ArticleFattening the Warriors of Ethiopia
This is Negarit 171, Belated Happy easter and Happy Eid message. It addresses the Eritrean inter-religious coexistence that is being tried by some irresponsible individuals, mostly of fascist and...
View ArticleThe Horn of Africa: Unchanging Political Seasons
(Reading Time: 7 minutes) Historically, the African region that contains Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somaliland, and Somalia are considered Horn of Africa countries though Sudan doesn’t belong...
View ArticleBetween Constitutionalism and “The Constitution”
[Reading time 9 minutes] Carlo was a driving school owner and trainer who was traveling to Keren in a bus together with his friend. The bus driver was reckless and seemed incompetent. The bus swayed...
View ArticleSomalia Elects President Hassen Sheik Mahmoud
Somalia led the ex-president Formaggio to the Exit door and welcomed President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud who won the election by 184 votes. Amid a worsening inflation, lack of security, food shortage and a...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Bulls!
[Reading time: 5 minutes.] Memory is a bewildering human faculty. Just look at a dream you have of a long-forgotten event from childhood appearing to you, now, as vivid and fresh as the day you lived...
View ArticleAnd I Waited for the Stale Speech!
It’s good when a culture encourages entertainment; it is bad when it spreads gloom. Entertainment makes you forget your pain. And Eritreans have more reasons than any other country in the world for...
View ArticleLet Sherifo Testify
I am sure you must remember Mahmmed Sherifo. Certainly, you remember the reformers. Were they reformers… or something else! And how is the constitution tied to their arrest! Lastly, what’s the...
View ArticleCome out Equipped With Truth
In an opposition member accepts and promotes all the values of the incumbent regime and adopts all its decisions and symbols, then, what is it opposing? Worse, if you are a single-issue opposition to...
View ArticleOne Kicked Out, Two To Go
In 2018, when Abiy Ahmed made his overly promoted visit to Eritrea and “signed a peace agreement” with Isaias Afwerki, half the world media and the political tribes behaved like a child taken to a...
View ArticleAbiy Threatens Eritrean Sovereignty
Last month the Ethiopian Federal Forces transported low-bed trucks loaded with tens of tanks heading towards the direction of Djibouti. The tanks were finally offloaded in Bure, a town on the...
View ArticleChina Stretches Out Its Hands To The Horn
On Monday, June 20, 2022, a two-day Governance and Development Conference winded up in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. Xue Bing, China’s special envoy to the Horn of Africa represented his country...
View Article31 Years Talking to Themselves, never listen
Over the last months, the PFDJ operatives have been complaining that some forces are forcing them to talk back. They seem they were silenced! However, together with their adversaries, they have been...
View ArticleSupport The PFDJ, Your Regime
Some people hate others with passion. They don’t like them criticizing or opposing the regime they support, the PFDJ, the single, unelected party ruling Eritrea. But when the regime aggresses on the...
View ArticleThree Envelopes for The Horn of Africa Leaders
A newly appointed corporate manager asked his predecessor to give him the best advice he could. The outgoing manager gave him three envelopes and told him to open them in sequence whenever he faced...
View ArticleDrones Created Out of Dirty Residues
In the last episode of Negarit (#181), I asked my audience ‘what do miss the most in Eritrea? I was not surprised by the answers because I can identify with most of them. But regardless, they were...
View ArticleWhat Is the Source of Change in Eritrea?
NB: This post was brought from the Awate Discussion Forum, with minor editing to make it readable by the general public/Editors] In the prayer of the Tewahdos, ብስመ-ኣብ (in the name of God), there is a...
View ArticleDr. Tesfatsion Medhanie Abdicates
In a speech he delivered to Selfi Hidase gathering, Dr. Medhanie, without equivocation and nuance, pointed at TPLF as the archenemy to Eritrea’s sovereignty. To obviate the threat from this enemy, he...
View ArticleSeason of Migration to the PFDJ
During the last three-Covid-years, the PFDJ was restlessly awaiting the end of the pandemic to relaunch its propaganda onslaught. Now it’s back to normal and the PFDJ is active trying to regain its...
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