Sudan: Detention of Fifth-Generation Eritrean Refugees
Until the 19th century, the Horn of Africa was one vast region where communities knew their farming, grazing, and dwelling lands. But towards the end of the century nation states with boundaries...
View ArticleNew Faces To Embolden The PFDJ Festivals
Three new faces were delegated to embolden the PFDJ supporters in the current media offensive. Yemane Gebreab who serves as the presidential advisor was the familiar delegate to such activities outside...
View ArticleSeptember Blues, Greetings from Europe
NB: this video is hosted in a temporary channel, not on Negarit. Please hel by sharing it//Saleh Strolling around the city I met several young Eritreans, mostly new arrivals telling from the casual...
View ArticleEritrean Opposition Movement: In Dire Search of Potency and Relevance
Whenever foreign journalists query Eritrea’s strongman, Isaias Afewerki about political opposition to his totalitarian rule, he is known to get a fake perplexed look on his face before retorting, in...
View ArticleEthiopians Still Talking About Talking
Since Abiy Ahmed took office as Ethiopia’s prime minister in 2018, the region is entangled in a civil war. So far, hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced, the economy sustained heavy...
View ArticleMighty Eritrea and Great Tigray
I have been reading some books and trying to see the difference between the traditional Tigray and Amhara perspectives of ending Eritrean independence and swallowing it. Things never change in the...
View ArticlePresence of Ethiopian Forces In Eritrea
Can wars end? What are signs that wars will end? What was the result of past “wars to end wars”? Is our region hastening Armageddon? Will the war in our region ever end? Who are the actors in the war...
View ArticleEthiopia: Hedonists and Spartans
It has been a ticking bomb. It still is a region where the demons require periodic human sacrifices. Not thousands, but tens and hundreds of thousands. The ritual is repeated every generation or two...
View ArticleA Call To Help Awate and Negarit
Dear Friends and supporters of Awate-com and Negarit, Since its inception on September 1, 2000, Awate.com has been serving you consistently by providing information, analysis, and general educational...
View ArticleA Possible Political Collusion Course
Tigray’s TPLF, Eritrea’s EPLF, and Ethiopia’s Prosperity Party at a Possible Political Collusion Course: Whatever the Outcome, it will Redefine the Horn of Africa for Decades to Come. Respectful,...
View ArticleUthman Sabe, A Towering Intellectual and a Prolific Writer!
Uthman Sabe was a household name in Eritrea in the ‘70s and ‘80s and his legacy remains to be one of the most profound and enduring. Sabe has left indelible mark on the contemporary Eritrean history....
View ArticleInvaders or Defenders?
Today I will formally introduce the background intro music of Negarit, that you hear in the intro and outro. It is the work of my youngest brother Ahmed Abdulrahim. On behalf of myself and the audience...
View ArticleAbba Fikremarian Arrested In Asmara
On Saturday October 15, 2022, Abba Fikreyesus Hagos arrived at the Asmara airport from Europe. Eritrean security officers whisked away the bishop of Segeneity Diocese and took him to unknown location....
View ArticleMachoism Is Vengeans
For centuries, the Horn of Africa region has been plagued by a violent culture of war. And almost all wars are motivated by vengeance (Hne mefday). It’s the animal extinct in human beings, the...
View ArticleInter-Ethiopian Peace Talks
As many arrows, loos’d several ways, Come to one mark, as many ways meet in one town, As many fresh streams meet in one salt sea, As many lines close in the dial’s centre, So may a thousand actions,...
View ArticleSevere Anxiety Attacks Eritreans
Since the Eritrean government allied itself with the Federal Ethiopian army and started to participate in the Ethiopian civil war, it has been mobilizing the old and the young who now are part of the...
View ArticleWar-Caused Friction Among Eritreans
A government employee said, "In addition to the house-to-house search, uncles and aunts are forced to spy on their own children; spying and snitching on relatives, friends, and neighbors is tearing the...
View ArticleTime To Clean Your Own Courtyard
Hopefully, the guns will stop. Hopefully those drunk with lust for blood will sober up. Hopefully, those who have nothing to sell but hate, destruction and bloodletting will reevaluate their position....
View ArticleAbiy and Isaias, Radwan in the Middle.
Ser’e is something forbidden by tradition be it mentioning or consuming. For instance, traditional women do not mention the name of their husbands and must refer to them as “father of so-and so”. Ser’e...
View ArticleTransforming ENCDC & EPF to a Higher National Unity Platform
Honoring the 2021 Agreement on a Draft Political Charter & holding a broader national congress urgently is the only way to transform the Eritrean National Congress for Democratic Change (ENCDC)...
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