Category: Editorial

A Story You Will Not Read in the Eritrean Media

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Reporters Without Borders compile a list every year of which countries have the most press freedom and which have the least.* This year, Norway is Number 1. You can write the truth in Norwegian newspapers, and tell it on the news, and online, without fear of…

A Day to Celebrate?

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On 24th May 2022, it will be 31 years since Eritrea gained its independence! Is this not, surely, a time for great rejoicing? With hard-won independence, we would expect this, above all, to be a day to celebrate…a nation’s freedom, perhaps? Sadly, it remains at present…

The Real Implications of the UK – Rwanda Refugee deal

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Britain’s new policy proposal to send asylum seekers who have not arrived by legal routes to Rwanda in East Africa is unethical and probably illegal under international humanitarian law.  Britain’s Home Secretary Priti Patel recently signed a deal to remove to Rwanda asylum-seekers arriving in Britain…

Eritrea: Nothing Has Changed

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ERITREA: How did a new nation’s hopes and expectations for freedom and democracy come to be so brutally dashed? And why do we particularly remember this deprivation each year on 18th September? At the end of the war with Ethiopia, a group of Eritrean academics and…

“Destination Unknown”: Enforced Disappearances in Eritrea

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Are you aware that In Eritrea, if the government so wishes, you may be arrested and just disappear without trace, without legal process and without anyone having any means of finding out what has happened to you? Eritrea remains an appallingly unsafe place for political dissenters…

Ethiopian Premier Does Not Want to Know the Truth about Eritrea

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In a recent interview with an Ethiopian journalist, the Premier of Ethiopia was asked about reported plans by Eritrea and Ethiopia to attack the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. In his answer, the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Dr. Abiy Ahmed, denied the plan, and paid tributes to the Government of…

A Day to Celebrate with All Our Hearts?

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On 24th May 2020, it will be 29 years since Eritrea gained its independence! Is this not, surely, a time for great rejoicing?  With hard-won independence, we would expect, above all, this to be a day to celebrate Our Nation’s Freedom, Perhaps? Freedom of movement:   Under normal…