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Ali Salim – March 24, 2019 Congratulations ELL for making it to this Anniversary! This “Magic Bullet” is for you to lead. Do not let the next anniversary find you following others. Do not miss this unique opportunity in our history to define our struggle for unity and justice. The Rationale …

Ali Salim – February 27, 2019 This is the first time I am submitting an article to other than Awate (the website). I used to get exhausted writing half the article to apologize in advance and to reassure people that I do not mean what I say and write the next …

Eritrean Lowlanders League (ELL) Statement on the Process of  Rapprochement between the Ethiopian Government and the Eritrean Regime The Eritrean Lowlanders League has been closely and with great interest observing the changes taking place in the Ethiopian arena since the ascension of Dr. Abiy Ahmed to the premiership, and their ripple effect …

Author  John R Campbell, Reader in the Anthropology of Africa and Law, SOAS, University of London Regardless of international concerns, Eritrea continues to pursue a policy of indefinite military conscription that compels the young and the old to serve their country while paying them a pittance. Eritreans are continuing to …

“Like concentration camps” – the Libyan detention centres favoured by the EU By  Martin Plaut0 Comments The European Union is so determined to halt the flight of Africans through Libya that it is willing to turn a blind eye to the appalling conditions of the detention centres in which refugees are …

EU prevention policy puts Eritreans at risk of imprisonment, torture and death Despite mounting evidence of inhumane treatment faced by Eritreans, both within and outside Eritrea, the EU is doing all it can to prevent them from reaching its shores, says a new report published today by Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors …

Daniel and Kedijah’s story reveals everything wrong with the response by wealthy nations to record-high global displacement. By Caitlin L. Chandler Daniel joined the line of people and followed the smugglers under cover of darkness to the sea. In the humid evening, he waited to board a boat docked off the coast of …

“When prison became a synonym for Eritrea…you can only flee.” In Eritrea, even being part of the East African nation’s tame state media is no protection. That was the conclusion Abraham Zere reached after years of working as a columnist for the government newspaper Hadas Erta and later for the …

Desta Hailu There is this saying – “a tiger doesn’t change its spot”. This saying is about the unchanging nature of human nature. I raised this saying in relation to the comic attempted flip-flop of the Eritrea regime. Recently there have been stories that the Ato Isaias led government is …

Israel stands accused of supplying Ethiopia’s murderous dictator Mengistu with cluster bombs in the early 1990s in exchange for airlifting Ethiopian Jews out of the country. By Gabriel Pogrund (Eritrea) MASSAWA, ERITREA − Massawa is a broken city. Half of its once busy port is rubble and the surviving buildings struggle to …