A six day seminar was conducted in Addis on Eritrea, participants were Eritrean political organizations.

Part – I: Time – Introduction

Dear fellow citizens, wherever we are, it is impossible to live a life in isolation. I do not know whether the “I” can be lived without embracing the “we”, our collective sense of identity.

By CHRYSTIA FREELAND | REUTERS

NEW YORK — “When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.”

“People in Tripoli have been attending the last Friday prayers of Ramadan and the last Friday prayers before the month of daylight fasting ends with Eid next week.

On September 18, 2011 Eritreans across the globe and many friends of Eritrea, will mark 10 years to the day the flickering light of hope for justice and human rights in Eritrea grew considerably dimmer.

Long accused of aiding and abetting the Al Shabaab insurgency in Somalia, Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki’s three-day visit to Kampala last week was interpreted as an attempt to end his country’s isolation.

President Issias has arrived in Kampala for a three-day visit and held talks with his Ugandan counterpart, President Museveni.

By Tabu Butagira & Isaac Imaka

Kampala – More than a decade ago, former US President Bill Clinton helped to popularise the buzzword ‘new breed’ of African leaders.

Written by Emma Mutaizibwa

The Horn of Africa’s belligerent leader, Isaias Afewerki, is set to visit tomorrow as he tries to mend fences and end his country’s isolation.

Weeks have now elapsed since the report of the Monitoring Group to the UN Security Council, which virtually left President Issias’ fiasco naked, has become public.

Analyst says that US endorsing of African democracy leaders must be tempered with dose of vigilance

Many articulate opposition writers have been writing the follies and clumsiness of PIA’s diplomatic efforts for the past two decades and thus would be repetitive to add this writer’s opinion on this issue.

By CHRISTINE MUNGAI

In early July, as Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki headed to Addis Ababa to chair a meeting of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad), 

By WALTER MENYA

Three events in quick succession have forced Eritrea to go on the defensive with its envoy in Nairobi declaring , “we have never been the bad boy”.

By Matt O’Brien – Contra Costa Times

OAKLAND — Armed rebels in the famine-ravaged Horn of Africa are being partially bankrolled by money from immigrants in the Bay Area, according to a United Nations report.

Eritrea’s not known for much except good coffee and an abiding hatred of Ethiopia. So it caught the world by surprise when the UN accused the tiny country of planning and organising a massive terror attack on Addis Ababa, the capital of the African Union and of the hated Ethiopia.

Has the Eritrean Regime complied with Resolution 1907 or not- that is the question.

Brief introduction:

The tendency to underestimate the intelligence of its own citizens and that of the rest of the world is the shinning trademarks of the Eritrean regime.

As a matter of principle IGAD believes that regime change in any country is the sole responsibility of the people of that country. It is certainly not up to IGAD countries to choose what kind of regime should be in power in Eritrea.

This saying is heard in various circumstances and contexts, and it is worth taking it carefully to note in the context of Eritrea. On the occasion of the anniversary of Eritrean independence we have seen a stark and clear illustration of the polarized world of Eritrea.

There has recently been a concerted campaign to rally Erirteans in diaspora in protest against the Security Council sanction imposed on Eritrea.  

Here are the documents that will provide Dawit Isaak, a trial. Several organizations and media companies are doing today a new effort to help the imprisoned journalist.

Foreign Minister Osman Saleh adamantly and hotly denied Eritrean support for radical Somali Islamists June 17 as we delivered the Presidents letter addressed to Isaias (ref). This is the same line weve heard from numerous other Eritrean officials both in public and private. From a starting position that our information is correct, this
Flat Denial means the Eritrean officials are ignorant or lying.

My Impression:….Lessons to learn:

The conference was organised by Eritrean Education and Publication Trust (EEPT) with the support of Centre for Initiative of Change who provided the venue. It was also in memory of the late General Mencorios Haile who was a leading figure in the work of Eritrean Communities in the UK. He was a senior adviser to EEPT.

Malabo, Equatorial Guinea 30 June 2011 –The African Union Commission Chairperson Dr Jean Ping today said the popular uprisings in North Africa should be seen as an opportunity for AU member states to renew their commitment to the AU agenda for democracy and governance and to implement socio economic reforms that are demanded by their people.

I just read a poem at alenalki.com- perhaps one of the most colorful websites cyber has ever seen ,thanks to adobe’s Photoshop.  Thank God, the poem is short and is dedicated to the Lion of Nakfa.

After six months of under-table tripartite diplomatic wrangling among Eritrea, UK and Australia over the arrest of the four British citizens (one of them with a dual UK and Australian citizenship) by the former, the Eritrean government has held a TV trial this week, with footage, snipers, night goggles and GPS confiscated from the detainees casted as exhibits of evidence.

The last 20 years of independence have been the darkest period in the history of the Eritrean people. The economy not only stagnated but sharply declining from time to time. It is not unusual to see people dying because of hunger and malnutrition.

The Draft Constitution was duly submitted to the relevant bodies by the chairman of the committee as a legitimate document. It is important to note that the Draft Constitution is a collective work, and the property of the Eritrean Commission for Democratic Change.

After six months of under-table tripartite diplomatic wrangling among Eritrea, UK and Australia over the request of the four British citizens (one of them with a dual UK and Australian citizenship), the Eritrean government has held a TV trial this week, with footage, snipers, night

After six months of under-table tripartite diplomatic wrangling among Eritrea, UK and Australia over the request of the four British citizens (one of them with a dual UK and Australian citizenship), the Eritrean government has held a TV trial this