Who dares to disprove our ignorance as we mark its 20th anniversary?
It is unusual for a people to self-criticize. Leaders too do not take to criticizing their people wholesale. More often than not they reckon in terms of their political capital that can keep them in power. It is a rarity to find leaders who take confidence in their critical, measured opinion of their followers when circumstances demand.
My views of the days ahead in Eritrea
It goes without saying that every Eritrean has become anxious for change (with the exception of the PFDJ diehards who will see their number shrinking by the day from now on).
I am writing from the heart of Asmara, a part of what your site has aptly named the Belly of the Beast. This time around I want to share my view points on the Eritrean Opposition (represented by O in the title of this article). I tend to speak of the Opposition in comparison with the PFDJ (for which the P in the title stands).
Reporters Without Borders has just learned from credible Eritrean sources that journalist and essayist Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu has been held in solitary confinement for the past few weeks in May Srwa prisons, to the north of Asmara. It is not known why she is being given this treatment.
Reporters Without Borders has just learned from credible Eritrean sources that journalist and essayist Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu has been held in solitary confinement for the past few weeks in May Srwa prisons, to the north of Asmara. It is not known why she is being given this treatment.