This story from Awate is supported by other sources, including the tweets below Martin Posted on December 9, 2022 by Gedab News in Gedab…
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Author: Martin Plaut
Eritrea’s jailed journalist exhibition opens in UK Parliament
“Our adversaries are cowards, afraid of the truth” - Awet Fissehaye of PEN Eritrea The independent Eritrean journalists who have…
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Twenty one years after being jailed, Eritrea’s independent journalists are remembered in the British Parliament
On 18 September 2001 the Eritrean government banned all independent media outlets and incarcerated all but the most compliant journalists….
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Eritreans across the world come together to chart a way towards democracy
A conference organised by Eritrea Focus has been held to consider some of the key issues facing the Eritrean nation…
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The Tigray deal could end the war in Ethiopia – but implementation won’t be easy
By Martin Plaut Source: Globe and Mail People are seen in front of clouds of black smoke from fires in…
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What is Eritrea’s next step in the Tigray war?
The brooding, calculating presence of President Isaias hangs over the current peace agreement between the Ethiopian government and Tigray. From…
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The forgotten victims of the Tigray war - the fate of 100,000 Eritrean refugees
Very little has been said about the Eritreans - some 100,000 of whom were living in refugee camps in Tigray,…
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Eritrea’s divisions – funded and fuelled by President Isaias Afwerki
The Tigray war The war – now two years old – is raging, even as the first official peace talks…
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Tigray the latest battlefront in Afwerki’s three decades of wars
Source: Kenya Standard Tigray the latest battlefront in Afwerki’s three decades of wars By Martin Plaut In this photo provided…
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Empty village streets and hyenas eating the dead: The price of Eritrea’s involvement in the Tigray war
Eritreans have described the measures President Isaias has taken to round-up conscripts to feed into the war in Tigray. This…
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