A Day to Celebrate? On 24th May 2022, it will be 31 years since Eritrea gained its independence! Source: www.hrc-eritrea.org…
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Author: Martin Plaut
Eritrea: Extend the UN Special Rapporteur mandate and enshrine his “benchmarks for progress”
To Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations Human Rights Council (Geneva, Switzerland)20 May 2022 Excellencies,…
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New Somali President may unleash Eritrean attack by Tigrayans
Source: Bloomberg Power Play Shifts in Horn of Africa as Somalia Elects New Leader President Mohamud has long-standing ties with…
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Eritrea shares a status with North Korea: no Covid-19 vaccination – and the policy is failing
Today North Korea has finally admitted that its policy of a strict lockdown without a vaccination programme against Covid-19 has…
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Famine in Ethiopia: the roots lie in Eritrea’s long-running feud with Tigrayans
Published: May 9, 2022 Author Martin Plaut Senior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Institute of Commonwealth Studies,…
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Swiss authorities claims about “safe return” for Eritreans blown apart by torture victim
Yonas’s Story – The Eritrean who returned An Eritrean – “Yonas” – has fled to Switzerland, from which he was…
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Tigrayans must internalize the problem and end the siege by themselves!
By Dereje T Asefa (PhD) ESIA expert, Norway The humanitarian crisis in Tigray is getting worse and worse as the…
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British Government on Tigray: “Roughly 400,000 people are assessed to be experiencing catastrophic conditions akin to famine.”
Tigray: Parliamentary reply on starvation being used as a weapon of war leads to U.K. reporting that “roughly 454,000…
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Israeli aid delegation heads to Ethiopia to help in the war: but not to Tigray
A delegation of Israelis, including three members of the parliament, or Knesset, are leaving for Ethiopia today. The 13 strong…
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The sad, sad story behind Biniam Girmay’s triumph
We – like everyone else – have been celebrating Biniam Girmay Hailu’s victory. His success has set the bar high for…
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