In the face of attempts by conflict entrepreneurs to kill hope again, the people of the Horn region are ready to face the challenges with renewed hope and confidence. BY SOPHIA TESFAMARIAM (AMBASSADOR-DESIGNATE) The anti-Eritrea campaigns in cyberspace are in full swing and it is not just the economic, social, and political systems in Eritrea […]
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BY SOPHIA TESFAMARIAM | SHABAIT In the Centre for Dialogue, Research and Cooperation (DCRC) paper, “The conundrum of present Ethiopian foreign policy—in search of a roadmap for Ethiopia’s foreign and national security policy and strategy”, Tekeda Alemu, former Ethiopian Ambassador to the United Nations, attempts to conceal the vacuity of the ousted TPLF regime’s foreign […]
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The days of muzzling Eritrea’s voice are long gone. BY SOPHIA TESFAMARIAM | SHABAIT When President Isaias Afwerki said it was #GameOver for the TPLF regime last year, his prescient analysis had both literal and figurative dimensions. Indeed, the “Black Swan” event in the Horn of Africa sent shock waves that brought with it far […]
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Peace is created through the actions and interactions of statesmen, and diplomacy is its key ingredient. BY SOPHIA TESFAMARIAM | SHABAIT These are the time of rapid, breath-taking, developments in the Horn of Africa region. The changes have bewildered analysts who have been pontificating about the Horn for decades, only to get it all wrong […]
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BY SOPHIA TESFAMARIAM | SHABIT Eritrea’s Foreign Minister, H.E. Osman Saleh in his remarks at the Second Italy- Africa Forum in Rome held on 24- 25 October 2018 said the following:
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Time to end the misleadingly simplistic, culturally ill-informed, and politically dangerous narratives about Eritrea and the Horn region. BY SOPHIA TESFAMARIAM | SHABAIT Much of western media coverage of the Horn of Africa tends to focus on negative attributes or problems. So when Eritrea and Ethiopia signed the “Peace and Friendship Declaration” on 9 July […]
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BY SOPHIA TESFAMARIAM | SHABAIT After 16 years of silence on the Ethiopian occupation of sovereign Eritrean territories, there is a sudden barrage of articles about the Eritrea-Ethiopia “border” issue coming from the regime in Ethiopia, its surrogates in the mainstream media and from a notorious, if insignificant, segment of its cow-towing “academicians”.
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BY SOPHIA TESFAMARIAM | SHABAIT April 13th will mark the 16th anniversary of the Eritrea Ethiopia Boundary Commission’s (EEBC) “final and binding” decision on the Eritrea Ethiopia border. There is not much that can be said about the historical decision that has not been said before, but it would not hurt to re-iterate some facts:
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