A Constitution for a Multinational Democratic State-Nation: The Case of Ethiopia

By NED, EVER since the formation of the modern state of Ethiopia, the country’s diversity, represented by its roughly eighty ethnic groups, has defied common formulas for unity and democratic development. Regimes have come and gone, but the central question—whether to forge a nation-state, a multinational federation, or something else—has dominated Ethiopia’s political agenda for […]

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ብ ተስፋኒውስ፡ ፕረዚደንት ኢሳያስ ኣፈወርቂ ፡ ብምኽንያት እንኣትዎ ዘሎና ሓድሽ ዓመት 2015 ኣብ ዘቤታዊ ጉዳያት ዘተኮረ ቃለ-መሕትት ምስ መራኸቢ ብዙሓን ሀገርና ኣካይዱ ኔሩ። ኣብቲ ብኤሪ-ቲቪን ድምጺ ሓፋሽ ኤርትራን ብቐጥታ ዝተፈነወ ቃለ መሕትት ፡ ፕረዚደንት ኢሳያስ ንጉዳይ ቅዋም ኣመልኪቱ ንዝሓቦ መግለጺ ካብዚ ቀጺልና ከምዘለዎ ክነቅርቦ ኢና።

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From Liberation to Governance: The Eritrean Experience

By Yemane Ghebremeskel, ONE vexing question that we have to address at the outset is whether standardized benchmarks and templates can be employed to assess and synthesize the individual experiences and perspectives so as to infer or formulate a generalized, even if approximated, theory. I personally believe that the distinct historical and societal realities under […]

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S. Sudan Rejects Proposal to Scrap Vice-President Post

By Sudan Tribune, THE South Sudanese government said it would not yield to its armed opposition demands to have the vice-president’s position scrapped off and replaced with a prime minister. Cabinet affairs minister, Martin Elia Lomuro said such a proposal was never tabled before government and mediators of the peace talks. “The government delegation did […]

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Why I Left the Eritrean Opposition

By Ermias G, AFTER watching the Egyptian Revolution in 2011, I naively joined the Eritrean opposition seeking a similar outcome in Eritrea. At the time, I thought the opposition was an alternative group that genuinely worked for the betterment of Eritrea and Eritreans. Unfortunately, from my experiences, it is nothing more than a dysfunctional organization that […]

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Eritrea: What Will Drafting a Constitution Mean to the Criminals in the Diaspora?

The crimes of Eritrean criminals in the diaspora are endless to mention. They are gamblers that gamble with everything Eritrea. Their worst gamble however was calling for constitution not knowing how it can affect them; because the constitution will hand them their sentences, of course, in absentia. By Amanuel Biedemariam, WITH one sentence, “I would thus […]

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Eritrean Delegation Statement on UPR Outcome Adoption

By TesfaNews, THE following is the full statement delivered by the Eritrean delegation led by H.E. Ambassador Tesfamichael Gerahtu on June 20th, 2014 during the Adoption of the Addendum to National Report of the Universal Periodic Review (A/HRC/WG.6/18/ERI/1) in Geneva . A media format of the statement is also included (see at the bottom the statement).

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