A COALITION of Eritrean communities from all over Europe are sponsoring a mass demonstration against the UN Commission of Inquiry. The Commission of Inquiry has presented yet another distorted version of events in Eritrea, based on hearsay and innuendos. The terminology and language used by the Commission belittles the very essence of independent Eritrea, and […]
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By TesfaNews, THE women are wailing and crying, the youth chanting. Thousands of angry Ethiopians filled the streets of Addis Ababa to vent their rage and grief over the gruesome killing of dozens of Ethiopian Christian asylum seekers in Libya by the savage Islamic extremist group ISIS. The protesters depart from the homes of the […]
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By Abdella Sifaf, OVER 500 Eritreans and their friends held a “Rally for Truth, Peace, Justice and Eritrea” demanding an end to the ongoing occupation of Eritrean territories; immediate full implementation of the 13-year old Eritrea Ethiopia Boundary Commission’s (EEBC) ruling, whose verdict was rendered on 13 April 2002; and the lifting of the illegal […]
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By Abraha Belai, AT LEAST three people were confirmed killed and seven others wounded on Friday (19) after police opened fire to disperse protesters who were heading into the city center to defend a sacred site against government-sponsored demolition. The protest in the restive capital of Amhara region erupted after the government moved to take […]
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By TesfaNews, THE 24-hour peaceful protest that was called by a coalition of 9 Ethiopian opposition groups is currently taking place in the capital Addis Ababa. However, protesters have been blocked by a huge Police presence along the main roads that led to the main avenue – Meskel Square (aka Meskel Adebabay).
Continue ReadingBy TesfaNews, THE fate of the Ethiopian Embassy gunman that was captured on video while dramatically brandishing a gun and shooting at peaceful and unarmed protesters has been decided today. The U.S. State Department, therefore, ordered Solomon Tadesse Gebresslassie aka ‘Wedi Weyni‘, a member of the ruling Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), to pack his bags and […]
Continue ReadingBy Graham Peebles, THERE are tentative signs that the people of Ethiopia are beginning to organise themselves and stand up against the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) government, a brutal dictatorship, albeit one dressed in democratic western garb. After 23 years of suppression at the hands of the EPRDF, simmering discontent and anger appears to […]
Continue ReadingBy TesfaNews, Following the unprecedented mass demonstration this week by thousands of African migrants in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Interior Minister Gideon Sa’ar chides there are people among the Eritrean migrants who believe that being an opposition leader might give them a better chance of receiving refugee status.
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