Eritrea National Service Archives

Eritrea Raising National Service Salary by 700%, Won’t Shorten to 18 Months Limit

February 25, 2016TesfaNews70 Comments

By Edmund Blair | for Reuters, Eritrea is not prepared to stop forcing its youth into lengthy stretches of work as soldiers and civil servants, a conscription policy that is driving waves of refugees to make the perilous trip across the Sahara desert and Mediterranean Sea to Europe. European nations say that the poor Horn […]

Jennifer Riggan’s Latest Attempt to Cement an Erroneous Eritrea Narrative

February 20, 2016July 31, 2020TesfaNews30 Comments

“… Ethnography literally means ‘a portrait of a people’. Ethnography is a written description of a particular culture – the customs, beliefs, and behavior – based on information collected through fieldwork… ” – Marvin Harris and Orna Johnson By Sophia Tesfamariam, I just returned from a three week visit to Eritrea and whilst there, a […]