Media misrepresentation Archives

(Interview) // ‘The World Needs to Know the Truth about Eritrea’

March 22, 2019June 14, 2020TesfaNewsLeave a Comment

BY ASMAIT FUTSUMBRHAN | SHABAIT Today, Q&A brings you an old friend of Eritrea, Dr. Hans-Ulrich Stauffer, an attorney of law and lecturer at the University of Basel. Dr. Stauffer made his first connection with Eritrea at the beginning of the 1970s during the armed struggle for independence. He knew and visited the field to […]

Eritrea: Al-Jazeera’s Wayward Demeanor

January 25, 2019January 25, 2019TesfaNewsLeave a Comment

BY SHABAIT Qatari-Government funded TV Channel, Al Jazeera, published last week a defamatory article on Eritrea under the baffling title: “From Abu Dhabi to Washington: how Eritrea turned into a new African weapon”.

Views and Musings about the BBC

January 12, 2019July 31, 2020TesfaNewsLeave a Comment

BY FIKREJESUS AMHAZION (PH.D.) | SHABAIT Last week, it was revealed that Eritrea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs would be summoning the British Ambassador. Although this development was precipitated by the recent highly provocative and questionable comments made by a BBC Tigrinya Language Service program ‘journalist’ in regard to Eritrea, the country’s Ministry of Information noted […]

The Economist’s Tom Gardner – Savior Complex?

August 29, 2018July 31, 2020TesfaNewsLeave a Comment

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 […]

Clarifying Recent Newsweek Coverage on Eritrea

June 23, 2017July 31, 2020TesfaNews47 Comments

BY DR. FIKREJESUS AMHAZION (PhD) Last week, Newsweek published an article about Eritrea decrying the internal situation in the country. As has become so common with reports on Eritrea, the article was heavily biased, overly simplistic, filled with stereotypes, and devoid of context, ultimately serving to poignantly encapsulate how coverage of the country is so […]

Fake News, The BBC and Eritrea

May 19, 2017September 19, 2017TesfaNews50 Comments

BY YAFET ZEREOU Sometime in April of 2017, the BBC’s Editorial Complaints Unit published its findings about a complaint made about an article on Eritrea. On the face of it, it would appear that the BBC had done the right and honourable thing by acknowledging a mistake it made. After all, this is the BBC […]