“Those who compare Eritrea with North Korea have not been to North Korea and certainly do not know Eritrea” BY HAILE HABTEGABER Dear Mr. Rahman I have read your article conspicuously posted on African News with keen interest as it comes from a fellow African and expecting journalistic objectivity. I have no qualms over your […]
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By Fikrejesus Amahazion (PhD), Last week, Eritrea Profile featured an interview with Mary Harper, Africa Editor for BBC World News. Harper recently spent several weeks in Eritrea covering the country’s Independence Day celebrations, and her analyses, both within her interview with Eritrea Profile as well as in other outlets, have been balanced, impartial, thoughtful, and […]
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By Ruby Sandhu, I have had to resort to publishing this piece and inquiry as a blog as no paper entertains any perspective other than the sensationalised unhealthy narrative maintained as against Eritrea. My reference to Culture of Silence and Eritrea is premised on an inquiry further to a number of discussions and focus groups […]
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By Ruby Sandhu, At a coffee shop in Asmara I met with young Samsom Berhane Asefaw, a Public Service, Development Worker, aged 38 who was born and brought up in Eritrea. He too also had friends and relatives that had taken the treacherous journey out of Eritrea. He agreed that most of the Eritrean people […]
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By Beaton Galafa, A United Nations report on migrants daring death in their thousands on the Mediterranean earlier this year shocked the world. In Africa, we shook heads as we failed to understand how an Eritrea at peace with itself would be such a great exporter of refugees through leaked boats across the Mediterranean. It […]
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By Nordic Africa News, A Belgium-based journalist and writer says Africa and the world need to protect Eritrea to show that there’s another possibility. Michel Collon in a seminar Friday during the Eritrean Festival in Sweden said Eritrea needs protection because to Western countries it is a bad example of a country that is making […]
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By Yasmin Nasrudin, SINCE the release of the “Report of the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in Eritrea” in early June, the coverage on the acute stream of Eritrean refugees is closely entangled in critiquing the Eritrean government. Thus, resulting in a partial representation of truth. This piece should be read as an analysis […]
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