Open Letter to Africa News ‘Digital Journalist’ Shaban Abdur Rahman Alfa

“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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Challenging Assumptions: A Note on Recent Media Coverage of Eritrea

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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The Distorted Narrative, Media War and Eritrea’s Culture of Silence (I)

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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The Distorted Narrative, Media War and Eritrea’s Culture of Silence (II)

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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A Biased News Coverage on Eritrea and Its Government is Dangerous

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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