BY SOPHIA TESFAMARIAM | SHABAIT The late Samuel Mahaffy once wrote that “the effort to invisibilise countries like Eritrea grows from an international strategy to main power and control over others. It perpetuates hegemonic discourse, which is of course is not really discourse at all”. He lived long enough to see the misrepresentation of Eritrea. […]
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BY KHALIL CHARLES | MEMO The expulsion of two Sudanese journalists from Egypt, at the beginning of this week, has further heightened the diplomatic and political tensions that have reached an almost uncontrollable frenzy in the past two months. Al-Tahir Satti, a columnist at Al-Intibah daily newspaper was deported after being told his name appeared […]
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By Ruby Sandhu, As an individual who has made a number of visits to Eritrea on various mandates including independently, I express deep concern at the content which was unduly biased, sensationalized and inflammatory and where premised on themes presumptively predicated on subversive agendas including where reference was made to:
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By Dr. Samuel Mahaffy, The world that long turned a blind eye to the ruthless and illegitimate violation of Eritrean sovereignty now focuses its gaze on this country. The gaze is perhaps worse than the blind eye. The blind eye to the plight of Eritrea compelled its people to find the deep strength and resiliency […]
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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 Sophia Tesfamariam, During the struggle for Eritrea’s independence, with the gag order on any information on Eritrea in academia and in the mainstream media in place, it may have been difficult, but it was not impossible for Eritreans to get information about the liberation movement and developments in Eritrea. The few landlines that were […]
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By Berhane Woldu, World renowned, richest, endowed with high skill and technology have monopoly of “World news” enabling them to report most fitting to the interest of big businesses, never caring to the truth of their reporting. News broadcasted on these major news media in some form or shape promotes the evils that are being conducted […]
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