U.S. Sanctions on Eritrean Navy: The Hypocrisy Continues!

BY NJR At the present, in a time when the Eritrean Government is working hard with the International community to lift the sanctions; for the U.S. government to impose unilateral sanction on the Eritrean Navy based on baseless allegations of trading military arms with North Korea is unsubstantiated. It goes without saying that the Eritrean […]

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Why Has the US Sanctioned Eritrean Navy?

BY THE MESSENGER The United States has banned the export of munitions, technologies and other goods to the Eritrean navy by US government agencies and departments, according to a new State Department directive. The US restrictions aren’t meant to target Eritrea per se but to discourage Eritrean dealings with US rivals Iran, North Korea and […]

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Eritrea North Korea of Africa? Some Clarifications

By Dr. Fikrejesus Amahazion, In Tancred, Benjamin Disraeli tells us how “[t]he East is a career.” Eritreans may be forgiven for thinking that likewise, for many mainstream analysts and experts, “Eritrea is a career.” Earlier this year a story on polygamy being mandatory in Eritrea was widely circulated across international media, and this week, an […]

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Eritrea: Africa’s North Korea or African Survivor?

By William J. Azébazé, One day a Harvard economics professor asked his graduate class: “Who has ever been in Sierra Leone?” Students raised their hands, most of them non-Africans and none of them from Sierra Leone. And he continued: “Who has ever seen a cow in Sierra Leone?” This time, no more hands were raised. Believe […]

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Ethiopia, the “North Korea of Africa”

By Sophia Tesfamariam, In their attacks of countries and leadership that do not align themselves with the West, the western media and NGO community, there are two countries, Iran and North Korea, that are presented as examples of, and labeled as, “pariah states”. It is not this author’s intention to validate the western media’s assumptions about […]

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