BY YAFET ZEREOU As a child growing up in the Horn of Africa, I always used to wonder why my mother had a deep mistrust of the BBC. She would label any gossip monger or liar as ‘BBC’. What made my mother’s insight into the BBC more remarkable was that at the time nearly everybody […]
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Al Jazeera’s vile accusations against members of the Eritrean Diaspora, without providing any verifiable evidence to support its allegations, only undermines the network’s credibility. BY SOPHIA TESFAMARIAM | SHABAIT In a recent article, Al Jazeera, quoting two notorious individuals with close ties to the regime in Ethiopia, accused members of the Eritrean Diaspora of being […]
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“For how long will they [Al Jazeera] continue to tamper with the security of Egypt and the Arab world?” – Dubai Security Chief Lieutenant General Dhahi Khalfan BY RT.COM Dubai’s security chief Lieutenant General Dhahi Khalfan, known for his controversial social media posts, has called for Al Jazeera to be obliterated. The General accuses the […]
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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 […]
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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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Mincing words or resorting to deceitful packaging cannot alter the reality. By Ministry of Information, In the past few days, the London-based Alsharq Al-Awsat has published – in its Arabic and English editions – a number of distorted “news stories” on Eritrea. To embellish and rationalize the TPLF’s continued flouting of international law and its […]
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Journalism is dying because it is being murdered by irresponsible and agenda-driven clowns such as Martin Plaut. Eritrea’s existence as a sovereign nation, and a full member of the United Nations, is a product of the hard-working, independent, resilient, and self-reliant people that overcame all odds and came out victorious. Martin Plaut, is a Western agent […]
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By Helen Berhe, Amanuel Eyasu of Assena.com, embarrassed himself and his death wish followers for the fourth time after reporting a rumor that has never been a rumor to anyone but to himself. By now, everybody knows Amanuel Eyasu is very much obsessed with President Isaias’ health and rings the alarm bell whenever he missed […]
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