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Remarkable to Witness Birth of Eritrea

May 19, 2013May 19, 2013TesfaNews8 Comments

Toronto Sun founding editor Peter Worthington passed away a week ago. A short time before his last dispatch for the Sun was written. It’s a remarkable look back at the “barefoot guerrilla army” of the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front he covered in 1988 — and the historic Battle of Afabet that saw some 20,000 Soviet-backed […]

President of Eritrea is as Unique as His Country

May 13, 2013May 14, 2013TesfaNews7 Comments

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win” – Mahatma Gandhi By Peter Worthington, In some ways, the world’s most interesting “leader” today is 53-year-old Isaias Afewerki, president of the UN’s newest independent state, Eritrea. He is as unique as his country, unlike other heads of state. When […]

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