Category Archives: Focus

Sanction Watch: An Orphaned Flag Afraid of the Wind.

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The Legal Struggle against PFDJ – Part-two By Seyoum Tesfaye From January 23 to 30, 2012 the 18 Ordinary Session Summit of the African Union took place in Addis Ababa with about 40 national leaders attending the historic gathering. Beyond the glory and glamour of the summit being held in … more

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RE-BRANDING OF THE OPPOSITION

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What has prompted me to write under the theme “Re-branding of the opposition” for this article is Mr Mohammed Ismail’s article titled “Be part of the change” The term change has become a practice that has widespread throughout the world- but its relevance has never been stronger that today, especially … more

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Sanction Watch: Not a Penny for PFDJ

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The Legal Struggle against PFDJ-Part One By Seyoum Tesfaye The UNSC has imposed two sanctions: Resolution 1907 (December 2009) and Resolution 2023 (on December 2011) on the Eritrean regime. It more likely, come next December, the UNSC will have to impose a much stringent comprehensive sanction than the one passed … more

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Diplomatic Panic in Asmara

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Seyoum Tesfaye The ink form resolution 2023 is not even dry before more accusation is labeled on the Eritrean regime. When you read the statement from the Eritrean Foreign Minister’s office to the UNSC written on January 4th 2012 you will immediately understand the regime is not speaking about the … more

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SHABAIT’s master piece fiction: “Developmentalnews”.

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The factors of news (the sender, the message and the receiver), media property and news values play a big role in the credibility of the message. The knowledge of these factors, media property and news values visa vis SHABIT com help us to know what is this website up to? … more

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Turning Mumbo Jumbo into an Abstract Art – By Seyoum Tesfaye

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The question could have been as simple as: “How do you get to Massawa from Asmara?” the answer when delivered by a person with an Omniscient Point of View becomes an example of a voyage to the “center” of dark matter. A riveting experience into how a full-blown omniscient behavior … more

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The Little Dictator – By Paulos Misgena

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They say God is a fair and mysterious creator and so does in the way He arranges and organizes the world. He gave America Jon Steward and, either out of His fairness to Eritrea or fondness to mystery, He came up with Ali Abdu. Long before Ali Abdu’s read us … more

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EthiopianReview.com duped by Eritreans – went on in prescribing 7 Diplomatic points !

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By – z’Quartet.amichewoch  – Dec 26th, 2011 If   … only, we mean ONLY, Ato Elias Kifle -ኤልያስ ክፍሌ – the Owner & editor-in-chief of the online cyber site EthiopianReview.com, HAD extracted & beautified his OUTCRY of “Justice for Ethiopia & Ethiopians “ out of humane gesture, compassion & Human activism … more

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DICTATORS NEVER SEE IT COMING – By Ezana Sehay

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                      They say power is intoxicating and blinds those who posses it from accepting or seeing reality. From Marie Antoinette to Isayas Afeworki all dictators seem to suffer from the psychosis of power. According to James fallen ‘…dictators are extremely … more

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ENCDC Congress and the Absence of News Coverage

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By Habte Kidane The long anticipated event of the Eritrean National Commission for Democratic Change’s (ENCDC) congress in Awasa, Ethiopia is already history. It has been almost a week since the final day of the congress. What is extremely strange is the lack or the absence of news coverage about … more

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