munkhafadat Eritrean Lowland League

“When prison became a synonym for Eritrea…you can only flee.” In Eritrea, even being part of the East African nation’s tame state media is no protection. That was the conclusion Abraham Zere reached after years of working as a columnist for the government newspaper Hadas Erta and later for the …

Desta Hailu There is this saying – “a tiger doesn’t change its spot”. This saying is about the unchanging nature of human nature. I raised this saying in relation to the comic attempted flip-flop of the Eritrea regime. Recently there have been stories that the Ato Isaias led government is …

Israel stands accused of supplying Ethiopia’s murderous dictator Mengistu with cluster bombs in the early 1990s in exchange for airlifting Ethiopian Jews out of the country. By Gabriel Pogrund (Eritrea) MASSAWA, ERITREA − Massawa is a broken city. Half of its once busy port is rubble and the surviving buildings struggle to …

Limitations on freedom of movement are just the tip of the iceberg in Eritrea – one the harshest dictatorships in the world. Yishai Halper One week later Israel grants entry to 3 African migrants trapped on border; other 18 sent to Egypt Gag order lifted Uganda will take in thousands …

By Joseph K. Grieboski, contributor As one of the world’s most oppressive regimes, the Eritrean government has committed extensive crimes against humanity over the past 25 years, according to a report released June 8 by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in Eritrea. President Isaias Afwerki, in …