BY BEREKET KIDANE A friend of mine who’s always had a tendency to see the glass as half-empty recently came back from his two-week trip to Eritrea and phoned me to catch-up once he got back to the states. One of the first things he said to me was, “There was no shortage of water or […]
Continue ReadingBY BEREKET KIDANE When I heard the new Prime Minister of Ethiopia, (Lt Col) Dr. Abiy Ahmed, told kilil Tigray residents that “Tigray is the motor that runs Ethiopia”, I could not believe it. I thought it was a joke. But it wasn’t. He actually said it.
Continue ReadingBY BEREKET KIDANE In various towns and villages, when the Government of Eritrea held mass notifications of its martyrs the women and heroic mothers of Eritrea’s fallen received the martyrdom of their children with ululation and not wailing.
Continue ReadingHis next goal is to put more Eritreans on skis BY BEREKET KIDANE The State of Eritrea will send its first representative, Shannon Ogbani-Abeda, to the Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang as well as its first-ever competitor in alpine skiing. There is a pride as an Eritrean in representing Eritrea, especially as a diaspora Eritrean, […]
Continue ReadingBY BEREKET KIDANE The year 2017 was, in fact, a good year for Eritrea in terms of the peace and tranquility that prevailed in the country, the development efforts that kicked into a higher gear, the regional diplomatic and security alliances struck, and the calm that prevailed on its frontiers. Relations with the United States […]
Continue ReadingBY BEREKET KIDANE Since 2003, Eritrea has been an observer state at the Arab League, headquartered in Cairo. But has the time come for Eritrea to upgrade its observer status to a full-member at the Arab League? The Arab League is a regional organization with 22 members at present. All of Eritrea’s neighbors on the […]
Continue ReadingBY BEREKET KIDANE Successive Ethiopian regimes have spent billions of dollars and sacrificed hundreds of thousands of their soldiers to try to control the Eritrean people by force and claim the Red Sea coastline. Despite all the blood and treasure spent on that effort, they have never succeeded in subjugating the Eritrean people. But just […]
Continue Reading(Photo credit: by Steve Forrest / Panos Pictures) BY BEREKET KIDANE Bob Marley once said, “Live for yourself and you will live in vain. Live for others and you will live again”. Eritrea’s martyrs did not live for themselves. They lived for us and for future generations of Eritreans. They gave up their lives so […]
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