Saving People, Killing Silence

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Created: Tuesday, 30 January 2018 04:14

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” This powerful quote is attributable to Martin Luther King Jr. who popularized it during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Digging deeper, however, it can be traced to the abolitionist, Unitarian Minister, Theodore Parker, an activist who fought against slavery in the 19^th century in the United States*. Eritrea does find itself in this moral conundrum that has gone for a quarter of a century now. Therefore, echoing such a quote to highlight the importance of social and political activism that must continue until the system in Eritrea changes for the better is our collective imperative from which we cannot afford to shy away.

Eritrean Refugees Crisis

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Created: Wednesday, 04 April 2018 01:07

ERDA's project manager Mr. Kahsay Yehdego will be in DC on Saturday April 7th, from 1pm to 6pm. The meeting will be held at 1816 12th st. NW. Washington DC 20009

ERITREA’S COURSE OF ACTION IN THE CURRENT REGIONAL DISPUTE: EMBODIMENT OF NATIONAL INTEREST OR FOREIGN INTEREST?

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Created: Monday, 22 January 2018 12:20

Our people inside and outside the country wake up every morning intensely  absorbed in serious worries, and anxious to know what Atse Isias has done to the country while they were asleep. Did he start a new war with a neighbouring country? Did he lease a territory or the borders of the country to a foreign power or foreign powers? Did he send their kids as mercenaries to another country to be the cannon fodder for a cause that has no meaning to them but enriches his political fortune and wealth?

Practicing National Dialogues –The tool for democratising a society

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Created: Sunday, 01 April 2018 03:07

The word ” dialogue” derives from the Latin term ” dialogos” which means ” the flow of meaning.” The practice of dialogue enables the true meaning or deeper significance of something to flow and come into being. Through dialogue our natural intelligence is able to reveal itsllf. Our humanity is afforded the possibility of recognizing itself. Dialogue offers different interests an opportunity to interact in a non-adversarial way when opposing issues are at stake.

About 280 results (0.16 seconds) Search Results Story image for eritrean news from Citizen Dutch expel top Eritrean diplomat over 'diaspora tax' row

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Created: Thursday, 18 January 2018 03:27

“In light of the continuous intimidation and force used in the collection of diaspora tax and its resulting social and political unrest, the cabinet is forced to give the Eritrean government a powerful signal,” Dutch Foreign Minister Halbe Zijlstra said. Therefore the Eritrean charge d'affaires Tekeste Ghebremedhin Zemuy “has ...

Search Results Sudan rejects accusations of supporting Eritrean opposition group

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Created: Sunday, 25 March 2018 03:11

Eritrean information ministry Friday said Sudan and Qatar have established a military training camp for an opposition group led Eritrean Islamist Mohammed Jumma. Also, Asmara claimed that Doha provided Sudan with three Mig fighters and funding a joined Sudanese Ethiopian force deployed along the border with Sudan ...

Bay Area Eritreans for Decocratic Change

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Created: Monday, 15 January 2018 05:24

Bay Area Eritreans for Decocratic Change invite you to its 4th Congress  Sunday January 21, 2018 3-6PM at Oakland International High Shool 4521 Webster St. Oakland, CA 94609

Merger of Eritrean Global Solidarity (EGS) and Eritreans for Facilitating National Dialogue (EFND)

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Created: Sunday, 25 March 2018 02:00

We are pleased to announce the merger of EGS and EFND to form Eritrean Global Solidarity for National Dialogue (EGSND). After a year of intensive dialogue and conversation, the two civic societies, the EFND & EGS met in Washington DC on March 10, 2018 to finalize the merger. Each presented the summation of their years of experience as a part of the reflection before moving forward to outline their vision, program, policy and protocol. Going forward both underscored the urgency of national responsibility and decided to fully merge to step up their efforts in 2018.

All Eritreans, Friends and Colleagues of Dr. Nerayo

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Created: Wednesday, 10 January 2018 02:21

Fund Raising for Dr. Nerayo Teklemichael- urgent appeal to all Eritreans and friends of Eritrea.

THE UNMISTAKBLE MESSAGE OF THE FUNERAL MARCH OF HAJI MUSA MOHAMMED NUR MAKES THE RULING GANG PANIC

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Created: Monday, 19 March 2018 12:12

A ruling gang like the one in Eritrea, that has built one of the most terrorizing dictatorships in the world, requires the people to fear it in order to control them. But as the Eritrean people are no more willing to accept a gang that scares them, as a legitimate government, ithas definitely become a profound source of concern for the self-imposed lawless gang to see the people proving to it, time and again, that they neither fear nor respect it. In this connection, it is logical to ask:  How can the ruling gang hope to control the people who tell it, “We do not fear you”?

Sudan declares popular mobilization on Eritrean border

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Created: Tuesday, 09 January 2018 02:02

January 8, 2018 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan's eastern state of Kassala on Monday has formed a higher committee for popular mobilization hours after its governor announced the closure of borders with Eritrea. The Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir last week issued a decree imposing a six-month state of emergency in North ...

Tour for Fundraising by Eritrean Relief and Development Association

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Created: Monday, 19 March 2018 11:46

The Eritrean Relief and Development Association (ERDA) is a Non-profit , humanitarian organization. ERDA is licensed as a Non-profit, humanitarianorganization. ERDA has been active supporting Eritrean refugees  their homes. ERDA, with limited capacity of members, joining with other Non-profit humanitarian organizations and individual donors are making tremendous efforts.

Sudan closes border with Eritrea due to alleged weapons smuggling

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Created: Sunday, 07 January 2018 16:23

... Sudan declared a six-month state of emergency in the border regions of Kassala and North Kordufan. Osman said the closing was to curb rebel activities, alleging that Egyptian forces and rebels from Sudan's restive Darfur province were deployed along the Eritrean border with the aim of topping President Omar al-Bashir.

Starving migrant dies of malnutrition after arriving in Italy

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Created: Wednesday, 14 March 2018 00:11

he organisation's founder Oscar Camps had announced Segan's death in a Sicilian hospital on Twitter on Tuesday: “He was Eritrean and he had spent 19 months in Libya.” Many of those rescued by the Spanish NGO's boat and taken to Pozzallo port in Sicily were suffering from malnutrition, exhaustion and dehydration.

Sudan deploys thousands of militiamen on border with Eritrea

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Created: Saturday, 06 January 2018 03:54

January 5, 2018 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan has deployed thousands of government militia Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters to the eastern state of Kassala on the border with Eritrea.

Young Eritreans arrested over funeral of man who died in prison

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Created: Saturday, 10 March 2018 06:05

The Diae Al Islam school is a community-funded institution whose leadership, parents and students have all kicked against attempts to regulate the school. Eritrea's information minister in responding to the incident described the incident as a “small demonstration by one school in Asmara dispersed without ...

YEAR OF HOPE: FROM RUNNING TO FREEDOM TO RETURNING BACK HOME TO RE-BUILD AND RE-CONSTRUCT

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Created: Wednesday, 03 January 2018 11:56

Leaving home has never been new to Eritreans. Though there are no data available, we might assume that it could be traced as back as the 1940s and 1950s and the physical mobility was linked to the idea that individuals moved from Western Eritrea to the Sudan, from Semhar and Dankalia to the Middle East, and from the Eritrean highlands to the Ethiopian plateau, looking for greener pastures.  With the advent of 1960s,

Former Minister's Reported Death Highlights Eritrea's Secret Prisons

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Created: Thursday, 08 March 2018 01:37

The reported death of an Eritrean political prisoner has shined a spotlight on the country's secret prison system, where some of the nation's founders have been held without trial for more than 16 years. In February, news began circulating on social media that Haile "Durue" Woldensae, a fighter in Eritrea's liberation struggle ...

Hajji Mussa: Awate.com 2017 Man of The Year

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Created: Monday, 01 January 2018 18:48

On Friday, October 20, 2017, the Eritrean security forces arrested Hajji Mussa Mohamed Nur and scores of others from different parts of Asmara. He is the Board Director of Al-Diaa Islamic school. The school is a private community school established in the 1960s by the late Ustaz Mohammed Bashir Ahmed. Hajji Musa is a ...

More dissent in Eritrea, a country where dissent is not tolerated

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Created: Thursday, 08 March 2018 01:36

This first occasion was when the well-known Eritrean figure was arrested last October. The 93-year-old had recently criticised a government decree to nationalise Al Diaa Islamic School, whose board he chaired. His detention was one of the triggers that prompted hundreds to take to Asmara's streets in an uncommon show ...

Modern Education Development, Challenges and Current State in Eritrea (1839 to 2016)

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Created: Saturday, 30 December 2017 23:12

In 1962 Ethiopia finally annexed Eritrea, thereafter the progress of education started to go into reverse as educators became the target of repression, incarceration and torture  in the late 1950s.  The situation became extremely hostile for any kind of open youth activism inside Eritrea during the 30 years of Ethiopian occupation, Prior to annexation,  even though  the Ethiopia government tried to  hamper the development of education, during academic year 1961/62, the total number of students reached 38,000 of which 1,372 were in academic high schools and vocational institutions (see Statistical Abstract, Addis Ababa, 1963) p.106.,

EPDP ASKS EU, AU, UNHCR, RWANDA FOR ACTION ABOUT 27,000 ERITREANS STRANDED IN ISRAEL

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Created: Wednesday, 07 March 2018 02:32

n a series of strongly-worded memoranda to regional and international organization as well as to concerned countries, the Eritrean People's Democratic Party (EPDP) continued in January and February this year firmly calling for urgent attention and action to help in finding a solution to Eritrean refugees stranded in Israel. Those included in the EPDP appeals were the European Union, the African Union, the UN agency for refugees-UNHCR as well as coun

Human rights activist Haile Kiflai receives Canada 150 Award

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Created: Monday, 25 December 2017 05:14

Haile Kiflai received a Canada 150 Sesquicentennial Award of Recognition from Kitchener Centre Liberal MP Raj Saini on December 9, 2017 for the tremendous contribution he has made in the areas of advocacy for human rights, refugees, community service, and the  volunteer work he has done to assist Eritrean Canadians.

ERITREANS FOR JUSTICE

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Created: Tuesday, 06 March 2018 12:30

Commemoration of our Hero Hajj Musa Mohammed Nur SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 2018 @ 3 PM 1717 S.BROOKHURST ST, ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA

Seyoum Harestai and Pals Gathered in Akriya 55 years Ago -- for Demonstration!!

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Created: Tuesday, 19 December 2017 03:03

As we, old comrades-in-struggle of Patriot Seyoum Ogbamichael (Harestai) solemnly mark today, 17 December 2017, the 12th year of his sudden and untimely passing away in a poorly-equipped Addis Ababa hospital, we do remember him for so many vividly memorable deeds and events, some of them resonating well with the Akriya of 31 October 2017. Martyr Seyoum was present with his schoolmates at a meeting of student demonstrators in Akriya 55 years ago!! And, ironically, those schoolmates of Seyoum included Eritrea's autocrat, Isaias Afeworki, who is today against everything that his generation dreamt of. Seyoum's schoolmates in May 1962 included: Woldedawit, Michael Ghaber, Mussie Tesfamichael, Haile and Isaias.
As every genuine patriot worth his/her salt would confirm it - and forgetting the bla bla of

Close to a Thousand-People Arrested at Haji Musa’s Funeral

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Created: Tuesday, 06 March 2018 02:03

Thousands of people participated in the burial of Hajji Musa Mohammed Nur, the Nonagenarian chairman of the Al-Dia School. He was buried on Saturday at the Sheikh Al Amin burial grounds in Asmara.

Abdurahman Younis: My Proud Friend Moves On

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Created: Saturday, 16 December 2017 23:18

Amm Abdu's fate is a depiction of the fate of many Eritrean elders. The death of several of his peers was hastened by the inhuman, and monstrous regime lording over Eritrea: Hassen Kekia, Sunabera and Captain Ahmed Faras are among the many octogenarians who scared the ruling party, before they were scared by ...

The Rebirth of a Nation

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Created: Saturday, 03 March 2018 19:35

Hats off! Hajji Mussa, no worries no trepidation Four months have elapsed since your revolution Or was it a hundred and twenty days of incarceration Whichever is right but I do beg some clarification ***

The role of military and security forces in transition from dictatorship to democracy

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Created: Saturday, 16 December 2017 22:51

The role played by the Zimbabwe military and security forces shows that how much the military leadership who led the downfall of the Mugabe dictatorship were professional and preserving national interests instead of serving the dictatorship. This shows that Zimbabwe military was not corrupted by bribes, spoils of office, ethnic manipulation of appointments and promotions. Comparing the Eritrean military and security forces with that of Zimbabwe, the Eritrean military is not professional but enforced paramilitaries loyal to the regime or serving the interests of the regime.

The Afar cultural genocide in Eritrea prompts new united efforts against Eritrean government

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Created: Saturday, 03 March 2018 16:43

March 1, 2018 | Following months of talks and intense negotiations, several political action groups opposed to the historical persecution and ethnic-cleansing of the Indigenous Afar people in the African pariah state of Eritrea, have agreed to focus their collective efforts under the banner of a new organization: the Eritrean Afar National Congress (EANC).

DIVINE JUSTICE HOVERING OVER OUR REGION: WHO IS THE NEXT WICKED TO FACE THE DAY OF THE RECKONING?

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Created: Sunday, 10 December 2017 15:12

Our region has witnessed the demise of two former brutal dictators within a couple of weeks. The first was the demise of  the 93-year old President Robert Mugabe (Born February 21, 1924), who was removed by a military coup, supported by a mass unrest, after ruling for 37 years as a brutal dictator,

STOP WISHFUL THINKING: A FALLEN LEADER SO IRREVERSIBLY SUNK IN REPUTATION AND HONOUR NEVER RESIGNS

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Created: Tuesday, 27 February 2018 15:31

Atse Isias’s most destructive aspect of brutal dictatorship (we will hopefully soon speak about his legacy) is his failure to deliver on the goals of the Eritrean Revolution and the aspirations of the people. After more of a quarter of a century, the country, which everybody hoped will become a shining light on the African hill,   remains at the bottom of the African ladder in everything: social-economic conditions, political freedoms, rule of law, and protection of human rights;

United Eritrean Americans in WA State

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Created: Monday, 04 December 2017 02:38

We, the undersigned, Americans in the state of Washington, urgently petition you on behalf of Diaa Islamic school and its custodians who are being subjected to severe religious persecution.

Are Eritrea government spies posing as refugee interpreters?

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Created: Tuesday, 27 February 2018 15:29

Simon Rezene, an interpreter and spokesperson for the East African Refugees group, estimates that more than half of the interpreters working with Italy's immigration services are hired by the Eritrean government. Estefanos puts that figure at 80 percent, across Europe. Human rights groups often compare ...

Bay Area Eritrean for Democratic Change invites you to its 4th Congress

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Created: Friday, 01 December 2017 12:27

Agenda

Board of directors Election

Bylaw changes and amendments

Activities of the organization

 Financial Report

resources of the organization

Solemnly Remembering Patriot Haile Woldetinsae (DuruE)

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Created: Sunday, 25 February 2018 01:55

Any news from Eritrea has never been good for a very long time now. The latest is, according to a usually reliable insider-source close to Assenna.com, the  committed national patriot Haile Woldetinsae (DureE) or, sadly, 'Era-Ero Prisoner No. 4', died and was reportedly buried in the night of 25 January, 2018. The source also listed four names of  prison guards who buried his body as Michael Worede, Tinsue Tewelde, Osman Omar and Medhanie Mehari. Assenna's source, known in the social media as 'Sactism', promised to come with more details in the coming weeks. If this is confirmed, Haile's body finally gave up struggle to see another day after spending painful 16 years, 4 months and 7 days in the deep darkness of a prison cell isolated from all living beings.

EUDC condemns the act of slavery in Libya

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Created: Sunday, 26 November 2017 04:01

We-the Eritrean Unity for Democratic Change (EUDC) are shocked by the news and video clips circulating in mass media. Although we have been crying out loud about the inhumane treatment of African brothers and sisters in the hands of Bodoween in Libya, we hoped with the intervention of all peace loving and law abiding citizens of the international community would get better. To our dismay, the situation has become worse. In fact it escalated beyond belief to the extent that Africans are now being sold in an open slave auction.

The mysterious death of Mahmoud Ibrahim Muhammad Saeed (Chekini)

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Created: Wednesday, 14 February 2018 01:23

Mahmoud Ibrahim Muhammad Saeed (Chekini was born in Keren in 1940 from the Habab tribe of Betasghade family and his great grandfather is kentebay Gergis. Chekini completed his elementary and junior education in Keren,   thereafter he moved to Asmara to purse his secondary education at Jalia Arabic secondary school. During his student time he was a good footballer in Keren as well as in Asmara.

A CALL FOR NEVSUN SHAREDHDERS TO DIVEST

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Created: Thursday, 23 November 2017 14:05

Nevsun Resources Ltd. has over 18 years of partnership with a brutal dictatorshipthat runs the country and controls 40% of the mine. The Eritrean regime has used conscripted military labor in the mine and Nevsun has been profiting with a slave labor for almost two decades.

Eritrea: Exploring the divisions rooted in its past history

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Created: Saturday, 10 February 2018 22:51

The process towards unifying all the forces for democratic change in the Eritrean Opposition Camp failed in all its efforts in the past two decades. The struggle from dictatorship to democracy requires skills and knowledge about the identity rooted divisions and their management.

SECULARISM 101 FOR THE PFDJ CHIEF AND APOLOGISTS:

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Created: Sunday, 19 November 2017 15:04

As Clown Alamin Mohmmed Saied, the PFDJ non-chief chief, never ceases to  amuse us, this time he did  remarkably with his little and distorted knowledge about secularism, and the  deep roots of religion in the Eritrean society; topics that are too vast and too complex for his limited intellect. Here I am referring to a part of his statement in the Riyadh public gathering of November 9-11, 2017 in which he boasted that his government

Rallies against Israel's refugee removal plan expected

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Created: Wednesday, 07 February 2018 12:25

Muhtar Awdalla had two choices: indefinite detention in southern Israel, or a return to his native Sudan, where he feared for his safety. So when Israeli officials offered him a third option - a one-way flight to Uganda and $3,500 cash - he begrudgingly agreed to leave.

Eritrean diaspora stages protest in the Swedish capital

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Created: Saturday, 18 November 2017 15:48

Stockholm, Sweden - Hundreds of Eritreans gathered outside the embassy of the east African nation in the Swedish capital Stockholm on Friday to protest ...

Israel issues deportation notices to African migrants

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Created: Wednesday, 07 February 2018 02:45

Israel has started issuing deportation notices to African asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan. On Sunday, the first wave of notices were distributed to men who are in the country without families, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported.

Ethiopia allows anti-Eritrea march to AU despite protest ban

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Created: Thursday, 16 November 2017 05:00

Ethiopia allows anti-Eritrea march to A.U. despite protest ban ... Ethiopia's security forces granted permission for Eritrean refugees and opposition ...

ATSE ISIAS’S NAME: A FACE OF FAILURE AND A BYWORD FOR MISRULE

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Created: Tuesday, 06 February 2018 12:26

It is our fundamental belief that any Eritrean citizen has the right and should have the freedom to support or oppose the government, irrespective of who he/she is.  Nonetheless, experience has shown that it is sometimes very difficult to resist the temptation to react to some negative remarks made out of erroneous ideological positions and narrow political contexts; not out of particular knowledge or reasonable familiarity with the situation addressed.

AKRIA 2017/DFW

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Created: Thursday, 16 November 2017 04:51

Join us to protest the Eritrean Government actions against Freedom of Relegion, John F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza  DOWNTOWN DALLAS     November 17,2017   Time  9:00 AM

646 Main St, Dallas, TX 75202

Eritrean leader pans Israel's migrant deportation plan

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Created: Thursday, 01 February 2018 02:28

Eritrea's president in a rare interview Wednesday expressed his displeasure with Israel's plan to deport tens of thousands of African migrants, saying they deserve far more than the $3,500 offered to leave. President Isaias Afwerki's interview, which was posted on a government website, said the migrants ...

How a rare protest scared the Eritrean regime

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Created: Friday, 10 November 2017 12:21

As the widely shared video clips captured by mobile phones have shown, demonstrators in Eritrea's capital city that day were met with gunshots and violence ...