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EPDP Executive Committee
Thursday, 10 May 2012 07:00 The
meeting evaluated and discussed all reports thoroughly and in depth. ....
On the opposition
side; the meeting
acknowledged the
opposition hadn’t
overcome the
divisions and
tensions of the
recent past. In the
contrary, EC
assessed the
divisions and
tensions are peaking
to a boiling point.
NEW YORK, May 2 – Eritrea has surpassed
North Korea as the world’s top press
censor, with Syria and Iran placing
third and fourth in a new list published
Wednesday by the Committee to Protect
Journalists.
Ministerial Cabinet holds meeting at
State House Asmara,
30 April 2012 – The Eritrea Cabinet of
Ministers today held meeting at State
House, during which it conducted
extensive discussion regarding the
progress made in the integrated national
development programs for 2012 vis-à-vis
the short, middle and long-term
development plan mapped out. The
deliberations also dealt with the task
of ensuring supply of basic consumption
items, advance preparations for
Eritrean
Demonstration
London,
Downing
Street
30.04.2012
President Isaias spoke to the local media this afternoon (04-28-2012)dispelling rumors and reports that
he was taken ill and might even have died/passed away.
Asmara, 28 April, 2012 – In a brief interview he conducted tonight, 28 April 2012, with the national media outlets, President Isaias Afwerki underscored that the recent rumor regarding his state of health attests to the mounting frustration on the part of its authors.
Explaining that in the past week he had been abroad on a 3-day working visit, and that upon return home he has been on a tour of inspection to Gash-Barka, Anseba and the Northern Red Sea regions from 21 to 22 April, the President said: “I am lucky; I enjoy robust health. The speculated ill-health is only in the minds of the authors of such a baseless rumor.”
Elaborating that the issue has nothing to do with his health status but designed to create anxiety among members of the public, President Isaias pointed out that it is but a continuation of the coordinated psychological warfare and anti-.
Voice of Eritrea
will continue the discussion with EMDJ members
regarding the organization and the controversial
EMDJ congress last month.
Participants:
Yonatan Sebhatu from Sweden
Isaias Tsegai from London
Sunday 04-30-2012 @ 2:45 EST
CAIRO
– Hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian Muslims
have taken to the streets to protest the
government's oppression on their community
and interference in their religious affairs.
"This is the first time I see Ethiopian
Muslims united against their common enemy,"
Temam Mohammed, one of the protestors, said.
"The ‘Majlis’ leaders thought they can
impose their evil policy on us by using
force," he said, referring to the Supreme
Council of Islamic Affairs.
Thousands of Muslims protested across the
capital Addis Ababa following the Friday
prayers to protest the government oppression
of their community.
Chanting "We want our rights" and Allahu
Akbar (God is Greatest), the protestors
condemn government restrictions on their
community.
African migrants flood Israel after perilous treks
By Allyn Fisher-Ilan | Reuters
04-20-2012
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Hrity spent three months chained to half a dozen people on
a basement floor, beaten with sticks and chains that gave off electric shocks,
on a ration of just a spoonful of rice a day. Now in Israel, the 26-year-old
migrant from Eritrea said she was freed only after a $30,000 ransom was
delivered in cash to Israeli accomplices of her Bedouin Arab captors. "I can't
believe I survived it all. I still feel very weak and dizzy just standing
sometimes," she said, telling the story of her captivity and journey across
Egypt's Sinai desert, translated by her cousin Teklezghi, also a migrant in
Israel, who borrowed from her parents and friends to pay for her freedom.
Tomorrow
afternoon (18 April) the Council’s Sanctions
Committee for Somalia and Eritrea (751 and
1907 Committee) is scheduled to hear from
the Eritrean permanent representative Araya
Desta. It appears that Desta was invited to
meet with the Committee as members are
interested in Eritrea’s perspective on some
of the issues discussed at the Monitoring
Group’s mid-term briefing last month. It is
unclear if Desta will focus simply on the
issues arising from the Monitoring Group’s
report or if he will want to discuss some of
the broader issues affecting Ethiopia and
Eritrea (to which Eritrea would like the
Council to pay more attention).
*
Meles says Addis Ababa has taken unnamed
measures
* Claims come a month after Ethiopia
raids inside Eritrea
* Asmara denies links
By Aaron Maasho
Ethiopian troops crossed into the Red
Sea state last month and attacked what
they said were military bases used by
rebels to stage raids, including a
January attack that killed five Western
tourists in Ethiopia's remote Afar
region.
These attacks were the first on Eritrean
soil that Ethiopia has admitted to since
the end of a devastating 1998-2000
border war, sparking concern that their
unresolved frontier spat could escalate
into a full-scale war.
History will judge
Naizghi but his right as a right of any Eritrean to be buried
in Eritrea and the land of his/her ancestors is sacrosanct that
should not be tampered with, not even by a head of a state
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Who is our
vice-president?
Who is
the second in command?
Do we have the
right to know?
The death of Malawi's
president did not lead
to a crisis because the issue
of a successor was
resolved through
reference to Malawi's
constitution.
God forbid, if we are
faced with such
circumstance, what will
be our reference?
What
is the law or the legal
basis for succession of
the Eritrean presidency
?
THE
UNIMPLEMENTED
ERITREAN
CONSTITUTION Article
41 (4)
Addis Ababa — The Intergovernmental
Authority on Development (IGAD) and the
European Union (EU) here on Tuesday held
the fifth Ministerial Meeting .
According to a joint IGAD-EU communiqué,
the two parties agreed to work together
in particular on issues related to the
current situation in the Horn of Africa
including Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan as
well as Eritrea and its relations with
the region.
The meeting was co-chaired by Deputy PM
and Minister of Foreign Affairs and
current Chairperson of the IGAD Council
of Ministers, Hailemariam Desalegn and
also the Minister of Foreign Affairs of
Denmark Villy Sovndal on behalf of EU
High Representative Catherine Ashton.
The two parties discussed IGAD's
revitalization and reform process and
regional integration in the Horn of
Africa as well as EU Strategic Framework
for the Horn of Africa.
[30/March/2012] SANA'A,
March 30 (Saba) – Eritrean Foreign
Minister Othman Saleh arrived here
on Friday for an official visit to
Yemen to hand a letter over to
President Abdo Rabu Mansour Hadi
from his Eritrean counterpart Isaias
Afewerki.
The Eritrean minister declared that
the letter dealt with the two
countries' mutual relations and ways
of promoting them.
The latest developments in the
region on both local and regional
levels were also touched upon in the
letter.
FJ
saba
Covert US drone
attacks on Yemen have increased this
month to exceed the number of strikes on
Pakistan's tribal areas, a Bureau of
Investigative Journalism reports states.
Petition to the Government of Canada
Could you please help generate more
signatures for this worthy cause ..
East African (mostly Eritrean) refugees
are being held captive and enslaved.
Children, women and men are shackled in
chains for many months with minimal to
no food or sustenance. They are barely
kept alive until their family overseas
are willing to pay their ransom. Many of
those, whose family are not able to
provide the ransompaymentare
subjected to torture and their organs
harvested while being subdued for
illigal organ trade and left for dead.
Women and young girls are being
gang-raped. Some of these women have
felt it intolerable to keep living and
have chosen to commit suicide. There are
many more videos on YouTube on the
matter.
A
word of warning: some of these videos
may be disturbing to the viewer. View at
your discretion.CNN's
documentary is the most detailed one and
can be watched on YouTube in parts. Just
search for 'CNN Freedom Project : Death
In The Desert' on YouTube.
UNITED NATIONS, March 28 — After the
Somalia / Eritrea Sanctions Committee of
the UNSecurityCouncil
provided a closed door briefing on
Wednesday, Inner City Press asked Deputy
Permanent Representative Philip Parham
of the UK, this month’s Council
president, about it:
Inner City Press: There had been this
controversy about a flight where Eritrea
had been accused of bringing, flying in
weapons to Al-Shabaab. There were media
accounts that the report of the
Committee cleared them of that, or said
there was no evidence of that. Has this
now finally, has this reached the
Council, was this discussed at all?
Amb Parham: Yes. The role of Eritrea was
discussed in the consultations we have
had just now. The Monitoring Group say
that they have established that Eritrea
has been breaching the arms embargo.
That’s clearly a serious issue and I
think the Committee, chaired by
Ambassador Puri, will take that forward,
among other things, I think, in
discussion with the Eritreans
themselves.”
. ومن أجل ذكرى ذلك المناضل
كما یقال ، تولد الھزیمة یتیمة ،
لھذا لیس من المستغرب أن تصبح
ھزیمة وتشتت جبھة التحریر
الإرتریة یتیمة حتى الیوم . كان
إنھیار جبھة التحریر الإرتریة
بالنسبة لنا – خاصة من كنا نناضل
ونضحى داخلھا بكل قناعة وتفانى
وإخلاص – أكبر مصیبة سیاسیة
تواجھنا فى نضالنا السیاسى . وقد
خَبِرْنَا وأدركنا خلال تلك
الفترة التى أظلمت فیھا
دُنْیَانَا أو عالمنا السیاسى ،
بأن الفشل والیأس الذى یمكن أن
یواجھ المرء فى حیاتھ الخاصة
والإجتماعیة یعتبر نضالاً وتحدیاً
جسیماً لا یضاھیھ حتى الھزیمة
وفقدان البوصلة التى تواجھ النضال
المریر رغم كل آلامھ ومعاناتھ .
ومع أن ذلك لا یمكن إطلاقاً
تشبیھھ تاریخیا بنكبة وتشرد
الفلسطینیین فى عام 1948 م ، إلا
أن الھزیمة الكبرى التى حلت ب "
جبھة عباى " (جبھة التحریر
الإرتریة العظمى ) التى كنا -
لسذاجتنا السیاسیة - نؤمن بأنھا
عالمنا السیاسى الوحید ، كانت
بمثابة كارثة سیاسیة بالنسبة لنا
، بل أن البعض منَا شعر أن یوم
القیامة قد حلَ . لكن من حسن الحظ
أن الشعب الإرترى وثورتھ .
Eritrean Nationalist Opposition
Organizations join the Eritrean people and other
organizations in condemning the military incursion into and attacks on
Eritrea
The United States was not involved in
the March 15 attack by Ethiopian forces
inside Eritrea, contrary to media
reports that have circulated in and
outside of Eritrea. The United States
categorically rejects any allegations
that it planned, participated in, or
supported the attack. The United States
continues to call on both sides to
exercise restraint and avoid further
military action.
QUESTION: This is brief. The president
of Eritrea, one of your favorite people,
President Isaias, has come out – do you
know what I’m talking about?
MS. NULAND: I think I do. soil were the
– was basically the responsibility or
the fault of the United States. I know
that the Embassy in Asmara had a brief
statement.
. ومن أجل ذكرى ذلك المناضل كما یقال ، تولد
الھزیمة یتیمة ، لھذا لیس من المستغرب أن تصبح
ھزیمة وتشتت جبھة التحریر الإرتریة یتیمة حتى
الیوم . كان إنھیار جبھة التحریر الإرتریة بالنسبة
لنا – خاصة من كنا نناضل ونضحى داخلھا بكل قناعة
وتفانى وإخلاص – أكبر مصیبة سیاسیة تواجھنا فى
نضالنا السیاسى . وقد خَبِرْنَا وأدركنا خلال تلك
الفترة التى أظلمت فیھا دُنْیَانَا أو عالمنا
السیاسى ، بأن الفشل والیأس الذى یمكن أن یواجھ
المرء فى حیاتھ الخاصة والإجتماعیة یعتبر نضالاً
وتحدیاً جسیماً لا یضاھیھ حتى الھزیمة وفقدان
البوصلة التى تواجھ النضال المریر رغم كل آلامھ
ومعاناتھ . ومع أن ذلك لا یمكن إطلاقاً تشبیھھ
تاریخیا بنكبة وتشرد الفلسطینیین فى عام 1948 م ،
إلا أن الھزیمة الكبرى التى حلت ب " جبھة عباى " (جبھة
التحریر الإرتریة العظمى ) التى كنا - لسذاجتنا
السیاسیة - نؤمن بأنھا عالمنا السیاسى الوحید ،
كانت بمثابة كارثة سیاسیة بالنسبة لنا ، بل أن
البعض منَا شعر أن یوم القیامة قد حلَ . لكن من
حسن الحظ أن الشعب الإرترى وثورتھ .
Eritreaafter 30 years of armed struggle for
independence got its freedom in 1991, held
referendum in 1993 and become a UN member. In
1998 the two countries had devastating border
war. Since then relations between the two
countries is very rough and tense. March 15,
2012 the Ethiopian government released the
statement below.
...On
March 16, 2012 when Ethiopia bragged on
violating Eritrean sovereign territory Eritrean
at pal talk, web-sites meetings, seminars show
their objection and others condemned the naked
aggression. Majority of Erirean opposition
organizations, movements, political parties,
civic
Addis Ababa, March 21 (WIC) – Prime Minister
Meles Zenawi and Prime Minister and Foreign
Minister of the State of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad
Jassim bin Jabr Al-Thani held bilateral talks on
23 February 2012 on the sideline of the London
Conference on Somalia.
During the meeting, the two prime ministers
reviewed the current state of relations between
the two countries in all its aspects, a
statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs indicated.
The two premiers expressed their desire to
promote and strengthen friendly relations and
all around mutual cooperation between the two
countries.
Over the last 10 years since September 11, 2011,
the War on Terror has dramatically changed its
meaning particularly when the minority genocidal
regime in Ethiopia, with the blessing and
financing of the US, is manipulating, using and
abusing it. For the minority regime of Meles
Zenawi, terrorism and the war on terror has
become a blessing giving him freedom to abuse
the
The
Ethiopian government announced that its army
entered and attacked posts that are located 16
km within the Eritrean territorial sovereignty.
We, the Eritrean Democratic Coalition (EDC)
firmly denounce these attacks carried out by the
Ethiopian government on the Eritrean territory
and appeal to the international community to
take its responsibility.
The Eritrean Democratic Coalition (EDC) believes
military engagement under the pretext that the
regime in Eritrea is aiding Ethiopian rebels
doesn’t give Ethiopia legitimacy to assault and
violate the Eritrean sovereignty.
Press Statement: On Ethiopia’s aggression
against Eritrea The Coordination Committee, Eritrean
National Democratic Forces (ENDF) Monday, 19
March 2012 08:18 At
its regular meeting held on 18 March 2012 the
Coordination Committee of Eritrean National
Democratic Forces (CCENDF) discussed the recent
Ethiopian press statements in which they claimed
to have conducted military raids 18 kilo metres
inside sovereign Eritrean territory on 15 March
2012. The CCENDF considers this act a clear
violation of international law.
A number of the major news agencies reported
on 15 March 2012 that the Ethiopian armed
forces carried out military raid in three
different localities inside sovereign
Eritrean territories. Without any qualms,
the Ethiopian government’s spokesperson, who
announced to the international media
concerning the gratuitous aggression, also
added that more attacks may be carried out
in the future.
We
in CDRiE unequivocally condemn this
unprovoked and unjustified attack on
Eritrean national sovereignty and call on
the government of Ethiopia to immediately
cease its threats of further escalation
under any pretext. We urge instead both
governments to seek peaceful and legal
resolutions to their disagreements.
افادت عدد من وكالات الانباء العالمية الكبرى في
15 مارس 2012 ، خبراً مفاده ان القوات المسلحة
الاثيوبية نفذت غارات عسكرية على ثلاث مواقع
مختلفة داخل الاراضي التي تخضع للسيادة الوطنية
الارترية.
ولقد اعلن المتحدث باسم الحكومة الاثيوبية لوسائل
الاعلام الدولية ان بلاده سوف تقوم بشن المزيد من
الهجمات على ارتريا في المستقبل.
Two poor nations are about to go
to a war because the tourists who escaped
capture refused to tell the truth and the media
refused to trace them, interview them and flush
out the truth. Why didn't the escaped tourists
speak to the Media?
What are Ethiopia and the west media hiding? What happened to
Aljazeera?
Such a scoop and no media picks it up?
Rome (dpa) – The Italian government on
Friday condemned an attack by Ethiopia on neighbouring
Eritrea, and appealed to the two Horn of Africa nations
to refrain from other violent acts against each other.The
Foreign Ministry in Rome was following with “deep
concern” news of the foray launched by Ethiopian troops
into Eritrean territory, it said in a statement.
Ethiopia said on Thursday it sent troops 16 kilometres
into Eritrean territory to attack camps run by
“subversive groups.” Ethiopia often accuses Asmara of
aiding rebel groups hostile to Addis Ababa.
By William Davison - Mar 17, 2012 Ethiopia’s government denied a Reuters report
that it made further attacks inside Eritrea.
“That’s not correct,” Getachew Reda, the Foreign
Ministry’s public diplomacy and communications
director, said by phone from Ethiopia’s capital,
Addis Ababa, today. “There’s been no further
attacks” after a raid two days ago inside
Eritrea’s territory, he said.
Ethiopian troops today carried out more attacks
on rebels in the north of Eritrea around Badme,
Reuters said, citing an unidentified Ethiopian
government official.
Three military posts where the Eritrean
government trained rebels hostile to Ethiopia
were targeted on March 15, State Minister of
Communications Shimeles Kemal said.
Ethiopia again attacks rebel
targets in Eritrea Sat Mar 17, 2012 3:16pm GMT
By Aaron Maasho
ADDIS ABABA, March 17 (Reuters) - Ethiopian
troops carried out more attacks on rebels inside
Eritrea on Saturday, a government source said, a
day after its neighbour called for U.N. action
over a similar incursion earlier in the week.
The attacks are the first on Eritrean soil that
Ethiopia has admitted to since the end of a
1998-2000 war that killed 70,000 people and left
a border dispute unresolved. Eritrea says there
have been others.
"We've carried out further attacks on targets
inside Eritrea. This time it's in the north
section around Badme," a senior Ethiopian
government official told Reuters on Saturday.
"We were onceagainsuccessful.
This strike was part of our plan to take
proportional measures that included the (earlier)attacks
in Eritrea's southeast." He did not specify who
had been targeted in the latest attack.
I have the honour to forward a letter from
H.E. Mr. Osman Saleh, Minister of Foreign
Affairs ofthe State ofEritrea, dated 15 March
2012, addressed to Your Excellency, in
connection to the official statement of Ethiopia
that "its army has carried out an incursion 18
krns deep into sovereign Eritrean territory to
conduct an attack on Eritrean army outposts".
Please accept, Excellency, the assurances
ofmy highest consideration and I would be most
grateful ifthe attached letter could be
circulated and issued as a document ofthe United
Nations Security Council.
(Reuters) - Ethiopian troops
have carried out more attacks on Ethiopian
rebels inside Eritrea on Saturday, a day after
Eritrea urged United Nations action against
Ethiopia for a previous attack inside its
territory.
"We've carried out further attacks on targets
inside Eritrea. This time it's in the north
section around Badme," a senior Ethiopian
government official told Reuters on Saturday.
"We were once again successful. This strike was
part of our plan to take proportional measures
that included the attacks in Eritrea's
southeast."
Ethiopia announced on Thursday its troops raided
three military bases in Eritrea which it said
were used by Ethiopian rebels, several weeks
after accusing the Eritrean government of
planning to kidnap Western tourists.
The official did not give details about who the
troops targeted, but said Ethiopia's government
would make a more detailed announcement later in
the day. (Reporting by Aaron Maasho; Writing by
James Macharia; Editing by Sophie Hares)
Foreign
Minister delivers President Isaias’ message to
Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed
Forces of Egypt Asmara, 16 March 2012 - Mr. Osman Saleh,
Eritrean Foreign Minister, on March 15 delivered
a message from President Isaias Afwerki to Field
Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, Chairman of the
Supreme Council of the Armed Forces of Egypt.
During the meeting, the two sides reached
consensus to develop relations in all sectors
between the brotherly people of Eritrea and
Egypt and discussed the objective situation in
the region in general and that of the Horn of
Africa in particular.
Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi commended the
strong commitment of President Isaias and
reaffirmed that Egypt would work in cooperation
with Eritrea to serve the interest of the two
sisterly countries and for the prevalence of
peace and stability in the Horn of Africa
region.
Government Communication Affairs
Office of Ethiopia said yesterday’s attack
against terrorist camps in Eritrea will convey
the right message to the Eritrean government
that violation of Ethiopia’s borders cannot
continue indefinitely.
Early yesterday morning the Ethiopian Defense
forces attacked military targets 18 KMs inside
Eritrea where the Eritrean government trained,
armed and deployed hit and run terrorist and
subversive groups, including the one which
recently attacked, killed and abducted European
tourists in the Afar region of Ethiopia.
The Ethiopian military units have safely
returned to camp after successfully carrying out
this proportional military measure intended to
safeguard Ethiopia’s security along its border
with Eritrea.
Ethiopia firmly believes that disputes between
the two neighboring countries can and should
only be solved by peaceful means. Based on this
principled position, Ethiopia has repeatedly
expressed its firm resolve to engage in dialogue
and negotiations with the Eritrean government.