Unaccompanied Eritrean refugee children in Ethiopia
Eritrea’s top diplomat to the United Nations says the U.N. High
Commissioner for Refugees has committed a “conceptual mistake” in a
report, which stated that in the past 37 days more than 6,000 Eritreans
had claimed asylum in neighboring Ethiopia.
The U.N. refugee agency said Eritrea’s renewed conscription drive was to
blame for the sharp increase in the number of youths fleeing the
country. But Eritrea's U.N. ambassador, Girma Asmerom, dismissed the report as
a calculated effort to undermine the government by creating
disaffection among its population. He said Eritrean citizens migrate
just like other nationals, which he said is a global phenomenon. “The U.N. has to do its bit of homework, because there are no
asylum-seekers in Ethiopia,” said Asmerom. “We do not understand why
they are
Thanks Harvard for making my day for hitting the canon after all these slander and blunder of Ethiopian history by those haters who tried unsuccessfully to assassinate the character of one of Ethiopia's progressive and anti-colonialist leader of his time; Menelik II. Hmm, let me guess these disillusioned group who are riding on TPLF's bandwagon, may try also try to boycott Harvard university for 'glorifying' this evil leader haha. Jawarian & co please rest your case and direct your fight against your master at Arat kilo palace who are incarcerating millions of Ethiopians including the Oromos you allege to represent instead of being a laughing stock.
In
March 1896 a well-disciplined and massive Ethiopian army did the
unthinkable—it routed an invading Italian force and brought Italy’s
war of conquest in Africa to an end. In an age of relentless European
expansion, Ethiopia had successfully defended its independence and
cast doubt upon an unshakable certainty of the age—that sooner or
later all Africans would fall under the rule of Europeans. This event
opened a breach that would lead, in the aftermath of world war fifty
years later, to the continent’s painful struggle for freedom from
colonial rule.
Raymond
Jonas offers the first comprehensive account of this singular episode
in modern world history. The narrative is peopled by the ambitious
and vain, the creative and the coarse, across Africa, Europe, and the
Americas—personalities like Menelik, a biblically inspired
provincial monarch who consolidated Ethiopia’s throne; Taytu, his
quick-witted and aggressive wife; and the Swiss engineer Alfred Ilg,
the emperor’s close advisor. The Ethiopians’ brilliant
gamesmanship and savvy public relations campaign helped roll back the
Europeanization of Africa.
Figures
throughout the African diaspora immediately grasped the significance
of Adwa, Menelik, and an independent Ethiopia. Writing deftly from a
transnational perspective, Jonas puts Adwa in the context of manifest
destiny and Jim Crow, signaling a challenge to the very concept of
white dominance. By reopening seemingly settled questions of race and
empire, the Battle of Adwa was thus a harbinger of the global,
unsettled century about to unfold.
Haters will hate this historical fact but The
New York Times (last time I checked it's not owned by Neftegna Amharas, pun intended) published originally the story about Ethiopia's revered progressive statesman aka Menelik II's ambition and his unique entrepreneurship skills for his time a century ago on November 7, 1909. For those myopic and hate-mongering FaceBook tigers, this is Ethiopian History 101, you should check before you spite your vile based on fabricated and bankrupt rumors by TPLF/EPLF/OLF "elites" about this historical figure who is not only a pride for Ethiopians but for the black race and other freedom lovers all over the world.
Abyssinia's
Ruler Said to be a Heavy Buyer of American Railway Stocks
The International Press Freedom Watchdog, CPJ ( Committee to Protect Journalists) in its annual report for this year released today disclosed that 2013 is the worst for journalist worldwide and Ethiopia is one these places where the safety of journalists is under extreme threat. Our country again named the second journalist jailer in Africa and our competitor, Eritrea is clinching its first place by holding twenty-two journalists behind bars for another reason doing their job - journalism. What makes our country is unique that it is incarcerating not only Ethiopians but two journalists from Eritrea who were captured in Somalia during TPLF's military adventure back in 2006. The whereabouts of these two Eritrean journalists are unknown, according to CPJ's report. In the meantime, our rulers are denying that there are no journalist who are jailed due their profession; an insult to our intelligence. But, I still wonder why is my colleague Shifferaw Insermu, who is the longest serving Ethiopian journalist since April 2004 and whose whereabouts is still unknown to these days,
Seriously Ambassador? Lie, after lie; it just never stops. Have read (of course, you did) what Reporters without Borders written to your President? To refresh your memory, here are some of the accusations against your president. Issaias Afeworki, Reporters Without Borders accuses you of committing the following crimes:
Ordering, together with then information minister Naizghi Kiflu, the closure of all of Eritrea’s privately-owned press and the arrests of at least 13 journalists, newspaper owners and editors in September 2001.
Imposing an unrelenting censorship and terror on the state media – including Eri-TV, radio Dimtsi Hafash (Voice of the Masses) and the Hadas Eritrea – which are the only media allowed in Eritrea.
Masterminding and allocating major financial and technical resources for the jamming of the satellite signal of Radio Erena, an independent exile radio station broadcasting to Eritrea from Paris.
Responsibility for the surveillance and harassment of the few foreign media correspondents based in Asmara until they all left. You share this responsibility with Ali Abdu, your acting information minister for nearly ten years (who fled the country in November 2012), and his close collaborator, Amanuel Hadgu.
pro-governement daily
Icing on the cake, three of your journalists who fled from the country on the "right track" with abundant freedom of expression to Uganda, were honored on December fourth ( a day before you gave this interview) for their extraordinary courage in continuing to report about government corruption and gender inequalities among others. Mr. Ambassador fool us once, shame on you; but fool us twice shame on us!
