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By Zekre Lebona -
Sep 28, 2008
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Google the Map of the city of Asmera around the former Forto Baldiseira, which has lately been demolished and is instead now occupying the propaganda ministry. The slope behind the massive building now shows only a patch of green areas, possibly a project of the government’s often lauded reforestation and afforestation program. I never knew the magnitude of the slums for sure, but I suspect there were hundreds of houses. |
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By Zekre Lebona -
Jun 02, 2008
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 ...in 1994, the defense minister (since then) Sebhat Ephrem went into a tirade to justify the rationale for a compulsory military service. Quite arrogantly the defense minister called the youth of Eritrea as a haguaf generation, a term that has an extreme negative connotation. |
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Last Updated ( Jun 02, 2008 )
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By Zekre Lebona -
Feb 02, 2008
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For quite many years, we have been complaining about our gutless intellectuals, who have either mostly kept silent or chose to defend the rampaging regime. Unlike many of us Gaim is not a pamphleteer, who frequently writes about political issues in Eritrea in some Eritrean websites. This book has all the features of years of painstaking, solitary and disciplined work that we expect from a historian. It is also unique. |
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By Zekre Lebona -
Dec 09, 2007
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A small nondescript frame is visible hanging on the corridor walls of the Chamber. If you stare closely, you notice it is a graph about the economic performance of the then province of Eritrea. I forgot whether it was a bar or a line graph. The data shows an upward trend of trade and industrial production until almost the end of the 60s. It is an oddity? |
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By Zekre Lebona -
Jul 29, 2007
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They were instrumental in subduing the Algerian patriots according to Albert Camus. After defeating they took their best farmlands north of the Atlas Mountains, and became farmers. Almost a hundered years afterwards, the grandsons of the communards faced the uprisings of the grandsons of the defeated Algerians in the 19th century. The war took the lives of close to 2 million Algerians, and France lost its colony. |
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Last Updated ( Jul 31, 2007 )
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