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By Burhan Ali -
May 13, 2005
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The style of the book is an old and common style used by writers of the European Romantic movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth century: valid for speaking pompously, but vaguely, about things which one cannot objectify, define or quantify. It is a style of saying things almost poetically in the hope that the charm of the language may stand for truth or, in any case, may transfer feelings the author experiences but can’t intelligibly communicate. |
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By Zekre Lebona -
May 08, 2005
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The bounty from the salt trade was not entirely forgotten. It surfaced again, after the fall of the Mobutu regime in the then Zaire. Rumors were rife in Asmera about the existence of a huge market for our salt surplus to unload. There are, it was said, mostly through the 09, millions of salt-starved Congolese. Not only that the story goes, our plastic shoes factories will also have to shod the millions of barefoot people from the same country. |
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By Zekre Lebona -
Mar 16, 2005
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In several instances, I witnessed Rashaida caravans being paid by the EPLF commanders. It is safe to assume that the approach of both Fronts towards the Rashaida was identical. They were not "a political threat" then as now. |
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By Events Monitor, Asmara -
Mar 06, 2005
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Consumer goods are hard to come by and long queues have become a daily spectacle everywhere. You just have to pass by the Elabered Estate distribution center near Asmara Bowling Club, to get a glimpse of the serpentine lines formed by Asmara’s residents trying their luck at landing a liter of milk. It is not unusual for the lines to be stretched as far as the new fuel station past mai timket. The queues start forming around 4 to 5 in the morning before the shops open at about 7:30. |
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By Burhan Ali -
Jan 04, 2005
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One of these was the Australian Thomas Keneally, a novelist, writer and activist. He wrote a book, To Asmara, a novel, as if designed to drive a wedge between Christian highland Eritrea and the Muslim lowland Eritreans in the one hand and between all the Eritrean ethnics and Highland Tigrigna speakers in the other. The novel in itself is of no consequence to Eritrea, and in fact the relation between the two is fairly the same as that existing in Madame Butterfly and its relation to Japan. |
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