Mr. Ibrahim Osman Hamid, an official in the Eritrean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has abandoned the PFDJ government and sought political asylum in the United Kingdom.
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Between 2003 and 2005 Mr. Ibrahim served in the Eritrean Embassy in Cairo in charge of culture and education affairs. From 2005 until his defection, he was a member of the Secretariat of the Eritrean delegation which had been hosting peace negotiations between the Government of Sudan and the Eastern Front, a Sudanese opposition group.

His previous assignment includes working for the Eritrean Center for Strategic Studies, a ruling-party owned and operated think tank, where he was a researcher from 1996-2003. 

Mr. Ibrahim Hamid holds a Masters degree in Media and Development from the Institute of Research and Arab Studies in Cairo (2004) and a License in Cultural Studies from Damascus University (1989). As a student, he was an activist in the Eritrean student movement both in Sudan and Syria.