Tag: eritrea
Eritrea: Reflections on the International Day of Peace 2020
Eritrea-ASMARA (HAN) September 19. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. In several days the world will observe the International Day of Peace (IDP). The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) set 21 September as the IDP in 1981 a unanimous resolution. Two decades later, in 2001, the UNGA would unanimously vote…
Eritrea: Belarus’s Last Friend in Africa
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) September 18. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. Lukashenka’s only friends in the current UN Human Rights Council: Venezuela and Eritrea. Strong resolution on Belarus tabled by Germany UN Geneva on behalf of the EU adopted. Russia demanded 17 amendments. All rejected. Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya demanded…
Abiy Ahmed on the threats to Ethiopia’s democratic transition
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) September 17. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. BY:BY ABIY AHMED. A STABLE DEMOCRACY is built on the rule of law; if there is no law there is no freedom. With this core belief, Ethiopia is working tirelessly to realise its constitution’s promise of a democratic and…
Ethiopia’s democratic transition is in peril
Freedom is not a gift doled out to people by a government,” Abiy Ahmed said in his inaugural address as Ethiopia’s prime minister in 2018. “Rather [it is] a gift of nature to everyone that emanates from our human dignity.” His words marked a remarkable turn for a country that over tethhe past five decades had…
Eritrea: The ‘Israeli’-Emirati Alliance Will Be Felt In Africa
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) September 17. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. By Andrew Korybko American political analyst. The misleadingly described “peace” deal between “Israel” and the UAE will enable the self-professed “Jewish State” to use the latter’s military and civilian port infrastructure in the Gulf of Aden, thus challenging recent…
Eritrea’s Deteriorating State:OPINION
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) September 17. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. BY:Abraham T. Zere. The Government Response Stringency index (GRSI) is a composite score developed by researchers at Oxford University, to compare countries’ policy responses to the coronavirus pandemic. It uses nine response indicators to rank governments, including school closures, workplace closures, and…
Eritrea: New Book SILENCE IS MY MOTHER TONGUE
NEW YORK (HAN) September 16. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. By Sulaiman Addonia. Sulaiman Addonia’s second novel, “Silence Is My Mother Tongue,” begins with a trial in a makeshift cinema in a refugee camp in Sudan. The supposed crime: an act of incestuous domestic abuse perpetrated by the protagonist,…
Eritrea: Painter Ficre Ghebreyesus spotlighting Eritrean Art
Connecticut (HAN) September 16. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues.BY: Caroline Goldstein. As galleries and art institutions around the world begin to reopen, we are spotlighting individual shows—online and IRL—that are worth your attention. “Ficre Ghebreyesus: Gate to the Blue” through October 24, 2020 at Galerie LeLong What the…
Eritrea: The “Needy and Less Capable” African
ASMARA (HAN) September 16. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues.By: Dr. Fikrejesus mahazion “#UnderstandingEritrea”. Broadly, the series aims to clarify and help shed further light on some of the most critical elements of Eritrea’s national development plans, such as the improvement, preservation, and sustainable use of its land and water…
Eritrea: Scientists Ponder tools in brucellosis fight
ASMARA (HAN) September 16. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. Brucellosis, which is also known as Undulant fever, Malta fever, and Mediterranean fever, is a highly contagious disease mainly caused by consuming unpasteurized milk, raw and undercooked meat from infected animals, or close contact with their secretions. Although human to…