By Yonatan Tewelde* Eritrean filmmaker Tesfit Abraha has spoken out about the repressive apparatus at the Eritrean Ministry of Information where he has worked as a cameraman for 15 years in an interview he gave to Radio Wegahta. Tesfit has made a name for himself in the Eritrean art circles as the writer, director and cameraman
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“I felt like I was waking up from a nightmare”. — Temesghen Debesai Temesghen Debesai decided to flee the East African nation of Eritrea in 2001. Report by Steve Dawson, exerted from http://www.globaljournalist.org PROJECT EXILE: ERITREAN BROADCASTER WAITED FIVE YEARS TO ESCAPE
Abraham Zere’s article on eritrean Social media, exerted from Carnegie Council. Eritrea: An Exiled Nation Suspended in Liminal Space through Social Media ABRAHAM T. ZERE | DECEMBER 30, 2016
Today marks a bleak date in the country’s history, when a paranoid elite began a brutal campaign to cement its grip on power Eritrea is a prison state – no wonder so many are desperate to escape
Journalist Abraham T. Zere has been identified as a ‘security threat’, and watched his colleagues go to prison. Now exiled in the USA, he reveals the dangers facing writers in the “world’s most censored country” The life of a state journalist in Eritrea
Through my images I try to capture moments that depict the realities of life itself and living in Eritrea. – Click on the link below. Life itself. Living in Eritrea.
…Recently, at an Amnesty International meeting, I spoke of the poor solidarity among Africans fighting for rights. Your niece, Vanessa Berhe, was in the audience. She challenged me to express my solidarity and join in the campaign for your freedom. Of course! I was ashamed that she had to ask. Journalists in Africa: Unite against
why jail a poet? Because as the poet Abdellatif Laâbi explains, a poet is a “statistician of pain” and “fool of hope.” – Abraham Zere’s article about the dire repression in the media and arts in Eritrea. Poets are targeted because…
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