To mark the fifteenth anniversary of Dawit Isaak’s arrest, we are proud to be able to publish a tribute to Dawit by fellow writer David Berridge Eritrea: 15 years of incommunicado detention for journalist Dawit Isaak « GO BACK
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
Abraham T. Zere* Sept. 2 2016 With the Eritrean government’s dismal failure to live up to high expectations, and a hopelessly polarized diaspora community, we’ve reached a vile state where seemingly any casual observer can suddenly turn into an Eritrean expert and even be celebrated among the Eritrean diaspora. This trend, unfortunately, is devolving into
Eritrean journalist Abubaker Sayek wrote a long piece on the times and arts of the legendary singer-song-writer, “Wed-Amir” for Hedgait blog in Arabic. Based on information from the article and other sources, Mohammed Hiyabu is introducing the singer to English readers. Idris Amir aka “Wed-Amir”—was legendary, extraordinaire singer-song-writer who has immensely shaped the Tigrait language
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
REVISED AND APPROVED IN THE SECOND ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE GENERAL MEMBERSHIP OF PEN ERITREA CONVENED ON THIS 6TH DAY OF JULY 2017 IN LILLEHAMMER, NORWAY Section I: General Principles Article 1. PEN Eritrea is founded with the objective of promoting, in an Eritrean context, the broader objective of PEN International, understood generally as
Poem by Ghirmai G.Meskel (1988) ቀንዴል ጸልማት ተዋጋኢ፡ ብሕጂ ዚዋጋእ፡ ድጉን ሓርበኛ፡ ንናጽነትን ብተስፋኣን ዚነብር፡ ብኣኣ ዚዕንገል፡ ንዓኣ ዝውፈ፡ ጕዕዞኣ ብሓንቲ ቀንዴል ይበርህ፡ ናይ ተስፋ ቀንዴል
PEN International issues a resolution in collaboration with PEN Eritrea regarding the detained Eritrean journalists: http://www.pen-international.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/6.RESOLUTION-Eritrea.pdf « GO BACK
By Michela Wrong* To write one book about Eritrea – a book aimed at ordinary readers, I mean, rather than academics — is a fairly rare event. I can count the number of non-Eritreans who’ve attempted it in the last five years on the fingers of one hand. To write two suggests either an obsessive