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Congratulations!!!!

Araya Debessay, professor of accounting and management information systems in the University of Delaware's Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, has won a 2010 Ernst and Young Inclusive Excellence Award for Accounting and Business School Faculty.

The award honors five faculty members from across the country who have had a significant impact on diversity and inclusiveness within their business schools and universities. Read More

Old Clips From Mengstu's Remark's

Mother's Day Campaign

Haneta

This picture was taken in 1935 around Barentu.It is incredible to see a person siting with Wild Lion...It seems original pic, but have hard time to imagine who would sit with wild Lion
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A song for all my friends...I miss you

Fashion Show

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A Very Talented Kid! Watch Him

Nehnan Elamanan

While browsing some of the ERN websites, I came through the historic document of Nhnan Elamanan. If you want to read it, download it here.

Never Give up!

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A Picture that Speaks More Than a 1000 Words

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Paul Collier on the "bottom billion" | Video on TED.com

Paul Collier on the "bottom billion" | Video on TED.com

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Eritrea football team 'absconds' in Kenya

.....But when the team plane landed back home, it was reportedly only carrying the coach and an official.

The government, which is frequently accused of repression, denies any players are missing.

But the country's football federation confirmed to Cecafa head Nicholas Musonye that the players had not returned. For full report, follow the link here...

A Must Read Article

Semere Tesfai responds to the articles of Ali Salim and his colleague. I thought this is the best response I read so far. Read it here...

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Eritrea a Nation Held Hostage

Eritrea a Nation Held Hostage

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Private Colleges Will be Allowed in Eritrea....

In an interview with sbaebia.com, Dr.Tadese Mehari indicated private colleges will be allowed in Eritrea. This would be important as it will introduce competition both among the students, teachers and colleges. However, he says the private colleges are not allowed to recruit professors from the public colleges.....they are required to bring their own Professors. This, ineffect, will undo the benefits of having private colleges in the country. Read his interview here.

Top ten Nobel Prize rows

As the controversy over whether President Barak Obama deserves this year's Peace Noble Prize award continues, Timesonline has published the top ten rows involving the award of Noble Prize in the history of Noble Prize. These include from a cases of two physicist who were awarded to share the award, but refused to receive because of the row between them, Adolf Hitler's nomination for peace Noble Prize of 1939, and the 1998 Nobel Prize for Medicine which went to a scientist whose work led to the discovery of Viagra. Read the complete 10 list here.

Avoiding Resource Curse in ERi

As Eritrea prepares to starts its first Gold production and with so many foreign companies rushing to get hold of Eritrea's undiscovered Gold, Mewael Frezgi provides advise on how Eritrea can avoid the so called 'resource curse". Read his suggestions here.

Measuring Economic Progress

French president Sarkozy and Nobel prize winners Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen. propose a change in measuring countries economic progress. The current metric which focuses primarly on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is often ctiticized for ignoring other factors vital to the well-being of society. The new proposed measure will include broad catagories such as meaures of hapiiness and welbeing, environmental protection and work/life balance as well as economic output. To read more follow the link.

The Gold are Coming Soon!

The finacial times has the following report on Eritrea's Gold production...

The first commercial production is due to begin in the third quarter of next year when the Bisha mine opens on a site in western Eritrea that contains nearly 1m ounces of gold, said Alem Kibreab, director-general of mines at the Ministry of Energy and Mines.

Bisha is being developed by Nevsun Resources, a junior mining company listed in Toronto, which has a 60 per cent stake in the project. The remaining 40 per cent is held by Eritrea’s state-owned mining company. Beneath its layer of gold the site has about 700m pounds of copper and 1bn pounds of zinc.

The eight companies awarded new exploration licences this year include Andiamo Exploration and London Africa from the UK; South Boulder Mines from Australia; India’s Spice Metals & Minerals; and Zhongchang Mining of China. A total of 14 foreign companies are now in the country.

Eritrea is “highly prospective ground”, said Kevin Tomlinson, managing director of the mining practice at Thomas Weisel, an investment bank. “It’s in a very prolific geological corridor that runs from Egypt along the Red Sea, down through Sudan to Eritrea, and then to Somalia and the northern tip of Madagascar. That’s where a lot of the pharaohs’ gold came from,” he said.

Eritrea’s deposits are not likely to be larger than those in South Africa or the Democratic Republic of Congo, but income from royalties, taxes and new jobs could ease the government’s fiscal problems and spread more wealth among its 5m or so people, many of them living on the margins of survival. To read more click here.

In The Name of the People.....

The prime minister of Ethiopia has lied for his people and the world for 5 years...saying this is his last term and he will step down in 2010. Now, he will stay in power because his people wanted him! Really? there is no one like Meles in the 80 million Ethiopians? in the name of the people? What an insult! of course no one expect him to giveup easily, but it still drives me nuts to read the following...

Ethiopia Prime Minster Meles Zenawi will seek for a new five-year term, his ruling party announced on Tuesday. The 54 year-old former guerrilla leader, who has been in power for 18 years, was convinced by party members to stay on. The Ethiopian People Democratic Front (EPRDF) council underlined that the Ethiopian people and his party need Mr Zenawi for one more term at the end of a two day annual gathering. "Meles is playing a key role in transforming Ethiopia...." EPRDF said in a statement.

African Entrepreneurs

The freakonimics blog of the NY Times has some interesting stories about creative African Entrepreneurs, who also believ entrepreneurship rather than food aid is the way out for Africa. Follow the link to read those stories.

Friendship between a Man and Lions

Should English be a Working Language of Eritrea?

Mogos Tekeste proposes English to be the working language of Eritrea. He argues this will have two advanatages. First it avoids politiciazation of the language issue and second it provides Eritrea a comparative advanateg in the glabal economy. I think his proposal deserves consideration. Read his article here.

Leading Eritrean Politicians of the 1950's

Somehow, browsing over old pages of awate.com, I came through a list of leading Eritrean politicians of the 1950's. The list and information about the persons was provided by the British administration in Eritrea to the government of the United Kingdom (1950).I found it interesting. I thought some people may also want to read it. If you are, follow the link here.

Eritrean Green Movement?

Did anyone know how many movements and political parties are in the opposition camp? So many.... that they have to take all the names in the dictionary of political parties. Here is one name that catched my eyes...

Eritrean Green Movement for Social Reconciliation, Justice and Ecological Wisdom! mknay trah mknay...

So many Reasons to be Thankful

The Good Life

Ethiopia's First Commodity Exchange Market

Pbs has run yesterday one hour story about Ethiopia's first commodity exchange market(well, actually it was more about the founder than about the market it self- I wish the reporter focused more about the market than about the founder, but a nice story for Pbs to go there and do that). It is very interesting to see the experiment- introducing a Chicago style commodity exchange market to rural Ethiopia. If the theory works, the increase in efficiency of the market should benefit the poor farmers. This should be a good step for Ethiopia in terms of monetizing the huge rural sector ann linking it to the main stream economy.
One also has to notice how the market in Eritrea and Ethiopia are diverting. One facilitates the move towards a modern market based economy and the other closes all the markets and replaces them with an old "Kebele" system....
Here is the Pbs story

I Hate Wedi-Tuqabo Now

I was a strong wedi-tuqabo fan...until I read this story. I hate him now.

Dehai to Write Petition to Ali Abdu

A group of hard line dehaiers are writing a petition to Ali Abdu to ban hip hop and Amharic music from ERi-TV. Below is part of the petition...(as a mater of fact, I agree with them).

Sorry for bothering you but, I am writing you this e-mail as I am
watching "BET-MTV", I mean Eri-Tv. The Music Video it is shown right now
is so despicable to say the least. Could you please draft a petition
letter to be signed by a concerned citizen and ask Ali Abdu to put his
house in order. I will be the first person to sign it. Self reliance
should not be limited only to infrastructures. Why complain about the
CIA trying to corrupt the minds of the youth while you doing it yourself
on your national TV for free?

The Rise of Neo-Andnet and Neo-Alrabita

These days, reading the Eritrean websites seems like reading the 1940’s Eritrean news papers…even though it has been 70 years now. I thought those periods produce their own momentum and were closed with a dear blood. I thought the 1940’s was history…keman eka Alem Seged wrote a two volume history on those days? isn't that long enough or is history repeating it self? Here is some of the GNAMGNAM…

The Neo-Andnet Group:
This group is led by Professor Tesfazion Medhanie, Professor Tekeste Negash and their student Yosief Gebrihiwot…all Eritreans.

1. Professor Tekeste Negash continues to argue Eritrean nationalism was based on false premise and prescribes Eritrea to go back to her mother Ethiopia(and not to Sudan). Read his article to see his degree of hate. But Caution: he is Historian and he can mislead you with his narration:
2. His student Yosief Gebrihiwet continues his hate of Ghedli and asks “Is it worth the sacrifice we made for our independence?”…actually reading the article by Yosief after reading Tekeste Negash’s article shows you where he is getting the lecture. Without any shame, Yosief argues our founding fathers were wrong to ask for independence of Eritrea and if they have the wisdom and foresight he has, they would have never wanted independence.
3. Professor Tesfazion Medhanie proposes a confederation with Ethiopia.
4. Shaleqa Dawit Weldegerghis, a former governor of Eritrea under the Derge regime, warns his Ethiopian fellow to avoid the mistakes Haileslasie and Derge did…” don’t rush now” and adds “we have to accept Eritrean independence and work together with our Eritrean brothers”…As if we don’t know their strategy of “mekormeyi zrekebes’ mesafihi neysin”

The above are those visible in the neo-Andnet group, but there others too.

The other group on the rise is the Neo-Alrabita. Read Some of the articles here:
1. Uncharted Territory by Ali Salim
2. Hade Hizbi K'ilte Lbi by Ali Salim
3. Shifta Ghebre on the Move Again by Mohammed Ahmed

Prof. Asmerom Legesse: Ageb Ayfalkmun!

A friend of mine forwarded me the following link. Prof. Asmerom Legesse was on ERi-TV's open Mic and I can't believe what the good professor was talking about. The discussion was in relation to a conference held in Asmara about "Democracy in Africa" sponsored by Libya to sell Gadaf's Green Book. (for those of you who are not familiar with green book, it is Gadafi's version of democracy or Gadafi's manual of how to rule for life). Prof. Asmerom have presented a paper on this conference. That was the first mistake he made: by presenting a paper in the conference, he has effectively endorsed the the tone of the conference. The second mistake was what he said on the Interview. For that, I don't even want to comment. I will let you hear for your self. Click here to watch the interview.