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We don’t see the peace’

Post by Awash » 29 Oct 2019, 20:56

‘We don’t see the peace’

October 30, 2019 at 12:20 am by AFP By Robbie Corey-Boulet

When Zaid Aregawi learned that Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed had won this year's Nobel Peace Prize, her first thought was of her brother Alem, who is languishing in jail across the border in Eritrea.

He crossed over five months ago carrying wood for an Eritrean businessman—exactly the kind of trade that people in the border region hoped would flourish after Abiy and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki signed a peace deal last year.

But Eritrean soldiers arrested Alem Aregawi without explanation, making him one of scores of Ethiopians who officials say have recently been taken into custody by Eritrean security forces.

For Ethiopians like Zaid Aregawi, the detentions are the most troubling sign that the peace deal—the main reason Abiy was awarded his Nobel—has yet to be fully realized.

"If there is no free movement from both sides, what is the point of the peace deal?" she asked in an interview with AFP. "They say there is peace, however we have got big problems along the border."

Abiy's attention is currently consumed by ethnic and religious clashes that broke out last week in the capital Addis Ababa and Ethiopia's Oromia region, leaving nearly 70 dead and highlighting divisions within his ethnic Oromo support base.

Meanwhile, hundreds of kilometers north, frustration with his Eritrea deal is mounting in cities and towns nestled among the steep escarpments of Ethiopia's northern Tigray region—the area most affected by the 1998-2000 border war and the long, bitter stalemate that followed.

Residents of Ethiopia's northernmost villages complain of a lack of progress on demarcating the two countries' shared 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) border.

Eritrean refugees—who still cross into Ethiopia by the hundreds each day, according to the United Nations—note that peace has not moderated the behavior of Isaias, widely considered one of the world's most repressive leaders.

And nearly everyone laments that bilateral relations hinge on meetings between Abiy and Isaias, with little input from people on the ground.

'Peace stuck between earth and sky' 

"We can say that peace is stuck between the earth and the sky," said Ahmed Yahya Abdi, an Eritrean refugee who has lived in Ethiopia since the war.

"When Abiy went to Eritrea he flew to Asmara, but he didn't implement peace here, at the border between the two countries."

The demilitarization of the border, especially on the Ethiopian side, is the main benefit of peace cited by most people in the region.

It has permitted some Ethiopians to cross for weddings and funerals in Eritrea with little harassment from the security forces.

But Yosef Misgina, an official in the town of Dawhan, says he receives regular reports of Ethiopians being detained, jailed and beaten in Eritrea—often after they are caught transporting construction materials and other goods.

Among them were 13 traders who were taken into custody just days before Abiy won the Nobel, two of whom remain behind bars.

One recent detainee, Tsegay Suba Tesfay, spent two weeks in an overcrowded cell after soldiers arrested him while he was transporting rice and bottled water.

He said police officers beat him with a baton multiple times, and that he was deprived of food and allowed outside for just a few minutes each day.

"They don't give you any reason when you are detained," he said. "In Eritrea, there is no freedom."

Yosef attributes the detentions to continued ambiguity about the status of the border.

While the main crossings were opened shortly after the peace deal was signed, they have all since been closed, with no word on when they might reopen.

"Now we are asking that peace be institutionalized," Yosef said. "If it is institutionalized it cannot be disrupted by individuals."

'I don't accept this prize'

An even bigger source of anxiety for the region is the border demarcation process, which so far has gone nowhere.

When Abiy first reached out to Eritrea last year, he stunned observers by agreeing to accept a 2002 UN boundary ruling that Ethiopia had long rejected.

The ruling would transfer some villages and towns from Ethiopian to Eritrean territory, and would split the ethnic Irob community in two.

It is unclear what is holding up demarcation, but many analysts suspect Eritrea is dragging its feet.

"I would say that the Eritrean government probably wants to take things a little bit more slowly because the rapprochement has implications for the domestic situation in Eritrea. It has been a closed country for 20 years," said Michael Woldemariam, an expert on the Horn of Africa at Boston University.

"The contradictions between the new era of external peace and Eritrea's internal situation will be a significant challenge going forward."

For refugees like Sebhatleab Abraha Woldeyesus, who crossed into Ethiopia a few weeks ago, waiting for change from Eritrea seems futile, meaning true peace along the border is likely to remain out of reach.

"As a human being I don't accept this Nobel prize," he said. "We don't see the peace. Abiy and Isaias, they haven't brought it."
http://manilastandard.net/mobile/article/308721

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Re: We don’t see the peace’

Post by pushkin » 29 Oct 2019, 21:03

Son of Abashawil prostitute! Your brothers who are detained in Eritrea are thieves & spies of your Agame bandits. So are you Agames evaluating the peace process through your criminal Agames? If we don't want to open the border who the f@ck are u to put pressure. First, get the f@ck out of the Eritrean teritory, Moron!
Awash wrote:
29 Oct 2019, 20:56
‘We don’t see the peace’

October 30, 2019 at 12:20 am by AFP By Robbie Corey-Boulet

When Zaid Aregawi learned that Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed had won this year's Nobel Peace Prize, her first thought was of her brother Alem, who is languishing in jail across the border in Eritrea.

He crossed over five months ago carrying wood for an Eritrean businessman—exactly the kind of trade that people in the border region hoped would flourish after Abiy and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki signed a peace deal last year.

But Eritrean soldiers arrested Alem Aregawi without explanation, making him one of scores of Ethiopians who officials say have recently been taken into custody by Eritrean security forces.

For Ethiopians like Zaid Aregawi, the detentions are the most troubling sign that the peace deal—the main reason Abiy was awarded his Nobel—has yet to be fully realized.

"If there is no free movement from both sides, what is the point of the peace deal?" she asked in an interview with AFP. "They say there is peace, however we have got big problems along the border."

Abiy's attention is currently consumed by ethnic and religious clashes that broke out last week in the capital Addis Ababa and Ethiopia's Oromia region, leaving nearly 70 dead and highlighting divisions within his ethnic Oromo support base.

Meanwhile, hundreds of kilometers north, frustration with his Eritrea deal is mounting in cities and towns nestled among the steep escarpments of Ethiopia's northern Tigray region—the area most affected by the 1998-2000 border war and the long, bitter stalemate that followed.

Residents of Ethiopia's northernmost villages complain of a lack of progress on demarcating the two countries' shared 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) border.

Eritrean refugees—who still cross into Ethiopia by the hundreds each day, according to the United Nations—note that peace has not moderated the behavior of Isaias, widely considered one of the world's most repressive leaders.

And nearly everyone laments that bilateral relations hinge on meetings between Abiy and Isaias, with little input from people on the ground.

'Peace stuck between earth and sky' 

"We can say that peace is stuck between the earth and the sky," said Ahmed Yahya Abdi, an Eritrean refugee who has lived in Ethiopia since the war.

"When Abiy went to Eritrea he flew to Asmara, but he didn't implement peace here, at the border between the two countries."

The demilitarization of the border, especially on the Ethiopian side, is the main benefit of peace cited by most people in the region.

It has permitted some Ethiopians to cross for weddings and funerals in Eritrea with little harassment from the security forces.

But Yosef Misgina, an official in the town of Dawhan, says he receives regular reports of Ethiopians being detained, jailed and beaten in Eritrea—often after they are caught transporting construction materials and other goods.

Among them were 13 traders who were taken into custody just days before Abiy won the Nobel, two of whom remain behind bars.

One recent detainee, Tsegay Suba Tesfay, spent two weeks in an overcrowded cell after soldiers arrested him while he was transporting rice and bottled water.

He said police officers beat him with a baton multiple times, and that he was deprived of food and allowed outside for just a few minutes each day.

"They don't give you any reason when you are detained," he said. "In Eritrea, there is no freedom."

Yosef attributes the detentions to continued ambiguity about the status of the border.

While the main crossings were opened shortly after the peace deal was signed, they have all since been closed, with no word on when they might reopen.

"Now we are asking that peace be institutionalized," Yosef said. "If it is institutionalized it cannot be disrupted by individuals."

'I don't accept this prize'

An even bigger source of anxiety for the region is the border demarcation process, which so far has gone nowhere.

When Abiy first reached out to Eritrea last year, he stunned observers by agreeing to accept a 2002 UN boundary ruling that Ethiopia had long rejected.

The ruling would transfer some villages and towns from Ethiopian to Eritrean territory, and would split the ethnic Irob community in two.

It is unclear what is holding up demarcation, but many analysts suspect Eritrea is dragging its feet.

"I would say that the Eritrean government probably wants to take things a little bit more slowly because the rapprochement has implications for the domestic situation in Eritrea. It has been a closed country for 20 years," said Michael Woldemariam, an expert on the Horn of Africa at Boston University.

"The contradictions between the new era of external peace and Eritrea's internal situation will be a significant challenge going forward."

For refugees like Sebhatleab Abraha Woldeyesus, who crossed into Ethiopia a few weeks ago, waiting for change from Eritrea seems futile, meaning true peace along the border is likely to remain out of reach.

"As a human being I don't accept this Nobel prize," he said. "We don't see the peace. Abiy and Isaias, they haven't brought it."
http://manilastandard.net/mobile/article/308721

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Re: We don’t see the peace’

Post by Awash » 29 Oct 2019, 21:33

:twisted: :evil: :twisted: I didn't write the freaking article, you moron Bushtin. You should thank me for providing a non-governmental (aka non NGO) news source, motta-focker.
pushkin wrote:
29 Oct 2019, 21:03
Son of Abashawil prostitute! Your brothers who are detained in Eritrea are thieves & spies of your Agame bandits. So are you Agames evaluating the peace process through your criminal Agames? If we don't want to open the border who the f@ck are u to put pressure. First, get the f@ck out of the Eritrean teritory, Moron!
Awash wrote:
29 Oct 2019, 20:56
‘We don’t see the peace’

October 30, 2019 at 12:20 am by AFP By Robbie Corey-Boulet

When Zaid Aregawi learned that Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed had won this year's Nobel Peace Prize, her first thought was of her brother Alem, who is languishing in jail across the border in Eritrea.

He crossed over five months ago carrying wood for an Eritrean businessman—exactly the kind of trade that people in the border region hoped would flourish after Abiy and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki signed a peace deal last year.

But Eritrean soldiers arrested Alem Aregawi without explanation, making him one of scores of Ethiopians who officials say have recently been taken into custody by Eritrean security forces.

For Ethiopians like Zaid Aregawi, the detentions are the most troubling sign that the peace deal—the main reason Abiy was awarded his Nobel—has yet to be fully realized.

"If there is no free movement from both sides, what is the point of the peace deal?" she asked in an interview with AFP. "They say there is peace, however we have got big problems along the border."

Abiy's attention is currently consumed by ethnic and religious clashes that broke out last week in the capital Addis Ababa and Ethiopia's Oromia region, leaving nearly 70 dead and highlighting divisions within his ethnic Oromo support base.

Meanwhile, hundreds of kilometers north, frustration with his Eritrea deal is mounting in cities and towns nestled among the steep escarpments of Ethiopia's northern Tigray region—the area most affected by the 1998-2000 border war and the long, bitter stalemate that followed.

Residents of Ethiopia's northernmost villages complain of a lack of progress on demarcating the two countries' shared 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) border.

Eritrean refugees—who still cross into Ethiopia by the hundreds each day, according to the United Nations—note that peace has not moderated the behavior of Isaias, widely considered one of the world's most repressive leaders.

And nearly everyone laments that bilateral relations hinge on meetings between Abiy and Isaias, with little input from people on the ground.

'Peace stuck between earth and sky' 

"We can say that peace is stuck between the earth and the sky," said Ahmed Yahya Abdi, an Eritrean refugee who has lived in Ethiopia since the war.

"When Abiy went to Eritrea he flew to Asmara, but he didn't implement peace here, at the border between the two countries."

The demilitarization of the border, especially on the Ethiopian side, is the main benefit of peace cited by most people in the region.

It has permitted some Ethiopians to cross for weddings and funerals in Eritrea with little harassment from the security forces.

But Yosef Misgina, an official in the town of Dawhan, says he receives regular reports of Ethiopians being detained, jailed and beaten in Eritrea—often after they are caught transporting construction materials and other goods.

Among them were 13 traders who were taken into custody just days before Abiy won the Nobel, two of whom remain behind bars.

One recent detainee, Tsegay Suba Tesfay, spent two weeks in an overcrowded cell after soldiers arrested him while he was transporting rice and bottled water.

He said police officers beat him with a baton multiple times, and that he was deprived of food and allowed outside for just a few minutes each day.

"They don't give you any reason when you are detained," he said. "In Eritrea, there is no freedom."

Yosef attributes the detentions to continued ambiguity about the status of the border.

While the main crossings were opened shortly after the peace deal was signed, they have all since been closed, with no word on when they might reopen.

"Now we are asking that peace be institutionalized," Yosef said. "If it is institutionalized it cannot be disrupted by individuals."

'I don't accept this prize'

An even bigger source of anxiety for the region is the border demarcation process, which so far has gone nowhere.

When Abiy first reached out to Eritrea last year, he stunned observers by agreeing to accept a 2002 UN boundary ruling that Ethiopia had long rejected.

The ruling would transfer some villages and towns from Ethiopian to Eritrean territory, and would split the ethnic Irob community in two.

It is unclear what is holding up demarcation, but many analysts suspect Eritrea is dragging its feet.

"I would say that the Eritrean government probably wants to take things a little bit more slowly because the rapprochement has implications for the domestic situation in Eritrea. It has been a closed country for 20 years," said Michael Woldemariam, an expert on the Horn of Africa at Boston University.

"The contradictions between the new era of external peace and Eritrea's internal situation will be a significant challenge going forward."

For refugees like Sebhatleab Abraha Woldeyesus, who crossed into Ethiopia a few weeks ago, waiting for change from Eritrea seems futile, meaning true peace along the border is likely to remain out of reach.

"As a human being I don't accept this Nobel prize," he said. "We don't see the peace. Abiy and Isaias, they haven't brought it."
http://manilastandard.net/mobile/article/308721

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Re: We don’t see the peace’

Post by pushkin » 29 Oct 2019, 21:50

Anta wed ta kosal mitra resah nay abashawil Agame neber! You agames have no brain to think! You are now back to your scavenging business :P
Awash wrote:
29 Oct 2019, 21:33
:twisted: :evil: :twisted: I didn't write the freaking article, you moron [deleted]. You should thank me for providing a non-governmental (aka non NGO) news source, motta-focker.
pushkin wrote:
29 Oct 2019, 21:03
Son of Abashawil prostitute! Your brothers who are detained in Eritrea are thieves & spies of your Agame bandits. So are you Agames evaluating the peace process through your criminal Agames? If we don't want to open the border who the f@ck are u to put pressure. First, get the f@ck out of the Eritrean teritory, Moron!
Awash wrote:
29 Oct 2019, 20:56
‘We don’t see the peace’

October 30, 2019 at 12:20 am by AFP By Robbie Corey-Boulet

When Zaid Aregawi learned that Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed had won this year's Nobel Peace Prize, her first thought was of her brother Alem, who is languishing in jail across the border in Eritrea.

He crossed over five months ago carrying wood for an Eritrean businessman—exactly the kind of trade that people in the border region hoped would flourish after Abiy and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki signed a peace deal last year.

But Eritrean soldiers arrested Alem Aregawi without explanation, making him one of scores of Ethiopians who officials say have recently been taken into custody by Eritrean security forces.

For Ethiopians like Zaid Aregawi, the detentions are the most troubling sign that the peace deal—the main reason Abiy was awarded his Nobel—has yet to be fully realized.

"If there is no free movement from both sides, what is the point of the peace deal?" she asked in an interview with AFP. "They say there is peace, however we have got big problems along the border."

Abiy's attention is currently consumed by ethnic and religious clashes that broke out last week in the capital Addis Ababa and Ethiopia's Oromia region, leaving nearly 70 dead and highlighting divisions within his ethnic Oromo support base.

Meanwhile, hundreds of kilometers north, frustration with his Eritrea deal is mounting in cities and towns nestled among the steep escarpments of Ethiopia's northern Tigray region—the area most affected by the 1998-2000 border war and the long, bitter stalemate that followed.

Residents of Ethiopia's northernmost villages complain of a lack of progress on demarcating the two countries' shared 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) border.

Eritrean refugees—who still cross into Ethiopia by the hundreds each day, according to the United Nations—note that peace has not moderated the behavior of Isaias, widely considered one of the world's most repressive leaders.

And nearly everyone laments that bilateral relations hinge on meetings between Abiy and Isaias, with little input from people on the ground.

'Peace stuck between earth and sky' 

"We can say that peace is stuck between the earth and the sky," said Ahmed Yahya Abdi, an Eritrean refugee who has lived in Ethiopia since the war.

"When Abiy went to Eritrea he flew to Asmara, but he didn't implement peace here, at the border between the two countries."

The demilitarization of the border, especially on the Ethiopian side, is the main benefit of peace cited by most people in the region.

It has permitted some Ethiopians to cross for weddings and funerals in Eritrea with little harassment from the security forces.

But Yosef Misgina, an official in the town of Dawhan, says he receives regular reports of Ethiopians being detained, jailed and beaten in Eritrea—often after they are caught transporting construction materials and other goods.

Among them were 13 traders who were taken into custody just days before Abiy won the Nobel, two of whom remain behind bars.

One recent detainee, Tsegay Suba Tesfay, spent two weeks in an overcrowded cell after soldiers arrested him while he was transporting rice and bottled water.

He said police officers beat him with a baton multiple times, and that he was deprived of food and allowed outside for just a few minutes each day.

"They don't give you any reason when you are detained," he said. "In Eritrea, there is no freedom."

Yosef attributes the detentions to continued ambiguity about the status of the border.

While the main crossings were opened shortly after the peace deal was signed, they have all since been closed, with no word on when they might reopen.

"Now we are asking that peace be institutionalized," Yosef said. "If it is institutionalized it cannot be disrupted by individuals."

'I don't accept this prize'

An even bigger source of anxiety for the region is the border demarcation process, which so far has gone nowhere.

When Abiy first reached out to Eritrea last year, he stunned observers by agreeing to accept a 2002 UN boundary ruling that Ethiopia had long rejected.

The ruling would transfer some villages and towns from Ethiopian to Eritrean territory, and would split the ethnic Irob community in two.

It is unclear what is holding up demarcation, but many analysts suspect Eritrea is dragging its feet.

"I would say that the Eritrean government probably wants to take things a little bit more slowly because the rapprochement has implications for the domestic situation in Eritrea. It has been a closed country for 20 years," said Michael Woldemariam, an expert on the Horn of Africa at Boston University.

"The contradictions between the new era of external peace and Eritrea's internal situation will be a significant challenge going forward."

For refugees like Sebhatleab Abraha Woldeyesus, who crossed into Ethiopia a few weeks ago, waiting for change from Eritrea seems futile, meaning true peace along the border is likely to remain out of reach.

"As a human being I don't accept this Nobel prize," he said. "We don't see the peace. Abiy and Isaias, they haven't brought it."
http://manilastandard.net/mobile/article/308721

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Re: We don’t see the peace’

Post by Awash » 29 Oct 2019, 21:54

Wedi komarit geza Birhanu,
Go find a [ deleted ] like your mother in Aba Shawil. Fessfass Agame, wedi kelbi.
pushkin wrote:
29 Oct 2019, 21:50
Anta wed ta kosal mitra resah nay abashawil Agame neber! You agames have no brain to think! You are now back to your scavenging business :P
Awash wrote:
29 Oct 2019, 21:33
:twisted: :evil: :twisted: I didn't write the freaking article, you moron [deleted]. You should thank me for providing a non-governmental (aka non NGO) news source, motta-focker.
pushkin wrote:
29 Oct 2019, 21:03
Son of Abashawil prostitute! Your brothers who are detained in Eritrea are thieves & spies of your Agame bandits. So are you Agames evaluating the peace process through your criminal Agames? If we don't want to open the border who the f@ck are u to put pressure. First, get the f@ck out of the Eritrean teritory, Moron!
Awash wrote:
29 Oct 2019, 20:56
‘We don’t see the peace’

October 30, 2019 at 12:20 am by AFP By Robbie Corey-Boulet

When Zaid Aregawi learned that Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed had won this year's Nobel Peace Prize, her first thought was of her brother Alem, who is languishing in jail across the border in Eritrea.

He crossed over five months ago carrying wood for an Eritrean businessman—exactly the kind of trade that people in the border region hoped would flourish after Abiy and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki signed a peace deal last year.

But Eritrean soldiers arrested Alem Aregawi without explanation, making him one of scores of Ethiopians who officials say have recently been taken into custody by Eritrean security forces.

For Ethiopians like Zaid Aregawi, the detentions are the most troubling sign that the peace deal—the main reason Abiy was awarded his Nobel—has yet to be fully realized.

"If there is no free movement from both sides, what is the point of the peace deal?" she asked in an interview with AFP. "They say there is peace, however we have got big problems along the border."

Abiy's attention is currently consumed by ethnic and religious clashes that broke out last week in the capital Addis Ababa and Ethiopia's Oromia region, leaving nearly 70 dead and highlighting divisions within his ethnic Oromo support base.

Meanwhile, hundreds of kilometers north, frustration with his Eritrea deal is mounting in cities and towns nestled among the steep escarpments of Ethiopia's northern Tigray region—the area most affected by the 1998-2000 border war and the long, bitter stalemate that followed.

Residents of Ethiopia's northernmost villages complain of a lack of progress on demarcating the two countries' shared 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) border.

Eritrean refugees—who still cross into Ethiopia by the hundreds each day, according to the United Nations—note that peace has not moderated the behavior of Isaias, widely considered one of the world's most repressive leaders.

And nearly everyone laments that bilateral relations hinge on meetings between Abiy and Isaias, with little input from people on the ground.

'Peace stuck between earth and sky' 

"We can say that peace is stuck between the earth and the sky," said Ahmed Yahya Abdi, an Eritrean refugee who has lived in Ethiopia since the war.

"When Abiy went to Eritrea he flew to Asmara, but he didn't implement peace here, at the border between the two countries."

The demilitarization of the border, especially on the Ethiopian side, is the main benefit of peace cited by most people in the region.

It has permitted some Ethiopians to cross for weddings and funerals in Eritrea with little harassment from the security forces.

But Yosef Misgina, an official in the town of Dawhan, says he receives regular reports of Ethiopians being detained, jailed and beaten in Eritrea—often after they are caught transporting construction materials and other goods.

Among them were 13 traders who were taken into custody just days before Abiy won the Nobel, two of whom remain behind bars.

One recent detainee, Tsegay Suba Tesfay, spent two weeks in an overcrowded cell after soldiers arrested him while he was transporting rice and bottled water.

He said police officers beat him with a baton multiple times, and that he was deprived of food and allowed outside for just a few minutes each day.

"They don't give you any reason when you are detained," he said. "In Eritrea, there is no freedom."

Yosef attributes the detentions to continued ambiguity about the status of the border.

While the main crossings were opened shortly after the peace deal was signed, they have all since been closed, with no word on when they might reopen.

"Now we are asking that peace be institutionalized," Yosef said. "If it is institutionalized it cannot be disrupted by individuals."

'I don't accept this prize'

An even bigger source of anxiety for the region is the border demarcation process, which so far has gone nowhere.

When Abiy first reached out to Eritrea last year, he stunned observers by agreeing to accept a 2002 UN boundary ruling that Ethiopia had long rejected.

The ruling would transfer some villages and towns from Ethiopian to Eritrean territory, and would split the ethnic Irob community in two.

It is unclear what is holding up demarcation, but many analysts suspect Eritrea is dragging its feet.

"I would say that the Eritrean government probably wants to take things a little bit more slowly because the rapprochement has implications for the domestic situation in Eritrea. It has been a closed country for 20 years," said Michael Woldemariam, an expert on the Horn of Africa at Boston University.

"The contradictions between the new era of external peace and Eritrea's internal situation will be a significant challenge going forward."

For refugees like Sebhatleab Abraha Woldeyesus, who crossed into Ethiopia a few weeks ago, waiting for change from Eritrea seems futile, meaning true peace along the border is likely to remain out of reach.

"As a human being I don't accept this Nobel prize," he said. "We don't see the peace. Abiy and Isaias, they haven't brought it."
http://manilastandard.net/mobile/article/308721
Last edited by Awash on 29 Oct 2019, 22:14, edited 1 time in total.

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Re: We don’t see the peace’

Post by Zmeselo » 29 Oct 2019, 21:57



Three Ethiopians from Tigray region reportedly arrested in Eritrea

borkena

https://borkena.com/2019/03/07/three-et ... n-eritrea/

March 7, 2019

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Three Ethiopians from Tigray region are reportedly arrested in Eritrea on Thursday. According to Eritrean News source, Eritrean Press, they were arrested in Gash Barka region of Eritrea after they allegedly entered the country through Omhajer-Humera.

The report added that they were caught with US$ 4400.00 which it said was
for a purpose of deception.
Seemingly, the Eritrean public was involved in their arrest. News shared by Eritrean Press on social media said
…the public informed police when the Tegaru men tried to engage in fraudulent activity to swindle the locals.
The suspects have admitted wrongdoing and they are awaiting court ruling, according to a report shard on Eritrean Press page.

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Re: We don’t see the peace’

Post by Awash » 29 Oct 2019, 22:20

Meanwhile, Rwanda aka Singapore, is registering unmatched results.
:lol: :mrgreen: :lol:
Rwanda’s first electric car hits the road today

By Collins Mwai. October 29, 2019


Rwanda is the first country where Volkswagen will be testing electric cars e-Golf in Africa. Net photo.

Electric vehicles will debut in Rwanda today through a partnership between Volkswagen and Siemens under a pilot project.

The vehicles, to be launched in the presence of Prime Minister Edouard Ngirente, are dubbed e-Golf. Rwanda is the first African country where Volkswagen is testing electric cars.

Today’s launch will see four of the cars unveiled on the local market with one charging station at the Volkswagen facility at the Special Economic Zone.

Officials at the firm say that more cars will join the market in the coming months to bring the number to about 20 cars and 15 charging stations across the city.

Siemens role in the partnership involves setting up charging stations.

Michaella Rugwizangoga, the Chief Executive Officer of Volkswagen’s operations in Rwanda, said the cars are fully electric, not hybrid.

Prior to today’s launch, Siemens, alongside the City of Kigali and Rwanda Energy Group, conducted an assessment of the city’s grid to establish whether it can support innovation.

They said that the findings showed that the city’s grid was adequate to support the charging stations at the launch and consequent phases of the pilot project.

In June this year, Rwanda Energy Group said that there not adequate demand for energy in Rwandacompared to production capacity and called for firms to consume more energy.

The pilot project will involve data collection and analysis on aspects such as performance of the electric cars, reception by consumers, consumer trends and suitable conditions for the cars.

Nadege Gaju, the Head of Sales and Marketing, said that it’s this data that will inform the consequent rollout of the project’s other phases.

The electric vehicles will be added to the firm’s fleet to operate under its Mobility Solutions initiative where activities include ride-hailing, corporate car sharing and rentals.

They will not be sold into the market at the moment and will be under the custody of Volkswagen Rwanda during the pilot project.

Rugwizangoga said that the pilot project is also part of the Volkwagen’s global ambitions of phasing out the combustion engines in the next decade as the firm seeks greener ambitions.

About the Car

The electronic car will be of the Volkswagen Golf Model.  They are however not assembled in Rwanda but are produced in Germany and imported.

A fully charged car officials say can cover up to 230 Kilometres in ideal conditions. However, the distance is subject to conditions such as altitude, terrain and gradient among other factors. 

Rugwizangoga said that the firm is currently training drivers and technicians on the driving and maintenance of the electric cars.

Volkswagen entered the Rwandan market in June 2018 to assemble and also introduce a mobility solution.

During the launch of the facility in 2018, the firm said that they had the capacity to produce up to 1000 cars annually under the models (Passat, Polo, Amarok and Terramont)

It was expected to produce 90 cars by March this year.

Company executives were tight-lipped on the number of cars produced so far as well as the sales into the local market citing confidentially.

Volkswagen Rwanda’s model involves Semi Knocked Down kits during assembly.

A semi-knocked-down kit is whereby partially assembled parts and shipped in and then all put together for sale to customers.

The components of the cars are shipped from various markets such as South Africa, the US and Argentina.

They, however, disclosed that the Terramont model has the highest demand in the Rwandan market.

The ride-hailing app Move operated by the firm reported 250 drivers, 60,000 downloads with 30,000 active users.
https://www.newtimes.co.rw/news/rwandas ... road-today

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Re: We don’t see the peace’

Post by Zmeselo » 29 Oct 2019, 23:32

TPLF Working to Destabilize Eritrea

7 Apr 2019


The TPLF is doing anything and everything to destabilize Eritrea, even after they have been kicked out of Menelik Palace and moved to their sanctuary region in Tigray. What can we do to eliminate this threat once and for all?

BY MERON KESETE

Even though the so-called opposition are spreading exaggerated news that “flood of leaflets” are found scattered across Eritrea but those numbers of leaflets found thrown on the street and few posted on poles were put by Ethiopians from Tigray who support the TPLF and came to Eritrea as traders, in association with traitors from Eritrea and financed by TPLF.

Arrests, as well as expulsions, were made recently to some Tigrians who came from Tigray region as traders; Currencies (Dollar, Nakfa, and Ethiopian Birr), Eritrean mobile contact numbers and anti-Eritrean government leaflets titled YIAKIL (enough) were found in their carry on backpacks.

Some of the traders from Tigrai were doing short hour business at night, selling jeans and jackets at a very attractive price, and almost impossible to believe, and then disappear from the streets in less than half an hour.

Anti-Eritrean government leaflets were dished inside the pocket of clothes and jackets that they were selling in unbelievably rewarding price. The very low price tag was designed not to make a profit but to attract buyers and covey TPLF and ‘Traitors’ sponsored messages.

Eritreans inside and abroad should not buy or believe the recent propaganda that is spreading as if the people of Eritrea and the government are ‘detached’. In fact, the people and the government grasped these are the work of the TPLF, with the billions of dollar it has stolen from companies such as METEC.

The TPLF is doing anything and everything it can to destabilize Eritrea, even after they have been kicked out of Menelik Palace and moved to their sanctuary region in Tigray.

The Eritrean government has enough evidence that the “YIAKIL” campaign is financed by TPLF. Change is good but a change in the hands muddy-bloody TPLF is at all time treason, and we Eritreans should be careful what’s planned against us, not for us.

A couple of years ago, ASSENNA radio went bankrupt and quit radio broadcasting. But to witness now that it has started broadcasting a satellite television, which definitely requires more resources and funding than basic radio broadcasting, should be an eye-opener to all of us and inquire who actually is behind the financing in order to destabilize Eritrea.

Peace, for all Peace loving Eritreans.

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Re: We don’t see the peace’

Post by Awash » 30 Oct 2019, 03:00

Can you believe it? Rwanda has its own human rights commission.
Rights commission calls for decongestion of prisons

By Nasra Bishumba October 30, 2019 :P

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has called on the government to decongest the country’s correctional facilities, an issue that it says continues to impede the rights of the prisoners.

This was contained in a report by the commission on the state of human rights in the country where it tackled different indicators on sections of Rwandans in different categories.

The report looked at specific rights including right to education, health, justice and freedoms of expression, media freedom, access to information and expression and freedom of assembly and religion.

Presenting the 2018/2019 annual report, the commission’s Chairperson; Madeleine Nirere told lawmakers that her team had visited the country’s 14 prisons in the country and the most prevalent issue they found was congestion.

Some inmates were found with nowhere to sleep.

In total, there are 70,152 prisoners in all the country’s correctional facilities.

“In Rwamagana prison, some inmates have nowhere to sleep and in other cases, many people have to share beddings. In Musanze prison, some have nowhere to sleep and end up sleeping under beds and in corridors due to lack of enough space,” she said.

The commission also found that in the women’s wing in Musanze prison, the issue of congestion was causing aeration issues, something that is deemed risky since it is home to young children who are in with their mothers.

Meanwhile, the commission faulted government institutions for slow progress in implementing the recommendations made over the previous years.

The commission says that as many as 598 recommendations made in the fiscal year 2016/17, representing 39.14 per cent, were yet to be implemented.

About this year’s report

In 2018/2019, the Commission received and investigated 1,328 human rights cases. Of these 473 (35.62 percent) were new while 855 (64.38 percent) were carried forward from the previous year.

Of these, investigations into 1,081 cases (81.40 percent) were completed and forwarded to necessary institutions. 864 (79.93 percent) were solved while 217 (20.07 percent) are pending.

Of the cases received, 338 (25.45 percent) are property related, 280 (21.08 percent), are justice related, 236 (17.77 percent) are related to defilement, 125 (9.41 percent) are related to education, custody related ones are 56 (4.22 percent) and the right to being written in birth certificate books were 53 (3.99 percent).
https://www.newtimes.co.rw/news/rights- ... on-prisons

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Re: We don’t see the peace’

Post by Awash » 30 Oct 2019, 09:23

ኣብ ቤት ማእሰርቲ ሓልሓለ ዝተረሸኑ ዜጋታትን ኣብ ልዕሊ ህጻናትን ኣቦታትን ዝግበር ዘሎ ግፍዕታትን፡"

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Re: We don’t see the peace’

Post by pushkin » 30 Oct 2019, 09:31

Awash wrote:
30 Oct 2019, 09:23
ኣብ ቤት ማእሰርቲ ሓልሓለ ዝተረሸኑ ዜጋታትን ኣብ ልዕሊ ህጻናትን ኣቦታትን ዝግበር ዘሎ ግፍዕታትን፡"

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Re: We don’t see the peace’

Post by Awash » 30 Oct 2019, 10:22

pushkin wrote:
30 Oct 2019, 09:31
Awash wrote:
30 Oct 2019, 09:23
ኣብ ቤት ማእሰርቲ ሓልሓለ ዝተረሸኑ ዜጋታትን ኣብ ልዕሊ ህጻናትን ኣቦታትን ዝግበር ዘሎ ግፍዕታትን፡"

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Re: We don’t see the peace’

Post by Awash » 30 Oct 2019, 10:42


The saga continues
https://amharic.voanews.com/a/4616141.h ... o758CLerGU

"አሁን ያለው አዝማሚያና የፍልሰት መጠን “ኤርትራ ባዶዋን ልትቀር ይሆን እንዴ?” የሚል ጥያቄ ማጫሩ እንደማይቀር የፖለቲካ ሣይንስ ፕሮፌሰር፤ ዶ/ር ብሩክ ኃይሉ ተናግረዋል።"



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