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Gindae School of Assistant Nurses graduates 93 students

GENERAL

https://shabait.com/2020/09/17/gindae-s ... -students/



Massawa, 17 September 2020 – In its 8th commencement, Gindae School of Assistant Nurses graduated 93 students including 28 males.

During the graduation ceremony conducted today, 17 September, the director of the school, Mr. Michael Jahray said that the theoretical and practical training lasted 18 months and that most graduates were members of the 31st round national service with a matriculation result for certificate program as well as members of the police and EDF.



Coordinator of Schools for Assistant Nurses, Sister Alganesh Teklegergish on her part stating that huge investment is being made in human development as part of the effort in ensuring social welfare called on the graduates to serve with diligence the people and government that educated them.

Noting that human development is a priority to sustainable development and the Ministry of Health, Dr. Berhane Debru, Director General of Policy, Planning and Human Development at the Ministry of Health, congratulated the trainers and trainees for successfully completing the training respecting the guidelines to combat the spread of COVID-19 pandemic.

The representative of the graduates on his part thanking the people and Government of Eritrea for the opportunity expressed the graduates’ readiness to serve with all diligence.

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New Housing construction in Menahariya, near Qehaweta in Asmara. (Photo: Arefaine Natnael)

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First to make his way to the start line... @AmanuelGerezgh1

Today is going to be full gas!

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Strada Asmara- Nefasit, 1938

This particular picture was taken in Eritrea, & it was published by SIFDAR on pinterest.
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Africa
Since Ethiopia-Eritrea Peace Deal, Little to Show: Analysts

By Simon Marks

https://www.voanews.com/africa/ethiopia ... w-analysts

September 16, 2020


FILE - Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, 2nd left, and Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, center, hold hands as they wave at the crowds in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, July 15, 2018.

ADDIS ABABA - Analysts say a peace deal reached between Eritrea and Ethiopia in July 2018 has brought few tangible benefits, with trade routes still blocked and tension on the border still rife. They note that regional strong men in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, which borders Eritrea, have yet to forge a lasting peace deal with the leadership in Asmara. The border has yet to be demarcated and heavily armed soldiers still man disputed areas.

Initial signs after the peace deal between Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki were positive — in that telephone connections were re-established, flights between Addis Ababa and Asmara resumed and goods flowed over the border. Experts, however, say huge barriers still remain in order to achieve a lasting peace and normalized relations.

Many Eritreans began fleeing their homes to seek refuge in Ethiopia as a result of border crossing openings, meaning trade routes were soon closed again. Analysts say that deep-rooted historical tension between Eritrea and the regional powers in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region has led to a situation where trade flows are now non-existent and many areas remain heavily militarized.

Selam Tadesse Demissie, a research officer at the South Africa-based Institute for Security Studies, said via a messaging app that the fruits of the peace deal were still pending, in part due to the Ethiopia’s government inability to suppress long-held suspicions about its northern neighbor in the Tigray region. From 1998 until 2000, Eritrea and Ethiopia fought a border war that left an estimated 80,000 people dead before a prolonged stalemate took hold over the next two decades.

We expect a lot more out of this peace deal. If we see it time wise, it’s been over two years, so by now we should have seen lots of fruits of the peace deal. But what’s happening on the ground is actually the contrary,

said Selam.

Selam said that interaction among communities on both sides of the border remains very limited. One point of contention within Ethiopia is whether federal soldiers remain stationed on the border with Eritrea. In the immediate aftermath of the deal, four border posts opened, allowing trade to resume. They soon closed again, however, after officials in Ethiopia’s Tigray region raised concerns.

There has also been no progress on demarcating disputed border areas, particularly around the town of Badme, which the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission (EEBC), established to resolve the border issue, decided in 2002 should belong to Eritrea.

From the Eritrean side, that rule that whoever goes out of their country will be shot down still applies. From the Tigrayan border side it’s still militarized,

said Selam.

Neither government commented on the state of the peace deal.

Martin Plaut, a senior research fellow at the University of London, said it appeared extremely difficult to gain much traction on the peace deal without new leadership taking power in the Tigray region, which ruled the country for about three decades and has been ostracized by the federal government in Addis Ababa. The region is at loggerheads with the federal government and last week held an election despite the government deeming it illegal.

The relationship between the Tigrayans and Eritreans and between the leadership between them is permanently bad. There is no way that can improve unless a new party came to power in Tigray. The problems go back to the 1970s, they are very deep, they are very bitter, they are very personal and they are impossible to mend in my view,

he said.

Plaut added that one of the great drivers of the peace deal was a large untapped deposit of the compound potash, which contains potassium, that straddles the border and is currently being developed by Danakali, an Australian mining company.

It is a massive, massive reserve which could provide potash for global markets for maybe a hundred even 200 years. That is driving a lot of this and people never talk about it,

said Plaut.

The Ethiopian and Eritrean leaders last met in July in Eritrea in a visit where Ethiopia’s Abiy attended the graduation of a batch of national service trainees, a program that has long been criticized due to its forced conscription.

[Temt]

Hahaha! Martin Plaut and Selam are the "experts" of the Horn of Africa? Wow, that must be a joke of the season. To call these idiots "experts" of the Horn is like calling Asswisha is 'cento per cento Eritrean!

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Poisonous Gas- Not Tear Gas submission



By: Thomas C. Mountain

Thursday, 17 September 2020

For many decades governments around the world, especially in the USA, have fired tens of thousands of rounds of CS gas at their own people in an attempt to control “civil unrest”. The media falsely labels CS gas as “tear gas” rather than calling it what it is, poisonous gas. The original tear gas was relatively benign, irritating the eyes and mucus tissues but was not poisonous. CS gas, on the other hand, will kill you if you are exposed to enough of it.

CS gas is so toxic that it has been banned under international conventions governing the laws of war. In other words the USA, or any government signitory to these pacts, is not permitted to use CS gas in wartime against soldiers or civilians. To do so would be a War Crime or Crime Against Humanity. Yet these same governments commit Crimes Against Humanity almost every day, not hesitating to use poisonous CS gas against their own people.

In war or peace CS gas, or any poisonous gas, is mainly a weapon of terror, to inflict fear on your “enemies”. It is used by governments to punish their populations for opposing government policies and daring to take to the streets in protest. By using poisonous gas on their people the powers that be are trying to terrorise you, to hurt you enough that you will cease and desist, that you will stop resisting their control and kneel down in submission. This is a form of state terrorism and must be identified as such.


Serene Asmara

I live in Eritrea, a country that is vociferously labelled a dictatorial police state, a supporter of “terrorism” even, by the human rights mob. Yet in almost 30 years of independence the Eritrean government has never once used poisonous CS gas against the Eritrean people. Not once! Eritrea is the only country in Africa, one of a few in the world even, to have never done so.

The use of poisonous gas on the field of battle against soldiers and civilians alike has been outlawed as a barbaric, inhumane act by international treaty yet so called “democratic governments” use it against their own people at the drop of a hat.

Recently a few brave souls in the USA have raised calls for the abolition of the use of poisonous CS gas, “tear gas” as the media falaciously calls it, by the police and army against the American people taking to the streets to demand an end to police murders. As expected even the so called “liberal” politicians are not willing to support these efforts to end this inhumane, illegal practice. Under the rules of “population control”, maintaining “law and order”, the use of poisonous CS gas must and will be continued.

Its all about “protecting private property” as the hysterical ravings of the media and politicians so aptly demonstrate. The militarized police forces can kill with impunity, commit Crimes Against Humanity by using poisonous gas on the people with little protest for years but let a few protesters break windows or loot stores and their howls go off the charts.

Back in 1990 a fearless journalist named Doug Valentine published what is one of, if not the most, authoritative sources on the Central Intelligence Agency. At the end of his book, entitled “The Phoenix Program” which details how the CIA tried to use “population control” in Vietnam to prevent a national liberation struggle from succeeding, he predicted that one day the USA would see militarized police using armored vehicles to suppress dissent just like the CIA has directed around the world. Today that prediction has become everyday reality in the streets of America, with rubber bullets, batons and poisonous gas backed by armored vehicles being used against protesters on an almost daily basis. These day just by looking you cant tell Bogota, Columbia from Portland, Oregon.

When people ask me if I ever think about relocating from here in Eritrea back to the USA all I have to do is turn on the TV and see what the National Security Establishment has done in the USA, with brutality and state terror in action across the country. No matter the economic damage done to Eritrea by UNjust Sanctions or the damage done by western industrial instigated global climate disaster the choice for us is easy. We prefer to live in a humane country where our
leaders put the needs of the people, with the poorest coming first, at the head of their agenda. No state terrorism in the form of poisonous gas used against our people, not once.

Thomas C. Mountain is an historian and educator who has been living and reporting from Eritrea since 2006. He can be only be contacted at
[email protected]

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Hahaha! Martin Plaut and Selam are the "experts" of the Horn of Africa? Wow, that must be a joke of the season. To call these idiots "experts" of the Horn is like calling Asswisha is 'cento per cento Eritrean!

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When this season's bananas, hit the city! (Photo: Abraham Samy Amanuel)

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D'barwa was formerly the capital of an ancient Kingdom named Medri Bahri, which roughly translates as Land by the Sea. It was ruled by the Bahr Negus (King of the Sea). It is situated about 25 kilometers south of Asmara, in the Southern administrative region.
(Ghideon Musa: @GhideonMusa)

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From Sahel, Nakfa to UN Headquarters! Eritreans paid the ultimate sacrifice. Your sacrifice will not go in vain. We thank you!!
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Mining Potash
Premium fertiliser project could help drive development of this East African country

10 hours ago | Special Report

https://stockhead.com.au/resources/prem ... n-country/

Everything that you think you know about the East African country of Eritrea needs to be taken with a healthy dose of salt, according to Danakali (ASX:DNK) chairman Seamus Cornelius.



And the former corporate lawyer who spent most of his career in Shanghai should know.

With more than 20 years of corporate experience in legal and commercial negotiations – including providing advice to major resource companies on their investments in China and advising Chinese state-owned entities on their investments in overseas resource projects – he has also seen how quickly people can become polarised on issues.

There still is today a lot of false news or fake news, misinformation and half truths about Eritrea,

Cornelius told Stockhead.

It’s not unlike what you could see being written about China in the mid 90s. People very quickly became polarized as being rabidly pro China or rabidly anti China; there was no middle way. Sadly it seems we haven’t learnt much from history.

He noted that taking advice from family, he visited Eritrea for the first time in 2013 and found that pretty much everything he thought he knew and read about the country was wrong.

Eritrea is a very young country that only became independent in 1991 and then for some 20 years between 1998 and 2018 they were essentially denied the opportunity for economic development and vilified due to their desire to remain non-aligned and the political machinations of much larger countries,

Cornelius added.

Every country is unique with its own history so comparisons can be misleading but given that Eritrea has been compared to a country in Asia that I won’t mention so as not to dignify the comparison by repeating the lie, if you must make a comparison then you could draw some parallels with Singapore. It started as a small, undeveloped country in a tough neighbourhood with Malaysia on one side and Indonesia on the other while having no resources other than its people and a very good leadership.

It’s similar in Eritrea. It’s a relatively small country – 4 or 5 million people surrounded by much larger countries that are all politically aligned with different groups Eritrea has resourceful people and natural resources and they just want to be independent and focus on their own development. The Government has done a remarkably good job in many areas including food security, public health and education with little to no foreign support.

Sulphate of Potash project to drive development

Here is where Danakali’s Colluli equal joint venture with the Eritrean National Mining Corporation (ENAMCO), could contribute to Eritrea’s development.

The project has a giant resource of 1.289 billion tonnes grading 11 per cent K2O, or about 260 million tonnes of sulphate of potash (SOP), enough to support production for more than 200 years.

SOP is considered a premium fertiliser as it not only provides both potassium and sulphur – key elements required for the healthy growth of plants – but also contains no chloride. That makes it suitable for leafy, chloride-intolerant crops that are typically high-value, such as avocados, citrus fruits, nuts and berries.

This also allows it to command a premium over the more common muriate of potash (MOP) though it is worth noting that this is due in part to half of SOP being produced using the Mannheim process, which takes MOP and converts it into its premium counterpart by adding sulfuric acid and energy.

However, Colluli is a primary source of SOP with a low cost of mining (estimated at less than $US150 per tonne even at start up scale), allowing it to deliver cash of $US85m per annum and an internal rate of return of 31.3 per cent over the first 60 years of production.

Colluli is an exceptional project in the proper dictionary definition of the word and if it wasn’t for the political issues in the Horn of Africa since before World War 2, it would have been developed already,

Cornelius noted.

It would have already been being mined for 50 years or more and it would still have 150 years to go, but it’s only the politics that have prevented that.

He added the project would make a massive difference to Eritrea and improve food security in the region.

It’s only back in 1985 that Ethiopia suffered massive famine and many countries have worked very hard since then to make sure that they have food security measures.

A critical element of food and nutrition security is fertiliser and a critical element of fertiliser is potassium, which is necessary for plants to grow along with nitrogen and phosphate.

Cornelius noted that there is a direct connection between economic development, people’s changing diets and the use of SOP, which cannot be substituted with MOP.

He added that the United Nations Development Programme had self-funded a report on Colluli which found that it would help Eritrea meet 13 out of the 17 UN sustainable development goals.

It’s a massive contribution economically, socially and environmentally. It’s going to change everything in Eritrea first and then the wider region.

SOP Pricing and Outlook

Touching further on the fertiliser market, Cornelius believes there will be further separation between MOP and SOP with the latter expected to continue attracting a premium, which could increase further.

This is due to the high production cost and environmental impact of SOP that is produced using the Mannheim process in a factory.

The environmental impact also makes it unlikely that new SOP factories will be approved in Europe, which could in turn increase the premium that green primary producers – who directly extract SOP from ores – enjoy.

When you can get the fertiliser from a natural producer, you definitely want it from the natural producer. People want to know what they are eating all the way back to the farm. Why would anyone want the SOP used to grow their fruit and vegetables to be made in a factory?

he added.

Danakali expects its key markets initially to be Europe and around the Mediterranean, which is probably a 2 million tonne per annum market, as well as East Africa once agriculture takes off and develops beyond its current level.

The Middle East is another target market as a lot of Middle East countries are trying to develop their own agricultural industries.

You can be sure, given the challenges of soil quality and water availability in the Middle East, that they’re not going to start planting hectares of wheat and rice. What they will be growing will be higher value fruits, veggies, nuts and berries. That means they need SOP.

Cornelius explained.

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GENERAL

Statement by Ms. Elsa Haile, Director of the International Organizations Division Ministry of Foreign Affairs during the Annual LDC Ministerial Meeting

https://shabait.com/2020/09/18/41458/

17 September 2020, New York

Mr. Chair,

I wish to thank H.E. Mr. Eisenhower Mkaka M.P., Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Malawi for convening this annual meeting. Let me warmly greet DSG Ms. Amina Mohamed and Ms. Fekitamoeloa Katoa Utoikamanu, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for the LDCs. Let me also congratulate H.E. Mr. Volkan Bozkir, President of the 75th session of the General Assembly and President-elect of the ECOSOC, His Excellency Mr. Munir Akram.

I would also like to take this opportunity to extend Eritrea’s wishes of good health to all and our deepest condolences to the families who have suffered losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mr. Chair,

This year has presented humanity with an unforeseen and unprecedented challenge.

In every corner of the world, countries are trying to balance between containing the spread of the virus to keep their citizens safe and restoring economic normalcy. A balance that is often difficult to achieve and maintain.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on developing countries cannot be overemphasized. External shocks, especially a sharp decline in commodity prices, disruption of the global supply chain, and trade, a decline in foreign direct investment, and tourism have all the potential to wipe out the modest social and economic progress witnessed in the developing countries.

Since the emergence of this global pandemic, Eritrea pursued a primarily preventive strategy through the pursuit of Non-Pharmaceutical measures (NPH) while also ensuring the continuation of its major national development projects. The core aspect of this policy is collaborative citizen participation. To date, because of the judicious policy, Eritrea has been able to contain a major outbreak and prevent loss of life due to COVID. Moreover, within the new lines of health and security requirements, the Government has stepped up the implementation of major infrastructural programs and has exempted critical economic areas from the partial lockdown.

We are confident of the ability and resilience of our people to emerge from this crisis stronger. We will spare no efforts to regain the momentum of achieving an economically prosperous, and socially harmonious nation that fulfills the aspirations and expectations of its citizens.

Mr. Chair,

As the effects of COVID-19 continue to unfold, it is clear that this pandemic will have long-term impacts on our countries. While it needs international solidarity to recover, it is most important as LDCs to strengthen our cooperation in all spheres and share lessons from each other.

The next round of Program of Action for LDCs affords us the opportunity to learn from our past and chart a meaningful international framework of cooperation for LDCs and among LDCs.

Although this pandemic has prevented us from convening our conference next year, we believe that this time can be used to diligently work on and refine our common commitments for the LDCs until we meet to adopt our new program of action as recently agreed to take place in 2022.

There are many difficult questions that we need to be asking ourselves ahead of the preparations for LDC V and the adoption of yet another action agenda in order to ensure that no other decade passes without eradicating poverty or ensuring tangible economic progress in our countries. The review should be less about diagnosing a problem and negotiating new goals. The lofty targets that we set for ourselves in the various international development agreements, including the Istanbul Program of Action, are still relevant and remain unachieved. The next review should be concise and action-oriented. It should be about achieving a genuine Global Compact to address the international economic models, norms, and institutions that are often rigged against the billions living in the developing world.

Mr. Chair, in conclusion,

COVID-19 has affected every aspect of our livelihood. No country, big or small, rich or poor, can tackle this pandemic and its consequences alone.

Most of the economic and social challenges that we are witnessing in many parts of the world have been with us for decades. They are only amplified by the pandemic because we failed to properly address them.

COVID-19 affords us an opportunity to rethink international development discourse and emerge stronger in the crisis. If we are to emerge stronger, there is a need for meaningful international solidarity anchored on enlightened self-interest and a shared future.

I thank you.

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Must Watch! Especially the ever evil and ሓሳዳት ዓጋመ!

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Thanks for the relevant and significant information you have been posting Dr. Zmeselo, the Asswash ወዲ ኣንጺፋ ቊልጭ choker! LOL!

You're welcome, brother Temt!

He's gonna love this one:

BEREKET HABTESELASSIE IS LYING AGAIN ABOUT THE 1997 UNENACTED CONSTITUTION


By: Yemane Tsegay

September 16/2020

Assena Tv has released a new video on September 10, 2020 in which Bereket openly said that:

the 1997 constitution is ratified then it must be enacted.

As far as he is concerned it must be enacted immediately and Isaias must be prosecuted under the current Eritrean Penal Code Of The State Of Eritrea of 2015 that states:

Offences Endangering the Security of the State Article 112. - Treason. And Article 113. – “High Treason”.

This person is again fraudulently misleading the Eritrean public when he stated that comment about Isaias he really sounds like someone who never graduated from high School himself. Because, most people would know that the president has full discretionary power when it comes to enact or not to enact that constitution because the president has full right and obligation to protect the society from any deviant anti social behaviors, or any detrimental to social, cultural and economic difficulties that the nation could face; as well as protecting the territorial sovereign rights of the country including anything that prevents a tyranny of any kind to all its citizens, and so on and on.

Bereket is dead wrong when he quote: Article 112 and Article, 113 of the Eritrean Penal Code of 2015. Because, the 1997 ratified constitution is not enacted, thus it does not even exist in Eritrea today until the president signed it or until it is m giving to the public as a referendum to vote for its dissolution .

It is my personal observation that this individual must have huge disrespect, for the Eritrean people. You "mister stuttering": you claim Isaias needs a Psychiatrist to be evaluated if he is mentally competent, while you are exhibiting a brain disorder yourself; when you repeatedly stutter in all your speeches.

Let me tell you in advance: Eritrea is no more for sale, like it happened in 1952 when the wrong people; such as Unitarians like your father agreed and some signed the 1952 so called- contractual agreement- with Ethiopia. A crooked deal, that happened simply due to the “ignorance of the law” by our fathers and brothers.

By the way, the masses of our people are saying that we don’t want the 1997 ratified constitution and henceforth we want it to be dissolved in all of its forms.

When the right time comes, the president will announce to the Eritrean people:

vote on this foreign inspired constitution, to make it null and void.

The main reason for this was the Eritrean people had not has the chance to have basic understanding and acknowledgment of the legal content in the 1997 constitution, as written in the master- file which was later presented in English found to be a detrimental to society.

For example, to quote from that ratified constitution: It allows to

WORSHIP ANY RELIGION according to Article 19 (4); as well as it allows to PRACTICE ANY IMPROPER FACTORS legally according to Article 14 (2)

- meaning like prostitution, drug use or any improper act is legally allowed.

The Eritrean public will have the opportunity to have a national referendum for the dissolution of that constitution to make it null and void, once for all. The reason why we must dissolve that ratified 1997 unenacted constitution is because the former commission committee of the 75 none PFDJ members and the other 75 who are the PFDJ members of the constitution committee, do not represent the 4 million plus Eritreans who are living in the country.

Bereket Habtesellassie please understand:

that ratified constitution is in limbo and it is going to be a null and void by the public through a public voting mechanisms either directly through a national public voting or, through indirectly voting by a newly publically selected representatives.

As a remainder to you- Mister Stuttering- the nation of Eritrea will charge you due to the crime inflicted on Eritrea that you defrauded the nation for the last 27 years, since your involvement within the Eritrean Government. The Eritrean people and the government have the right to recoup all the damages that have incurred so far caused by your criminal intent, as well as the Ethiopians are also looking for your other crimes, because you simply have blood on your hands.

You know it, and you are going to deal with it!

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Congratulations Vivian, for your win. Very proud of you! @VivianBerhane
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I don't agree with this idea at all personally, because I don't believe in creating a cult of personality about anyone still living but when SoB's like you constantly attempt at "emotional blackmail" on us when we post positive news from our country, it pushes us to agree with them more & more!

Open ur own thread, & advocate for them! I won't stop you!

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ERi-TV: ማህደር፡ ውዳበ ልዕሊ ሓይሊ