Mereja Forum

2024

"Eritrea remains one of the world’s poorest countries, and poverty is endemic.


The Global Hunger Index did not rank Eritrea’s nutritional situation in 2020 due to insufficient data. UNICEF also did not publish data concerning the number of malnourished children. As usual, the government did not give details about the nutritional situation in the country. The prolonged national service continues to hamper subsistence farming and pastoral activities, from which an estimated 80% of the population makes a living. In addition, extreme restrictions on movemen"

"Deep poverty has become the reason making the poor poorer and rich richer. That is digging a deeper divide where many of our young people fall and turn to prostitution; to drugs, to depression and to suicide if they ever make it to reach shore of any country along the Mediterranean. For now, we in the diaspora, are living with the rule of “out of my sight out of my mind” such motto might make us land at Asmara airport soon, only to take the first flight out again and forget for good this land so much in need of each of us. Many of us know distressingly little about life at the smelly bottom level of society. If we do not get ready from now, poverty in Eritrea will only retrocede into the contextual abysses of the bottom line.

Social structure needs to be prepared, or at least discussed closely by our sociologists and our media! How to work on a macro-level, avoiding racisms of class, of faith, of education, of income and avoid marginalizing our people further is something our so called “opposition groups” need to include in their agendas and make it a main line of their top page! Poverty and miseries in Eritrea are the outcome of Ethiopian occupation for four decades, and the lack of assistance from our very first government.

Poverty is not a state of minds. Prostitution is the child of poverty and lack of a land one can call “my own”! There is no simplistic way to analyze poverty; poverty is a social and complex phenomenon. Let us not minimize or despise our youth dying from AIDS; from drug overdose or simply opt for suicide. They belong to us and without them in a state of a healthy life, we will never exists!

Victim blaming should not exist among Eritreans; we all have been victims at one time. If we agree that poverty and prostitution are born from inequality and wars, perhaps accepting that immediately, would be the beginning of a solution we all agree upon!

“Martyr Berhane Tesfamariam

Eritrea currency has been preserved by not accepting loans and credit from foreign nations since the 2000s. This is why outside of factories there has been no major development project in Eritrea even the chinese have not done major projects in Eritrea. So although it it nice to have a strong currency it must be balanced with a strong economy. Eritreas currency value has not changed for 20 years because Ethiopia has to de-value its Birr to ensure foreign investment . Ethiopia on the other hand has 100 million people with vast size and territory and must use credit and loans to develop and modernize its economy including de-valuing its own currency. To attract foreign investors. This also empowers diaspora

The darker the berry the sweeter the juice.



Eritrea and China

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አቺ ሴትዮ፣ እየራበሽ ለምን ቁጣን ያዘኝ ትያለሽ!! አለ ጉራጌ

Going up...and up...and up...and up...



Meanwhile....

"A stable heart leads to a stable mind. And a stable mind leads to a stable life."

Chigray issued a new currency.

Eritrea, a nation of 7.3 million millionaires.

Feel the bass line, close your eyes and get in touch with your soul.

Fiyameta, you are a low IQ

It is no the the demand and supply currency market which decide the price of nacfa but Government decided how much Nacfa is one dollar. when the regime decide how much money any family is allowed to pull their own money from the bank, you can't seriously claim that nacfa is powerful currency.

Donkoro!

Deqi-Arawit wrote: ↑

30 Jan 2024, 12:43

Fiyameta, you are a low IQ

It is no the the demand and supply currency market which decide the price of nacfa but Government decided how much Nacfa is one dollar. when the regime decide how much money any family is allowed to pull their own money from the bank, you can't seriously claim that nacfa is powerful currency.

Donkoro!

Thank you for your ወያኔያዊ ወኔ የተሞላበት comments. Do you want some low interest loans?