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From Bahti Meskerem to Today: Remembering Eritrea’s Struggle for Sovereignty

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By Sesin Seyoum   As we commemorate Hamid Idris Awate and mark September 1st aka Bahti Meskerem, it is important to remember not only the...

Against Impossible Odds: Hamid Idris Awate and the Birth of Eritrea’s Armed Struggle

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by Ghidewon Abay Asmerom Sixty-five years ago, a handful of Eritreans made a decision that, by every practical measure, seemed impossible. They had no state...

Manufacturing Non-Viability: Britain’s Plunder and the Economic Dismantling of Eritrea, 1941–1952

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By David Yeh Eritrea did not emerge from the Second World War economically empty. It was emptied by the British....

Marcus Garvey, Haile Selassie, and the Long Shadow of Ethiopian Expansionism

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By David Yeh The modern political architecture of the Horn of Africa was not born of Ethiopian foresight but of...

ERITREA the Red Sea: A Century and a Half of Great Power Interests

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How External Powers Shaped the Geopolitics of the Horn of Africa By David Yeh For more than a century and a...

Eritrea’s Long Ordeal: Ethiopian State Violence During Eritrea’s Liberation Struggle

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By David Yeh Introduction The history of Eritrea's struggle for independence is not merely a story of armed resistance. It is...

When The Ethiopian State Made Eritrean Civilians the Enemy

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By Dawit Gebremichael Habte There are wounds a nation carries not because it refuses to heal, but because the world...

From Remembrance to Storytelling: Preserving the Legacy of Eritrea’s Real Heroes

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By Dahlakib Every nation remembers its heroes. Some immortalize them in monuments, others in books, songs, and national holidays. Eritrea...
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