Tag: #nakfa

Sixty-five Years Later, Eritrea’s Struggle for Self-Determination Remains a Living Legacy

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By Alula Frezghi 65 Years After Hamid Idris Awate’s First Shot, Eritrea’s Struggle for Self-Determination Remains a Living Legacy On September...

Paving the Path to Social Justice: Eritrea’s Post-Independence Road Construction

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By: Mussie Efriem (taken from shabait.com) When Eritrea was liberated on May 24 1991 following a long armed struggle, it...

Eritrea’s Resilience:  A Corollary of Unremitting External Hostility

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By Tesfay  Aradom, PhD “I conclude that Eritreans will meet these challenges with the same determination and resourcefulness that characterized...
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NAKFA – More Than a Currency Name

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By David Yeh and EriPDX From the rugged highlands of Eritrea and the ashes of a long and costly struggle,...

March 1988: The Demise of the Ethiopian Nadew Command

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By Sharron Yemane The Battle of Afabet – EPLF Operation to Destroy Nadew Command In the long and determined struggle of...

March: The Month that Turned the Tide of Eritrea’s Liberation War

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David Yeh March holds a profound and enduring significance in the history of Eritrea. For the Eritrean people, this month...

Currency of Courage: Women at the Heart of Eritrea’s Nakfa

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by Hadnet Keleta In most countries around the world, national currencies carry the portraits of presidents, monarchs, or other powerful...

Eritrea’s Renewable Energy Transformation

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By David Yeh From Fuel Dependency to Strategic Necessity A nation that basks in nearly 3,000 hours of sunlight each year...

When Power Tried to Silence a People: Remembering the Red Star Campaign

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A reflection on the week the Derg sought to break Eritrea and the people who refused to yield. By Alula...

Eritrea: A Graveyard of Invaders and Their Hardwares

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by @Dahlakib Eritrea paid a heavy price for independence. That truth is not symbolic, rhetorical, or political, it is physical,...

Sahel and the Making of Eritrean Sovereignty: Not only a geography, It was Revolutionary State Formation

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By David Yeh Beyond Terrain Sahel is not merely a geographic term in Eritrean history. It is a political doctrine, a...

She’eb and the Unfinished Question of Justice for Eritrea

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by @Dahlakib Many massacres were committed in Eritrea by successive Ethiopian regimes, but few match the scale and cruelty of...