Letter dated 20 June 2011 from the members of the Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea addressed to the Chairman of the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 751 (1992) and 1907 (2009) concerning Somalia and Eritrea358. Arms trafficking from western Eritrea is just one component of a much>broader, and highly profitable, smuggling operation overseen by General Teklai Kifle “Manjus”, Commander of the western military zone (see also paras. 262 and, 416 and 420 below). His principal Sudanese counterpart in this cross-border activity is Mabrouk Mubarak Salim, the current Minister of State for Transport of the Sudan, who is also a wealthy merchant and former leader of the now defunct “Free Lions” rebel group that once formed part of the Sudanese “Eastern Front” opposition alliance supported by Eritrea. Salim, an ethnic Rashaida, works closely with other well-established Rashaida smugglers, who operate with the full knowledge of Government officials on both sides of the border.
A digital archive on Eritrea and Ethiopia in particular and on the Horn of Africa, in general
Saturday, 27 June 2020
UN Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea Report July 2011
Letter dated 20 June 2011 from the members of the Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea addressed to the Chairman of the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 751 (1992) and 1907 (2009) concerning Somalia and Eritrea358. Arms trafficking from western Eritrea is just one component of a much>broader, and highly profitable, smuggling operation overseen by General Teklai Kifle “Manjus”, Commander of the western military zone (see also paras. 262 and, 416 and 420 below). His principal Sudanese counterpart in this cross-border activity is Mabrouk Mubarak Salim, the current Minister of State for Transport of the Sudan, who is also a wealthy merchant and former leader of the now defunct “Free Lions” rebel group that once formed part of the Sudanese “Eastern Front” opposition alliance supported by Eritrea. Salim, an ethnic Rashaida, works closely with other well-established Rashaida smugglers, who operate with the full knowledge of Government officials on both sides of the border.
Wednesday, 24 June 2020
ዓብደላ ሐሰን ፥ ታሪኽ ጅግንንት ተጋዳላይ ፥ ብ 1971 መንደቅ ቤት ማእሰርቲ ካርቸሊ ኣስመራ ብምንኮል ዘምለጡ ተጋዳልቲ Abdella Hassen's heroic journey of Struggle
https://www.mediafire.com/file/3cnfv0nzxqvirmk/Abdella_Hassen_Tigrinya_C.pdf/file
Abdella Hassen Interview with German researcher Günter Schröder:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/ymuechdxfegucht/Abdalla_Hassan_13-2-1991.pdf/file
عبدالله حسن علي قصة بطولات مناضل
رحلة فى الذاكرة مع الفدائ المناضل عبدالله حسن
Thursday, 11 June 2020
تٱريخ اليعقوبي المجلد الٱول، ممالك البجة The History of Al Yagoubi Vol I
تٱريخ اليعقوبي المجلد الٱول، ممالك البجة ٢١٧ الى ٢١٩
https://www.mediafire.com/file/dfbcvu484iwti2r/%u062A%u0627%u0631%u064A%u062E_%u0623%u062D%u0645%u062F_%u0628%u0646_%u0623%u0628%u064A_%u064A%u0639%u0642%u0648%u06281.pdf/file
Thanks to Abdo Humed for sharing
Sunday, 7 June 2020
ኣባይና ሳዋ ልካይድ ሴማ እንደይ ተሓገዛ 1853 ጸላኢና ሳዋ ይውረድ ملعون من أجبر على الذهاب إلى ساوا
Five Independent Beja Kingdoms between the Nile and the Red Sea ]1]
Al-Ya‘qubi, in his history
which was composed about A.D. 872, gives a description of the political
situation in the north of this region in his own time after the Beja
overrunning of part of the Axumite kingdom. [2] Between
the Nile and the Red Sea were five independent kingdoms.
The first, called Naqis, extended
from the Nile near Aswan to the lower Baraka. Its capital, Hajar, was visited
by the Muslims for trading purposes.[3] The various Beja tribes in the kingdom were the Hadareb, Hiab,’Ama’ar, [4] Kawbar, Manasa (Mensa?), Rasifa, ‘Arbarb’a, and Zanafaj [5].
In their country were mines of gold and precious stones worked by Muslims with
whom they were on good terms.
Next came the Baqlin (Rora Baqla?),
covering the Eritrean Sahil, the Rora region of the plateau, and the middle
course of the Baraka. Their religion resembled that of the Magians and
Dualists. They called God Az-Zabjir [6] and
the Devil Sahay Haraqa.
The third kingdom was called Bazin
in the region between the Christian Nuba kingdom of ‘Alwa and the Baqlin with
whom they were formerly at war. The Bazin were possibly the Kunama who are
called Bazen by the Abyssinians.
The fourth, called Jarin, had a powerful king whose rule extended from the coastal town called Badi [7]
The fifth, called Qaţ’a, was the
last Beja kingdom and extended from the border of Badi’ to a place
called Faykun. They were a brave and powerful people and had a military training
school called dar
as-sawa where the young men were trained in arms. These tribes were
all pagan with the exception of the southernmost who were Christians subject to the
Abyssinian king.
The gradual spread of Islam amongst the
Beja began with the settlement of Muslims in the mining district. Maqrizi
records that the excursion of the Beja against Egypt let to the governor of
Aswan sending ‘Abd Allah ibn al-Jahm against them. He concluded a treaty with
their chief, Kanun ibn ‘Abdal-‘Aziz, whose headquarters was at Hajar in the
year A.H. 216 (A.D. 831). His account shows that the Arab traders and mine
owners who were active in northern Beja territory may have influenced the
chiefs, and that mosques for the benefit of these Muslims existed, two of which
are named, one at Hajar, the capital of Naqis, and another at Şinjat.
]1] Carlo Conti Rossini, Storia D’Etiopia,
Bergamo, Istituto Italiano D’Arti Grafiche,1928, pp.265-280.
]2] Al-Yaqubi, Historiae (ed. Houtsma,1883),
I,217-19; Trimingham, J. Specer, Islam in Ethiopia, London, Frank CASS,
3rd ed.1976,p.49
]3] Al-Yaqubi, Kitab al-Bulda, ed. De
Goeje, in B.G.A., vii (1892), 336. Hajar has not been
identified, but it was probably in the Red Sea Hills in the neighborhood of
Sinkat.
]4] Possibly the Amar’ar who now live in the region around Port Sudan.
]5] In his K. al-Buldan (pp.336-7), which was composed a little
later in A.D. 891-2, Al-Ya’qubi places the Zanafaj in the country of Baqlin,
‘the town where the king of the Zanafija resides is called Baqlin which the
Muslims visit occasionally for trading. Their rite (madhhab) is like
that of the Hadariba. They have no revealed law and merely worship an idol
called hahakhawa.
]6] V.II. az-Zabahir, al-Bahir, possibly the Eth. Egzi’aheher; cf. Ibn al-Faqih al-Hamadhani, K. al-Buldan,
B.G.A. v. 78
- ]7] Crowfoot identifies Badi with Airi (Ar-Rib) near ‘Aqiq
(‘Some Red Sea Ports…’, Geog.Jour. xxxvii, 1911,542ff), while Wiet
identifies it with Massawah, which even today is called Batsi in
Tigre and Badi in Bedawie.
Thursday, 4 June 2020
The Daring ELF Operation of Haikota July/August 1963
Sunday, 17 May 2020
إدريس محمد آدم في مقابلة مع الباحث الالماني، جونتر شرودر مارس 1989
Monday, 11 May 2020
Günter Schröder Interview with Tesfay Weldemikael "Dagiga' 1989_1991
Different Aspects of
the History of the Eritrean Revolution:
- The youth and student movement in Asmera in the early '70s and how and when he joined the ELF
- ELF Fedaayin Administration before 1975
- Background of some Revolutionary Council (RC) Members
- The political situation in Eritrea and the other political movements in 1991
- On the relations of ELF with TPLF and EPRP
Monday, 4 May 2020
Idris Mohamed Adem's interview with Günter Schröder in March 1989
Monday, 2 March 2020
An Unfinished African Dream/ Eritrea: Ancient Times To 1968
An Unfinished African Dream/ Eritrea: Ancient Times To 1968 by Mohamed Kheir Omer, published 2020 by LuLu Publishing Services, based in the USA
One minute summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLv1DsyPgzk
Amazon author page: https://www.amazon.com/Mohamed-Kheir-Omer/e/B084ZYPMR8
Book website: https://www.mkafricandreams.com/
Book interview in English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHlFp7fQUGs
Book Review by Pen Eritrea: https://peneritrea.com/blog/book-review-the-dynamics-of-an-unfinished-african-dream-eritrea
Book interview in Tigrinya: https://www.sbs.com.au/language/tigrinya/audio/conversation-with-the-writer-of-the-dynamics-of-unfinished-african-dreams-dr-mohamed-kheir
Book interview in Arabic:
عرض لكتاب دينامكيات حلم أفريقي غير مكتمل إريتريا: من العصور القديمة حتى 1968 Part I
Book interview in Amharic Part I:
https://www.sbs.com.au/language/amharic/audio/interview-with-dr-mohamed-kheir-omer-pt-1
Book interview in Amharic part II:
https://www.sbs.com.au/language/amharic/audio/interview-with-dr-mohamed-kheir-omer-pt-2
Book Interview with Tempo Africtv: https://www.facebook.com/100009535030071/videos/2733533803641094/?t=0
Available at: http://www.lulu.com/shop/mohamed-kheir-omer/the-dynamics-of-an-unfinished-african-dream-eritrea-ancient-history-to-1968/paperback/product-24405120.html
Available at: https://www.amazon.com/Dynamics-Unfinished-African-Dream-Eritrea/dp/1684716497/ref=sr_1_1?crid=DP8J2WNTEKF5&keywords=an+unfinished+african+dream+eritrea&qid=1583150898&sprefix=An+Unfinished+African+dream%2Caps%2C307&sr=8-1
Book Review by Prof. Tekeste Negash: http://awate.com/book-review-dynamics-unfinished-african-revolution/
Saturday, 29 February 2020
Tigrinya Applicatives in Lexical-Functional Grammar by Nazareth Amlesom
Tigrinya Applicatives in Lexical-Functional Grammar, a 2011 PhD Thesis by Nazareth Amlesom, Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies University of Bergen
Part of the Abstract:
The primary goal of this thesis is to describe and analyze applicative constructions in Tigrinya. An applicative construction is characterized by a verb that bears an affix for an argument that either has a semantic role that is not normally entailed by the lexical meaning of the base verb or is specified as a peripheral argument. The choice of an applicative expression is motivated by semantic and discourse factors. Applicatively expressed arguments are associated with referents that possess high semantic prominence and discourse salience. The applicative phenomenon is viewed as a morphosyntactic strategy that introduces a core object function that is salient in the discourse event described by the verb. The theoretical motivation of this study is to explore the conditions that trigger object marking in Tigrinya so as to examine the semantic, functional and discourse properties of objects. The main theoretical framework used in this research is Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG). This formalism assumes that the different linguistic information pertaining to functional, semantic and discourse structures can be modeled as interrelated parallel representations.
https://bora.uib.no/bitstream/handle/1956/5730/42478%20Nazareth%20Kifle%20materie.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Saturday, 15 February 2020
IOM WORLD MIGRATION REPORT 2020
https://publications.iom.int/system/files/pdf/wmr_2020.pdf
Sunday, 19 January 2020
Eritrea: Miscellaneous historical Documents from the 40s & 50s
Thanks to Jelal Yassin for sharing
Saturday, 28 December 2019
Animal Diseases and Veterinary Services in Eritrea 2001
Animal Diseases and Veterinary Services in Eritrea: The Past, Present and Future Challenges
A paper presented at the Eritrean Studies Association Conference held at Asmara, Eritrea
Can be downloaded at the link below:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/fipdne3jy4bo9x6/Veterinary_Services_2001.pdf/file
Thursday, 26 December 2019
Refugees and citizens: Understanding Eritrean refugees’ ambivalence towards homeland politics
Abstract
This article revisits ambivalence as a protracted state which does not simply develop as a result of the migration experience but stems from overlapping levels of normative inconsistency. Drawing from my ethnography of Eritreans’ everyday life in the homeland and abroad, I analyse their attitudes of patriotism and disenchantment through an ambivalence lens. Their ambiguous attitudes are arising from national and transnational Eritrean state policies and are further complicated by their role as “political refugees” in host countries. My informants’ ambivalence stems from them embodying more than one role (i.e. patriots, family breadwinners, refugees from and citizens of their homeland), from contradictory expectations pertaining to the same role (i.e. young citizens in Eritrea) and from clashing implications of being members of two different social systems (i.e. the destination country and the country of origin). Thus, Eritreans’ political loyalties and actions are characterized by a state of ambivalence throughout their migration process. Despite its peculiar characteristics, this case study sheds light on the complexity of ambivalence, as more than a temporary condition, for migrants and refugees in particular. In the current scenario of emigrant states’ transnational governance, protracted ambivalence is likely to mark the attitudes of an increasing number of people on the move as both refugees from and citizens of their country of origin.
You can access the full text at the link:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0020715218760382
Monday, 23 December 2019
Introducing Haji Jaber's award winning Arabic novels
Saturday, 30 November 2019
Tigre (Tigrait) Studies in the 21st Century
Tigre Studies in the 21st Century: A Review of the book;, RAINER VOIGT, ed. / Tigre-Studien im 21. Jahrhundert, Studien zum Horn von Afrika, 2 (Köln: Rüdiger Köppe, 2015). xi, 241 p
At the 3rd International Enno Littmann Conference held at the Freie Universität in Berlin
On April 1–4, 2009, under the heading "Tigre, Aksum, and More," a special panel was devoted to the Tigre language and literature, as well as Tigre society. The present volume, carefully edited by Rainer Voigt, who also organized the conference, contains the papers presented on this panel, in which scholars from Eritrea actively participated. It is doubtless to their presence that we owe a refreshing first in Ethiopian and Eritrean studies, namely, abstracts of the articles also in Tigre. This language is described by the editor in the Introduction as the third largest Ethiopic-Semitic language after Amharic and Tigriñña; this is true only if we adopt the new trend in Ethiopian studies, and consider what used to be the Gurage dialect cluster with nearly 3,000,000 speakers or more, as a distinct group of several separate languages.
https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/aethiopica/article/view/978/1000
The book: https://www.koeppe.de/titel_tigre-studies-in-the-21st-century-tigre-studien-im-21-jahrhundert
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Thanks to Suleiman Bekit for sharing
Thursday, 7 November 2019
Eritrea - Ethiopia Boundary Commission DECISION Regarding Delimitation of the Border
Eritrea - Ethiopia Boundary Commission DECISION Regarding Delimitation of the Border between The State of Eritrea and The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
http://www.eritrea.be/EEBC_decisions_2002.pdf
Wednesday, 6 November 2019
Aspects of Tigrinya Literature until 1974
Aspects of Tigrinya Literature (until 1974) by Hailu Habtu, a M.Phil. thesis, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1981
ABSTRACT
This dissertation aims to study the origin and development of Tigrinya as a written language-a topic that has so far received little scholarly attention. As time and the easy accessibility of all the relevant material are limiting factors,this investigation is necessarily selective. Chapter One takes stock of all available writing in the Tigrinya language frcm its beginning in the middle of the last century up to 1974. Chapter Two briefly investigates the development of written Tigrinya to serve varying functions and ends and the general direction that its development took. Chapter Three provides a glimpse of the breadth and variety of literature incorporated in the Eritrean Weekly News published in Asmara by the British Information Services frcm 1942 to 1952. The E W N represented the sudden birth and development of a secular writing and provided a tradition and a reservoir of literature on which Tigrinya fiction later drew. Chapters Four, Five and Six deal with Tigrinya fictional literature on the basis of selected themes v. g. historical and political themes (Chapter Four), prostitution and approbation against dissolute life (Chapter Five), and education and success (Chapter Six)
https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28848/1/10673017.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1KCJ2H3u34s6EzFSsaHI_eiHn07ihprNxviuPMWKHtgWkV9wkdEjKu-f4
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
Naud's Novel 'SALEH' - رواية محمد سعيد ناود، صالح
http://www.mediafire.com/file/b5vx8dl0cw9kkqw/Naud_novel_%25D8%25B1%25D8%25AD%25D9%2584%25D8%25A9_%25D8%25A7%25D9%2584%25D8%25B4%25D8%25AA%25D8%25A7%25D8%25A1.pdf/file
Thanks to Ibrahim Idris, Adal House for sharing









