Abraham T Zere

The Er­itre­an pres­i­dent finds him­self in an in­creas­ing­ly dif­fi­cult sit­u­a­tion.

I thought that af­ter flee­ing Er­itrea, I would be free to trav­el the world. I was wrong.

Er­itrea’s fail­ure to ef­fi­cient­ly re­spond to the pan­dem­ic could bring down its au­thor­i­tar­i­an gov­ern­ment.

The Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion’s trav­el re­stric­tions left many Er­itre­ans be­tween a rock and a hard place.

By tar­get­ing refugees and mi­grants, Su­dan’s new rulers are be­tray­ing the pop­u­lar re­volt that brought them to pow­er.

On this year’s In­de­pen­dence Day, Er­itre­ans are dream­ing of a post-Afw­er­ki Er­itrea.

Hav­ing got­ten rid of in­ter­na­tion­al sanc­tions, the Er­itre­an regime is un­like­ly to change its re­pres­sive ways at home.

If any­thing, it has ac­tu­al­ly strength­ened his regime.

De­spite of­fi­cial­ly wel­com­ing Ethiopia’s peace ef­forts, the Er­itre­an regime is keep­ing its peo­ple in the dark.

De­spite all the dif­fi­cul­ties, Er­itre­ans and Ethiopi­ans are hope­ful that last­ing peace will be con­clud­ed soon.