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Torture, misery, hunger, death,..etc in a baren land called eritrea, in closed circuit.
It is about time to open this huge prison called eritrea, the modern day nazi extermination camp of AUSCHWITZ.

This is just amazing. The US policy of pumping billions of dollars in the form of food aid, loan and grant through USAID, IMF and World Bank to weyane is not making a difference as far as the ordinary Ethiopian is considered. 20 years and counting Weyane is still asking for food handout. The US policy in the horn of Africa failed miserably. Eritrea kicked out USAID and other NGOs long time ago but doing fine on its own way food security wise. If Eritrea is failing as weyane and the State department is telling us, why are they working 24/7 through the UN security council to sanction Eritrean economy? why sanction on a failed economy? If people are starving as Jonny Carson is telling us, nobody can hide a famine, it will be exposed sooner or later. But it looks like the US officials at the State department are really worried their poster boy Zenawi's failure is open for the world to see and they want to shift the focus to Eritrea to cover their failing policy lol

Why is it that an English Speaking-Western black man, thousands of miles away from Eritrea claims to care more about Eritreans more than their own government? If the Eritreans had a crisis they would have asked for help, what makes you think that people are hungry when they clearly say they're not?

US State Department Reprehenssible Hypocrisy.

On July 19, 2011, in a briefing at the State department meant to bring attention to the drought and famine conditions afflicting over 11 million people in the horn of Africa, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnie Carson reprehensibly stated “there are many more in need in Eritrea, where a repressive regime is refusing to provide data on the humanitarian needs of its people”. That statement is not only inflammatory and entirely self-serving but completely politically motivated.
To begin with, how can Mr. Carson ascertain with certainty “that there are many more in need in Eritrea” when he doesn’t even know the true facts on the ground in Eritrea? It’s reprehensible that Mr. Carson and the State Dept. would use the current conditions in the horn to try to take political pot shots at the Eritrean government.
Second, Mr. Carson should be reminded that his Ethiopian ally Meles Zenawi just recently publicly announced that Ethiopia would be buying over $100 million dollars worth of tanks from Ukraine. This is against the backdrop of the drought/famine in Ethiopia and at a time when the Ethiopian government is appealing for nearly $400 million to feed nearly 4 million of it’s own citizens.
What makes this even more perverse is that recently IGAD, at the behest of the Ethiopian government and in concert with the US administration is calling for increasing the sanctions against Eritrea, “specifically targeting Eritrea’s mining revenues and Diaspora remittances” which would/could be used by Eritrea to not only feed itself without having to rely on aid handouts, but develop it’s economy.
In light of this, Mr. Carson and the US State department’s statement ring not only hollow, but incredibly shameful and disgusting.

Filmon T.
Vancouver, Canada

This guy is shameful. To try to score political point at a time like this. The fact is right now, in Eritrea there are tens of thousands of diaspora men and women traveling all over the country. There us no "humanitarian crisis in Eritrea". Believe you me, if there was we would know about it right now.

This opportunist is the same one looking to increase the sanctions on Eritrea to include it's mining revenues which would/could help Eritrea feed itself and develop it's economy....and this hypocrite wants to pretend he wants to help Eritreans "feed themselves". He disgusts me.

Yesterday I was listening to BBC focus on Africa and they interviewed Eritrean Ambassador to the UK, he denied independent agencies reports that say Eritrea is affected even more than Kenya and Ethiopia. He claimed that there is no single man in the country starving. He also mentioned that Eritrea can be exemplary to the rest of Africa when it comes to food security What a lie!!!!

What a joke.
First was the Eritrean Gov. Does not reveal about the severity of the drought and food shotsges.
Based on his assertion, One would conclude, there certainly
Is huge humanitarian crisis in Eritrea.
Then he goes, We assume, probably,
What about thinking probably one nation in Africa can feed itself or we assume they Don't . Need our handouts.
The west always dreams to be begged for food . Because it is
one of the tools to arm twist African countries for their own
Interest and for the corrupted NGOs to make money
Out of the death of hundreds of thousands.

I can asure you, there is no hunger in eritrea. We didn´t fight so many years to die by hunger at the end. So haters, i know you wish us hell and hunger and devil death, but we are moving faster then your wish is made in your brain. Why the eritrean goverment should hide a humanitarin crises? Maybe they would´nt knock on the western doors for food aid but they would ask the eritrean diaspora for money. They did that in 2002/2003, why they shouldn´t do it again? Becouse there are no hunger in eritrea. The people of eritrea has over come hunger for all time!!! Each and every one worked hard for the food security and now they have reached their goul. The hater can say what ever they want to say, the eritrean children will go to s chool with fool stomach. Mr. Carson can asume what ever he likes, but brothers and sisters will eat Geat mis tesmi like never before.

The difference b/n Melas and Issayass is at least melas is not scarified the people for the sake of his name and ask for help.
but Issayass is like Hailesellase and Mengistu he will not say any any thing until some journalist get access and the drought change to famine.
I heard people saying no drought in Eritrea. as if Issayas manage a new science bring rained only to Eritrea or all the 4.5 million people use Irrigation.
So the fact is it might be lucky as North part of Ethiopia and get rain or hiding the truth

The only part of Ethiopia where there is no sign of famine is the fertile region of Tigray, thanks to EPRDF's quick response in transporting millions of tonnes of grain seeds from the Oromia region to Tigray just on time for the Tigray farmers to grow their own food.
The government of Tigray is now planning to donate the excess food to famine affected regions of Ethiopia as a sign of goodwill and solidarity in the fight against famine and poverty.
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has already signed an executive order to dispense the surplus grain in Tigray to the Amhara region. That is a wonderful news. If you are Amhara you know where to send the "Thank you" card ! :-)

In regards to Eritrea, perhaps its close geographical proximity to the fertile region of Tigray has spared it from the famine that has ravaged most parts of Ethiopia, especially the Oromia, Ogaden and Gambella regions. That's all I can say about that. I have other more important issues like how to transport food from Tigray to Oromia,..etc.

God bless Meles Zenawi.
Long Live EPRDF!

~ Signed Hayelom

you ever heard of self reliance? leave Eritrea alone....you want data from eritrea? they are too busy working...so they dont end up like the famine countries!
poor ppl half of the money wont even make it to the ppl in need of help? every time they need more money they cry out for help by using famine!!!

i am proud of the eritrean governemnt

Even in the 1980s when there was severe drought in the Ethiopia, Eritrea was only slightly affected. And no wonder if this happens again. It's not good to draw conclusions based on speculations. Bad news is good news for the West, which is why they rush into assumptions that depict us in a negative way. Anyway, I feels sorry for all those people affected by the drought wherever they are.

Nazret,
We know why you are doing this now. Following your biased comment on the previous have your say session about Ethiopia, many Ethiopians have bitterly rebuked you. Now you are bringing this topic to try to soften their anger at you. How feeble-minded person you are.

To be quit honest, God created Isayas Afewerke to give the people of Eritrea a much needed lesson and he is only a reflection of the people themselves...therefore the longer he stays the more Eritreans learn..he is a blessing in diguise..God bless him.

We have learned our lesson from what you have done to Ethiopa with your AID a country which could have been a bread basket of Africa! Sorry Mr. Carson you could not fool Eritreans !

Not Really. Eritreans knows how to manage their meager resources. For Eritreans it is a matter of how to im prove thier life style not a question of if I will have somehting to eat, like Ethiopians. So, do not worry that Eritrea will never be in food emergency situation.

Why is this news to Ethiopia? If they are hiding drought and prefer to die instead, it is up to them. They refuse to be used as poster-child for poverty, disease & anything horrific like the rest of east Africa & I wish them every success on that.

Good luck Eritrea!

This supporter of dictatorial region shall be told that the number one cause of hunger in the region is his own support of dictatorship. Peoples cry for democracy so that they can work land and have right to enjoy life liberty and pursuits of happiness has been suppressed by his support of undemocratic Woyane. Shame on those who’s claim to have struggled for civil rights are supporting Ethiopian dictator for suppression of Ethiopians civil right to work their land.

Mr Carsoy why are you knocking at Eritrea's door steps and asking them if they need food assistance. They have told you and your agencies before - shove your aid into your .... WE DO NOT NEED IT. Leave them alone and they are struggling (and more importantly learning in the process) on how to be self sufficient. You are fighting hard so that they wont be symbol for the rest of horn of africa.

No, I don't think there is sever drought in Eritrea,they had bumper harvest last year.Besides how long can you hide hunger?

Mr Carson, I am realy sorry to hear from you, one of the top official working for the USA assuming drought in Eritrea. Are you working by assumption or facts? That shows me you are also assuming Eritrea support to the Somalia Alshab but not supported by facts. I would like to advise you one thing. Like the other horn african countries our Agriculture also supported by rainfall. However we worked hard to conserve every drop of water for the last 20 years and we are becoming very sussusful. Even if we can't say we have surplus to assist our neighbours, we have for ourselves. You can come and visit Eritrea any time. You might not see sky skyskrapers in Eritrean towns like Addis Ababa but you will see many dams and agro industries. Sorry Mr Carson, you might dream we Eritrean to become hungry but I am sorry not this time. Asta lavesta babeeeee

Eritrea and Somalians alshebab are the major obstacle to the development of horn of Africa and responsible to the problem of starvation. unless we stop the war, we will remain under humanitarian disaster. invading somalia and eritrea is the ultimate solution to the problem.

Lession to the dependent beggars in Eritrea's neighborhood: quit your beggar mentality, kick the NGO habit, nip corruption, quit being a puppet/condom to uncle-sam & focus on development. It may hurt for a little while like it did for Eritrea, but in the long-term, more lives are saved and the end result is priceless.

Nazret needs to take it easy on a pathetic old habit of dragging Eritrea's good name in the mud whenever there's a bad news is reported on East Africa. Eritrea knows how to take care of itself, that we know. So stop the ignorance. One gets the impression that it must be drive Nazret webmaster nuts to see that Eritrea is not implicated often enough with bad news or something. Nazret: The ruthless, genocidal, 7 shameless beggar minority regime in Ethiopia/Woyane already has a lie-factory called Foriegn Ministry, so stop looking like you are trying to fill that shoe.

Dear all,

I do believe Eritreans must be in a better position than the rest of Ethiopia, Somalia, ....

The reason, they have been working on local solution than to wait to receive a famine rescue mission. We have to admit that Issayas self-reliance policy must be respected and even promoted.

I know those are used to beggary and who have lost all thier dignity will call me shabia. But I do not hate Issayas just because Ethiopians hate him. I have to appreciate his good side. His policy of self-reliance is something which must be adopted by all Africans.

I remember upto the war time of 1998, Eritreans were working so hard and voluntary just to build thier lives without depending on anyone.

In 1995, Eritrean economy was growing by 7% and this advance was affected strogly by the war with Ethiopia.

Since they have been working to sustain themselves, they are more likely to support themselves. I know the Americans are keen to go in and to spread thir neoliberal democracy in the name of famine. Issayas is well versed in that.

Even if there is famine, I still believe it is better to rely on the people themselves. He should mobilize Eritreans to help Eritreans than to beg like ther other.

Who cares what the Americans think.

Bravo Issayas Afeworki. Your only problem is Ethiopia I mean your antiEthiopia ideology which has become the stumbling block of your vision. You need to changing your policy and liberate the horn Africa than cornering yourself in the North.

you cannot isolate the people forever. you need to come up with an acceptable solution for both Ethiopian and Eritrean. I do not believe hand out is something we must bless.

I think the US is striving to find an excuse to drop its bombs in Eritrea. The Isayas of Eritrea is barking at them like a scary dog whenever they try to sneak to his country. I am sure, if the president of Eritrea could say to them, “This is Eritrea feel at home,” they would soon forget us, Ethiopians.

East Africans'(Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Eritrea) problem is pettiness. And it looks like woyanne is exporting it to other surrounding countries like Kenay, Uganda and Sudan through IGAD. Those countries need to protect their dignified society from the zero-sum character of woyanne/shabia/Somalis -- the curses of the area.

"The fact is right now, in Eritrea there are tens of thousands of diaspora men and women traveling all over the country." Filmon T

The fact is Filmon, there are as we speak hundreds of thousends of Eritreans leaving Eritrea in every direction who unlike your beles eritreans have run away from the deteriorating sitaution in Eritrea...trust me, Eritrea is Eritrea is a can of worm waiting to open.

It is greatly educating to hear Mr Carson eloquently expose the sheer bankruptcy and dangerously expeditious USA policy in the horn of Africa. Here is a teaching moment for Mr Carson and his circus monkeys in the horn of Africa: even if you manage to pass useless sanctions 1000 times over against Eritrea, the truth will prevail and your evil nature has been already exposed beyond any hope of probable doubt.

Those who are saying there is no hunger in Eritrea are pro Isias. I was in Asmara for the 20th independence anniversary. I was shocked what I saw there were women with kids begging in Asmara street. I also went out of city to see family members. There were a lot of people asking for a money to buy food. No wonder people are running out of the country risking their lives. To those brother who are saying there is no hunger back home please don't be a selfish, think of others who are suffering.
God help Eritrea!

I say leave Erithrea alone. Why are you 'assuming' the situation there may be same as in the greater horn? If there was a humanitarian crisis wouldn't the government say so? Or at least the Erithreans in the diaspora would have get the info out. The Ethiopian diaspora would not have kept quite if something mysterious was going on in Ethiopia. Likewise, the Erithreans would have shouted it out if their family back home were dying of hunger.

Only because the Erithreans chose to stand by themselves, they should not be subjected to all this scrutiny. In fact, it will be a good idea to wait and see if it works to make them self sufficient so that others in the neighborhood can replicate what works.

http://www.sudantribune.com/Eritrean-Navy-members-defect-to,39572

Eritrean Navy members defect to Yemen, risk deportation - opposition
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By Tesfa-Alem Tekle

July 19, 2011 (ADDIS ABABA) – Over 30 members of the Eritrean naval forces have deserted to Yemen this month, an exiled Eritrean opposition group have said.

Based in Ethiopia, the Red Sea Afar Democratic Organization (RSADO), said they are at imminent risk of forcible return to Eritrea by authorities in Yemen.

“A total of 38 Eritrean Navy members in four groups have fled to Yemen during the past two weeks” RSADO spokesperson, Yasin Mohamed Abdela told Sudan Tribune on Tuesday.

“The Eritrean Navy groups fled with their navy boats and weapons across the Red Sea”, said Yasin adding, “The latest defection is the highest number of naval forces ever to be defected in short time”.

The opposition group emailed Sudan Tribune the names of 25 of the 38 navy members it alleges have fled to Yemen.

International human rights organisations have accused the Eritrean government of turning the Red Sea nation into a giant prison. Thousands of young Eritreans languish in the country’s harsh and secret detention centers indefinitely, without charge or trial over accusations that they oppose the government, or as the result of an attempt to flee country to escape compulsory military service.

If returned, asylum-seekers are regularly subjected to gross human rights violations including possible death punishment.

RSADO says that since the start of July an increasing number of young Eritrean Afar refugees are attempting to cross the turbulent waters of Red Sea to Yemen. The opposition group expressed concerns on the safety of the recently defected navy members and many other Eritreans who remain in Yemeni detention centers.

It appealed on the international community and the UNHCR to put pressure on Yemeni Government to refrain deporting the Eritreans. UNHCR’s Ethiopia branch could not confirm the allegations on Tuesday.

“As political uncertainty and volatile situations of Yemen’s future continues, we are extremely concerned for the safety of these young people in Al-Hudayda and AL-Lehya in Yemen.”

“We urge UNHCR to get access to these refugees and appeal to Yemeng government to respect its obligations to Geneva Convention by not returning these refugees to Eritrea where they will face Torture and Death” the group said.

RSADO extended gratitude to UNHCR in Yemen, and other humanitarian groups who helped with their successful intervention that saved the lives of nine Afar Navy personals who were in similar circumstance from being returned to Eritrean regime in September 2010.

every pro esayas comment is written by slaves of esayas afewerki.

Challenger, the mentally challenged [member],

What an asshole! What ever you blabering again and again doesn't make any sense at all.
Why don't you just shut the f your stinking hole and stay in your closet. Looser!!!

Hey Adgi Banda ,not only the evil blood sucker Issayas ,his twin brother ,your Leba Master the Facist Melas Zerafew ,is also hiding a Huge Humanitarian Crisis in Ethiopia.The fact that you and your THUGGY bros and systs never dare to go back to his Holy Land .

What I have observed over the years is that whenever the Americans say something negative about any Africans country in general and about Eritrea in particular, that means the opposite is true. So, if you have any doubt, rest assured, things must be very fine in Eritrea. Thanks for the conformation old man, Carson. By the way old man, Carson, are you still waiting for your entry visa to Eritrea?
Help me out here, which African country would say no thanks to an American Diplomat? Do you think Melles Zenawi will refuse to talk to Hillary Clinton? Now You get my point, when i say truly independent. I know it hurts to see an African saying NO to the arrogant "diplomats" at the state department. But my simple question to You Sir is why are you trying to sanction Eritrean economy, if you think it is terrible? It looks like You guys are angry seeing a truly independent country emerging in Africa. I don't think you can stop it. Good luck.

Hey Carson looking for a new Aid customer? Why your seasoned customers Like Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda …. Are not enough? Please, look some were else not in Eritrea not in your dreams.

Just ignore this stupid man's mind.He is already out of touch.can even a child speak like this ,sanction on one way and famine on the other way? we Eritreans should be aware of the evil Westeners and remaining vegilant from their wicked mind forever.

PFDJ don't care if their own people face critical humanitarian crises. After all Eritrean are amid crisis lost in tens of thousands in the Libyan deseret and in Medetranian see. This is the policy of PFDJ to kill and destroy the innocent so that they can control Eritrea.
If it is true that there is no food shortage in Eritrea, Let the gov. open the doors and UN agencies investigate the situation and tell us the facts. No one is happy if Eritrea face food shortage, but the PFDJ prefer the starvation and death of the innocent rather than seeing their empty polictical image fail.
May God count and finsh their days soon

Hold on a minuet. I can't connect the dots.
If as stated, there is hunger in Eritrea, the usual signs of a drought stricken country is the mass exodus of the hungry people to their capital. As seen in any affected country. Is there any sign of that? Are they the ones I saw in the bars, restaurants and cubs of Asmara?
Also, as you have said if there is huge humanitarian crisis in Eritrea, and you want to "HELP"
then why are you running like a mad dog to impose more sanction on a country already in crisis?
Are you contradicting yourself her exposing your naked butt.
Is the equation
crisis+crisis+crisis = HELP
How about your God given sacred duty to feed us poor souls for free?

Just curious

"The fact is Filmon, there are as we speak hundreds of thousends of Eritreans leaving Eritrea in every direction who unlike your beles eritreans have run away from the deteriorating sitaution in Eritrea...trust me, Eritrea is Eritrea is a can of worm waiting to open." Filmon Kl

Stick to the topic. What does the above have to do with the current drought and US claim that the GOE is "hiding it"?

The simple fact is, right now, tens of thousands of diaspora Eritreans are in Eritrea. Contrary to what some fools will have you believe the country is not on mars...if there was any famine or large scale droughts etc....you'd hear about. People like yourself can't argue against this simple, but overwhelming fact, so you harp on about other issues that have nothing to do with the topic.

Hi Addis Hodam.Tigray is even more baren than eritrea.How much are you paid to just come out and spew.We know Agames for begging and cleaning our street.

lol what if Eritreans say we are not hungry

Dear Ted,

What you wrote is really very enlightening. I hope the Ethiopian leaders read this and stop the selling everything business right now.

you can develop people by selling their land and their dignity. As I mentioned earlier, still Eritrean's challenge remain the issue of Ethiopia and Eritrea. The policy of self-reliance of Issayas is a blessing like Mana from Heavens. I do not understand why TPLF adopted beggary ideology is mind boggling.

I used to hear that TPLF was more self reliant than Shabia during the struggle because Shabia has had many funders from outside than TPLF. TPLF had doctors expertise without going to university.

Time has proved that TPLF is the most cursed beggar organisation that is completely opposite to what we have heard. Now Shabia is actually has embraced the good ideology of self-reliancce while TPLF has metamorphized to an international beggar organisation that is 100% engaged in selling business of the land, the people and anything one can imagine.

I personally suggest Issayas change his policy of Uniting the people and even overthrowing the cursed TPLF and rebuild Ethiopia. I have no hope TPLF will do anything good for Ethiopia.

I am saying this that even if Eritrea does well now, if Ethiopia remains in the same treadmill, Eritrean endeavour will not be sustainable because there will not be stability.

We as Ethiopians wanted to use our ports after the death of Meles Zenawi. We cannot afford to stay landlocked forever. Our aim now is to get rid of the shigaram Meles and to rebuild our country. We will be required by history and by land mark to use our own ports. With current Eritrean policy, our objective will not be favourable to Eritrea. This means everything will be destroyed again. In the meanwhile, the people on both sides will suffer.


As an Ethiopia who believe in equality, fairness, and justice to every Ethiopians including Eritrean. We need to rebuild better Ethiopia for all together.

The TPLF policy does not help anyone. It appears as if TPLFites are getting ready to go to another planet and selling Ethiopia at salvage value.

Look, TPLF has been begging for the past 20 years and they tell us they are developing Ethiopia. For them sending Ethiopian girls to Arabs, and selling land to Arabs, Indians,... is development. I cannot imagine from where these people have come. I can understand now how TPLF and Shabia can not get along. TPLF is an organisation that fully engaged in self-destruction and Shabia is a self-sustaining entity except the arrogance of invading Ethiopia and causing the death of 70,000 to 100,000 souls.


About the railway you raised. I know about that because my close friends were working so hard in 1995 in the large scale integrated farming.

In general, I do believe Mengistu Hailemariam has had better policy than TPLF and Shabia even.

Mengistu Believed we can solve poverty by ourselves. For instance, Mengistu had a big plan of building large scale aquaculture farms in the red sea. I was one of those who were trained to exploit the red sea resources. We were on the way to solve Ethiopian problem. I did not like to eat fish. The rest of Ethiopians were not used to eat fish including Eritreans. Asmara University opened Marine science and University students were cultured to eat fishes on campus. The population in Asmara refused to eat fish. But eventually the University succeeded educating people to eat fish. Eritreans then started fighting to buy fish. We were on the way to address food security in Ethiopia without selling land to Indian and Arabs.

TPLF, which I call the most cursed organisation and Shabia came and told us to vacate from our marine rewsources and now the sea is sitting idle and becoming the waste dump of other countries and infested with pirates.

I can not imagine the scale of Aquaculture farming we could have by now. But alas, what can you do, TPLF the curse of Ethiopia came and cut our long term plan short and is keeping the Ethiopian people hostage.


I always thought why Shabia and TPLF could not get along, but these days I see how different they are. One is 100% beggar which has begging ideology and the other one is the opposite which wanted nothing from anyone. This is a big difference.


In general, I am opposed to food aid even right now. I do believe people must not be given food even right now. The best solution now was to remove the lord of famine like Meles Zenawi and mobilize the people to help each other. This is because famine has become now a new type of business and political tool. Americans wanted to use this famine to penetrate into every country and to induce their neoliberal democracy of free market imperialism.

If there was a leader in Ethiopia. It was good to stop this right now and forever.

For instance, if there is famine in ogaden, Somalia,... it is better to mobilize the rest of Ethiopians to raise money and to find ways to help them than to call parasite NGOS to invest in famine. Famine has become a capital investment for NGOS. This NGOS have no income than the people. The famine stricken people in Ethiopia,... are now their fixed capital asset to do business. They have big offices, nice cars, expensive staffs,... where do you think they will get the money? and if they do not money in the name of the famine victims, how can they sustain all those big offices and luxury life styles?

I remember at one time that UN reported that 300 000 Somalians have arrived in a Kenyan refugee camp and got the money from western governemnts and they bought logistics and loaded by sea to Kenya. However, since there were only about 20 000 Somalian refugees in the said camp. The logistics of multimillion dollar was sold in Mombassa in Kenya. The person who sold was a UNHCR chief in Kenya. After a year he went to Italy and he set up a big company in Milano in Italy. This is just the tips of the ice berg. What about the UN officers who were doing nuke business in DRC congo while there in the name of helping refugees?


My message to horn of African peoplke. If you have given up and if you believe you cannot help yourself? Just sell yourself to a country that can afford to buy Ethiopia or Kenya or Somalia.

Trust me, the world is full of crooks. The public in Europe and North America are bombarded with images of human crisis in Africa and they throw thier money every year with kindness and with pittiness. But there are these cruel, selfish human being in between the victim and the benevolent people who use both the victim and benevolent to life their lives.

I suggest to Europeans, North Americans innocent citizens to stop funding all these famines. I do believe teaching how to fish than giving fish to anyone. Donation is a cancer and begging is not allowed in the civilized world. Begging in Europe , North America is not acceptalbe unless an individual has a problem, there is a system where one can get helped to help her or himself.

However, the problem in East Africa is not just famine. There are people behind who use this famine to continue forever as a perpetual capital project to do business.

AID must stopped by the people who receive aid. What Issayas has done is what Ethiopians must do now. Otherwise, people will be cultured to beg. You can see how Meles Zenawi is used to begging and telling lies of development everyday. He does not even feel shame. He has been telling us the same story for the past 20 years. He refused to work with citizen and he work with Indians, Arabs, Americans,... the end is failure after failure.


Stop aid please now.

The horn of Africa has a similar climatologic pattern. When there is a major decrease in rainfall that spans over a large area, the possibility is that regions in Eritrea would also be affected to a certain extent. Much more, in this age of satellites, the Internet, mobile phones etc, nothing below the sun is hidden; and it is utter nonsense to say that the UN and the Western world have no idea of what is happening in Eritrea today. Apologist of the regime should know that the Eritrean iron-curtain cannot hide all the truth. Even in periods of bumper harvest, statistics show that two-third of Eritreans are malnourished and about 5 million Ethiopians need food aid. In addition, the whole world is aware of the bread and milk queue in Asmara, beginning at 4 am in the morning, and reports coming out of Eritrea by those who leave the country in droves do not speak of Eritreans suffering from overfeeding and obesity.

It is a pity that callous politics is ready to sacrifice the people of Eritrea for the nth time, this time by denying them help that might come from outside, even from the UN. The inhuman tyrannical rulers of North Korea hid the famine in their country until it became a humanitarian disaster, a thing beyond their power to cope with, and they were forced to ask for food aid from the West, only after hundreds of thousands and even millions were lost.

One should worry a lot when some Eritreans say that they are ready to sacrifice their people, by denying that there is malnutrition in the country and possible famine might ensue in the near future, and they would rather feed their people with manna from the sky than accept food aid. They are set to discover the wheel in this 21st century with their mantra of self-reliance, an empty word as long as it hurts the people. They are also working day and night to make sure that their egoism and their dictator’s whims are not hurt. If apologists of the regime are going to wait until they see a biblical catastrophe, the type of famine in Ethiopia in 1974, then the regime and it cohorts will be judged and condemned by the poor child who is going to bed on an empty stomach, the pregnant woman who is going to give birth to an emaciated child and the old and the feeble who are going to die of malnutrition and disease.

It is the duty and moral obligation of all Eritreans with a humanitarian feeling to expose the callous regime in Asmara and its cohorts, so that a human catastrophe like the one that happened in North Korea does not occur in Eritrea. Supporters of the regime who can afford three meals a day can boast about self-reliance and an exceptionality of their race. Self-reliance is a beautiful word, yet unknown when and if it will ever materialize. One should live the day to hope for tomorrow, and Eritreans are denied the future by the regime and its cohorts. All these mean nothing to the ordinary Eritrean, who has to queue at 4 am in the morning for a loaf of bread and a bottle of milk, the young Eritrean who has to dodge a bullet to reach freedom and the unfortunate families who have lost children in the Sahara desert, Sinai and the Mediterranean Sea.

Finally, the regime and its cohorts should cast away the shroud of foolish arrogance that has made them irrational and insensitive to the plight of the people of Eritrea.

I don't know whether there is a looming or ongoing humanitarian crisis in Ar-tera. Truth to be told, I don't even care. Neither do I care if some people enjoy praising the good side of the drunken gangster sheik of Ar-tera, his deranged unholiness Emir Afwerki, when it comes to some of his TEACHING'S regarding self-reliance. I wrote teachings in capital letters since they have never been tested...i.e. without Ethiopian booty nor secret Qatari, Libyan, Iranian and Egyptian handouts!

What bothers and prompted me to write this postare some people's negligent attitude regarding Mulla Afwerki's, not antiEthiopia ideology, but burning Aêthiopian hate that sustained and still sustain him and his wicked and cross-eyed al-Sheabia disciple's who've UNbuilt not only their failed banana (without the real bananas of course;-) republic, but also, in many, many cases, personal bank accounts, by ransacking our meagre resources. Let's even mention taking advantage of good hearted Ethiopian's who went backside and upside down in order to accommodate these ungrateful blood suckers.

Lastly, a correction is warranted in regards to the sanctions:
The Americans and EU aren't pushing for sanctioning against Ar-tera aka SingaApooR because of it's so called self-reliance policies nor strategic importance but rather due to it's terror sponsor activities that we all know stems from the near economical collapse after the new currency and trade policies (basically TPLF ordering EPLF to dwindle it's Ethiopian swindle:-)
in the aftermath of idNePecNce.

Conclusion: Arid Ar-tera have prove itself to be totally worthless and uninteresting as and entity, but its pirate, Tamil Tiger, al-shabab sponsoring activities as well as it's dirty South Sudan and Darfur meddling deeds are to grave to ignore in regard to world economy and strategic interest of EU and America that doesn't like seeing al-Qaida and IRAN flex its muscle's due to Ethiopian coffee and gold stealing cravings by the syphilis infected closet begger Ayatollah of Ar-tera//

Addis Zemen,
you don't get it because you are petty.

I AM JUST AMAZED BY HOW MANY ERITREANS COME TO ETHIOPIAN WEBSITE. JUST AMAZED. AMAZING. WOW. YEMECHCHU ABO. COULD ONE OF YOU PLEASE DEFINE INDEPENDENT FOR ME. JUST WANTED TO KNOW THE DEFINITION OF INDEPENDENT. AND IS THAT THE SAME AS DEPENDENT?

Let Eritreans deal with their won crisis. We don’t care what happens there.

We have the worse problem in Ethiopia and we are focused on that. The Ethiopian government first should deal with their own crisis.

Solving the problems of the lack of leadership and democracy, famine, land selling, torture, repression, killing, looting people and the country and so on.

Mister Carson your administration is full of assumptions like the weapons of mass distraction in Irak. We Eritreans have family over there and know pretty well what is happening in the for corner of the country. We have our nieces, nefews, uncles and other extended family members working in different development projects in the four corners of the country. 75% of Eritrea is covered with mobile network. So we Eritreans now what is happening there. There might be drought here and there. But hunger can not happen as long as the diaspora sends money. You beter go and feed your own African american population and let our people be fed by our ourselves. Why are you more concerned than our government to feed us???????

Samson,

Why don't you go and do something about the drought? Instead of blabbering. You are just an empty head crap.

I think we all have our own problems and there is no point of arguing just because we need to score points over who is the best or the worst. If no one is hungry in Eritrea, so why do we ask them to admit something that does not exist. If you are extremely eager to help and having sleepless nights out of guilt, then send your donations where it is needed most. If Eritreans want to share their experiences on food security, let us ask them to share it with us so that we may follow their example. Otherwise, let us leave Eritrea for Eritreans. By the way Nazrets, you rarely post articles or topics on neighboring countries such as Kenya, Sudan and Djibouti, and therefore I suggest so that you maintain the same policy on Eritrea. Thank you!

Dear Ethiopians,

We have to admit that Eritreans are not leaving because of famine. Eritrreans are leaving in droves because of the life depriving long or never ending national services. I do not see any Eritrean starving to death.

Why do you guys lie. By the way it the Half shabia TPLF which saved Shabia, not only by sacrficing Tigreans in Nakfa and Karura, but by betraying about 100 000 Ethiopians souls. The main enemy of Ethiopia is TPLF. Finish and underlined. Ethiopians enemy is Woyane Meles.

Why blame Shabia now? why? Why talk wushet or hasot? Where the starving Eritreans? Because you hate Issayas, Eritreans has to starve and beg? Because TPLF is begging every year, Issayas has to beg? what type of stupidity is this.

As one said it already, even if they have famine now, they are cable of raising money themselves than begging every year. Hasewti.

@General Hayalom


I had no Idea Tigray region included Gonder and Gojam as well to DROP ITS BARREN LAND STATUS? Did you happen to claim more Amhara land like Welkayit by any chance to even consider BARREN Tigray fertile? Or did your so called wizard leader invent ways to grow food on the rocks of Tigray eh

I've recently been to Tigray on tour, all I saw was super skinny, malnourished folks everywhere! Even in the 5 star hotel, your folks look as if they haven't seen Aambasha for a long while let alone produce surplus to donate to Amhara! People need to go see Tigray, matter of fact, Meles didn't do much for you! He is too busy smuggling billions of dollars out of the country.

On the contrary, Amhara & Oromo regions have been donating food to you for over 200 years, still do. Without us, you would have been licking your rocks until it turned to soil

Eritrean are thought by others more than their own government. What a sad story. Isayas is an example of cruel.

Those people that count, I mean the ones that are in the unfortunate circumstance of being hungry, if they wander in here for a second and see all the blaberring chorus of "rocket scientists" and "monsters" I wonder what they will think? Please, think about that before you head to the Mosque next Friday, or the Church on Sunday. Good day.

I know Mr Carson.Carson is a very good friend of TPLF gov.I have called mr Carson office about 2 years ago and I never heard back from him.You have to have a lot of money or a lawer to get some people to call you back.You know how it is money talks bull shit walks.As we know these days you can buy anybody to be onside as long as you pay them very well.Mr Carson don't worry about Eritrea people.I am very sure they don't need you.

it is the poletics which got us into this mess and the the same poletics will keep us there for generation to come. Right now feed to those who are asking food and deal with those who are not asking for one at later days. For the Americans and Ethiopians, to have Eritrea in the Picture of drought is more poletics than anything else. Africans pls it is high time to wake up and sit at driving seat and let the American deal with their own sinking economy.

Both Ethiopia and Eritrea are victims of neocolonialism. USA landlocked Ethiopia and facilitated the secession of Eritrea to weaken Africa. The secession of South Sudan is again another tectic to weaken Africa.

We should say no to the secession of Eritrea from Ethiopia for Eritrea is an extension of Ethiopian highlands of Tigrai and Gondar. As to South sudan, we should help reunite it With Sudan. We need to overthrow Al Bashir, Issayas and Meles, who are entirely responsible for the weakening of East Africa.

The West and USA are the sworn enemies of Africa. They are weakening and starving Africa because they will in the long run recolonize Africa. Obama is the enemy no 1 of Africa. He is a house slave of the Whites. Africans should realize that it only us the African People who could help liberate Africa economically and politically. What did Obama do to Ethiopia? Even not a lip-service, worse than Bush.

Ethiopiana and eritreans should re-unite and challenge the West for justice and democracy to reign everywhere in the world.

Mr Carson is trying to be "Holly than thou". Is he telling us he cares about the Eritrean people more than the Eritreans themselves. Looking at the US behavior lately, I would not get surprised if he recommend to sanction Eritrea for not being hungry. Some important question people need to ask are: why is all this hostility against a tiny and poor nation? What are the Americans afraid of? Is it the example of self reliance, pride and independent thinking this nation displaying? If not, what else could it be. By now, no one buys the crap about Eritrea supporting Alshabab or any form of terrorism. It is simply ridicules.

Watch the following video, it is Isaias talking about Self Reliance in 1974.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O12tdvyPOyY

I don't understand how most of the above commmentators associate things with politice and with your clmity inside east-africa region. climate change happen through out the world it is not only for east africa or Eritrea. and climate change (drought) do not have border or poletical out look mother nature don't understand our man-made boundaries if it happen in afer region in ethiopia it definitely happen in eritrea this doesn't need a rocket since to figure it out it is a simple logic. covering this we lead for more catastrophe of human disastor it don't help any body. this year their was a drought in Texas in Amrica;France in Europe and some other places in the world. most of this countries have wealth and reserved food security there technology help them to predict it and to be ready before it happen. we have to work with nature not against it. our empty national pride and vanity do not feed thous poor fellows. Americans or others do not gain nothing from it but there showing there moral obligation.

Hey people, Eritreans are Eritreans. Why bother about them. They do not want assistant, it is up to them. They want to die with empty pride. That is the way they are. You guys don't need to prove of hunger and repression to Eritreans. We saw it in a daily basis the humanitarian situation. That is the way they want it and they choose the way of life to have. Right now they are in a computation with Ethiopia and they are so busy to see Ethiopia collapse instead of paying attention to their own. Remember the operation sunset? all the lies? Who cares about them. Nazret, you should not post about Eritrea.

Addis Agame Zemen,
The reason why there are no drought in Eritrea is the same reason why there no drought in your Tigray region. Wushetam Leba hula

Gud new Zendero...
There are no drought in the Arid region of Eritria and Tigray, yet the Oromia region-the bread basket- of Ethiopia is streaken by a drought.

Eritreans used to American CIA allies along with Meles Zenavis Tigray rebels. Also so were Somalia, the Afghan taliban, and Saddam Hussein back in the "good old 80's"


Notice how the American bankster CIA regime has totally turned the ship around abandoning all it's former allies?

Don't make a foolish empty remark weather you are Eritran or any human bing are not immune from natural disaster. this is not politics your vanity and stupidity cost so money human life instade of that give a priority for saving humen life. no bady have to deay to keep your empty national pride.There was natural disaster in Japen resently this is same to that ther is nothing to be sheme-full things happen the important thing to work ahead on saving life. you and me can articulate our differences this way and that way but poor fello human-bing is daying with out help.my fello East African wether you are Eritran, Ethiopian, somalian, kenyan or sudanes what matters is do not let even one person day with hunger.

Shame of the State Department!

Probablity Cheap politics of Mr. Carson: Not just dead on arrival but also a shameful propaganda that displays ignorance and bigotry. No wonder why Mr Carson and his cohorts at the State Dept are working hard to put Eritrea in "Terrorism Supporting State", in a probablity politics with no evidence. What a shame to be American Assistant State of secretary to use "Probablity" to include Self Reliant Eritrea.

This year's famine not only proves that Eritrea was right from the beginning to reject the thousands of corrupt NGOs but it also exposes the corrupt officials that sponsor misery, in the name of food-aid, democracy, and humanitarian assistance.

By now, this idiotic official should have known why Eritrea rejected food-aid and why it kicked the so called NGO agents. Now it shows.

We will Never Kneel Down to the sponsors of famine, poverty, conflict, servitude, and misery.

Long live Shaebia led Eritrea.
Yes we Can!

ethiopian,

"I AM JUST AMAZED BY HOW MANY ERITREANS COME TO ETHIOPIAN WEBSITE. JUST AMAZED. AMAZING. WOW. YEMECHCHU ABO. COULD ONE OF YOU PLEASE DEFINE INDEPENDENT FOR ME. JUST WANTED TO KNOW THE DEFINITION OF INDEPENDENT. AND IS THAT THE SAME AS DEPENDENT? "

It's easier to tell the webmaster not to post about Eritrea.

Leave us alone even on World Wide Website.
The name Nazret is Hebrew. Independent means not to starve or like Eritrea and Dependent means to beg for hand outs like you.


@Filimon Ki and warsai
crack heads you both made a bogus statement for the question asked. I go to Asmara each year and never seen a beggar at all, as far as money everyone needs it, going to America, every African wants to go to the USA.

@Johnnie Carson

It's none of your business. If you want to help, go help Haiti they need help, Our president said that some year ago.

Or help your county you live in, am sure are lots of homeless and beggars outside the grocery stores.

Eritrea don't need your help, Thanks.

"I AM JUST AMAZED BY HOW MANY ERITREANS COME TO ETHIOPIAN WEBSITE. JUST AMAZE"

There is actually one person who posts multiple messages as Eritrean/Ethiopian.
He uses multiple nick names at many Ethipion forums. Like "revolutions" "Silk Da Shocker" "Grimawi" "Sirin" "Oromay" "Jamil" "Asmarino09" Weyni" "nitricc" and many many many more.

Hey shabians,..masters of denial,

All we ask is, for you to show us what ever is going on in your closed baren land.
If things were rosy as you are potraying it here, believe me you would be the first to show us and brag about it. We know you're a born boasters. "Guregna".
But as I see it things are so bad, that you chose to close your doors and die in hunger and misery just for the sake of your empty pride.
Till you show us or allow independent groups to visit the country, we have no choice but to believe there is a cruel atrocious crime being commited on the poor eritreans.
Just open the damn door, swallow your empty pride and save the poor eritreans before it is too late.

"What is the differece between Big Foot and TRUTH in shabians? There was actually the sight of Big Foot."

"I AM JUST AMAZED BY HOW MANY ERITREANS COME TO ETHIOPIAN WEBSITE. JUST AMAZE"

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That's not counting those that get censored for delivering a razor sharp message that Nazret can't handle!

Eritrea is refusing to be slave to free food and money but no one seems to get it. Eritrea has zero debt which is unthikable to the rest of the western world. Please lern from Eritrea and lern to say NO to these countries who would like you to beg forever.

Just read to what this idiot is saying:

"Because it is a part of the Greater Horn of Africa, we assume that conditions in Eritrea are probably quite similar to the drought conditions that we are seeing in other places"

LOL just like you ASSUMED that Eritrea is helping th terrorist LOL . This guiy is an official for real?

Hi All,

Here is my application for a state sponsored vacation in the areas of Dahlak-Massawa, at least for four weeks:

"KIBUR WEDI WORQI-MAHSTEN HOY,thanks that you made Eritrea to one of the richest Nations in the world."

MAREGAGETCHA: DIMTSI HAFASH ENDASAYEW, BE'HABT:
1. Canada
2. USA
3. ERITREA
4. Russia
5. Norway
6. ...
7. ....
...
...
149. Tigray - Ethiopia
150. Ethiopia

Ki Ki Ki.........

General Hayelom,
You loser, drop this name immediately before its weight crashes and flattens you to the ground. It is a name that few can and should bear. Please drop that. It is too much for you ekekam.

REDSEAMAN wrote

"I go to Asmara each year and never seen a beggar at all"
Are you joking. I just came back from Eritrea, the situation is really bad. The sad part is people like watch Eritrean Tv from their comfy sofa and tell people "There is no hunger in Eritrea" Sure you close family members my not be hungry (because you send the welfare money), you have think people in general. What I saw in my eyes was heart breaking. Heck we never even have Eritrean begging during derg Era.

what a problem is eritrea to the western countries who coudnt get what they cooked to destroy all africa countries. every african country need help but what kind of help is the main point . Eritrea realy need help but not money, food or weapon just to see the world patiently what eritrea gonna bee in short time.follow the self reliance copy eritrea way of economy you gonna wonn

I wonder why all are shouting, insulting and vomitting with silly words against Isayass. He is a beloved leader for whome they can give their life as far as the Shabia tugs and supporters everywhere are concerned. Let them live with their own misery and only the lucky ones like the recent football team in Tanzania run out. It was their choise, their government and I see no Eritrean complaining. You all talkatives shut up and let the event reveal itself!

i am really sorry to heard from brothers we eritrean dont hungry. the fact is we have the same problem like Ethiopian kenyan sudan and somalie. what make different our situation is our gov´t hidden the problem and let us to die. may be few set on sofa and watching.. but many people are dieing. what kind of mental state accept others life for the sake of his own proud? sorry..

Choosing dignity over " staying alive" is easy to do if you are not the one who is starving. I am quite sure, Isayas and his diaspora supporters would rather see many people perish due to famine than admiting not immune from drought and hence famine.
Having said that , at the end of the day " kebalebetu yeweke buda new" like the saying goes. So kudos to them! if they don't need help, they don't need help. We on the other hand will take the wheat, and the oil and we will spend our money on something that has a long term value, like our dams or hell even Tanks!!!!!
who wouldn't take a free hand out...just tell your white neigbors you will be giving out free food and you will see how many of them show up! free is good!

10 years ago, I heard from the EEBC personnel that Meles Zenawi signed a secret document tthat he will hand badme to Eritrea at a later stage when Ethiopian forget the effect of war.

Now UN says Meles ready to give back badme to Eritrea?

Senait: wrote


"Are you joking. I just came back from Eritrea, the situation is really bad. The sad part is people like watch Eritrean Tv from their comfy sofa and tell people "There is no hunger in Eritrea" Sure you close family members my not be hungry (because you send the welfare money), you have think people in general. What I saw in my eyes was heart breaking. Heck we never even have Eritrean begging during derg Era."

No joke on beggarism !!!!
may be that's your family doing that then. @games left over here and there wants to beg, what can you do.

addis adgy Zemen

That being the sight, the actual
place where the Saskuatch was suspected to inhabit is still known to be at around Arat Killo.


It's a fury tales stories for you to here a country in Africa grow food and can feed the population without foreign aid. Lol

Well, go seek for visa and travel to Eritrea to investigate, am sure you have checked some developments @GOOGL Eritrea Defense Force, and burnt to hell with your jealousy level Lol.

Mr.Carlson, you didn't answer the gentle man's question ..he asked you "did any hungry person cross the boarder?" However, he had only a paper from the internet cut and paste depllomacy every one repeat the same sentence almost the same phrase,,,How on earth you guys who denied the right choice of the Eritrean people for self determination now cary about them more than the goverment of Eritrea..very funny as if you do care about well being of Eitrean people. YOu fool me once shame on you you foul me twice shame on you. Mr.Carlson and others like you, if Eritrea needs help we are always there the diaspora we can contribute millions in one singel day and feed our people ..no get hungry as long as we are in the position to help. You may sanction us not to send many ..it will be your next agenda for so called cook it in Addis and give it to Uganda and then to Kenya countries so called independent but not really are ..they could have learned from young nation Eritrea how to leave in dignity and even die in dignity. The dogs barking but they can't stop the caravan. Sanction here sanction there ..

To those Eritreans who are saying there is no hunger in Eritrea. I have a suggestion ask your god Isias to allow to leave Eritrea to Ethiopia and see how many people will remain in your country

Mr Carson,


Save the AID Money and help your crack head famillies in ALABAMA. Africa doesn't need any of your stinking AID.

"kebalebetu yaweqe buda new", Mr Carson! In deed, Tiqur Americawi buda!

Mr Henok
please learn man born free,to say what
he or she would like to say,
not only intellectual tegrees have a right to say or not say,
some times you seems like president
Bashar Alas-ad Syria,he is a doctor
but what he did !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dear Gezae H You are absolutly right. The US Adminstration and NGOs want Eritrae to be their dumping ground like the other ever lasting begar nations in East Africa. Bravo Afeworki!! I have no objection with his self reliance policy. I apriciate also the expulsion of all NGOs, missionaries and especially dealing with English mercinaries captured in Eritrean waters. Let the Yankees and European NGOs feed their very hungry people right there in Addis Ababa under the control of TPLF. It is none of their business to meddle in Eritrea. Down with TPLF the real cause of famine in Ethiopia. Zurga the great Jole Sebeta

Go search the word ''mulnourishment'' in Ethiopian dictionary you will find it in the first page....even before the alphabet 'A'.Here is what the world talks about the truth.....

The world’s renowned author, Thomas Keneally, the author of “Schindler’s List”, on his other best-selling book titled “To Asmara” he observed:
—Quote—
“Do you know what the emergency really is? You want to hear about the really big emergency? The emergency is that if you guys [Eritreans] succeed, you’ll be an embarrassment to Africa. Who wants a setup like yours? There aren’t many governments on this continent that do. There aren’t many governments in Europe. Colored folk who can look after themselves? It isn’t viable. It upsets the world picture. Don’t you know the West has to believe famine’s an act of God? If they believe that, they only have to make a donation. But if they believe it’s an act of bloody politics, they have to really do something, and that’s too, too complicated. So what is the story? The story is you guys will fall on your own f-ucking swords, because you’ve got this crazy idea that the world will allow you to be perfect!”

“These guys are astounding! Running all this. And you know what? The world hates ‘em for it! The world hooked into the idea of ‘the helpless Africans!’”

“You know what I think? They are brave to the point of folly and they’re clever to the point of being dumb. No one absolutely no one, from Washington to Moscow, wants them to succeed. No one. … God’s even taken the rain away from them, for Christ’s sake. Even he thinks they’re wrong-headed. The sin of pride … the sin of being sharp when no one wants them to be.”
— End of Quote —

The world’s renowned author, Thomas Keneally, the author of “Schindler’s List”, on his other best-selling book titled “To Asmara” he observed:
—Quote—
“Do you know what the emergency really is? You want to hear about the really big emergency? The emergency is that if you guys [Eritreans] succeed, you’ll be an embarrassment to Africa. Who wants a setup like yours? There aren’t many governments on this continent that do. There aren’t many governments in Europe. Colored folk who can look after themselves? It isn’t viable. It upsets the world picture. Don’t you know the West has to believe famine’s an act of God? If they believe that, they only have to make a donation. But if they believe it’s an act of bloody politics, they have to really do something, and that’s too, too complicated. So what is the story? The story is you guys will fall on your own f-ucking swords, because you’ve got this crazy idea that the world will allow you to be perfect!”

“These guys are astounding! Running all this. And you know what? The world hates ‘em for it! The world hooked into the idea of ‘the helpless Africans!’”

“You know what I think? They are brave to the point of folly and they’re clever to the point of being dumb. No one absolutely no one, from Washington to Moscow, wants them to succeed. No one. … God’s even taken the rain away from them, for Christ’s sake. Even he thinks they’re wrong-headed. The sin of pride … the sin of being sharp when no one wants them to be.”
— End of Quote —

Some ignorant ethiopians (not all) do not want us to succeed because we (Eritreans)will be an embarrasment to them and the rest of Africans.

When we insult, be rude on Eritreans as well as on anybody is not productive and does not feed the hungry. As an Ethiopian I am ashamed of many whom I say are my brothers and sisters. Eritreans Work very hard and were able to prevent any kind of hunger in their country. There was constant land and water conservation that's why they have escaped this famine. They also plant trees constantly to prevent desertification. It better if we pay attention.