Eritrea - Ministry of Information

Of all the bad and disgraceful experiences the world has ever seen, those that have an effect on a specific or targeted group as a whole have left a dark point in history.

In the old days agricultural endeavor was manually oriented and much of the burden was left to a farmer. The harder the farmer worked the more productive he became. It all depended on him and on the tools he possessed to double the production every time. But today technology is being used as a major assisting hand in agricultural activity.

In his seminal book The Wretched of the Earth, Franz Fanon stated “better to go hungry with dignity than to eat one’s fill in slavery” (Fanon 2004: 147). The moment I encountered this passage, I quickly came to recall a famous Tigrigna proverb which states, “Tmyet neyqetl zeyshebdaEdaE.”

September 1, 2017 marks the 56th anniversary of the beginning of the Eritrean armed struggle for independence. When the peaceful political struggle for self-determination of the people of Eritrea in the 1940s and 1950s fell on deaf ears, Eritreans took up arms and September 1, 1961 was the day that opened a significant historical chapter of an armed struggle for self-determination.

The People’s Front (PF) is the strongest and best political mass organization formed in the course of the Eritrean struggle for independence and self-determination. Setting aside the long tradition of resistance against historical foreign domination, the more contemporary organized struggle for independence was begun by Mahber Fqri Hager in 1941.

News may have reached you that Eritrea remained in Tier 3 for the umpteenth year in the US State Department’s annual “trafficking in persons” (TIP) report for 2017.