Sketch
A quick pen sketch of a little girl.
July 28, 2010
Tags: Eritrea, pen, sketch Posted in: Eritrea, sketch 
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“My 15 min of ‘fame’ in Eritrea.”
A Nairobi based reporter (Shashank Bengali) tells of his live interview with Isaias on EriTV; anybody catch it?
November 3, 2009
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Eritrea country literacy report
I was surfing the net when I ran into a report on an Eritrean adult literacy program published by UNESCO in late January of 2008. Although it has few hard figures (at the end there are two good tables), it’s worth a look if you’re interested in this stuff. Small Update – I found a [...]
February 18, 2009
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Happy Independence day people
Congrats Eritrea you’re now 17, soon you will be old enough to drink.
May 23, 2008
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Training of medicine in Eritrea
I just finished a very interesting video about Geneva University Hospitals and how they are trying to advance medical service in Eritrea Training of medicine in Eritrea: Part 1 Training of medicine in Eritrea: Part 2 Here is a link to another video about Asmara’s Orotta Medical School and one more about health care in [...]
April 30, 2008
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Manzanar and Mangroves
Warning: This post has nothing to do with linguistics. I was scanning for news when I came across this: HIRGIGO, Eritrea (AFP) — Kneeling by the sparkling waters of the Red Sea, Ahmed Shengabay presses sand carefully over a mangrove seed. “When this grows, it will provide protection for fish and food for my goats,” [...]
April 18, 2008
Tags: economy, Eritrea, mangrove, manzanar, rant Posted in: Eritrea One Comment
Language, Education, and Public Policy in Eritrea
I first read this paper a few years ago, but I think it’s worth a re-read because found it to be very informative. It came out in April of 2003 in the African Studies Review, here is the abstract: After an Eritrea nationalist movement gained Eritrea’s independence from Ethiopia in 1991, the newly formed government [...]
March 5, 2008
Tags: Eritrea, language policy, Tekle M. Woldemikael Posted in: Eritrea, Journal articles, language One Comment
This seems to be bigger then I thought…
Hijab Hillary: Mrs. Clinton Wears Muslim Thing! Will the shameful photographs of Democrats wearing “race clothing” ever end? Probably not! Here’s a picture of Hillary wearing the traditional Muslim wife’s “hijab,” which is just one letter away from “jihad.” What terrible opponent is leaking this smear photo on the Internets? The William Jefferson Clinton Presidential [...]
February 26, 2008
Tags: Clinton, Eritrea, hijab, Obama Posted in: Africa, Eritrea, Tigrigna, world events No Comments
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