THE WESTERN media has been portraying the Eritrean president Issayas Afeworki as some sort of saint, sent from heaven to bring salvation to Africa, as a so-called new generation leader. The last six years since Eritrea got its independence after 30 years of war against Ethiopia tell also a different story compare to the rest of Africa.
One may as Where the democratic institutions, the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press are in Eritrea but all that is missing because of the devastating war with Ethiopia for 30 long years.It takes generations to bring about radical changes in conservative societies as the eritrean one. No one is in any illusion about that.
Afeworki may not be champion of democracy but it is important that the world community know the very fact that the country is progressing in terms of soicio-economc and health sector relatively well in comparison to the countries in the region.The horn of Africa is not probably the most stable and prosporous region, Eritrea seems though to be the exception at this moment.
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OY asswipe
Go and live in the the oasis of democracy that is Ethiopia, kenya, South Africa that we are being told by US, are democratic.
I approve of the points made about me in the New African letter to the editors. I have no reservations whatsoever.
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