Almost 32 years ago, Eritrea developed a decent macroeconomic policy that was a good fit for a post-war, low-income, coastal-state.
It was a classic East Asian Tiger growth plan: export-focused growth based in agriculture and diversified manufacturing and services.
It was to be led by strong State that mobilizes the economy without dominating it: another document which was produced the same year, the National Charter, was going to ensure the delivery of democracy, gradually, with the ruling party guiding it. That was the vision.
The reality: an Eritrea that sees democracy, guided or unguided, as a national threat and a narrow, Party-centric, State-centric, Diaspora-funded, mining-based economy which has averaged a measly 4%-5% per year.
It has been a lost decade, repeated three times.
What happened?
https://t.co/90O8e4oChB
The atrocities and violence committed against Sudanese civilians are heartbreaking 💔! STOP the war now. #UAE and other countries should stop funding the war and genocide that is happening in #Sudan. #Stopwarnow
▶️ Relive the last km of stage 1 won by a dominant 🇧🇪 @JasperPhilipsen.
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▶️ Relive the last km of stage 1 won by a dominant 🇧🇪 @JasperPhilipsen.
▶️ Revivez le dernier km de cette 1ère étape remportée largement par 🇧🇪 @JasperPhilipsen.
#TDF2025
@Chakham_Analyst Pro tip: Nations aren't invalid just because colonizers gave them names. Otherwise, America, Australia, and half of Africa would all be “scams.”
But go on — tell us how maps work. We’ll bring popcorn next time. 5/5 #Eritrea
@Chakham_Analyst Calling Eritreans “cult-like” for defending their existence, while pretending Ethiopia's modern borders descended from heaven, isn’t just bad scholarship — it’s historical fan fiction.
Thanks for the laughs though, professor. Comedy gold. 4/5 #Eritrea
@Eritreanview@FikreJesus I don’t see any reason to celebrate. Eritrea’s economy is so stagnant and strangled that even "unstable Somalia" and "tiny Djibouti" surpass us in export volume. Smh!
Ciham Ali Abdu was born 28 years ago today in Los Angeles, CA. She was abducted by the government of #Eritrea, near the border of #Sudan, on December 8, 2012, when she was 15 years old, as she was trying to do what 683,000 #Eritreans have done before and since: escape from the police state of Eritrea.
She hasn’t been heard from since. She has had no visitation by family or friends.
Attempts to exit the country are so common Eritreans who are caught are imprisoned for months not years. Her prolonged abduction is to punish her father, former Information Minister Ali Abdu, who disassociated himself from the regime in 2012.
Her abduction violates many of Eritrea’s domestic laws and international treaty the country is a signatory to. Ciham has spent 12 years and 4 months of her 28 years in this planet (44% of her young life) as a hostage whose whereabouts are unknown
@JamesFoleyFund@StateSPEHA
Bini celebrates his 25th anniversary today 💚
Drop your favourite memory of him on the #TDF2024@GrmayeBiniam fête aujourd’hui ses 25 ans 🌟
Commente ton souvenir préféré de lui sur le #TDF2024
I just finished watching the BBC Africa 👁 documentary on the opioid crisis that is devastating the West African countries, Uyyyyyy🥲! I wanted to take a moment to give an appreciation to the work @MulugetaRussom et al. are doing on the area of pharmacovigillance in #Eritrea.
In memory of the #Lampedusa tragedy on October 3, 2013, where more than 300 #Eritrean s lost their lives in a shipwreck while seeking refuge. May their hopes and the search for safety be remembered.
This will be a catastrophic environmental disaster to all countries that share the #RedSea. I am so mad at the lack of action/attention by governments in the region. Not even alarmed 😏! So pathetic!
#Eritrea#SaudiArabia#Djibouti#Sudan#Yemen#Egypt 😡🌍🌊
Sad News: @VOATigrigna is reporting that Berhane Abrehe, #Eritrea|s former Minister of Finance who was arrested shortly after he wrote a highly critical book of President Isaias Afwerki’s leadership, has died in prison.
https://t.co/7p6QvfBNur
He was never charged with a crime, nor brought to a court of law.
“death by prison” is one of the most common execution tools of the Eritrean regime.