We hope translation of the interview with President Isaias Afwerki will be completed by next Monday or Tuesday. The interview is 4 hours long and we want to make sure that the translation is as accurate as possible. Until then, here are more photos from the beautiful city of Asmara, the cleanest city in Africa. It is more clean and safe than Washington DC. By contrast, the savage Woyannes turned Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s once beautiful and vibrant capital, into the 6th dirtiest city in the world, according to Forbes Magazine.
Roma Cinima, Asmara. It is amazing how clean Asmara is, even by Western standard
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Asmara’s Merkato
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Despite the military preparedness due to the ongoing state of war with the Woyanne regime in Ethiopia, there is a massive residential housing development in Asmara. This construction site is at the outskirt of Asmara. Many of the houses are being built by Eritreans residing in Europe and the U.S. and some of them look like mansions.
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More housing development.
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Elias Kifle of Ethiopian Review (middle), Sileshi Tilahun of EPPF (left), and Arbegna Mengistu of EPPF Radio (right) at a cafe in Asmara, May 12, 2009. Arbegna Mengistu joined EPPF 5 years ago as a fighter. Before that, he was a reporter for Wonchif Newspaper in Addis Ababa. He joined EPPF when Woyanne tried to arrest him for reporting about EPPF activities. After serving as a fighter and political officer for several years, he was recently transferred to the EPPF press office to work on producing a radio program. In one of the many gun battles with the Woyanne army he was hit with a bullet that now causes him to limp when he walks. EPPF is full of patriotic Ethiopians like Arbegna Mengistu who are shedding their blood to free Ethiopia from the Woyanne fascist regime.
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64 thoughts on “Asmara, the cleanest city in Africa”
Elias is doing good job for which true Ethiopians will always come to remember him as a bridge builder while Wayane dictators will remember him as a threat to their reckless robbery and endless brutal human rights violations as has always been testified and recorded and reported by the various human rights groups and the USA government foreign ministry.
Wayane minority dictatorship is trembling and shivering out of great fear, as a result of which they rushed to beg some of the US policy makers (Dick?)to condemn Eritrea not to pressure Wayane.
From the other front the same Great Fear and insecurity led Wayane to rush down south and build trenches inside Somaia inorde to make sure that EPPF boys may not come in through that area while blocking roads leading up north to Gojjam and Gondar.
It is a pity that such a great country like Ethiopia is forced to be a fortified prison house for 80 million good people with Wayane doing its prison guarding self made jobs and nothing more. :)
Hanna,
Don’t get sleep less over an olive branch offer by follow Ethiopian to his kin and kinds. Who hate peace overture. Wake up what the dude is doing is beatifull. I wish to see more of him. Elias I commend you for the exemplary work you are doing. Keep up the good work and I can’t wait to hear the interview entirely. As an Eritrean I have been waiting for such a positive event from my brothers in south. This baby step will further the relation of the two people. Peace to all and thank you Elias.
Ewnetu Tefera= a poetic name for a silly individual.
You are a part-Time and emotional kind of thinker thinks he knows something while he knows nothing.
The only thing Tribalist woyane fear is anything against them coming from Eritrea. They fears even their shadow, the wind or rain when they know it has to do with Eritrea. There feeling towards Eritrea is transforming them with in second like rats seeing any Eritrean like a cat, they are feeling like dogs while feeling Eritreans are their masters One Tribalist Tigre in Ethiopia today acts like a wolf among thousands sheep making their life in misery. But, when they see one Eritrean, thousands of them feel down and wear their inferiority cloth from top and down and acts as if they are hiding or surrendering an Eritrean.
You have no idea who really they are. They are happy to start an all out wars inflaming Ethiopia beyond Tigry boundary. The same time they are living in fear and depressing feeling if any meaningful war started in Tigry coming from Eritrea. Because they know, the day any meaningful war started through Eritrea against them, it will be their end. They are there because Eritrea is not working hard and honestly to confront them with decisive actions through their weakness. Their weakness is clear and known to Ethiopians and Eritreans. Their Tribalism system, kilil, looting the nation and holding all and very important positions in the country are among the may weakness they have. The Ethiopian people know that keeping all in silent, just waiting the time to blow like bomb on them.
To make it clear, woyane is living in a constant cancer from his head thinking in any moment will come any meaningful attack through Eritrea. They know, this front is the only one can save Ethiopia from their atrocity and stopping everything illegal going on in Tigry. It is up to Eritrea working with courageous Ethiopians for Mutual benefit together to eliminate woyane that is affecting all of us. I’m 100% sure, Eritrea will better of with out woyane that with woyane. No matter how the situation will change, there will be no any meaningful relationship and benefit between Ethiopia and Eritrea as long as woyanes are holding Ethiopia.
The generations to come mistrust, hostilities and irreconcilable situations are already became the biggest fences/walls between woyane and its supporters on one side and Eritreans on the other. Speaking Tigrigna will not help as we know Blacks, whites and the world are speaking the same language such as English, Arabic,Spanish and the likes. Master enslaves a slave while communicating with the same language. Only human behaviours are the major deciding factors to be associating and being friend to one another. So, woyane and its supporters have to see the situation with Eritrea this way, not in a wrong way.
Good Job Elias! Keep up the good work. Ethiopian needs few brave men like you. If it had not been for you we wouldn’t have access to a number of secrets and information.
God Bless Elias!!
well
he is doing what he believes WAS A SUBSTANTIAL BUT MISSING INGREDIENT THAT MUST BE INCLUDED IN THE ONGOING STRUGGLE FOR NORMALISING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ERITREA AND ETHIOPIA BEYOND THE HORIZON!!!not for the sake of eritrea isayas or meles for that matter.SO WHAT!!!
FOR YOUR SURPRISE THERE IS HARDLY ANY OPPOSITION WHICH HAS NOT CONSIDERED OR CONSIDERING A WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH SHABEA OPENLLY OR SECRETLLY!!! BELIEVE IT OR NOT!!!!
THERE MUST NOT BE LIMITATION OR BOUNDRY IN OUR COLLECTIVE STRUGLE TO TOPPLE THE TPLF AND THE SAME HAS BEEN TRUE FOR THE TPLF AGAINST THE OPPOSITIONS,FOR THAT REASON ONLY, I DONT SEE ANY CONTROVERSY IN WORKING WITH SHABEA.
WE SHOULD ALSO REMEMBER THAT ERITREA HAS BEEN A SUBSTANTIAL ELEMENT IN THE FOUNDATION OF REVOLUTIONARY MOVMENTS IN ETHIOPIA WHICH IS A UNIQE/GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY WHICH WE WILL NEVER GET IT FROM OUR NEGHBOURING COUNTRIES.
JUST WAITING FOR THE INTERVIEW!!!!
I think it is fair enough to admire and report on what is wittnesed as a reporter or as a journalist.
Asmara has been praised by so many here before. It is the only true what Elias and his pal are saying.
The important thing is that we the people of the Horn of Africa should respect each other and do not follow the faulty and damaging road of the current and former leaders of Ethiopia. That is expantionism. If we are smart enough we just have to reject to negative qonotation and start to make the best out of every thing. Let the regime in Addis (Woyane) leave Ethiopia Eritrea and Somalia live in peace and harmony. I bet with out the Woaynes, the Horn of Africa will brew the best of the best financialy, politically and above all frindship among peoples.
Elias,
You are the best! If Ethiopia had more sons like you, she would have been free from these chigaram weyanes long time ago.
It makes me wonder why all the people who write negative about Elias don’t write their name as Gebretsadiq, LetenchiEl, Kindiy, Mehari, Tsadqan, instead they write their names as Mamo, Tefera, Hellen, Hana, Wendumu, Jilalo, names like that and they call to woyane, as woyane like every one of us. It is because they are trying to make us believe that they are against the woyane, and they are not Tigrayans. At some point I read someone saying some bad things about the ONLF, OLF, EPPF but not about TPDM it makes me wounded why is that. With that in mind I also believe that there are other people who are not happy to hear good things about Eritrea especially if that good news comes from an Ethiopian journalist. As Elias said at one time, it is your obligation to unite your own people not the Eritrean government’s obligation to do that. Elias did not go to Eritrea to negation about the Ethio-Eri boarder or did not say Ethiopian took land from Eritrea, he want there for other purposes, that purpose is to create friendship relation between Eritreans and Ethiopians. Let be honest in here who created the big enmity among those respected people, it is the wayane. People like Gebru Ass-Rat (Asrat) and Seye Abraha . If you claiming Elias is getting money for traveling to Eritrea, then the government of Eritrea has lots of money to pay to all those freedom fighters like TPDM, ONLF, OLF, EPPF because their offices are in Eritrea. Peace in Ethiopia is Peace for Eritrea, thus we Eritreans have no ill wish toward Ethiopia. All we care is that you guys have peace with each other and have good brotherly neighboring with us.
Dearest Elias Thanks for your effort to bring ethiopians and eritrean cloth together. We are brothers and sisters. Though we are now not at good terms because of Weyane´s policy divide and rule, all the same when Weyane fall apart we will be the best neighbours. And this will be happen when every ethiopian or Eritrean works to word this end. Peace is the only solution for the mesery of our people at home. Thank you so much. You did a big job. I hope others will follow you.
DEAR ELIAS,, am really happpy for wat u have done & wrote yEAO asmara is really a clean city more than any cities in Africa
Great job Elias ..you bring love and togetherness to the people of eritrea and ethiopian….
wedi Asmara
Asmara is a run down colonial city.Let alone to compare it to Addis,it can not even compete with any province of Ethiopia.Tigrai,the poorest province in Ethiopia exports 300 million us $ vs 50 million yearly.The GDP OF Dijibuti and Somalia is much greater than Eritrea.
Ya its very clean, also think Windhoek (NAMIBIA) is quite clean or swakopmund
I’d like to visit Eritrea. The rest of my family has been, so I’ve heard many amazing stories about the history and the people of this land. Of course, due to the political unrest (on both sides of the border) people were generally advised not to go. I’m Ethiopian. I don’t speak any Tigrigna. I hold a foreign passport, which I hope would help. What are your thoughts? I grew up back when we really didn’t care about who was from where, despite what I read here, I still believe that people are people, and this is coming from a well traveled soul.