I heard from reliable Eritrean friend that upon flipping past files, the state department discovered only unpaid student loan borrowed by Yemane Gebreab when he was pursuing his graduate studies in University of Washington in Seattle.
The whole UN sanction against Eritrea was misguided. The inclusion of Yemane Gebreab's name in Obama's list but not in UN's list shows that the sanction is more and less posturing than real threat. There are rumors that an intensive diplomatic activities mediated by Qatar are underway and for now US Admin’s has opted to include Yemane Gebreab's name to appease Meles’ regime which has been nagging the state department to impose harsh sanction on Eritrea. US’s decision to just single out one name was not taken well by Meles and Eritrean opposition groups.
Sources from African Desk at the state department reveal that Eritrean opposition group and IGAD coined a lengthy list of Eritrean political figures to be included in the sanction's list. Now the irony UNSC facing is that since it categorized Eritrea's role in Somalia as "diminished or invisible", it would be very hard to include all those names provided by IGAD and Eritrean opposition groups. So the inclusion of Yemane in the list from Obama's office is more of an appeasement than real action.
BTW, The owner of Delina.org was very instrumental in compiling a list of Eritrean officials names for State department officials who were very astounded by the personal interest and determination of the CEO of AlemSoft and publisher of Delina.org to see Eritrean officials punished to the bone!



