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For Social Justice, Unity and National Sovereignty: IWD 2012 Celebrated in Eritrea like Never Before

by Rahel Weldeab | April 1, 2012 at 11:04 PM

Where the grand majority of countries around the world acknowledge International Women’s Day in a gesture similar to Mother’s Day, giving small gifts to the women in their lives, this occasion is an o … Read More»

Poem to the Eritrean Mother

by Rahel Weldeab | March 12, 2012 at 1:28 AM

When the oppression began, you knew things were going to be bad That there would be pain, suffering and agony, that the journey ahead would be sad But from the beginning you knew what to do … Read More»

Finding meaning in life in the midst of conflict to build a future of peace in the Horn of Africa

by Rahel Weldeab | January 23, 2012 at 12:33 PM

Just about all of my close friends had left the country on an evacuation a couple of weeks before 23 May 2000. … Read More»

Not a woman leader but a leader who happens to be a woman: Saba promotes the Horn of Africa’s potential for peace

by Rahel Weldeab | December 13, 2011 at 12:14 AM

She doesn’t consider herself a woman leader, a feminist or an activist. … Read More»

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For Social Justice, Unity and National Sovereignty: IWD 2012 Celebrated in Eritrea like Never Before

Poem to the Eritrean Mother

Finding meaning in life in the midst of conflict to build a future of peace in the Horn of Africa

Not a woman leader but a leader who happens to be a woman: Saba promotes the Horn of Africa’s potential for peace