Eritreas veränderte Rolle am Horn von Afrika
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Active duty: Young Nic (right) on patrol while serving as a Game Warden in the Simien Mountains of northern Ethiopia in the late 1960s. The man on the left, with a rifle slung over his shoulder, was Assistant Warden Mesfin Abebe, and the two men behind were local vigilantes who joined us in pursuit of illegal loggers. C.W. NICOL PHOTOS
OLD NIC S NOTEBOOK
Reflections on feelings and farmland born of an exciting time spent serving Haile Selassie
By C.W. NICOL
On March 15 just gone, this newspaper carried an excellent but disturbing article by John Vidal, environment editor of the London-based Guardian newspaper. He wrote about food shortages and land-grabbing in Africa, and I was particularly troubled to read about deals going on to sell Ethiopian land to foreign investors. In the article, an Ethiopian government spokesperson was quoted as saying that Ethiopia has 74 million hectares of fertile land, of which only 15 percent is currently in use mainly by subsistence
Creative resilience: How Eritrean migrants used art to cope with despair
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Under the most trying of circumstances, Eritrean refugees found ways to harness creativity and foster channels for their voices to be heard.
Amidst the pandemic during winter lockdown in the UK, I met Yordanos and her friend on Friday, November 13. We saw each other from across the street, as I was on my way to the supermarket. We made eye contact and I decided to walk over as I could immediately tell they were fellow Eritrean women.
We continued locking eyes until I stopped right in front of them, about 2 metres away, and they asked me if I was Eritrean to which I said yes (with tremendous enthusiasm, subconsciously hoping I can relieve a smidgen of their pain; the unimaginable trauma of having to be involuntarily uprooted, to migrate and smuggle your way into what you hope is a better life).