How Eritrean revolution produced an undemocratic and closed society
By Dawit Mesfin The book is an attempt to unravel why this small country with such a rich cultural heritage turned into one of the...
Eritrea has become a catastrophe
By Abraham Zere, head of Pen Eritrea It initially sounded like a joke; gradually it got serious and then tragic. A decade and a half...
Fifteen years ago, a deadly silence descended on Eritrea
The Eritrean exile Dawit Mesfin is a bitter man. "There is no news at all of the prisoners”, he says from London. "They have...
Rwanda, around Kigali, September 2012
Girls at a private school. They say that all their friends have sugar daddies
Photo: Petterik Wiggers/Panos Pictures Boys loiter at their usual...
Deep rooted historic schism fuels the fighting in South Sudan
Monday 18th of July: After the serious fighting that took place around the fifth independence anniversary of South Sudan on the 9th of July some...
How a village in Sierra Leone fought effectively against Ebola long before the aid workers arrived
Villagers in Sierra Leone effectively fought Ebola when the aid workers were not around