Teklemariam Bekit Editor, BBC Tigrinya AFP via Getty Images For many Eritreans, the hopes of the early days of the presidency of Isaias (left in 1994) have been dashed 30 years later Once hailed as part of a new generation of reformist African leaders, Eritrea’s president, who recently marked 32 years in power, has long...
As the sun set over Lake Turkana, a mother sobbed and threw flowers into the greenish-blue water to remember her teenage daughter who had drowned trying to reach Kenya via a new route being used by people smugglers. Senait Mebrehtu, a Pentecostal Christian Eritrean who had sought asylum in Kenya three years ago, made the...