Today’s #Yiakl#SundaySpotlight goes out to Yohannes Tseggay Berhe, the designer & webmaster of Snitna.com, for his pioneer work in creating a platform that accommodates all Eritreans to foster their unity & his strong sense of purpose to serve the Eritrean community
Snitna.com is an Eritrean hub with rich informative & entertaining content that was founded in 2013 whose aim is "to cultivate peace, harmony & reconciliation among all Eritreans, by involving Eritreans from different walks of society, without discrimination."
Yohannes joined the struggle for independence at a very young age when he was just 16 and was assigned to work at the front lines as a medical team member. During the 6th offensive, he got severely injured and was later assigned to work at Eritrea Relief Association (ERA).
After independence, against all the health challenges he was facing, Yohannes managed to excel in his academic and professional life. He got his Masters in Agricultural Development & a BA in Accounting and Finance.
Having worked in a number of Humanitarian relief organizations in Eritrea and the UK, he eventually moved to Information Technology where he currently uses this expertise to run a very proactive website and support different Eritrean media and social media outlets.
Yohannes co-operates with
✅ A number of media outlets, namely websites, main-stream TV services such as ATV, AlenaMedia-TV and ERISAT, by exchanging materials and posting;
✅Radio-stations in live-stream promotion, recording, video-editing & posting on Youtube, e.g., Radio Voice of Eritrea, Ngabae Broadcasting, Radio Saeyob, and Radio Aserna. Also keeps archives of past shows of the aforesaid;
✅Social-media outlets, namely Paltalk Rooms, Facebook Live-streamers and YouTubers. The service includes technical advice, live show recording, editing and production of videos for YouTube.
Yohannes plays a tremendous role in helping raise awareness of justice, human-rights, democracy, social, cultural, health and political issues, by collecting and collating relevant materials as well as by recording live-shows and seminars
He researches materials of public interest and pools the necessary links and documents in one post or place so as to help people look from various angles and help them make their own judgments. He also provides documentary archives to serve as resources for researchers.
Yohannes also runs a YouTube channel as an extension of the website. His channel has 100s of videos with a total view of 3,875,354.
Yohannes is also one of the founding campaigners of the “Eritrean Veterans Day” whose main objective is to acknowledge the services of Eritrean Veterans who put their lives to liberate & protect our country & to bring all ex-fighters together regardless of which Front (ELF/EPLF)
Thank you Yohannes for your passionate and exemplary hard work to bring #Eritrean|s together by providing a platform that accommodates #Eritrea|ns from all walks of life. Your service, determination & noble work is much appreciated.
Lidiya is a 21 years old prominent activist & organizer who has been passionately involved with her Eritrean community from a very young age.
Ever since she witnessed the daunting & overwhelming plight of Eritrean refugees in Libya, Lidiya got determined not to sit back & watch.
Instead, she picked up the slack left by the organizations which simply abandoned these refugees, and found a way to provide financial and moral support to these refugees and make meaningful contributions to help ease their suffering.
Today’s #Yiakl#SundaySpotlight goes out to Habtom Yohannes (@Kinzareb) in acknowledgment of his long-standing unwavering advocacy for Eritrean Prisoners of Conscience and his passion to support Eritreans with his expertise in journalism.
Habtom Yohannes is an Eritrean-Dutch human rights activist, a senior editor with extensive experience within the Dutch media, lecturer, advisor & moderator. He continuously raises the issues of #Eritrea|n prisoners & uses every opportunity/platform to demand that they get justice
As a passionate activist, he has been putting the violation of human rights in #Eritrea on the agenda of the Dutch parliament, the European Parliament, the African Union and the United Nations. @Europarl_EN@_AfricanUnion@UN
Today’s #Yiakl#SundaySpotlight goes out to the organizers of @RemEPOC in acknowledgment of their important initiative to help keep the memories of disappeared Eritreans alive until they get justice.
Remembering Eritrean Prisoners of Conscience @RemEPOC is a social media campaign that is dedicated to daily remembering at least one Eritrean Prisoner of Conscience and an accompanying daily narrative of the human rights situation of #Eritrea.
#Eritrea today is a country where its best daughters & sons, including its sheiks, priests, pastors, ministers, diplomats, civil servants, army leaders, teachers, conscripts, poets, newspaper editors, singers, merchants, veterans and faith communities are illegally disappeared.
Today’s #Yiakl#SundaySpotlight goes out to Tsedal Yohannes in acknowledgment of her perseverance, commitment and courage to advocate for #Eritrean prisoners of conscience.
Despite the emotional toll, Tsedal is a very determined woman who is oftentimes seen in the streets of London, Geneva, Brussels and other parts of the world campaigning for the rights of #Eritrea|n prisoners.
Today’s #Yiakl#SundaySpotlight goes out to Ahmed Raji in acknowledgment of his consistent work as a citizen journalist and his commitment to highlighting and archiving the stories of disappeared #Eritrean|s.
Ahmed as a citizen journalist and a strong advocate for #Eritrean prisoners of consciences is a frequent writer at @awate2 and archives disappeared Eritreans stories on his Facebook page - "Eritrea's Disappeared".
Ahmed started writing at @awate2 in 2003 while still living in Asmara, #Eritrea. In order to protect his identity, the Awate Team gave him the name “Events Monitor”.
Today’s #Yiakl#SundaySpotlight is dedicated to Eritrean activists and campaigners who have actively been addressing the very urgent issue of famine happening in #Eritrea.
This is an acknowledgment to the organizers of #EritreanHiddenFamine and #SaveDenkalia of their quick action in raising awareness to the famine brought by the Eritrean government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
After the government of Eritrea announced a lock down of many parts of the country due to COVID-19, reports of people starving and pleading families in the diaspora for help started surfacing. #EritreanHiddenFamine#SaveDankalia