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
Stories like one Eritrean mother calling her relative in diaspora who she never once asked for help desperately pleading for aid because of the conditions in Eritrea moved the EHF organizers in diaspora to raise awareness of the Hidden Famine in #Eritrea.
EHF organizers are mainly made of young Eritrean activists in diaspora. In order to shed light on the issue they quickly decided to hold a demonstration to raise awareness of the famine in #Eritrea. The EHF demonstration was held in the DMV Area on August 8th.
#SaveDenakalia Eritrean activists also joined the demo to raise awareness of the man-made famine and continue to raise funds for thousands of people affected by hunger in Denkalia. #Eritrea
Currently in #Eritrea food prices have skyrocketed, the supplies that exist are woefully insufficient, and water shortages threaten the health of the people. #Yiakl!
Let's all join and support these activist who have made this a priority during this dire time.
Please sign the petition and help raise awareness on the Eritrean famine by sharing the petition on your page and across all social media to pressure the Eritrean government to provide relief to our families in #Eritrea. secure.avaaz.org/community_peti…
Thank you to the #EritreanHiddenFamine and #SaveDankalia activists who are actively working to bring awareness to the famine in Eritrea.
Let's all share & join our brothers and sisters on this effort by signing the Eritrean Hidden Famine petition now.
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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”.
Kiki Tseggai is an #Eritrean writer, who is known for her perseverance, courage and strong desire to see a vibrant and prosperous Eritrea. She goes by “Fikrey Birhin” on Facebook, in honor of the love of her life - Birhin.
Her husband Berhane (Birhin) was imprisoned and murdered by the Ethiopian gov't 41 years ago. Berhin, the love of her life, was tragically taken away from her and her children and to this day, she shares the pain and grief her family and families like hers continue to endure.