Eritrean Afar form new political organization to fight against dictatorship in Eritrea
The Afar cultural genocide in Eritrea prompts new united efforts against Eritrean government
March 1, 2018 | Following months of talks and intense negotiations, several political action groups opposed to the historical persecution and ethnic-cleansing of the Indigenous Afar people in the African pariah state of Eritrea, have agreed to focus their collective efforts under the banner of a new organization: the Eritrean Afar National Congress (EANC).
This new organization, which will hold a unity conference in Sweden in June 2018, will combine the forces of the Eritrean Afar State in Exile (EANC), the Eritrean Afar Democratic Movement (EADM) and former members of several Afar opposition groups under one umbrella as a united front against the dictatorial Eritrean regime. [Read more]