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This interview took place in Eritrea during the Eritrea-Ethiopia border war (1998-2000). The conflict started over a border dispute between the two countries for the control of the town of Badme.
After World War II, Ethiopia claimed Eritrea as part of its national territory, once both...
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This interview took place in Eritrea during the Eritrea-Ethiopia border war (1998-2000). The conflict started over a border dispute between the two countries for the control of the town of Badme.
After World War II, Ethiopia claimed Eritrea as part of its national territory, once...
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Eritrea was in a state of war when Kees traveled to it in 1999. The Eritrean–Ethiopian War took place from May 1998 to June 2000. The war resulted in an Ethiopian military victory.
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Cornelis “Kees” Hulsman and Martin are discussing the demographics of Eritrea. According to...
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The Battle of Tsorona was part of the ongoing Eritrean–Ethiopian border conflict. This conflict started on the 6th of May, 1998 and has continued to the present in the form of periodic clashes between the Eritrean and Ethiopian armies. The last battle fought in Tsorona was in 2016. It...
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This is an interview with Shaykh al-ʾAmīn ʿUthmān al-ʾAmīn the Muftī of Eritrea. He graduated from the Azhar University in Cairo, and was then sent as an envoy from the Azhar to Eritrea. He worked as a teacher in the Religious Institute in Eritrea. After that, he became a judge in...
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Eritrean official Eskain Menkerior explains Eritrea’s policy towards NGOs and Eritrea’s opposition to religious-sectarian political organisations. Another official from the Eritrean Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare explains the role of the ministry in reducing unemployment,...
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Eritrean officials give insights to their government’s social and educational development programmes and an assessment on current social statistics. Turning to the Eritrean-Ethiopian War, he talks from an Eritrean point of view about the course of the war, the role of the OAU, EU and UN...
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The recording contains interviews with three Eritreans who had been deported from Ethiopia. Their personal stories provide an insight to the Ethiopian deportation program and methods in this period.
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The deportees tell their stories:
Rosa Berhane (17): she was deported from the...
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This is an interview with two of the three or four last remaining Jews of Eritrea. They are speaking about the history of the Jewish community in Eritrea after the Second World War, Jewish life in Eritrea, Israel, and their own thoughts on emigrating.
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One of the two remaining...
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Eritrean Minister of Foreign Affairs Haile Woldense provides an Eritrean view on the Eritrean-Ethiopian war and his administration’s efforts to prevent it.
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The Eritrean Foreign Minister, Haile Woldense, talks in a press conference about the Eritrean-Ethiopian War. He states...
Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.