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Ms. Rigbe Woldemariam, Head of the NUEW branch in Mendefera Sub-zone, stated that following sustainable awareness-raising campaign the prevalence of harmful practices witnessed noticeable decline.

At a meeting she conducted with the inhabitants of Adi-Qidabet, Ms. Rigbe pointed out that even though harmful practices affecting women have been reduced there is still the need for additional effort to that end.

Meanwhile, Mr. Solomon Russom, Head of social services in the Southern region, said that FGM and Under age marriages have been among the bottlenecks for women’s development and called on the public in general and parents in particular to combat such instances.

The local inhabitants on their part said that awareness-raising program has enabled them to enrich their knowledge as regards consequences of harmful practices and expressed resolve to reinforce joint efforts to put an end to the remaining practices.

The conservation of forests and wildlife is a national responsibility and one not to be left to a single institution, Cap. Tsehaie Tekle, Head of the Forestry and Wildlife Authority branch in the Northern Red Sea region underlined.

He also called on the general public to assume responsibility in preserving national natural resources in general forests and wildlife in particular.

Cap. Tekle further indicated that the preservation activities conducted in the preservation sites in Debre-Bizen, Dengolo and Solomuna have witnessed encouraging outcome as regards development of ecological diversity.

Cap. Tsehaie also called for more active popular participation in reforestation of barren areas in the Sub-zones of Foro and Gelalo, in addition to cooperating with forestry preservation staff to preserve trees from being cut by poachers.

Vegetables and Fruit Farmers Association in Barentu City and its environs as well as in Dase and Anagule held founding congress on 31 October.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Mr. Yonas Tesfagabir from the Ministry of Agriculture branch in Gash Barka region, underlined the significant contribution the association would make in exchanging experience among the local community. He also explained that the Association would enable the farmers to have better access to market and play due role in stabilizing the market.

The head of the Vegetable

Crops of families of martyrs in the Administrative areas of Sela-Daero, Adomzemat, Abarda’e and Kutmowli’e, Gala-Nefhi Sub-zone, have been harvested through popular campaign. Reports indicated that more than 650 students from the sub-zone took part in the campaign.

The students stated that they feel honored to assist the families of martyr as a gesture of respect for the noble price the fallen heroes paid for the common cause and to keep aloft the trust of martyrs.

The families of martyrs in the sub-zone on their part expressed satisfaction for the initiative taken by the students and for the fact that the younger generation has inherited the noble national values of cooperation.

An assessment meeting on this year’s Students Summer Work Program was conducted in Assab. Mr. Berhane Gebregziabher, Head of Secondary Schools in the Southern Red Sea region, said that effective soil and water conservation activities were undertaken through the participation of about 300 students.

He commended the active participation of different governmental and service-rendering institutions, including the Fisheries Corporation.

Mr. Humed Ali, Director General of Social Services in the region, stated on his part that the Summer Work Program has been highly instrumental in environment restoration and above all in inculcating the spirit of hard work among the youth.

The participants of the Program stressed the need to keep intact the tree seedlings planted at the martyrs cemetery and along the main streets of the Port City of Assab.

The National Union of Eritrean Women branch in Europe conducted annual assessment meeting in Frankfurt, Germany, from 25 to 30 October.

The meeting which was attended by President of the NUEW, Ms. Tekea Tesfamicael, stressed on the need to identify the achievements and shortcomings of the Union for a successful outcome and map out future programs.

The participants discussed topics related to the role of women in national development endeavors, the achievements

AnnuAl Activity Assessment meeting of nueW in europe

registered in connection with national development programs, the activities carried out as regards raising awareness and empowerment of women’s organization as well as efforts conducted to show the true image of the Union.

Moreover, seminars pertaining to sharing experience, conflict resolution, the objective and motive of psychological warfare as well as nurturing competent and resourceful youth were conducted.

Chairwoman of the NUEW Europe branch, Ms. Nigisti Tsegai, called on the participants

to back the national development programs.

In the same vein, members of different national associations in Switzerland held seminars on 30 October in Berne.

The Charge d’Affairs at the Eritrean Embassy in Switzerland, Mr. Bereket Woldeyohannes, indicated that the harmony between the people and Government of Eritrea is the cornerstone for the success of the national development endeavors. He also called for strengthening participation in the efforts to ensure social justice and economic development.

vegetAbles And fruit fArmers AssociAtion set up

and Fruits Development in the region, Mr. Mulugeta Hagos on his part called on the newly elected executive members of the association to work towards capacity building of members and for the development and increased productivity of the association.

Presently, there exist 25 registered Vegetable and Fruit Farmers Association in Barentu Sub-zone cultivating a total of 110 hectares.

It is also worth noting that 8 Vegetable and Fruits Farmers Association in Gash Barka region are conducting praiseworthy activities.

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conserving forests And Wildlife A priority tAsk: report

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mendeferA: hArmful prActices on the decline

It is conventional wisdom to understand the existing strong bond between sport and military. Sport in the military is crucial to develop physical fitness, advance sprit, promote unity and harmony, instill discipline and relieve boredom. In Eritrea’s military tradition, sport is not a phenomenon which developed post-independence. Even during the armed struggle, after the strategic withdrawal of 1978 behind trenches of Sahel, especially North Eastern Sahel Front, sport was very popular. In the very challenging years of armed struggle three sport events were held in 1981, 1987, 1989. These particular junctures of time in the history of sports among the military during the revolutionary struggle magnify the popular sport legacy in Eritrea’s military tradition.

In the first five years after Eritrea was liberated, sport was not organized consistently and at higher level. It was only dependent on the operational unit level (brigade, battalion and company) initiatives. But in1997-1998 organized wide range sport event by the then Ground Force was organized. Again with the outbreak of the TPLF invasion of Eritrea’s sovereign land 1998 that led to a three years’ war, sport was interrupted. In 2001, with the establishment of Information and Agitation Office in the Ministry of Defense, sport again become very popular. As a result of the sport initiative, sport clubs from the Burie Front, Alitena Front, Ksad-ika Front, Mereb Setit Front and Sawa Training Center, participated in the

Eritrean Defense Forces Sport: a Popular Event in Eritrea

sport match of 2001. Major Tesfazgi Habtay, Head of sport branch in the Information and Agitation office of the Ministry of Defense, said that in 2001 the sport activity focused on football, volleyball, and athletics on both genders. But following the massive female demobilization in 2004 female sport activity has been terminated until this year. From 2001-2010 the EDF sport season was taking place every year. But from 2010 until now the sport event at Ministry Defense level is held every two years.” Says Major Tesfazgi. The reason for the extension of time is to enhance sport activity at division level by organizing sport event in each zonal command in every odd number year. As a result, sport remains an important activity within EDF members with no slack year of sport.

The Information and Agitation

office, beyond hosting and organizing sport competition, works hard on training of referees and coaches as a mechanism for capacity building. As the result of previous efforts, a number of federal judges, (which means people who can judge on their respective area of sport at national level) and in coaching also have level “B” CAF license. According to Major Tesfazgi, the effort of holding such sports’ competitions, “… is not only promoting sport benefits for the sportsmen or enhancing unit harmony, upgrade fighting sprit but to provide excellent public visibility of the defense force by building a strong sport club which is named Denden Club to represent Ministry of Defense at national sport events”. As a result of previous efforts, even at international sports, EDF has come with a number of Olympic medalists. To mention some of them, Nebeyat Habtmaryam, Samson Kfilemariam, Yared Asmerom, Nguse Amlesom, Eskiel Tewelde are members of the Eritrean Defense Forces. Mountain world Champions

are also from EDF. Petro Mamo, Azerya Teklay, Abraham Kidane are also some of them. Five out of the fifteen Eritreans who participated in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games were EDF members. This reflects how the Eritrean Defense Forces is contributing to national pride and progress in sport.The Information and Agitation office of the Ministry of Defense is member of international organizations such as IMSC, OSMA, ECALO with similar interest and function in promoting sport within the military. IMSC (International Military Sports Council) which is commonly known with its French acronym CISM established in1948 to promote sport activity and physical education among armed forces as a means to foster world peace. Eritrea became member of CISM in a congress held in Dubai in 2002. Eritrea as a member of this organization pays its annual

membership fee, participates in conferences. CISM organizes various sporting events including Military World Games and World Military Cup for the armed forces of 134 member countries. Eritrea is active member of this largest multi-sport discipline organization which holds more than 20 competitions annually. IMSC also has its sub-branches such as OSMA (Organization Du Sport Militarie En AFrique) and ECALO (East and Central African Liaison Office). Eritrea participated in sport competition organized by the continental branch of CISm Organization for Military Sport in Africa (OSMA). In 2002, Eritrea participated in the fields of football and athletics in Kenya, which EDF won the football cup of OSMA.

For the last two months, 2016 EDF sport event took place in the second largest city of Keren. In addition to its facilities for sportsmen, Keren is endowed with a very favorable geographic location, moderate temperature and also has a relatively unique advantage; mass of sports

fans. That is why people call it “Small Brazil” in consideration of regularly mass gathering of sport fans in Keren stadium. In 2016 nine EDF sport clubs were participating in multiple areas of sport. The 2016 sport event hosted eight sport fields with both genders. With the exception of the male football completion, Chess, shooting, traditional sports, volleyball, athletics basketball, badminton, and others were finalized ahead of October 29. Colonel Kidane Tesfay, Head of the Information and Agitation Office, in his speech on the closing ceremony said that the renascent of female sport competition and the introduction of chess as a sport competition in EDF were assumed to be the main sport developments of the 2016 EDF sport event.

The 13th round EDF sport competition which officially opened on September 1 and officially closed on Saturday October 29 was fascinating sport season in Eritrea with better media coverage. Present during the official closing ceremony which took place at Keren Stadium were, Minister of Energy and Mines, General Sebhat Efrem, Minister of Tourism, Ms. Askalu Menkerios, Eritrean Defense Force Chief of Staff, General Philipos Weldeyohanes, Commissioner of the Commission for Sport and Culture, Ambassador Zemede Tekle and other high level government officials,

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Anseba Regional Administration as well as PFDJ officials, Army commanders and staff members of MoD were attending in addition to mass of Keren residents.

The official closing ceremony of the sport event began by a moment of silence in memory of the martyrs. Followed by the national anthem and cultural performance by the Walta Cultural Troup of the Ministry of Defense, the event also hosted a friendly football match between the female teams of Denden club and the selected team from 2016 female football match. The selected team won the game. Shoula of the Naval Force and Anbereb of Staffs of MoD came to the field for male football championship. The game ended with the victory of Anberbe Club 2 to 1. After the football match, the event was concluded by a military march of all the nine clubs which participated in 2016.

Finally, champions of the sports event from their respected fields received their prizes from the Amete Neguse, PFDJ Secretary of zoba Anseba, Ms. Asklu Menkerios, Major General Asmerom Gerezgihier, General Sebhat Efrem, Ambasador Zemede Tekle. The Super football club, Anberbeb received trophy and 50,000 Nkf from General Philipos Weldeyohanes.

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For the author of this book, Sean Anderson, modern architecture is a means and the representation of a society, and, us we can comprehend from the contents of the book, this in turn tends to dissolve the boundaries between the exterior and interior relationship of the city—Asmara.

Asmara--one of the most renowned African City for embracing the finest architectural legacies of modernity--is still a living international museum. Emboldened by the modern architecture that sprouted between the two World Wars, visiting the city is the most eloquent witness to the political implications of modernity as it represents a society that actually invented and engendered the historical form of Fascism.

Here in this book, Anderson affirms his attraction to Asmara, among other former Italian colonies, is that it is planned and built without having any other foundations of experiences from other pre-existing city. Thus, to reconcile his professional stance that elaborates only “modernity is read as a function of the colonial and colonialism as a framework of the modern”… and the languages of colonialism and modernism can each be read as embodying the characteristic of the other,” the author chose visiting Asmara unflinchingly (Introduction, p. 7).

Therefore, for Asmara is embellished with various buildings that clearly postulate the strengths and weaknesses of modern architectures of 1920s, Anderson committedly wrote about architectural buildings of the City, and emanated from this, the author has clearly dedicated three quarters of the book to Asmara.

Including to other papers which were published earlier, he let readers to debate with the contents which unfolds Asmara’s buildings architectural aesthetics. Divided into four chapters, the book wave supporting illustrations and their respective annotations, and, as they are prepared in good manner, they can be read independently and are helpful.

And, following to the true autonomous second text which

From Book Shelves: Reading about Modern Architectures in Eritrea

is formed by the notes that give detailed information, additional considerations, eloquent explanations and conceptual refinements, the first chapter of this book is dedicated to interpreting the colonial footprint in Eritrea, looking at the relation between the colonial self and the landscape, not only in terms of new infrastructure but also by a sequence of narratives: travel notes, diaries and memoirs. This chapter, as well as the fourth one, decisively contributes to the originality of the book.

As the second chapter deals with the foundation and development

of Asmara city, embracing to me, delves to the contents of the book enthusiastically. But here, Anderson avoids publishing any maps or schematic drawings and refers to specific locations with text. And in this way, Anderson seems to be engaged in presenting Asmara as a conceptual place rather than as a complex urban artifact, thus maintaining the reader’s imagination in a floating intellectual space where the concatenation of concepts is more important than that of places.

The third chapter is dedicated to the colonial interior, which in Anderson’s vision is much

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more complex than a simple domestic space. And in fact, this is maybe the chapter in which a reader acquainted with Eritrea and Italian modernity meets the greatest difficulties.

After having an acquaintance with Asmara/Eritrea in the aforementioned chapter, the next one is, undoubtedly, enriched with extraordinary documentary and conceptual interests of Asmara as epicenter of the academic and professional narration. Thus, it deals with the description of the frequent illusory colonial exhibitions, lavish and counterfeit – yet always eloquent – set up in

the Italian cities before World War II.

Emboldened by the legacies of Asmara, the book is a strong work defined by immense documentation and an implicit passion for the subject. In general, the literature about Eritrean cities and architecture takes into consideration the changes that happened from the colonial time to the present as facts, and the physical development of the urban settlements as mere design events and problems.

Therefore, this book stands out among other books and issues about Eritrea for its conceptual power and philosophical interpretation of the field of modernity and colonialism. Almost at each page, the book engages the reader in a vigorous, silent debate with the author. Note, however, that certain English translations of the Italian quotations need further justification with appropriate evidence.

Overall, the book is recommended for reviving and deepening the personal research of any enquiring scholar interested in the meaning and difficulties of modernity and especially of modernity and colonialism, with reference to Eritrea and its untapped treasures. That is what judiciously inspired the writer to share this book which is published by Ashgate in 2015 with readers.


Natnael Yebio.W

If you have the cash, there is a path through the sky, says an old local proverb. Well, you don’t have to be very rich these days to be able to travel by air. In fact, many relatively poor people are globetrotting thanks to business trips paid by the company.

It is 2010. Mr. Haile is one of the lucky ones whose tickets are prepaid by a blessed son or daughter from America. He hesitates for sometime before he boards the plane:

“I entrust my soul to you, O Savior of the World.”

According to Mr. Haile so massive a thing like an airliner is not supposed to fly, but it flies just the same. How? What does he care?

According to Mrs.Haile people can fly only when they die and turn into angels.

Mr. Haile was, for all he knew, beamed onto New York in the manner of Star Trek crew. Alas, he becomes easily disoriented in airports. So his children had provided for this also: they instructed him to tie a sign around his neck which says: I need help!

“So how was the trip, Mr. Haile?”

“What can I say? It is the ultimate invention by man.”

“Did you enjoy the food inside the aircraft?”

“Well, yes and no. I liked the food, but I had to eat just a little bit so as not to weigh down the plane.”

The average Eritrean peasant understands the car, the train or the sailing ship, but stands perplexed before the mysterious powers of the ‘Flying Metal Canister’ (Semai, Semai etikheid gerewaina) that tears the sky asunder.

What makes it fly? You ask a peasant. The answer is simple but not very certain: the wind makes it fly, for all I care, he says. But deep inside he knows that no wind

The Sky Train: Man’s greatest invention!however might be able to haul a canister carrying about 400 people along with their luggage through the sky…Those Ferengis (White men) can make things happen. Nowadays what wont they do short of creating life,etc….

But these mystic powers attributed to the white man by those who watch the flying canisters in the sky are quickly dissipated the moment the mechanical bird plunges to its end.

“What happened?”

“Man with all his genius will always remain defective,” will say the peasant.

And then they are reminded of the Psalmist’s words: If the Lord doesn’t watch over a city, the night watchmen stay awake in vain….

The peasants look at the debris with the feeling that there is God out there who rules over people and their sophisticated contraptions.

In Eritrea, the first aircraft must have come to bomb unruly warlords or maybe patriots. In the many battles that took place beyond our borders, warplanes played a significant role in shortening the duration of the colonial-incursions by dropping bombs and sprinkling the indigenous people with mustard gas. No wonder, the desperate patriots hurled their spears at the winged monsters and died like real heroes before the eyes of the laughing Italian aviators.

But strange things do happened from time to time as one travels by air, like the following stories told by some passengers.

Have you heard of the two crackpots in the cabin who had verbal fight at an altitude of 32,000 feet above the ground?

“Why don’t you step outside and fight like a real man,” threatened one of them.

And there is this lady who wanted to sit in the flight deck because she suffered from airsickness. Alas, the days when pilots invited children over into the cockpit and them candies are

over. This is the age of hijackers, whether you like it or not.

A certain woman fainted 30 minutes before landing. There was commotion inside the plane. The flight attendant came to the rescue.

“What’s going on?” asked one Eritrean fellow to another.

“I think she is addicted to boon (Coffee),”he explained.

“So what are they doing?”

“They gave her some coffee and she is alive and chatting now.”

But this one is for real. A long while back during the Derg era, before flying to Gambella by Antonov, a Russian aircraft know for its soft landing but notorious for its cabin noise, my uncle and other passenger like him were instructed to each carry a barf bag and a wad of cotton. The first was meant to catch a runaway puke; the second was to save their eardrums from bursting.

The din didn’t seem to bother the Russian pilots at all who kept on munching their onion burger.

They were told to lie on the floor of the cabin. No chair, no

cushion.Again about 40 years ago, my

uncle-though at this point I have no idea how on God’s green Earth he was lucky enough to never crush in one of these planes-took a plane that looked like Douglas c-47 sky train to a town across the border.

Anyway he boarded this World War II relic with a strained heart. The body of the plane slanted backward, because the aircraft’s hind tire is smaller than the front. Inside he saw some weird looking passengers standing on the back.

Someone has not taken his seat, so he thought he was the flight attendant.

“Can I have a drink?”

“Yes. In the next town.”“How about a toilet?”

“You seem to have a weak bladder.”

“There is a gust of wind coming through the cracks on the door….”

“Take this piece of rug and tuck it in with all your might…”

The aircraft begins to descend.

He looks out the window. No airport? He does the holy trinity and starts to pray. But there is an airport down there. It is a meadow where the cattle roam freely.

The humming of the air craft alerts the shepherd boys down below. They drive the angry cattle away from the grass airstrip. The pilots utter a sigh of relief and are ready to land. The plane touches the ground. After a bumpy ride to the makeshift terminal, it stops. The guests of the Douglas c-47 get down one by one, followed by some horned passengers with one way ticket to the market place: sheep and goats.

“Thank you for flying with us,” says the flight attendant.

“Thanks to you!”

“Baaaa….”

Upon hearing his comical of sorts story it reminded me of the comment made by a certain foreign tourist upon her trip to a remote South African Village, who, before boarding the same looking plane on her way to some archeological sites, is reported to have said: Gentlemen, I am here to see historic places, not historic planes.


VACANCY Notice No. 2016/01The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Eritrea is inviting applications from suitably qualified Eritrean nationals for the post of Travel Assistant, IMIS No. 46770

TYPE OF APPOINTMENT: Fixed-Term DURATION: One year

LEVEL: GS-05 DUTY STATION: Asmara

PURPOSE: Under supervision of the Administrative Officer and in support of a medium size operation, prepares and processes all travel arrangements of United Nations staff members, dependents, consultants and others.

Note: Interested applicants can pick a detailed copy of the Job Description from UNICEF

Office.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

Completion of secondary school, and Computer skills Knowledge of travel processes and practices as well as standard tools and references of the travel industry.

Extensive training or equivalent and five years’ experience with

travel-related work, such as an airline or travel agency.

Fluency in English and local language is required.

Closing date of Application: Two weeks from date of advertisement

FEMALE CANDIDATES ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY

Only qualified candidates will be short listed and invited for the interview. Please mail a recent CV, cover letter,and photocopies of academic qualifications and military completion/ exemption including telephone numbers or post office box indicating Vacancy Number 2016/01 in a sealed envelope addressed to:

Chief of OperationsUNICEF Eritrea P.O. Box 2004AsmaraQuote: Travel Assistant, IMIS No. 46770

Please note that UNICEF is a smoke-free environment.

CANDIDATES SHOULD PROVIDE EVIDENCE OF COMPLETION/EXEMPTION FROM NATIONAL SERVICE. PLEASE NOTE THAT COMPLETION/EXEMPTION OF NATIONAL SERVICE IS A REQUIREMENT. COPY OF CARD/EXEMPTION MUST BE ATTACHED. APPLICATIONS WITHOUT THIS REQUIREMENT WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

Photographers Corner Photo mhreteab G\michaelHam monastery: Perched on the mountains in the Southern region, 2016


VACANCY Notice No. 2016/03The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Eritrea is inviting applications from suitably qualified Eritrean nationals for the post of Driver, IMIS No. 46769



PURPOSE: To drive staff members and visitors (donors, etc) in Asmara and on field trips within Eritrea.

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Drives office vehicles for the transport of authorized personnel and 1. delivery and collection of mail, documents and other items.

Meets official personnel at the airport and facilitates immigration 2. and customs formalities, as required.

Responsible for the day-to-day maintenance of the assigned vehicle, 3. checks oil, water, battery, brakes, tires, etc., performs minor repairs and arranges for other repairs. Ensures that the vehicle is kept clean.

Logs official trips, daily mileage, gas consumption, oil changes, 4. greasing, etc.

Ensures that the steps required by rules and regulations are taken, in 5. case of involvement in an accident.

Performs other duties, as required.6.


Primary education; driver’s license; knowledge of driving rules and regulations and skills in minor vehicle repair.Two year’s work experience as a driver; safe driving record.

Good knowledge of English and the local language of the duty station.


Only qualified candidates will be short listed and invited for the interview. Please mail a recent CV and photocopies of academic qualifications including telephone numbers or post office box indicating Vacancy Number 2016/03 in a sealed envelope addressed to:

Chief of OperationsUNICEF Eritrea P.O. Box 2004AsmaraQuote: Driver, IMIS No. 46769



VACANCY Notice No. 2016/02The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Eritrea is inviting applications from suitably qualified Eritrean nationals for the post of Driver, IMIS No. 13518



PURPOSE: To drive staff members and visitors (donors, etc) in Asmara and on field trips within Eritrea.

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Drives office vehicles for the transport of authorized personnel and 1. delivery and collection of mail, documents and other items.

Meets official personnel at the airport and facilitates immigration 2. and customs formalities, as required.

Responsible for the day-to-day maintenance of the assigned vehicle, 3. checks oil, water, battery, brakes, tires, etc., performs minor repairs and arranges for other repairs. Ensures that the vehicle is kept clean.

Logs official trips, daily mileage, gas consumption, oil changes, 4. greasing, etc.

Ensures that the steps required by rules and regulations are taken, 5. in case of involvement in an accident.

Performs other duties, as required.6.


Primary education; driver’s license; knowledge of driving rules and regulations and skills in minor vehicle repair.Two year’s work experience as a driver; safe driving record.

Good knowledge of English and the local language of the duty station.


Only qualified candidates will be short listed and invited for the interview. Please mail a recent CV and photocopies of academic qualifications including telephone numbers or post office box indicating Vacancy Number 2016/02 in a sealed envelope addressed to:

Chief of OperationsUNICEF Eritrea P.O. Box 2004AsmaraQuote: Driver, IMIS No. 13518




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Responsibleo for the regular update of the Cognos Xcelerator database and the integrity of the data uploaded into the Cognos database 9monthly actuals, budgets and forecasts totals)

Maintainso the integrity between the GLoA and Key Accounts Schedules so that the Reports used by Finance and end user HoDs are accurate.

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processes.Facilitate and attend daily toolbox meetings and all other safety meetings as o

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processes.Identify hazard or potential hazard/situations and act immediately on deviations.o Monitor Health and Safety standards within department.o

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Knowledge and Experience:3 – 5 Years’ experience in Mining environment2 Years Mechanical/Electrical experienceTechnical Skills Behavioural SkillsComputer Literacy (MS Office – Intermediate, In-house software )

Communication (English, Local language advantage)

Time Management and Mechanical / Electrical skill Innovative, Efficiency and Accountability

Logical Thinker and Risk Assessment Handling of pressurised environment and Team player

Project Management and Project Management Cultural Diversity sensitivity and Coach/Mentor

General Information and other requirements:

Type• of contract: Indefinite period Place• of Work: BishaSalary• : As per Company salary scale.Additional• requirement for Nationals: Having• fulfilled his/her National Service obligation and provide evidence of release paper

from the Ministry of Defense. Present• clearance paper from current/last employer.Testimonial• documents to be attached (CV, work experience credentials, a copy of your

National Identity Card etc.).Only• shortlisted applicants would be considered as potential candidates for an interview.Application• documents will not be returned to sender.All• applications should be sent through the post office.Deadline• for application: 10 days from the day of publication in the Newspaper.Address• : Please mail your applications to;

Bisha• Mining Share CompanyP• . O. Box 4276 Asmara, Eritrea

Note• to non- Eritrean applicants: Please send a copy of your application toAliens Employment Permit Affairs,P . O. Box 7940 Asmara, Eritrea


Ariam is…

It’s me! I was born in 1990 in Sahil during the armed struggle. My parents got divorced since I was young so I was raised by a single woman: my mother is a pharmacist and my superhero. Not only did she help me realize the importance of education but she also recognized my talent at the age of two! She recorded everything I said, and now when I hear myself talking in the recordings, I keep telling myself I was a chatty kid!

The author and the poet

The Ethiopian offensive occurred when I was in third grade, I remember clearly. Back then, everyone was joining hands in all ways possible to assist the cause of sovereignty. To that extent my elementary school called for a parents’ meeting and there I read a poem for the very first poem.

“Could I write poetry too?” I thought to myself afterwards. And that thought prompted me to write,

Shush… She’s Narrating!Here is the deal with this amazing young woman; she has an incredible narration style. Trust me whenever she narrates stories, one instantly gets A. immersed in the story and B. start wishing for the narration never to end.

And this is harder to explain because my page can’t intone but I have her here anyways. Call her a modern female Homer in the making! my guest for you today is one of our country’s youngest jewels of poetry and storytelling: poet and author ms. Ariam Weldeab!

Billion Temesghen(Compiled version)

or at least to envision myself as a poet.

Curious George

I read every issue of local newspapers, the novel pages were and still are my favorite. I snooped at novels and constantly tuned to Dimtsi Hafash (Eritrean Radio Broadcast). So when I started seemingly to do my poetry, which back then was all about putting together words of the same rhyming scheme, I enjoyed reciting my poems to my neighbors. Also, I started reading and narrating novels, while recording myself on tape cassette.

Dimtsi Hafash

I eventually made it. In Dimtsi Hafash, I mean. I contributed in the Sunday morning children program. I enjoyed every single moment in which the radio MC announced my name.

But now you write and narrate your own works

I do. I do poetry, short stories and novels.

How do you incorporate the three?

It’s easy. It depends on the state of mind I am when actually doing one of them. What I mean is, that each of those activities have independent inspirational muse that motivate me differently and diverse occasions and locations.

The tour

I tried to expand my stand up shows beyond the borders of my country. I went to Uganda and received a reception beyond my expectation. The embassy of Eritrea in Uganda assisted me greatly.

‘Aru Show’

The show has a beautiful composition: it incorporates storytelling and a band and guest singers for music that best fits the narration. So, what the stake holders and I would have going

is practically, a story night. The viewer’s rate is amazing, and impressively even on YouTube.

Inventory of Ariam’s productions

I tend to do poems a lot, so about 50 them. My short stories reach 40 and 2 major stage dramas. Both of them received awards and a massive attention from the public.

Once upon a time

Alright, one of the stage dramas’ title is ‘Double Aim’. I will tell you about it.

So the story is about a young high school student, who got a school assignment of researching a story on Eritrea. As her mother was a freedom fighter, the student decided to write about her mother. However, her mother refuses strongly and convinced her daughter to write of an old friend, a fallen hero whom passed gallantly for the cause of independence. The daughter was finally convinced and started doing her research on her mother’s martyr friend.

Everything she found about the martyr amazed her epically. Her research is submitted and she receives an award for it. But what the student hadn’t had realized while working on her paper was the fact that she was actually working on the story of her biological mother. She eventually finds out later, when her adoptive mother tells her how she is the descendant of a heroine.

most of your works are highly patriotic

Although I do have premises of several topics, I choose to evolve my short stories on events and themes of the armed struggle, also, premises of independence, sovereignty and martyrdom and so on. After all, the fact that we

paid a heavy price is impartially a common knowledge.

Question is, how good we are, in actually delivering these premises. You know, I am convinced that compared to its depth, we artists and authors in general, haven’t even done the minimum yet.

Now, leave writing about those noble years out and, does this generation even know of its massiveness? So for now, it would be good enough if we start acquiring every bit of that period along with its incredible values.

I was raised very close to the history of the armed struggle. The bequest of every Tegadalay (freedom fighter) is deific, so not to be taken for granted or lightly, for that matter.

I try to relate to the sacrifices of the Eritrean people as much as I can. The notion of the nation’s love and patriotism, should be built-in impulses within one’s existence, independently from other concepts.

Time might change but not history… so who should be the one to write about our accounts? … No one but us. Let’s document our roots! …Seriously!

Thank you a lot, hope to hear more of you!

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