Eritrea: Rumors On Death Of President Afewerki

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He is critically ill. He is dying. No he isn’t, he’s in excellent health: these are the contradictory reports emerging on blogs, opposition sites and TV channels in regard to the health of Eritrea’s Isaias Afewerki, strongman of Asmara, who has headed the nation with an iron-fist since 1993. Rumours on his sudden hospitalisation abroad, maybe in the Arab Emirates, and even his sudden death, are further fuelled by the absence over the past weeks of the President on the public scene. An unusual event, followed by a flurry of rumours, which authorities deemed necessary to deny various times in the past 72 hours, even on the state TV.

Two statements were released by the Information ministry between yesterday and last night, denying reports on the sudden death of the President, defining the rumours as “a defamatory campaign of the CIA” aimed at destabilising the country.

Sources in Asmara refer notable tension among state authorities and meetings between generals closest to the President. Opposition groups residing abroad over the past weeks reported a sudden deterioration of Afewerki’s health from a tumour of the liver and his urgent hospitalisation in Qatar.

MISNA

MISNA, or the Missionary International Service News Agency, provides daily news ‘from, about and for’ the 'world’s Souths', not just in the geographical sense, since December 1997.

5 thoughts on “Eritrea: Rumors On Death Of President Afewerki

  • April 26, 2012 at 12:16 pm
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    the president needs to come on tv right now and dispell the rumor to rest once and for all.

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  • April 27, 2012 at 10:51 am
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    if it is not true why not come to the TV and say am not dead am still very much alive why the hell not?????

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  • April 27, 2012 at 3:35 pm
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    The President is not obliged to be seen, so as to prove he is alive. Eritrea officials do not rise or fall like the tide to the whim of hear-say rumours. Wishing our leaders health, all our adversaries should note there will be no power-vacuum. Eritrea has long passed power mongers as seen in other parts of the world.

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  • April 28, 2012 at 3:30 am
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    I hope the Eritrean president come out the dark,prove everyone wrong by saying I’m still alive and we not out from April fool joke!!!!!

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  • June 18, 2012 at 1:35 am
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    regardless of who is on top, i wish the country and the people, peace and prosperity. may it not fall in the hands of selfish scavengers.

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