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meskerem 09-06-05: 01:00: The EDA executive council meeting is in its second day of deliberation.
meskerem 09-05-05 EDA Meeting update: ECMS reports that the executive council of the EDA started its meeting today. It indicated that all members of the executive council, including the Vice-Chairman, were present.

meskerem via Khartoum: 09-04-05: No foreign government representative to attend either the EDA executive or central committee meetings . (The meeting of the executive body is expected to start in the next two days.) EDA official sources have informed meskerem that no foreign government representative is expected to attend either the executive or the central council meetings. It is to be remembered that the EPM faction led by Abdalla Adam had invited representatives of Ethiopia and Sudan in its last leadership meeting to the dismay of even its members. The involvement of these neighbors in the affairs of the opposition seems to have intensified/increased since the creation of the EDA. For the first time in the history of Eritrean opposition, the EDA invited these nations' representatives to their official meetings. They are now inviting them to Eritrean public meetings gradually alienating their "constituencies" who are not comfortable with such presence. Such daring and direct political interference in the affairs of the Eritrean opposition by our neighbors raises the fear that the Eritrean opposition might be loosing control and depending too much on foreign support thereby diminishing its credibility and independence. This is at a time when the opposition is in perpetual internal turmoil, at its lowest level of public support and when even those who have been giving benefit of doubt are expressing impatience .
source dekabat-eritra.com
meskerem 09/02/2005: Abdalla Adem, EPM chairman, and Taha Twekel mourn the death of the late Eritrean foreign minister. Abdalla Adem, EPM chairman and Taha Twekel mourn the death of the late Eritrean foreign minister, Mr. Ali Sayed Abdella. Offering condolence and praising a member of the ruling clique, albeit after untimely health related death, heralding a new chapter and a new approach by the opposition? ►Abdella Praises the Role of the Late Foreign Minister in the Liberation War. (awna1.com ►Eritrea Loses a Prominent Leader of the Liberation War An Abrupt Passage for the Eritrean Foreign Minister Mohammed Taha Twekel
An Eritrean Community Associated with the Opposition Offers Condolence on the death of the late Eritrean Foreign Minister, Mr. Ali Sayed Abdalla, to the family of the late Eritrean Foreign Minister, the Eritrean People and the Eritrean government
Condolence to The family of the Martyr Ali Sayed Abdella, The government and Eritrean people “Ena Lilahi Wa’ena Ilahi La’rage’un	الجالية الاريترية بملبورن تعزي الشعب الاريتري في رحيل المناضل/ علي سيد عبد الله
meskerem 8/31/2005:: EDA central leadership to meet on 09/15/2005. meskerem has been informed from official sources that the meeting of the EDA central leadership will start on September 15, 2005. The executive committee will meet sometime before the 15th in preparation for the leadership meeting.

Funeral Service of patriot and veteran fighter Ali Seid Abdalla conducted shabait.com Asmara, 30 August 2005 - View Funeral Photo Gallery Here
The VKP: (August 29, 2005): The Eritrea Democratic Alliance (EDA) has to undertake a study of, very critically analyse itself and bring about a radical change, within its leadership members, with dark back-ground histories, and presently within those with dictatorial tendencies and corrupt conducts: The VKP: (August 29, 2005) ( full text)



meskerem 08-23-05: Silence of the voices of reason and moderation concerns the Eritrean Public. EDA's credibility at risk. The recent killings of the four members of the Eritrean Defense Forces by the Eritrean Jihadist organization, the Eritrean Islamic Islah Movement, and the Jihadist video release by the Italian government that depicted the Eritrean government as “crusader”, has greatly alarmed the Eritrean public, especially coming right after the attempt by terrorists in London where an individual of an Eritrean origin was named as a suspect. The Eritrean public looked for leadership in such a trying times and expected reaction by the leadership of the Eritrean opposition organizations, EDA, , Eritrean human rights organizations and concerned citizens. Expression of concern, to say the least, was expected. To date, only EDP issued a statement condemning the attack. Some concerned individuals, sadly only with Christian names, have expressed concern. The rest have been mute , silent or have been muted, silenced. Articles written in Arabic language have only shown support for the actions of the Jihadist organization. Some have attacked meskerem for the coverage of the news and some have even called for ejection/expulsion of EDP from EDA. Such divided reaction and the silence referred to above has raised a major concern as to whether the political clout of the Jihadists and Islamists in the opposition in general and the EDA in particular is such that the voices of reason and moderation have been silenced and muted. The next meeting of the EDA that is expected to be held at the end of this month will tell the Eritrean public where the EDA stands on this matter. Will the EDA succumb to the pressures from the fundamentalists, their supporters and their foot-soldiers and do a window treatment on this matter or will it courageously distance itself from the actions of the Jihad organization and stop the machinations that want to place EDA on the West’s list of terrorist organizations.
Mobile telephone service goes operational in Segeneity Shabait.com Segeneity, 20 August 2005 -
Successful accomplishment of Students in Summer Work Campaign Asmara, 20 August 2005 -..Over 1,000 students participating in the Summer Work Campaign in Desk 2 of the Central region constructed 212 Km.-long terraces.