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Reflections of the 4th annual YPFDJ Conference in Washington D.C
YPFDJ Media Committee., Sep 5, 2008 - 1:02pm
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As I stood outside in the rain among a sea of Eritrean youth predominately 10—23 years-old on Friday proudly singing the Eritrean National anthem, I asked myself, "What am I doing here?" I was in Washington, DC, on August 29, 2008 and it was the opening ceremony to the 4th annual Y.P.F.D.J. (Young People's Front for Democracy and Justice) Eritrean Youth Conference of North America. Try saying that ten times with a mouth full of hambasha.
Auditorium seats filled quickly with 450 plus attendees all representing nearly 30 different states and countries combined. It was 9:30 AM and the conference was about to start—the electricity, however, was not. A power outage was the result of a thunderstorm that caused a tree branch to fall on a nearby power line. Nevertheless, if anyone knows about Eritrean resilience, than a couple of raindrops and power loss is nothing that can't be solved.
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Eritrean Festival for the Western USA
Esayas Temesgen, Aug 23, 2008 - 7:02am
The 2008 Eritrean Festival of the Western United States was an astonishing display of Eritreans durable attachment to their identity.
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Great Showing by Eritrean Athletes at the 10000m Olympics Competition
Eritrean American Athletics Association, Aug 18, 2008 - 11:40am
Three Eritrean runners, Zerisenay Tadesse, Teklemariam Medhin, and Kidane Tadesse, competed against the top 10000M runners in the world. Eritrean runners for the first time in history took early charge of the race.
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Eritrean Female Runner Competes in the Marathon in Her
EAAA, Aug 18, 2008 - 11:20am
Third Olympics Three-time Olympian Nebyat Habtemariam participated in the marathon race on Sunday at the Beijing Olympics. Nebyat , Eritrea ’s only female marathon runner, performed well and had a great showing.
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Eritrea in China: Final preparation for the Olympic games
Yohannes Debesai,, Aug 15, 2008 - 1:24pm
Zerisenay, Teklemariam, Kidane and Nebyat got to Beijing on Tuesday and were made to fly to a high altitude training area the next day. Reporting from the training area Dr. Tesfaslassie Eyob said that they are all in good condition.
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34th Annual Eritrean Festival Celebration in Washington
committee, Aug 11, 2008 - 12:18pm
DC Eritreans in the United States celebrated the annual festival in Washington DC in a grand style at the Show place arena in upper Marlboro, MD . The three day festivities started on Friday evening at the Omni Shoreham Hotel with cultural music from Okbay Mesfin, Habtom Debessai, Mehret Zerihanes and Isack Simon.
On Saturday, H.E. Dr. Woldai Futur, Minister of National Development and the Festivals' guest of Honor, accompanied by H.E. Ghirmai Ghebremariam, Eritrean Ambassador to the United States and H.E. Araya Desta, Permanent Representative of Eritrea to the UN officially opened the evening's festivities where the organizers welcomed them with traditional music and dances. During the day, there were different seminars and sports activities.
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Eritrea makes top preparation for the Olympics: Ere Olympic team from Beijing
EAAA, Aug 8, 2008 - 2:17pm
This Eritrea's third Olympic participation is given the highest preparation and the condition of the runners is great says Eritrea's Chief De Mission at Beijing Olympics, Mr. Berhane Araia.
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First group of Eritrean runners arrived in Beijing
Yohannes Debesai, Chairman, EAAA, Aug 6, 2008 - 2:27pm
Eritrea's Hopeful Olympic runners arrived in Beijing safe. The runners are first time Olympians Simret Sultan(Eritrea's best Female runners), Ali Abdella Afringi and Hais Wolday.
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.Eritrean’s from Austin , Killeen , San Antonio and Dallas
Beraky A. Woldegebriel (On behalf of the Eritrean Communities in Texas), May 5, 2008 - 12:00pm
March a peaceful Demonstration in President Bush Residence in Crawford Texas In a big way.
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4th YPFDJ Conference in Holland
Michael seium, Mar 27, 2008 - 6:27am
Visionary leaderships think about youth empowerment in an attitudinal, structural, and cultural process whereby young people gain the ability to make decisions and implement change in their own lives and the lives of other people. In Eritrea today the youth participate in every sector of society and nation building process, meanwhile in the diaspora Eritrean youth are taking matters into their own hands to make change that will benefit their people's and their own future. As an observer of the 4th annual YPFDJ conference, I witnessed close to 400 Eritrean youth from all over the world united together to build a strong, conscious and patriotic youth movement unheard of in other communities. It was mesmerizing to see an Eritrean-Aussie chatting with an Eritrean from France about the common things that bind them together which is YPFDJ and Eritreanism. When the Eritrean youth from Holland was running around to make sure that other Eritrean youth were happy with their lodging Eritrean youth from Italy and Germany were very thankful as were the Eritrean youth from the Scandinavian nations as well as Eritreans from the good ole US of A (United States) Switzerland, Great Britain, Kenya and one strong Eritrean from Belgium.
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