Special Edition

No. 82 Saturday, 3 April, 2021 Pages 4

Regrouping of villages news brief Improving health service Commendable effort has been made to improve and expand health service provision in the Southern region.

According to Dr. Emanuel Mihreteab, head of the Ministry of Health branch in the region, in 2020 modern medical equipment have been installed in five hospitals in the region and that praiseworthy medical service is being provided to the public.

Indicating that the health facilities are equipped with the necessary medical equipment and human resources, Dr. Emanuel said that compared to that of 2019 pre and post natal treatment visits has increased by 64%, pregnant women delivering at health facilities by 3% and vaccination coverage by 94%.

Social service provision are significantly contributing Foro semi-urban center is Dr. Emanuel went on to say that controlling communicable diseases institutions put in place in Foro in facilitating socio-economic located 46 km south of the port has been the main priority program and that malaria infection has been semi-urban center is contributing activities, the residents called for city of and is resident reduced by 50% and death rate due to malaria has been reduced to zero in villages regrouping. the maintenance of the roads in to about 800 families. level while TB treatment to 93%. some areas that are damaged due The substantial investment to flooding and for allotment of In the Southern region there are one referral hospital, 4 hospitals, 3 made to put in place educational land for construction of residential community hospitals, 9 health centers, 41 health stations as well as 2 and health facilities as well as houses. clinics providing health service to the public. transportation, potable water Strengthening youth and electricity power services According to Mr. Zerzghi is significantly contributing in Nemariam, head of Social Service organizational Environmental sanitation activity facilitating the daily lives of the in the sub-zone, the number Community based environmental sanitation activity has been residents and thereby improving of schools in Foro semi-urban capacity implemented in 98 villages clustered in 14 administrative areas in their livelihoods. center has increased from one to Akordet sub-zone. The report was made at an activity assessment six and the residents have become The National Union of Eritrean meeting with village representatives and village health coordinators. Indicating that the asphalt beneficiaries of mobile-telephone Youth and Students branch in road linking Massawa-Foro service. Adi-Keih sub-zone organized Commending the strong participation demonstrated by the residents, and Adi-Keih-Foro dirt road seminar focusing on strengthening Mr. Daniel Kidane, head of Environmental Sanitation in the sub-zone, organizational capacity of the said that as a result of the program the prevalence of communicable youth in general and that of diseases has significantly been reduced. females in particular. Announcement from the Mr. Abdu Yakob, head of Environmental Sanitation in Gash Barka The seminar that was region, on his part commending the strong participation of the residents Ministry of Health participated by the youth from in Akordet sub-zone, called on other sub-zones to emulate Akordet sub- all line ministries, national zone residents with a view to ensure public health. Twenty six patients have been diagnosed positive for associations and Police as COVID-19 in tests carried out yesterday at Quarantine well as area administrations Expressing appreciation for the support they were provided by health Centers in Central, Northern , Gash Barka, and included developing political practitioners and administration, the residents called for more support Southern Regions. awareness of the youth, ideology with a view to alleviate some of the challenges that are being faced in and administration, as well as some villages during the implementation of the program. Out of these, eleven patients are from Quarantine Centers vision of women in the youth in , , and Massawa (6), Northern organization. According to documents from the Akordet sub-zone, 84% of Region. The other patients are from Quarantine Centers the 64,548 residents of the sub-zone have become beneficiaries of in Adibara (4), Ali-gider (1), and Omhajer (1) Gash Barka Indicating that without strong latrines. Region Region. The rest three patients are from Adi-quala, organizational capacity fruitful Southern Region. and effective programs could not Soil and Water conservation activity be conducted, Mr. Mehreteab Inhabitants of 15 administrative areas in Akordet sub-zone are On the other hand, nine patients who have been receiving Andemariam, head of the union carrying out soil and water conservation activity. medical treatment in hospitals in branch in the sub-zone, called have recovered fully and have been discharged from these on the participants to apply the The popular campaign in which the residents are participating twice facilities. knowledge they acquired from per week includes construction of terraces, preparation of holes for the seminar on the ground and planting tree seedlings as well as renovation of roads. The total number of recovered patients has accordingly play due part in strengthening the risen to 3058 while the number of deaths stands at ten. union. According to Mr. Tedros Gebremariam, head of the agricultural office in the sub-zone, the program is to construct terraces and water The total number of confirmed cases in the country to-date Mr. Kiros Gebremariam, diversion schemes on 3050 hectares of land and that so far 88% of the has increased to 3334. managing director in the sub-zone, program has been accomplished. on his part expressed readiness of Ministry of Health the sub-zonal administration to The participants on their part expressed readiness to strengthen Asmara stand alongside the union branch participation for the successful implementation of the program. 2 April 2021 in all its endeavors. Profile, Saturday, 3 April, 2021 No.82 2

The Demise of the TPLF Junta: Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust

Since the launch of TPLF’s suicidal misadventure five months ago, citizens of the Horn of Africa region are observing with incredulity two intertwined reactions from some personalities, states, organizations and the corporate media. The first and much pronounced aspect is the attempt to create an alternate reality of the conflict. This goes in parallel with the publicly displayed melodramatic stages of grief that these entities are going through.

TPLF lobbyists in the garb of think tanks, NGOs, members of governmental and international organization bureaucracies have on fictitious atrocities. They are contained and excluded from the countries near and far as equal a peaceful and prosperous Horn been working frantically to create resorting to punishing the forces regional sphere. partners. of Africa. an Orwellian reality using all the that contained and defeated The personalities, states, tools at their disposal. They want TPLF’s misadventures; while Their vision for the region In a military confrontation that organizations and the corporate the world to believe that the junta scrapping the barrel to resuscitate diametrically contrasts with it started, TPLF has crumbled media who are laboring to create who launched coordinated military the criminal junta shunned by the wishes of the peoples and into tiny pieces and got swept by alternate reality are invited to attacks on 200 positions of the peoples of the Horn. Governments of the Horn of the wind; with zero possibility of have closure, accept TPLF’s ’s Northern Command Africa. The way forward is the pieces coming together again. demise, cross the Rubicon, be a and neighboring regions, Simultaneously, they are going for all the States to engage on The sooner the external actors force for good in the Horn. The indiscriminately fired missiles on through the stages of grief over equal terms for mutual benefits, accept this irrefutable reality, the lobbyists will join you once the cities in Ethiopia and neighboring the defeat of TPLF. It started consolidate the peace and create better chance they have to salvage checks dry up. Eritrea; to be seen as an innocent with denial. When TPLF was complementarity that benefits any opportunity of engaging the victim! The junta that committed decimated in the battle field and their citizens, engaging with countries of the region in shaping By: Senait Hadera well-documented massacres and went on the run; they held on to unspeakable atrocities including the belief that it was junta’s well- in Mai Kadra, and on calculated move. interned in camps in Tigray; is portrayed as reliable informant This was followed by anger. Once the TPLF leaders with whom they wined and dined, local news and who signed their checks or to whom they gave blank checks were caught and killed in battle; they went into a rage and blamed everyone but those who started Developing poultry farming Published Every the military confrontation. In the midst of their anger they resorted SaturdayPublished & Wednesday Every As part of the effort to develop poultry farming, the Ministry of Agriculture branch in Akordet sub-zone WednesdayPublished & SaturdayEvery to scapegoating a neighboring Saturday & Wednesday country, Eritrea, for the disasters has distributed chicks to 239 farmers at fare price. created by TPLF. Acting Editor Mr. Kokeb Fitsum, representative of the office, said that the objective of the program was to encourage Acting Editor farmers to develop poultry farming activity and contribute due part in the effort to ensure food security and Amanuel Mesfun Five months down the road, they Amanuel Mesfun are yet to exhibit any semblance stabilize the market. [email protected] Mesfun [email protected] of accepting the demise of TPLF and having closure. It might not Mr. Kokeb also called on farmers in the sub-zone to apply the advice they receive from agricultural P.O.Box: 247 experts regarding the health and treatment of their chickens. P.O.Box: 247 be easy to give up on their hopes Tel: 11-41-14 and write off the huge financial, In related news the Ministry of Agriculture branch in Foro sub-zone also distributed 3225 chickens to Fax: 12-77-49 diplomatic, military and public 129 farmers. E-mail: relations support and investment profile@[email protected] zena.gov.er they lavished on TPLF for three [email protected] The branch office also reported that the chickens distributed to farmers are in good condition and called Advertisement: 12-50-13 decades; or abandon their vision of the Horn with TPLF playing on the poultry farmers to conduct routine follow-up on the condition of their chickens and take appropriate measures in case they observe any problem. Layout a major role; or discard their Layout expectation for countries of the AAzmerazmera BerhaneBerhane Horn to triangulate their regional The beneficiary farmers on their part commending the support they were provided from the Ministry of Agriculture expressed readiness to develop their poultry farms and contribute due part in stabilizing the AidaSaraSara JoharAlem interactions through the EU or US as third parties; or throw market and thereby improve their livelihoods. away their ploy of having Eritrea Eritrea Profile, Saturday, 3 April, 2021 No.82 3

Avoiding the Doctor: church Mass a day

Natnael Yebio W. the Yared chants (the Orthodox her high blood pressure, Addey affected body part and suck with is the explanation? Don’t explain Church’s Gregorian Chant) she Tekea is still brewing her black all your might. things. Only the devil asks for Eritreans do notkeeps keep the gets the in a trance and unitespsychiatrist with coffee after mass. The worst away….SortAs every blood that come out explanations. of! doctor away by eating apples a the Universe. Zen buffs eat your that can happen to her is sudden from the body coagulates in day like in old time Europe. We heart out where ever you are! death and she is ready for it. She contact with air and turns brownish When the ancient were young can’t afford to eat an apple a day. red as a result, and walking bare foot, they Perhaps we can do it with beles the ‘bleeder’ used to urinate on a fresh wound (prickly pear), but that’s during thinks that the caused by butting the toe against summer only. By the way, do you blackish blood a stone. They thought that fresh know that beles is good for the was the cause of urine was a sure remedy against kidneys. It cleanses the urinary the suffering of infection. So much so that they ducts. That’s good news for those the patient. always saved some of their pee in who suffer from blocked bladder. their bladder for a rainy day. “Thanks God, But we have many other ways to Creator of the “Would you please urinate on keep the doctor not only away but world, I have my fresh wound as I have finished far enough to make him close his been spared,” mine?” private clinic and enroll Military sighs the patient. Medic Services. “I am sorry, but I may need my Whenever urine for myself in case I trip and People like Addey Tekea are in Addey Tekea hurt my big toe.” this world just for that. is suffering from minor For Addey Tekea the heart Addey Tekea is a widow who ailments (mostly occupies the whole chest cavity seems to lead a life of quiet psychosomatic) and way down below. Some desperation. In her tiny and the neighborhood stomach cramps or heartburns darkened hole, she gives one women gather are wrongly identified as heart the impression that she is an in her house conditions. endangered species. Perhaps a and brew coffer vanishing breed. for her and for “My heart has slipped away. themselves. My heart is turning inside my Her husband, who led a life of No psychiatric chest. My heart is exploding or genteel poverty never accepted couch. No imploding inside me…..” The defeat and died a proud man at It is, as it were, a church Mass seems very sure about getting to hypnotism to find the cause of cure is cold milk or, nowadays, the age of sixty five. Addey Tekea a day that keeps the psychiatrist heaven. the suffering. Just chatting at full a glass of Coke. And it works all never forgave him for leaving her away. Blood pressure and throttle and off with the blues. the time. Probably it was a case in the lurch. stomach ulcer are unknown to Only once did Addey Tekea of acute indigestion. Addey Tekea. After all, what you mention pills and tablets. She All kinds of disease are As far as I know, Addey Tekea don’t know won’t hurt you. couldn’t stop the pain in her downplayed during the non-stop Some of the words of wisdom of has never been to a doctor. She is stomach. discussions. Addey Tekea: If a piece of bread her own doctor. Sort of. Once, Solomon, Addey Tekea’s falls, flip it off the ground, kiss only son, took her to a doctor “The red ones with yellow “Don’t think about it, just take it and bring it to your forehead “Why doctor when St. Mary is in spite of herself. When they stripes are good,” she sighed. green chili, works miracles.” three times and eat it. around,” she wonders. returned home, the son told his “They have cured my friend “But my son told me the doctor mother that she had hypertension Zewdi with similar stomach said I have gastritis; I can’t eat “What about the germs?” That’s why she goes to church and that she should stop drinking complaint in the past.” berbere.” every day at dawn. When people coffee. “They have been blessed and sit up in their beds brooding about After taking pills, she stops “Don’t pamper your stomach. won’t cause any harm anymore.” having to face their bosses and “What?!” she shouted. taking more. Once cured, stop the Give it what it most dislikes. It Sudden stomach crump? Bend handling their unfinished jobs the “Nobody is going to stop me treatment, she likes to say. will learn the hard way.” over and touch the ground three next day, Addey Tekea commutes from enjoying my coffee!” times with your right hand. The with God and his angels whom “But the doctor says you have In Eritrean medical tradition But, sometimes one comes pain will go away. she believes are capable of putting blood pressure.” there is no cure ‘safer’ and across very strange remedies. her heart to rest and vanish every more ‘effective’ than Mahgoma Red Shot eyes? Shove a trace of worry and stress from “Tell him to mind his own (bleeding the patient to get rid of Let us see how Addey Tekea very thin twig up your nostrils her soul every time she enters business.” ‘sick and tainted blood’). treats her merzen (Migraine). toward the eyeballs. The blood the church. Using mekomia Very simple: tie a red ribbon that caused your eyes to get red (a staff or cane for leaning on You can call it mind-over-matter In Eritrea the procedure is around the head or puck up a will flow down your nose. Now during the long and sometimes or faith or blissful ignorance, simple: bring a horn, open on both dead chameleon by its tail and be a good boy and go and play boring liturgy) and listening to whatever you like, but in spite of ends, make a slit on the patient’s swing it around the head. What outside. Eritrea Profile, Saturday, 3 April, 2021 No.82 4

A mixer of

Milka teklom

He is a person that does it all, defying the misconception that people who are into science are not as articulate as those who are passionate about art. His main motto is to contribute back to the society in aterms of literaturert and technology. and He is young but hiss ability tocience write shows maturity. Many of his readers describe him as an eye opener; his words spread a light of positivity and push you to your better self. Many of his friends and colleagues admire his social skills and his willingness to help and work with others.

Thank you for accepting our Nefhi, where I studied computer in high school, I did the same. I request to interview you; let’s engineering. The knowledge I even participated as an actor in get you acquainted with our gained from learning computer some of my scripts. Moreover, readers? engineering has enabled me to in the middle of my high school incorporate both of my passions, years I had a great opportunity My name is Eng. Michael art in the form of writing and to take a course in creative graduating from college I decided Berhe; I was born in 1992 and science in the form of creating writing, where the participants to write a book. grew up in a village called Gedele, platforms for art. were experienced. Even when Dekemhare subzone. I went to the course ended we stayed as a What do you focus on when elementary school in Gedele and When did you know you have group for two years, creating a you write books, and how many did junior high at a town some two the passion for writing? lot of work of art that were aired books have you written so far? hours walk away from my village. on the national media outlets. My focus when I write books Then I went to high school in Ever since I was in elementary However, the most memorable comes from the belief that art Asmara before heading to Sawa. school I’ve participated in art time for me is college, where enables us to contribute back to I was a prize winner throughout projects. In junior high school half of my time was devoted to the society. So far I have written my school years. I scored 3.6 I started writing my own plays, literature, especially during the two books. My first book is called in my matriculation and was which, of course, were not a inter-college competition. I won Edaga Fekri, a compilation awarded a laptop. Then I joined big deal. But all the same I was several times with my poems, of selected short stories and the Institute of Technology at Mai practicing the art of writing. Also, short stories and plays. After poems that I wrote during my college years. It’s more focused on internal dialogue. After my first book, I have drifted away from writing and was more focused on creating websites and applications. But due to the COVID- 19 pandemic I had a lot of leisure time to translate a book. For a couple years my friends and I discussed Rich Dad Poor Dad by that we needed a platform and Robert Kiyosaki and agreed that science and technology were the if it was translated our society solution for that. Also, for many could learn a lot about business years I have written for the daily and economics and its application newspaper, Haddas Eritrea, to daily life. The translated book Shebab magazine and the radio as is called Zeytedfret Megedi. a Tec-columnist, emphasizing on the importance of technology. You firmly believe that art and science could go hand in What are your future plans? hand; how is that possible? My plans are to enhance my Well, I witnessed that when ability to write. I firmly believe my friends and I started making in team work and have upcoming a website called kebhi, an online projects of creating applications bookstore, I knew, as a writer, the with my friends. difficulties of selling books on the international market. I realized Good luck!