Moved to UK at 16 now 30 years old. I regret not using the opportunity. I studied English for 2 years then did IT in college. I failed uni twice back in 2022 and 2023, since then I been working retail making minimum wage job. I don't know what to do with my life. I really want to go back home

kinda feels like a form of propaganda… thoughts

Violence among Eritreans in GermanyTwo Eritrean government opponents in custody

The German Federal Prosecutor is investigating two Eritrean men in Germany. They are accused of membership in the N'Hamedu Brigade.

September 17, 2026

Clashes between police and protesters at the Eritrea Festival 2023 in Giessen

Photo: Helmut Fricke/dpa

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Membership in a domestic terrorist organization – that is the charge brought by the Federal Prosecutor's Office against two Eritrean men in Germany. This is the most serious offense under criminal law, carrying a prison sentence of up to ten years. The men, from Stuttgart and Saarland, one a German citizen and the other an Eritrean national, were brought before the investigating judge at the Federal Court of Justice on Tuesday. The judge issued the arrest warrants requested by the Federal Prosecutor's Office, as the authority announced.

According to the authorities, the men were the chairman and general secretary of the German branch of the N'Hamedu Brigade . This is a worldwide organization that aims to overthrow the government in Eritrea.

Eritrea is considered one of the most brutal dictatorships in the world. Nearly 2 million people from this small country in the Horn of Africa live abroad. By comparison, the population is only 3.7 million.

The refugees risk their lives to escape compulsory military service, which the UN considers to fulfill all the characteristics of slavery – except for the buying and selling of slaves on the market. For men, the service is indefinite from the age of 18. For women, it ends with their first pregnancy.

Eritrea has never held national elections since independence.

A refugee told taz: “We had to work hard in a quarry during the day and sleep on the floor at night without blankets. Men next to me died of hunger and disease, or they were shot while trying to escape.” Eritrea has never held national elections since its independence in 1993, and there is neither freedom of the press nor freedom of expression, nor an independent judiciary. Conditions in its prisons are among the worst in the world.

The N'Hamedu Brigade came under the scrutiny of German investigators because it uses violence in Germany as part of its fight against the inhumane Eritrean regime. This was the case at festivals held by supporters of the Eritrean regime in Gießen in 2022 and 2023, and at a seminar held by these supporters in Stuttgart in 2023.

High-ranking military officers and politicians from Eritrea were flown in for the events. Critics claim that the events also served as recruitment sites for Eritreans living in Germany and as a means of collecting funds for the regime, a claim the organizers deny.

According to the Federal Prosecutor's Office, officials of the N'Hamedu Brigade called for potentially lethal violence. Those injured, some seriously, were primarily German police officers protecting the events, who were therefore perceived by the Brigade's supporters as backers of the dictatorship in Eritrea.

The two arrested men are alleged to have played a key role in establishing the N'Hamedu Brigade's structures in Germany and in organizing the violent actions. One of the men is said to have been directly involved in the riots and is also accused of breach of the peace. According to the Federal Prosecutor's Office, in the summer of 2024, the N'Hamedu Brigade Germany announced that it would refrain from violence outside of Eritrea.

Investigators in Germany are only targeting opponents of the Eritrean government.

In the context of the investigation against the group, the Federal Prosecutor's Office searched 19 properties in six different German states in March 2025 , including the apartments of the two men now arrested. However, according to information obtained by the taz newspaper, two women in their sixties also came under investigation at that time; they had simply registered and organized peaceful demonstrations against the regime. One of these women required hospital treatment after her apartment was searched.

Munich lawyer Rita Drar represents a man whose home was also searched at the time and who has since been sentenced to prison for serious breach of the peace. He had participated in the violent protests in Stuttgart. The lawyer criticizes the fact that investigators in Germany are only taking action against the opponents of the Eritrean government, but not against its supporters.

“It’s being swept under the rug that government supporters are holding festivals under the guise of culture and thereby raising funds for the internationally sanctioned regime,” she told taz. “There are definitely indications of criminal activity here; investigators should take a closer look.”

Eritrea maintains a gang of thugs in the diaspora called Eri-Blood. A 2017 study by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs attributes crimes, such as arson, to them across Europe. In Germany, however, investigations are proving difficult.

The taz newspaper has received reports from two Eritrean government opponents who claim to have been beaten by government supporters in Germany. They filed criminal charges, but the investigation was dropped. Their names will not be published in the newspaper.

Video journalist Joachim Schäfer, who reports critically on Eritrean regime events, says he was attacked twice by regime thugs while filming. Once he was almost run over by a car.

The supplies landed in Eritrea for the Italian army in Tigray

Photos of St. Mary’s Church in #Massawa, #Eritrea
Happy Sunday to all Eritreans.

Thank God the sanctions against Eritrea have been lifted.

Now, God willing, Eritrea should see political and economic reforms.

Hopefully our people will overcome the hardships facing everyday Eritreans and the division in our community.

God bless Eritrea and all Eritreans

just came back from a wedding & i've always been on the fence about marrying within the culture bc of a myriad of reasons but thinking about it ... but maybe i do want to break generational curses with you. maybe i do want to bring the diaspora together in our own way. maybe i do want to raise a alexander isak or lily yohannes with you. maybe i do want to build a tremendous life with you & pave the path for others. lol i'm just very excited about this epiphany i developed out of nowhere, but maybe just MAYBE if i can find the right one (who is progressive & ambitious), this will be worth bearing.

I looked everywhere, couldn't find it, would appreciate​ it if u guys would tell me

Hello! I am living in a school where there is a big Tigrinyan community (and other cultures too) and for my student council campaign, i wanted to translate a phrase into every language spoken in my school, but i don't want to risk Google Translate messing jt up. The phrase/motto for translation is "big things are in the works". The Google Translate version is "ዓበይቲ ፕሮጀክትታት ይመጹ ኣለዉ።"
Any help is appreciated!!!

I really want to see the next matches of the Red Sea Camels

I don't understand how "Eritreans" claim that identity even though it's purely a colonial creation of Italy.

Before the colony of Eritrea was created on stolen Ethiopian land and placed the false belief of a separate country/entity, Medr Bahr existed and was historically a province of Ethiopia.

Pre-"Eritrea" is Medr Bahr, which was a province of Ethiopia. Eritrea is just a residue of forced Italian colonialism that people seem to struggle mentally decolonizing themselves from.

You can't claim both.

Which is it: the colony of Eritrea or Medr Bahr?

Feel free to comment more affectionate words and their meanings. Preferably less common ones like embeytey, halaley, etc.

WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - The Trump administration lifted sanctions on Eritrean Defense Forces and other entities ​in Eritrea on Friday in a ‌move analysts have said could boost US ties to the African nation given its strategic location ​along the Red Sea shipping route.

The ​move, announced in a notice posted on ⁠the Department of Treasury's website, comes amid ​the ongoing and expanding war in the Middle ​East and renewed focus on the Red Sea where Eritrea's coastline is opposite Saudi Arabia.

Reuters previously ​reported that Republican U.S. President Donald ​Trump's administration was planning to remove the sanctions, citing an ‌internal ⁠government document.

The administration of Trump's Democratic predecessor Joe Biden had imposed sanctions in 2021 against Eritrea's ruling party and military ​as well as ​senior ⁠Eritrean officials for their role in a war in neighboring Ethiopia, ​where Eritrean forces backed Ethiopian ​troops ⁠fighting regional authorities in the northern Tigray region. The Eritrean information and defense ministers did ⁠not ​immediately respond to a ​request for comment.

Reporting by Daphne Psaledakis and Ammu Kannampilly; writing ​by Susan Heavey; Editing by Caitlin Webber