r/Eritrea

Guys what does Aytahazuley/ ኣይተሃዙለይ mean?? I never understood the context or anything of this word.

Most of the young Tigrinya children I see have the most obscure biblical names or straight up western names. There is this weird mentality that our people have which is associate names with certain age groups and shame people for having traditional or ‘old people’ names to the point that some people flat out change their names as grown adults to something modern or only go be their nicknames. I remember when I was in Eritrea and one of the ladies in the neighbourhood named her grandchild Berhane in honour of her martyred brother and people were like ‘how can she call a little child Berhane that’s so embarrassing he’s going to be bullied by other kids when he grows up etc’. I feel like it’s this need to be ‘modern’ that has people flipping the Bible to find some random words they can use as a name and brag about how it actually has a deep meaning. Meanwhile actual Tigrinya names are dying out and it’s lowkey sad because those names hold a lot of cultural and historical meaning. It’s gotten so bad that memhdars in Eritrea were informed to not accept western celebrity names when parents apply for birth certificates because too many people were trying to name their kids after famous footballers apparently.

Hello! My husband and I are having a baby in a few months, very excited! We don’t know if it’s a boy or a girl yet. Neither one of us were born in Eritrea, and our Tigrinya isn’t the greatest. We’ve obviously heard the most common names, so it would be nice to hear some rare ones.

Names we like so far (don’t know if they’re actually Eritrean, but we’ve heard Eritreans having them):

Boys:

• Joel
• Zecarias
• Amelon

Girls:

• Hewan
• Eden
• Henon

Thank you!

ናይ 2020-2022 ስዉኣት መርድእ ከይሰማዕናስ

የገረምኩም ዶ? It has been almost 4 years since the Tigray war ended and we haven’t heard about the exact casualties/martyrdom on the Eritrean side. I came back from Eritrea recently and nobody knows about if their friends, sons, and daughters are alive. 😢

In the Horn of Africa there are over 90 ethnic groups scattered across 3 countries. Am I the only one that thinks this is insane. You look at all the most peaceful and prosperous regions in history and no matter how genetically different they are they all go under 1 group of people.
Look at China, the overwhelming majority are Han but they are nowhere near the same genetically. In France there’s a whole genetic spectrum of Celtic to Germanic Ancestry that shifts but they all identify as French and don’t have any subgroups to go by. Even a country so close to us like Egypt had a north south Gradient but still had no different ethnic Groups forming.

Eritrea and we can even include most of Ethiopia under that bracket are all formed from the same pastorial Neolithic Cushitic base and around 20% South Semitic ancestry yet there’s so many different ethnic groups that all speak different languages, some not even from the same language family. There are far more countries out there which are genetically more diverse than most of the horn yet are all cohesive under 1 identity.

By no means am I implying just getting rid of ethnic groups but shouldn’t assimilation be promoted?

Look at Ethiopia, they’re in an all out ethnic tribal battle ground, from the Tigray war to Oromo taking control and a Fano advance. Even Somalia, they’re supposed to be this ethnically homogeneous country yet they’re constantly fighting over their Qabil. Is this not embarrassing? It feels so primitive.

As we have seen before the ethiopian people have been using red sea when eritrea was under ethiopian colony but as today eritrea is independent country with ownership of redsea. Do you think the younger generation could ask the access of redsea? What are the older generation feeding the younger generation?

I just saw from the subreddit many aren’t fan of him I was just curious I’m Somali so I’m not very familiar with the geopolitical context I know why Eritreans don’t like him

Hi so my mom just told me that my Somali deadbeat dad is not my dad and she said my biological dad is from Eritrea specifically the Tigrinya ethnic group. She said when I was born he wanted my name to be Zekarias but since my mom was in a different relationship with a Somali guy at the same time she didn’t want to be shamed so she got married with Somali guy and named me Zakariya the Muslim version.Can I identify as Eritrean? if I say I am I feel like a fraud. I wanna find my dad and reconnect so how can I?

Once again, our brutal regime has introduced another policy that many fear will only increase the suffering of ordinary people. Yesterday, the national TV announced that every Eritrean citizen must deposit their money in the banks. Many people believe this will weaken the value of the Nakfa and make daily life even more difficult.

The reality is that many Eritreans inside the country depend on financial support from family and friends living abroad just to survive.

I still remember the 2015 currency change. Despite the promises, I never saw the cost of living become more affordable. Instead, prices remained high, and many families continued to struggle.

I hope that one day our government will announce policies that genuinely improve the lives of its own people—policies that reduce the cost of living, create economic opportunities, and allow ordinary Eritreans to live with dignity instead of constantly facing new hardships.

Since Eritrea is a multiethnic country, why does it not have Italian as an intermediary language, like other African countries utilize their former colonizer’s language for it?

It's well known that firm state leaders are extremely rich by virtue of the power they wield. Putin is an example of this; he is estimated to be the richest person in the world because he owns the entire Russian state machinery. But in my interactions in this sub, people seem to believe the false, down-to-earth persona of Issias.

It can be seen that the state government controls the entire economy, including monetary transfers from the diaspora. Additionally, there is a well-documented participation of the Eritrean regime in transnational money and people smuggling networks raking in billions annually. The proceeds of the economy are laundered in neighboring African countries like Uganda, Kenya, and Rwanda. And that's the funny thing: the regime only invests money outside of Eritrea.

Based on all this data, It's estimated that Isais accrued billions in foreign accounts. Then why were people downvoting me on a previous post when I said this? Do you believe the Eritrean culture is dystopian to this level that everyone, including Isais, is happy being poor in a dysfunctional economy? I want to know how people still believe that Issias is a humble, frugal communist who is working for everyone's well-being, lol. How is the propaganda so effective at this level?

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