Tag Archives: Expressen

Eritrea’s Information Minister confirms defection but who’s next?

February 6, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

After over two months of secrecy and denials, controversies surrounding his whereabouts, the Eritrean Information Minister and Issaias Afewerki’s right-hand man, confirms his defection on January 30th 2013 to a Swedish tabloid called Expressen. You remember months of media saga … read more »

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Interview: Eritrea Information Minister Ali Abdu Confirms He Left The Regime

January 30, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

First Interview With Eritrea’s Ali Abdu: Information Minister Confirms: Has Left The Regime Expressen newspaper interview translated by Google Translate from Swedish. BEIRUT. Eritrean dictator Isaias Afewerkis Information Minister Ali Abdu Ahmed has fled the country and is living today … read more »

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Woman left sitting near dead body on a Kenya Airways flight

June 26, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

A plane passenger was left sitting across the aisle from a body on a 4,500 mile flight. Reporter Lena Pettersson, 34, said the 35-year-old man was taken ill and died shortly after take-off from Amsterdam heading for Tanzania. The Swede … read more »

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