He just won a big literary prize but no one has seen Eritrea's Amanuel Asrat for 20 years - Why? - Face2Face Africa

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He just won a big literary prize but no one has seen Eritrea's Amanuel Asrat for 20 years - Why? - Face2Face Africa

On September 23, 2001, nearly a fortnight after the world had borne witness to the devastating twin tower fall in New York, the family of journalist, songwriter and poet Amanuel Asrat would encounter their own private catastrophe. Along with editors of other privately-owned newspapers on that day, Asrat was arrested and detained by Eritrean national...

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1937

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