@ZekuZelalem@dair-community.social
2026-05-08 07:17 UTC
This is Vanessa Tsehaye, among the most amazing people I know.
She is the founder of One Day Seyoum & managed to collect over 440,000 signatures for a petition submitted to the US gov, demanding action on Ciham. This is her when she submitted it, in late 2025.
She's a former Amnesty International researcher, &now journalist at Al Jazeera. She also won the Magnitsky prize in 2025.
Her uncle Seyoum Tsehaye is a journo held incommunicado in Eritrea since 2001.
May the demands of 440k be heard.
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@FediThing@social.chinwag.org 2026-05-08 09:23
@ZekuZelalem@dair-community.social Another great thread 👏 Yet again African news becomes directly relevant to the rest of the world but it hasn't been covered properly by most media. Can only hope opposition in Eritrea get a break at some point (or at least more coverage by outsiders), it sounds so bleak for ordinary people 😞
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@liaizon@social.wake.st 2026-05-08 14:12
@ZekuZelalem@dair-community.social amazing reporting here I hadn't heard any of this story.
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@foxcj@mastodon.social 2026-05-08 10:15
@ZekuZelalem@dair-community.social I'm still ashamed of the UK gov for asserting that Eritrea was a safe country, and that claims for asylum would be treated with scepticism.