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based Eritrean news website.

Creation

''Awate'' was created by Saleh Gadi as an Eritrean news website, in September 2000, several years after the 1997 creation of ''

Asmarino ''Asmarino'' or ''Asmarino Independent Media'' is an Eritrean diaspora news website created in 1997. Creation ''Asmarino'' was created in 1997 by Tesfaledet, an Eritrean refugee living in the United States The United States of America (U. ...

'', another Eritrean diaspora news website. Saleh lived in

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for several years through to 2001, and published reports critical of the Eritrean government's decision to attack Ethiopia, which started the

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. Saleh's passport was cancelled and he received

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in the

(US). Saleh created ''Awate'' after his arrival in the US, with aim of providing an alternative to what he described as Eritrean government "infiltrat on fevery community in the world

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networks of supporters everywhere who threaten people and, either directly or through relatives back home, punish them for speaking out". ''Awate'' named itself after

Hamid Idris Awate Hamid Idris Awate (10 April 1910 – 28 May 1962) was the founder of the Eritrean Army (the armed wing of the Eritrean Liberation Front), and a symbol of the Eritrean struggle for independence. Early life in Italian Eritrea Awate was born in 19 ...

for his "fighting against overwhelming odds and standing up for what is right no matter how long it may take".

Leadership

Saleh Gadi, founder of ''Awate'', continued as its editor .

Points of view

The content of ''Awate'' tends to be critical of the Eritrean government, playing a "counterpart to the Eritrean state".

References

External links

*{{official website Mass media in Eritrea