Former member of the League and the National Alliance was accused of illegal export of armaments to Eritrea and tax evasion. In 2009 he was arrested for bribery

The former regional Lombard Piergianni Flournoy was sentenced to four years imprisonment in the process Milan where he was accused of illegal export of armaments to Eritrea and tax evasion. This was decided by the Fourth Criminal Division of the Court of Milan, who has acquitted former political Lombard another accusation: the ’willful failure to execute the order of a judge’.

Flournoy, who in the past has already had several legal problems, was sentenced in particular for having taken part in the transfer to the African country of ”ten telescopes night of the third generation” for sniper rifles. In the process two other defendants were sentenced to suspended sentences and other persons accused in various ways, corruption and fraud have been acquitted instead. According to the hypothesis accusatory (substantially sustained by the tribunal) Prosperini would receive in black sums of money that had been recognized as a percentage for his role of mediator between some Italian companies and the Eritrean government.

Flournoy sentenced to 4 years for arms exports in Eritrea

This is not the first legal entanglement for the politician grew up in the Northern League and then passed to the National Alliance. Flournoy was already jailed in 2009, when he was Minister of Tourism of Pirelli, on charges of having received a bribe of 230 thousand euro on a contract for the television commercials worth over 7 million. He had been released from prison only after reaching a plea bargain agreement for years to three years and five months. Finished again under house arrest in spring 2010, had attempted suicide.

For 40-year-old Bereket Al-Azar, hearing of the atrocities in his birth country Eritrea is sometimes too difficult to stomach.

After immigrating to Canada at the age of 17, Al-Azar said he hasn’t returned to the Horn of Africa country since 2004, because he’s become critical of his government and it’s become too dangerous.

“I do not agree with what they’re doing,” he said.

Despite his reservations, Al-Azar is joining other members of Edmonton’s large Eritrean community Tuesday night to preview Sound of Torture, a documentary highlighting the struggle Eritrean refugees face as they flee their country and are targeted by human traffickers in Egypt.

“I’ve heard of this horrific story of what’s happening to Eritrean immigrants when they cross the Sinai Desert,” he said.

“The fact that others will be beside me, it will actually force me to watch it and then (hopefully) take action.”

Ghelle Berhe, a member Eritrean Justice and Human Rights Advocacy Association of Edmonton, said he hopes the film will shed light on the struggles of the Eritrean people for not just members of the local community, but for others as well.

The screening gets underway at the Citadel Theatre at 7 p.m.

By: Metro

New Eritrean Music 2015 ”SELAM” By Mihreteab Michael

Italian ship picked up on Saturday, nearly 700 migrants who crossed the Mediterranean in seven overflowing dinghies, according to the Italian Coast Guard.

Favorable weather has increased the number of people trying to get from Africa to Europe in the perilously small boats, and last Friday was rescued around 1000 migrants in similar circumstances, most of them from Somalia or Eritrea.

“Anyone who takes aid is crippled. Aid is meant to cripple people… Governments in Africa and elsewhere are not allowed to write their own programs. And when it comes to implementing programs, it deprives you of building institutions and the capacity to implement your programs…We need to write our own programs in the first place. We need to articulate on the projects we write. We need to have a comprehensive strategy, plans on how to implement those programs…Unless we do that on our own, we can’t possibly imagine that we are achieving any of the goals – millennium or non millennium.” — President Isaias Afwerki of Eritrea

Eritrean’s president has kicked the U.S. NGOs out of Eritrea. The tactics of President Afwerki of Eritrea defies the US and its imperialist policies toward Africa. All African Heads of State need to kick out the NGO charitable industrial complex and design their own reforms by themselves for their own implementation and independence.

President Isaias says African mineral resources are not sustainable for economic development in the immediacy. Developing infrastructure for this will take generations to come. Comparative advantage are of greater immediate importance. “Your location could be a comparative advantage. If you have a long coastline, then you develop fisheries, develop your services industry – shipping, transportation – air, land. Provide industry and manufacturing.”

“Africa can produce its own food and grow more. Why aren’t we able to do that?” You have to produce something. Emphasize sustainable sectors. Agriculture is a sustainable sector. You need to put in place agriculture infrastructure. It’s a strategy commodity for communities.

“You need to think least on mineral resources (for economic development)… Gold glitters but it blinds people…If you forgo agriculture because you have gold, you go into a trap. If you forgo comparative advantage that you have because you have gold, then you make a big mistake.”

Food sovereignty and local production, local manufacturing and development are more critical than depending on resource exploitation. You must have a balance, comprehensive program that takes stock of your comparative advantages in different sectors and local needs first.

“Local markets are everything.”

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At 8:33 in this video regarding on border dispute and food crisis, the Eritrean president takes on the US concept of democracy for African nations through fake elections: