• Antipope's Charlie Stross worries about the literal survival of Britons in the post-Brexit United Kingdom.
• D-Brief notes the discovery of an ancient corpse in China shrouded in cannabis.
• Dangerous Minds reports on a 1971 BBC documentary about New York City starring a pre-stardom Patti Smith.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a study mapping the changing ( Read more... )

• The BBC reports from Asmara, Eritrea's capital, on the eve of war.
• Bloomberg notes the economic problems of Hong Kong and Singapore, looks at the final day of campaigning in the Brexit referendum, and notes the interim president of Brazil's desire to oust Rousseff.
• Bloomberg View takes issue with the rejection of nuclear energy in the name of the ( Read more... )

The National Post's Frank Elbers describes how mass conscription in Eritrea, unending, is driving a constant flow of young people out of that country.

There is no war in Eritrea, and little civil unrest. Yet refugees from this small country on the Horn of Africa make up the fourth-largest group - after Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis - crossing the ( Read more... )

Al Jazeera America's Dan McLaughlin reports on the ongoing exodus from Eritrea. The dream of independence has curdled, leaving flight the only option.

In the brutal misery driving an exodus of Eritreans to Europe, Feruz Werede sees both a national tragedy and a very personal betrayal ( Read more... )

Douglas Todd's Vancouver Sun article relating to binational American-Canadian citizens and their complaints about controversial new taxation policies is worth reading ( Read more... )

The National Post's Stewart Bell reports that the Canadian government has reacted to the Eritrean government's continued shaking down members of the Eritrean diaspora for money to fund the Eritrean military by expelling the Eritrean consul-general (located in Toronto, apparently). Good.

As recently as Monday, the head of the mission, Consul Semere ( Read more... )

My first reaction to the Associated Press report that a coup attempt in Eritrea by soldiers hoping to restore constitutional governance in Eritrea is sadness. Eritrea deserves so much better from its leadership than it got.

More than 100 dissident soldiers stormed the Ministry of Information in the small East African nation of Eritrea on Monday ( Read more... )

The Winnipeg Free Press' Carol Sanders reports that Eritrean migrants in Winnipeg are still being shaken down by their government to pay a 2% income tax. When I blogged about it last week, I speculated that it would be very difficult to make the Eritrean government stop. This press account, which suggests prominent figures in Winnipeg's Eritrean ( Read more... )

The Toronto Star's Rosie DiManno has a typically emotive, but thorough article describing the life of a recent murder victim. A refugee from Eritrea, Nighisti Semret was walking home from her work as a hotel cleaner to her rented room in Toronto's Cabbagetown neighbourhood about 7 o'clock yesterday morning when she was fatally stabbed by a passerby ( Read more... )