Asmara — Freedom Friday Movement (Arbi Harnet), announced today that their underground newspaper started circulation on the streets of Asmara today, 12 years after the day the government banned all privately owned new papers and arrested journalists and proprietors.
MeqaleH Forto (Echoes of Forto), is said to have been inspired by the attempted coup on January 21 this year. The paper is written by a small team located both inside the country and in the Eritrean diaspora, whilst the dissemination is carried out entirely by members of the team inside the country using informal links and networks.
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