2005 Stanhope Centre and LSE Crisis States Research Programme

Tombossa ASMELASH has a degree in Business Management and works for the Ministry of Information in Eritrea. Since 1995, he has been film editor, reporter and international news writer and is currently the News and Current Affairs Branch Head with the state-run station, ERI-TV. ERI-TV broadcasts domestic and international news in five languages--Tigrigna, Tigre, English, Arabic and recently Amharic--to the Middle East, Europe, Northern Africa and America. Tombossa is responsible for coordinating electronic news gathering, the supervision of scripts and editing of domestic news.