Asmara, Eritrea News

Twenty years since Eritrea won independence from Ethiopia after one of Africa 's longest wars, people are bowed down by a repressive government and increasingly frustrated at the lack of rights they fought for.

Reports indicated that Eritrea's accomplishments in combating malaria have been applauded by WHO representatives at a joint meeting with the Ministry of Health that was conducted yesterday here in Asmara.

Sunridge Gold has outlined stronger economics in the feasibility study for its prized Asmara copper-zinc-gold project project in Eritrea, outshining last year's prefeasibility study .

The Eritrean government continues to restrict the travel of all foreign nationals.

On May 24, 1991 citizens of the East African country of Eritrea celebrated their long-awaited independence following a victory over the unjust occupation of their land by neighboring Ethiopia.

There is a diminished desire among Eritrean asylum seekers to migrate to Israel recently, largely due to the new Egypt border fence and the threat of incarceration they face under the "infiltrators law", a visiting Eritrean dissident activist said in Tel Aviv on Friday.

Haile Selassie's pilot, friend to Eritrean refugees, husband, father. Born Aug. 21, 1941, in Hebo, Eritrea, died March 28, 2013, in Toronto of complications from a fall, aged 71.

ERITREA'S hardline regime has jailed at least 10,000 political prisoners, many in "unimaginably atrocious conditions", rights group Amnesty International says in a report criticising the situation in the Red Sea state.

Yet refugees, even legal ones, nevertheless continue to leave in fear of deportation as well as abuse amid a climate of racism and frequent attacks against African refugees in Israel.

Eritrea's grassroots Freedom Friday movement has released a video smuggled out of the secretive African country showing residents of the capital Asmara reading posters calling for mass protests.

The residents of north-western Asmara have called for the upgrading of the local health center's capacity in line with the growing demand to this end.

The Forto 2013 uprising remarkably highlighted the issues critical to democratic change.

Eritrean women fleeing their country's oppressive regime are increasingly finding themselves the repeat victim of abuse, exploitation and violence once outside their homeland, a new report by a women's rights group has found.

Students and staff members of Halai Secondary School, Asmara, have extended a total of 24,000 Nakfa to 4 families of martyrs.