Hamasen, Eritrea News

The United Nations Security Council is expected Wednesday to slap an arms embargo on Eritrea and impose targeted sanctions on its leaders for allegedly aiding Somali rebels and threatening neighboring Djibouti.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has granted the 12 members of the Eritrean national soccer team asylum.

Steffi Graf, the 22-time Grand Slam-winning tennis player, has turned her focus from the net to the viewfinder and published her first photo-reportage on Friday.

Eritrea warns U.N. not to pass "ludicrous" sanctions By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS - Eritrea has warned the U.N. Security Council that a draft sanctions resolution would impose "ludicrous punitive measures" on Asmara for aiding Somali rebels and might further destabilize the Horn of Africa.

NAIROBI: Twelve Eritreans who disappeared in Kenya last weekend after taking part in a regional soccer tournament are in the process of being granted refugee status, authorities in Nairobi said on Thursday.

His path marked by moonlight, with a Kalashnikov strapped to his back, Feda Mohammed hiked the well-worn trail through the mountains of Pakistan and into Afghanistan.

As Thousands Flee Regime, Eritrea Goes It Alone - By Stephanie McCrummen Facing the prospect of U.N. sanctions and increasing 'brain drain,' young nation's authoritarian president chooses defiance.

Facing the prospect of U.N. sanctions and increasing 'brain drain,' young nation's authoritarian president chooses defiance PHOTOS At the immense workshop called Medeber in Asmara, the Eritrean capital, workers in blue coveralls turn heaps of scrap metal into useful items, such as the blue stoves at left.

Thirty elderly women have been arrested in Eritrea while praying together, one of their relatives living in the United States has told the BBC.

NAIROBI: Eritrea said yesterday it was not aware of reports of an alleged mass arrest of Christians that a rights group says took place in the capital Asmara last weekend.

The international community is on the verge of meting out a collective punishment on the Eritrean political and military leadership.

Eritrea's ambassador to the European Union, Girma Asmerom, was conspicuously absent.

The Somaliland Minister of Home Affairs, Mr. Abdillahi Ismail Ali welcomed Dr. Linda Richter, Executive Director for Child, Youth, Family and Social Development, UNICEF, at Berbera International Airport.

Yet to this day, well over a decade later, law enforcement claims they have no idea who committed this crime.

November 15, 2009 a ' Sudanese President and his Eritrean counterpart will meet on Monday in eastern Sudan town, Port Sudan where they will attend cultural and touristic festivities.

President Isaias Afwerki said Eritrea would not suffer from hunger and food shortages in 2010, a government website reported.

In this lonely corner of the world, the first sign of distress is the luggage. When one of the few international flights that are still operating here touched down one recent afternoon, the returning passengers emerged from baggage claim as if from a big shopping trip.

You can't go to Asmara and not note the architecture . While most African capitals today are replete with drab, hulking towers from the 1960s and 1970s, the Eritrean capital, dating back to its days as an early-century Italian colonial pied-a-terre, is home to some of the boldest designs on the continent.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, today discussed with the Sudanese Presidential Adviser Ghazi Salah Al-Deen, bilateral relation and ongoing efforts to end Darfur conflict and achieve peace in the country.

Body photo: Seyoum Tesfaye The news blackout on the drought/famine situation reportedly afflicting millions of Eritreans has frustrated both emergency aid agencies and press and human rights advocates.