Eritrea News

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.

Based in Melbourne, Australia, Omar Jabir has very harsh words about the regime s refusal to call for emergency food aid although the UN says close to 70 percent of the population is malnourished.

A chronology of key events: 300-600 - Eritrea part of the Ethiopian kingdom of Aksum.

The only leader who thinks it is o.k. to preside over a nation with the worst record in press freedom is Eritrea s strongman Isayas Afewerki.

Djibouti has sharply denied accusations that it played a role in fueling violence in neighboring Somalia.

Djibouti's foreign minister accused neighbouring Eritrea on Sunday of arming and training militias to carry out sabotage in the tiny Horn of Africa country, and of fomenting chaos in the region.

Eritrea's president Isaias Afwerki spoke to Reuters for more than an hour on Wednesday in a scenic safe house on the outskirts of the capital, Asmara.

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki said that Western intelligence agencies and special interest groups were persecuting Eritrea by inventing lies, rumours and defamatory reports.

Evangelical Christians are facing even more problems in the east African nation of Eritrea, Mission Network News reported.

The headline to the UN's own report on the Security Council meeting on Somali last week said it all: "Many challenges still needing international attention". High among them is the issue of sanctions to deal with "spoilers" as requested by the regional body, IGAD, and the African Union, as long ago as May.

Eritrea should be punished for threatening the Horn of Africa region by supporting Somali rebels, Somalia's foreign affairs minister said on Sunday.

One of the frustrations with which Africa's friends have had to repeatedly cope over the years has been the seemingly utter incapacity of the African leaders to deal with their more problematic peers: witness the annual African Union summit's literal embrace of Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe last year on the very morrow of a farcical ...

The Eritrean President Isayas Afewerki held talks today with the Sudanese Presidential Adviser, Ghazi Salah Al-Deen who paid a one day visit to Asmara for talks on Darfur conflict.

The idea that extremism takes hold in groups that feel their "status" is threatened by new groups on the rise in society is nothing new.

Ethiopian Prime minister Meles Zenawi today said that, with the current unbending position the Eritrean government runs , border demarcation is unlikely.

The Directors of Gippsland Limited [ASX: GIP, DB: GIX] are pleased to announce that the Company's 100% owned subsidiary Nubian Resources PLC has been granted three Prospecting Licences in the Adobha region of The State of Eritrea .

Australian mining company Gippsland Limited said on Monday its subsidiary Nubian Resources Plc had been granted three new prospecting licences in northwestern Eritrea.

An International Monetary Fund mission visited Eritrea during September 14-29, 2009 to conduct the 2009 Article IV consultation discussions.

Photo: Woldeyesus Ammar Eritrea is in the spotlight again following the killing on September 17 of 17 African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu by Al-Shabab militants who the African Union and the UN allege are supported by Eritrea.