Eritrea News

I read, and re-read, your hagiography which had graced many Ethiopian opposition sites despite the fact that many of them espouse a no-nonsense editorial policy on brokering a deal with the wayward leadership of the State of Eritrea.

Photo: W.Ammar, EPP Chairman Q: The Eritrean regime is said to be militarily and financially backing Al-Quada linked insurgents in Somalia.

Question: Is Assistant Secretary Carson planning to travel to Eritrea in the future? Answer: At this time, Assistant Secretary Johnnie Carson does not have a trip to Eritrea scheduled.

Security sources say Egyptian police today shot dead an African migrant and wounded two others, including a 15-year-old at the Israeli border.

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat-Somali Foreign Minister Muhammad Abdullah Omar told Asharq Al-Awsat that the UNSC will discuss an application by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development [IGAD; the African organization consisting of Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, Uganda, Djibouti, Kenya, and special envoy of the UN secretary general]and the Peace and ...

Holidays are such an important part of each countries tradition along with supporting its culture.

Hannah Pool was born in Eritrea but adopted and brought up in England. Time, she felt, to learn how to cook injera - the staple food of her homeland Wednesday, 17 June 2009 As cuisines go, Eritrean and Ethiopian food is still pretty rare in this country.

Eritreans have always found it difficult to differentiate - freedom' with the politically overloaded word - independence', writes Gabriel Guangul.

ASMARA, 15 June 2009 - Doran Ali Osman, administrator of Rahaita, one of the most southerly villages on Eritrea's Red Sea coast, zips up his jacket as the wind tugs at his clothes.

The main argument of these individuals is that Eritrea's economy is going down the drain, where let alone to finance such forces in Somalia, it cannot even feed its oversized army of perpetual 'National Service' recruits.

June 12, 2009 - Any observer to the Eritrea's tyrant activities, his bizarre behavior, the belligerent and consistent assault and insults on the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement and the Government of South Sudan , must undoubtedly - " and rightfully so - " assumes that: President Isaias Afworki - in actual fact - is campaigning for the Sudan's ...

Eritrea is facing a food crisis, but aid workers say they cannot fully determine its severity as they are unable to assess the situation because of travel restrictions and the government's policy of "self-reliance". The rains have failed again this year, in what is one of the driest regions in Africa.

Continental shift Last Updated: June 11. 2009 2:57PM UAE / June 11. 2009 10:57AM GMT On this map, the territories are sized in proportion to the number of people in each country who died from diseases classified by the World Health Organization as 'easily preventable'. Courtesy worldmapper.org In Abdourahman Waberi's new novel, Africa basks in ...

Photo: Beleaguered Eritrean President Isayas Afewerki There is no better time than the present to end tyranny and misery in Eritrea.

The Somali transitional government on Wednesday sought an urgent international community intervention in the war-torn Horn of Africa nation to enable the fledgling government flush out insurgents in the country.

May 28, 2009 - President Isayas Afewerki of Eritrea's latest diatribe against the Sudan People Liberation Movement and the Government of the Southern Sudan was unjustifiable and deplorable.

's leading jailer of journalists, discussed press freedom during an extensive interview with Swedish broadcaster TV4 .

Rightfully it was so. Indeed, with the ardent sacrifice and unflinching support of TPLF, on May 24, 1991 Eritrea happens to claim its national independence from Ethiopia.

May 31, 2009 a ' Ethiopian government has directed to authorize expelled Eritreans to reclaim assets they left behind before the two neighbor states went in to a bloody border war in 1998.

Two civilians, one of them a child, were killed yesterday when Islamist militants clashed briefly with Somali government forces in the capital Mogadishu, officials and witnesses said.