Eritrea News

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.

US President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced his decision to nominate Scott H DeLisi, who has served as Vice Consul in India, as the new Ambassador to Nepal.

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.

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.

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.