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Eritrea
Capital: Asmara
Region: Horn of Africa, East Africa
Geography
Eritrea borders the Red Sea to the North East, Sudan to the west and northwest, Ethiopia to the south, and Djibouti to the southeast.
Its border with Ethiopia is heavily militarised after a two year conflict between May 1998 and June 2000 over the disputed town of Badme, which killed 70,000 people and cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
Al Jazeera English | Talk to Jazeera - Meles Zenawi | 22 Nov 2007
Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Adow talks to the Ethiopian prime minister about his country’s role in Somalia and asks him whether his country is, as the UN claims, on the verge of war with Eritrea.
Al Jazeera English | Riz Khan- Eritrea: Challenges & Crises | 30 August 2007
We speak with Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki about the challenges facing his country.
Wednesday 5 December 2012 By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
December 4, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) - Almost the entire Eritrean national football squad has been missing in Uganda since Sunday, after the team was eliminated at the ongoing East and Central Africa Football (...)
Thursday 23 March 2006 By Alberto Negri, Italian newspaper Il Sole-24 Ore
Mar 18, 2006 — Three years after Eritrean independence, the old locomotive whistle sounded again. In May 1996, station master Gherezghiler Cardelli, then over 80 years old, proud in (...)
Friday 24 August 2012 INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP
Ethiopia After Meles
Africa Briefing N°8922 Aug 2012
OVERVIEW
The death of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who had not been seen in public for several months, was announced on 20 August 2012 by Ethiopian (...)
Monday 4 February 2013 By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
February 3, 2013 (MEKELLE, ETHIOPIA) - Thousands of Eritrean refugees held a demonstration on Saturday at a camp in northern Ethiopia in support of the actions taken by a dissident army group to bring about (...)
Monday 20 December 2010 December 19, 2010 (ADDIS ABABA) — Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki suspects the United States has plans to assassinate him by bombing his residence, according to leaked secret American diplomatic cables.
The Cable from the US embassy (...)
Friday 28 December 2012 By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
December 27, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) - Authorities in Sudan have detained two Eritrean opposition journalists according to local reporters, and opposition groups.
Abdalal Mahmoud and Haroun Adam of the Sudan-based (...)
Wednesday 24 April 2013 April 23, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) – The US government has criticised countries in the East African region for their continued human rights violations and political oppression in its annual report on human rights practices around the world. (...)
Sunday 2 September 2012 By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
September 1, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) – Three Eritrean journalists who have been detained for over a decade in Eritrea have died, the Paris-based media watchdog, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) claimed in a report (...)
Wednesday 4 January 2012 By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
January 3, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) - The Ethiopian military has retired over 300 long serving senior military officers, according to country’s Ministry of Defense.
The army has cut-back a total of 316 senior military (...)
Monday 14 May 2012 By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
May 13, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) - The Government of South Sudan (GoSS) has now officially accredited 19 ambassadors. Israel’s ambassador to South Sudan, Haim Koren (RCJ)
The latest group, accredited on 9 May, according (...)
National unity: a project for each and every South Sudanese2013-05-21 14:23:01 By Jacob K. Lupai
May 21, 2013 - South Sudan has just attained independence from an imposed unity that had failed miserably to take into account the objective realities on the ground. In the old (...)
Unity and reconciliation necessary for sustainable peace in Darfur2013-05-21 14:19:47 By Adeeb Yousif
May 20, 2013 -The biggest challenge in the Darfur conflict today is divisions. These divisions have created misunderstanding and mistrust within Darfurian society. Moreover they (...)
The Invasion of Abyei: two years of more agony 2013-05-20 05:39:13 By Luka Biong Deng
May 19, 2013 - On 21st May 2013, the people of Abyei have spent two years of more agony and they will remember again the sad memories of how their lives and livelihoods were (...)
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13th-April-2013
Citizen of Western Bhar el-Ghazal State calls for limitations of President Powers and the Independence of Executive, Legislature and Judiciary and (...)
Sudan: Stepped-Up Assault on Media Freedom2013-05-04 10:53:49 Human Rights Watch
Sudan: Stepped-Up Assault on Media Freedom
Newspapers, Other Media Censored, Confiscated, Shut Down
MAY 3, 2013
(Nairobi) – Sudan should immediately stop censoring (...)
CPJ calls on African Union to uphold press freedom2013-05-03 03:23:16 Committee to Protect Journalists
CPJ calls on African Union to uphold press freedom
New York, May 2, 2013
The Committee to Protect Journalists asks Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, chairperson of the (...)
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National unity: a project for each and every South Sudanese 2013-05-21 14:23:01 By Jacob K. Lupai May 21, 2013 - South Sudan has just attained independence from an imposed unity that had failed miserably to take into account the objective realities on the ground. In the old (...)
Unity and reconciliation necessary for sustainable peace in Darfur 2013-05-21 14:19:47 By Adeeb Yousif May 20, 2013 -The biggest challenge in the Darfur conflict today is divisions. These divisions have created misunderstanding and mistrust within Darfurian society. Moreover they (...)
The Invasion of Abyei: two years of more agony 2013-05-20 05:39:13 By Luka Biong Deng May 19, 2013 - On 21st May 2013, the people of Abyei have spent two years of more agony and they will remember again the sad memories of how their lives and livelihoods were (...)
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