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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.
Friday 25 May 2012 By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
May 24, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) - Eritrean President, Issais Afewerki, and his Sudanese counterpart Omer Hassan Al-Bashir held talks in Asmara on Thursday on a number of bilateral issues of mutual concern to the two (...)
Saturday 12 May 2007 May 11, 2007 (DUBAI) — Eritrean President Isayas Afewerki denied the existence of opposition forces in the country. He further said that all foreign plans to create a political opposition were foiled. Isayas Afewerki
President (...)
Monday 20 August 2012 August 19, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Eritrean government has launched an initiative to bridge gaps between the Sudanese government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N) in order to end the South Kordofan and Blue Nile (...)
Tuesday 18 December 2012 By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
December 17, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) - Israel has opened a military bases in Eritrea to monitor and avert rival Iran’s hostile activities in the Red Sea which could eventually pose a threat to its national security, a (...)
Saturday 4 May 2013 By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
May 3, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - As the globe marks the World Press Freedom Day on Friday, the international press rights group, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), called on the African Union (AU) to do more to (...)
Sunday 26 August 2007 August 25, 2007 (ASMARA) — The Eritrean president has set pre-conditions for the improvement of the country’s relations with the USA. In an interview as broadcast by Eritrea’s state-run radio, Isayas Afewerki said that the USA should (...)
Monday 2 August 2010 August 1, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — Sudan’s 2nd Vice President Ali Osman Taha warned today that the possible independence of the South will create havoc and chaos that was witnessed in countries with similar experiences. Sudan’s 2nd Vice (...)
Thursday 8 March 2012 By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
March 7, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) - Ethiopian Afar rebels said they have freed two German tourists who were taken hostage in an attack in January near the Eritrean border.
In a statement, the Eritrea based Afar (...)
Monday 2 August 2010 By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
Aug 1, 2010 (ADDIS ABABA) - Ten Eritrean opposition political organizations are holding a week- long conference in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to discuss a framework of government should they manage to (...)
Monday 2 May 2011 By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
May1, 2011 (ADDIS ABABA) – Eritrea through its envoy to Africa Union (AU) has dismissed the latest military threats from Ethiopia in a speech to the AU on 26 April. Eritrean envoy to AU, Girma Asmerom (...)
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