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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.
Sunday 18 March 2012 By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
March 17, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) – Eritrea on Friday said that it won’t engage in retaliation for Ethiopia’s cross-border attacks against rebel groups based in Red Sea nation on Thursday, easing the fears of a return to (...)
Friday 5 October 2012 By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
October 4, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) - An exiled Eritrean opposition political organization has denounced what it said was a “security arrangement” between Eritrea and Yemen to deport thousands of Eritrean refugees, most (...)
Thursday 18 October 2007 October 17, 2007 (ASMARA) — Eritrea’s security chief was shot four times on Friday evening by unknown gunmen. He is alive but in critical condition, the opposition website awate.com reported.
Simon is the number two man in the (...)
Wednesday 20 July 2011 By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
July 19, 2011 (ADDIS ABABA) – Over 30 members of the Eritrean naval forces have deserted to Yemen this month, an exiled Eritrean opposition group have said.
Based in Ethiopia, the Red Sea Afar Democratic (...)
Friday 7 September 2012 Reporters without borders
Alert / Press Release
6 September 2012
ERITREA
RWB-backed satellite radio station sabotaged again
Radio Erena, a Paris-based satellite radio station that broadcasts to Eritreans in Eritrea and to the (...)
Friday 4 June 2004 ASMARA, June 4, 2004 (Sudan Tribune) — The chairman of Eritrean National Democratic Front (ENDF) Osman Abubakr claimed in a press statement responsibility for the recent bomb attack that occurred in Barentu, a western town in the tiny (...)
Wednesday 18 April 2012 April 17, 2012 (JUBA) – Rebels fighting the South Sudanese government are receiving weapons and ammunition from Sudan and Eritrea, says a report by Small Army Survey; an independent research project in Geneva. A South Sudanese policeman (...)
Saturday 4 August 2007 This paper was written in early 2000, and was published in Ethiopian Review Magazine and other Ethiopian newsletters at that time. Although the text is almost a decade old, the issues analyzed are still current and fresh.
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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. (...)
Saturday 12 January 2008 January 11, 2008 (BRUSSELS) — Britain has replaced France as the top destination for Eritrean asylum-seekers among all 27 EU countries, according to figures released in Brussels pn January 8.
Among the 27, 850 applications received in (...)
On Abyei enough is enough2013-06-18 05:01:47 By Deng Vanang
June 17, 2013 - No one whether locally or internationally can still argue there is more hope to resolve Abyei stalemate peacefully. It has been everybody’s wish that dialogue could (...)
The arming of rebels in Sudan and South Sudan: what is the evidence?2013-06-18 04:57:44 By Eric Reeves
17 June 2013 - News reporting in general, a great deal of analytic writing, and virtually all diplomatic pronouncements about military support for rebel groups—in South Sudan and (...)
Bashir’s decision, a material breach of the oil agreement2013-06-16 06:21:14 By Justice Deng Biong
June 15, 2013 - After its ratification by the National legislatures in both South Sudan and Sudan States, the Cooperation Agreement [CA] (Oil Agreement included) signed on (...)
South Sudan civil society alliance ask to meet the president2013-06-12 05:23:59 South Sudan Civil Society Alliance
National Issues Discussed with the Presidential Legal Advisor and Appeal to meet the President
June 7, 2013
Ladies and gentlemen of the press, today the (...)
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On Abyei enough is enough 2013-06-18 05:01:47 By Deng Vanang June 17, 2013 - No one whether locally or internationally can still argue there is more hope to resolve Abyei stalemate peacefully. It has been everybody’s wish that dialogue could (...)
The arming of rebels in Sudan and South Sudan: what is the evidence? 2013-06-18 04:57:44 By Eric Reeves 17 June 2013 - News reporting in general, a great deal of analytic writing, and virtually all diplomatic pronouncements about military support for rebel groups—in South Sudan and (...)
Bashir’s decision, a material breach of the oil agreement 2013-06-16 06:21:14 By Justice Deng Biong June 15, 2013 - After its ratification by the National legislatures in both South Sudan and Sudan States, the Cooperation Agreement [CA] (Oil Agreement included) signed on (...)
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