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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 10 October 2004 Eritrean Community for Human Rights and Refugee Protection Press ReleaseOct 8, 2004
Mr Teklemariam Merkehazion is a 62 year old official at the Orthodox Tewahdo
Church was summoned for questioning by government security agents last (...)
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 (...)
Wednesday 20 January 2010 January 19, 2010 (ADDIS ABABA) — An Exiled Eritrean rights group, Solidarity Association for Justice and Democracy in Eritrea said that Libyan authorities along with representative of the Eritrean government in Tripoli are conspiring (...)
Saturday 20 March 2010 March 18, 2010 (ADDIS ABABA) - 15 Eritrean air force members have reportedly fled Eritrea, seeking political asylum to an undisclosed government.
An exiled opposition website - assenna.com recently claimed receiving details of the Air (...)
Thursday 14 April 2005 By Ed Harris
ASMARA, April 14 (Reuters) - Eritrea’s government, facing a shortage of foreign exchange, will enforce tough new rules to crack down on black market currency dealing on Friday, according to documents publicising the new (...)
Friday 18 December 2009 December 17, 2009 (ADDIS ABABA) – Since June 2009, some 1,650 Eritrean refugees who were screened from different camps resettled to the United States under the UN refugee agency assisted third country resettlement program. (...)
Thursday 30 August 2012 Reporters without borders
ALERT / PRESS RELEASE
30th August 2012
ERITREA
Three journalists held since 2001 die in Eiraeiro prison camp
After several weeks of investigating reports from sources in Eritrea and from prison guards (...)
Wednesday 27 May 2009 May 26, 2009 (LONDON) — The Eritrean President criticized the southern Sudan ruling party because it has opted to deal with its arch foe Ethiopia, an opposition website reported today. Eritrea’s President Isaias Afwerki (Reuters) (...)
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 (...)
Monday 16 August 2010 By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
August 2010 (ADDIS ABABA) – Exiled Eritrean refugees and politicians hailed Ethiopia’s recent decision that allows Eritrean refugees to live out of refugee camps and settlements.
The newly introduced scheme, which (...)
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May 16, 2013 - In the late 70s when for the first time oil was discovered in Southern Sudan there was euphoria that poverty would be a thing of the past, replaced by a high (...)
Wau Dialogue W. Bahr el-Ghazal state 13-15 May 20132013-05-13 14:41:35 South Sudan Law Society
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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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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