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The Ethio-Eritrea peace deal is inching towards its first-year anniversary and both countries are likely to mark the occasion with as much funfair as they did in ...

Eritrea's Roman Catholic Church has condemned the government in the one-party state for seizing and shutting all its health centres last week. In a letter to the ...

All health facilities run by the Catholic Church in Eritrea have been seized by the government, the country's bishops said.

ASMARA, Eritrea—The streets of Eritrea's capital in the runup to this year's Independence Day celebrations on May 24 were unusually quiet. But cafes and ...

The Eritrean government has yet to respond to a stern critique from the Roman Catholic Church protesting the forced closure of its health facilities in the country.

Thousands of Eritreans are waging a social media campaign - modelled in part along the lines of the viral ice bucket challenge - to force change in the one-party ...

BADME, Ethiopia, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Twenty one-years-old Merhawi Yayneshet, an Ethiopian resident of Badme town, vaguely remembers the outbreak of war ...

On this year's Independence Day, Eritreans are dreaming of a post-Afwerki Eritrea.

We, the undersigned human rights organizations, are writing to urge you to support the adoption of a resolution at the upcoming 41st session of the UN Human ...

The Committee to Protect Journalists and 29 other civil society organizations today sent a letter to members of the United Nations Human Rights Council urging ...

Eritrea closes Catholic health clinics. And the one-party state has been engaged in a wider crackdown on unauthorized religious groups.

Key View. Djibouti, Eritrea and Somalia are fast becoming strategic links connecting East Africa's emerging industrial and commercial hubs, such as Ethiopia, ...

KAMPALA, Uganda — More than 100 African writers and activists are urging Eritrea's authoritarian leader to protect basic freedoms and launch political reforms ...

Eritrea is holding a total of 73 million dollars of such funds with six million of the chunk belonging to Ethiopian Airlines. Africa's largest operator resumed ...

Eritrea's Roman Catholic Church lambasted the government for recently seizing and shutting down all its health facilities.

Discover Tank Graveyard in Asmara, Eritrea: Wander among hulking piles of rusted machinery left over from the Eritrean-Ethiopian War.

Presidents of Eritrea and Egypt have asked Sudanese to act responsibly in the midst of a protest push for civilian transition after the ouster in April of long serving ...

It is the second time in the space of a month that Asmara is commenting on the political crisis next door. Eritrea tasked the AU to have a hands on approach in ...

Sudan Military leader, Gen. Abdul-Fattah, is in Eritrea or a working visit.President Isaias Afwerki told him that his country supports the popular movement.

Speaking to the US-based Black Tree TV, she reiterated her excitement at getting "official citizenship," despite being a citizen by birth. She said her main plan ...

Human Rights Council Forty-first session 24 June–12 July 2019. Agenda item 4. Human rights situations that require the Council's attention. Situation of human ...

Lively celebrations can be seen each week, moving business to local bridal salons and music bands geared toward the asylum seekers -- and driving some ...

More than 100 African thought leaders have appealed to the Eritrean president to allow a delegation to visit the isolated Horn of Africa nation, meet with its.

Since the normalisation of relations between Eritrea and Ethiopia last year, Asmara has made several diplomatic strides with its neighbours in the region and the ...

The end of Eritrea's antagonisms with its neighbours means its existential threats are now internal. For Isaias Afwerki, who has been in power since 1993…

Eritrea says the May 29 lifting of security related blacklisting by the United States government was welcome despite being an erroneous move in the first place.

Tiffany Haddish is back in the United States after her recent trip back to Eritrea, her second in as many months. Whiles the first trip was a solemn one to bury her ...

The United States has removed Eritrea from a list of countries uncooperative in the fight against terrorism, the latest in a series of diplomatic victories for the East ...

An ANC statement described this year's edition as the first post-war commemoration – in reference to the decades long border war that Eritrea had with Ethiopia ...

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki pledged to conduct a “patient appraisal” of the African nation's “new political, economic and security situation,” as he ruled out ...

In the lead up to May 24 Independence Day anniversary, several activities are taking place in Eritrea and across the world to mark its 28th anniversary ...

The Eritrean security forces continue to crack down on the country's Christians through the use of mass arrests and other […]

Pushed ever further out from the city centre, hundreds of migrants, many from Eritrea, have set up makeshift camps along the polluted and noisy ring-road that ...

More than two dozen Pentecostal Christians were reportedly arrested in recent days as the crackdown against nondenominational Christianity in the northeast ...

Word of an ongoing crackdown on Christians comes out of Eritrea today. A spokesman for the Voice of the Martyrs USA, Todd Nettleton tells us...

Last week, American author and comedian Tiffany Haddish was granted Eritrean citizenship during a visit to join in the 28th independence anniversary ...

On Wednesday, Abel Hagos will graduate from Hillcrest High School, one of 500 seniors in the Class of 2019. But unlike his fellow graduates, Hagos' road to ...

The Eritrean government responded on Thursday to a letter sent earlier this week by more than 100 Africans seeking dialogue on democratic space, calling ...

An Eritrean delegation that was dispatched by President Isaias Afwerki to neighbouring Sudan met with leaders of the protest movement that toppled Omar ...

Australia's Danakali's (ASX, LON:DNK) said Monday it was about to close debt financing agreements worth $200 million with two African financial institutions, ...

American comedienne Tiffany Haddish is now officially an Eritrean having applied for and received citizenship of the country of her father's birth.

The peace agreement with Ethiopia and lifting of international sanctions provide a welcome opportunity for Eritrea to build an impetus for economic development ...

NAIROBI, Kenya, May 24 – Eritrea have been accepted back into the Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations (CECAFA), after a six year ban ...

MFAE May 26,2019. The 28th anniversary of Eritrean independence was colorfully celebrated at the premises of Eritrea's embassy in Addis Ababa today (May ...

The unsigned group comprises three countries: Nigeria, Eritrea and Benin. In effect, fifty-two of the AU's 55 member states have signed the agreement to ...

The Dutch sea rescue services on Sunday rescued an Eritrean man who was trying to cross the North Sea to England on a home-made raft. The KNRM said it ...

NAIROBI, May 24 (Xinhua) -- Eritrea will return to the Council of East and Central Africa Football Associations (CECAFA) competitions after six years' suspension ...

On May 24, Eritrea officially celebrates its Independence Day, marking 28 years since the country wrestled control back from Ethiopia at the end of a brutal war ...

Eritrea has been cracking down on Christians ahead of the country's Independence Day on May 24. Eritrea has arrested more than 140 Christians who were ...

"Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed shares his heartfelt gratitude to the local and international community for the condolence messages and well wishes received as he ...

Eritrea's Catholic bishops, speaking out for the first time in five years, have called for a "peace and reconciliation" plan in the impoverished Horn of Africa country.

The tournament will kick off in Asmara on August 17 and run until September 1.

Eritrean refugee Abel Hagos celebrated a milestone this week when he graduated from high school in Utah.

As World Refugee Day is commemorated on Thursday around the world, it is puzzling that Israel officially has only 14 refugees –despite having over 30,000 ...

The FGC Radio Team (E31A) will be active from The State of Eritrea until June 3rd.

Download broadcast quality photos and b-roll here. ADDIS ABABA/NEW YORK, 24 May 2019 – UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Priyanka Chopra Jonas travelled ...

WiseGuyReports.com “Eritrea – Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband – Statistics and Analyses” report has been added to its Research Database. Scope of the ...

English News and Press Release on World and 15 other countries about Health and Epidemic; published on 19 Jun 2019 by WHO.

Lena Headey plays an immigration official overseeing the case of an Eritrean migrant whose capture at Dover sparks tabloid fury.

Islamabad: A massive swarm of locusts has migrated from Iran to Pakistan, raising fears that an attack on the country's prized cotton crop could be imminent.

We are not competitors. The only competition we have is in athletics.

Suspect was seized two weeks ago at a road block on the Isiolo-Moyale highway.

Meet Meron Semedar. He was born in Eritrea, a country whose people endure human rights violations, forced military conscription, brutal punishment for ...

UK tourists travelling beyond traditional destinations need to make sure they're protected against exotic infections with the correct vaccines for each country.

After years of sanctions and war, can the African country finally realise its economic potential?

NAIROBI, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Ten countries have confirmed participation in the Africa Games Zone Five qualifiers, which will be held in Kampala, Uganda next ...

Sink Without Trace presents works by seventeen artists on the subject of migrant deaths at sea. The exhibition held during International Refugee Week includes ...

They have been mourning his death in the city of Los Angeles where Hussle grew up but somewhere thousands of miles away in east Africa, Nipsey's death was ...

Eight Eritrean nationals were on Tuesday night arrested hiding in a culvert at Qalaliwe area in Moyale, Marsabit County.

A new report on the world's refugees finds the number of people fleeing their homes because of conflict, persecution or other harrowing circumstances ...

Court orders their transportation to Nairobi for verification of their refugee status.

Much has been written about the significance of the peace deal between Ethiopia and Eritrea for the Horn of Africa. Less attention has been paid to what it ...

The government of Eritrea has held Ciham Ali Abdu, daughter of the former information minister Ali Abdu Ahmed, in incommunicado detention for over six years, ...

A stretch of road in St. Vital has been renamed after an eight-year-old boy who was killed there last year.

Eritrean human rights activists have accused the EU of funding a scheme in Eritrea that uses "forced labour". The EU is backing a road-building project as part of ...

People are jailed in cellars of houses, a network of informers has destroyed trust between people and hundreds of thousands have fled. A rare visit to the 'North ...

A mystery man who reports news from one of the most repressive countries in the world gives his first interview.

Nigeria will consider the interests of its industries in deciding whether to sign up to a $3 trillion Africa free-trade agreement, President Muhammadu Buhari said ...

Eritrea's Foreign Ministry summoned today UNHCR Res. Rep. to protest against latter's unwarranted acts to hamper GOE efforts to bring home its citizens ...

The reopening of the border between former enemies Ethiopia and Eritrea has dramatically changed the towns near the frontier, writes the BBC's Emmanuel ...

Creating a stronger economy and promoting women's rights are just some of the things these UNC women are working to do for the independent African state ...

Eritrea celebrates its 28th independence day and it is the reason American comedienne Tiffany Haddish is heading back to the Horn of Africa nation to join the ...

Like other observers, Human Rights Watch hoped that the people of Eritrea would benefit from the announcement last July that Eritrea and Ethiopia had agreed ...

History warns the relationship between these two countries could suddenly turn sour again.

An unexpected rapprochement last year between Ethiopia and Eritrea, and the subsequent opening of the border, seemed to offer hope of a more lenient ...

Campaigners say €20m EU scheme uses recruits from Eritrea's national *service*, a system likened to mass enslavement.

Foreign Ministers of Eritrea and China met in Beijing on Monday (May 6) with both sides committing to a mutually beneficial relation to both countries. “Eritrea ...

Eritreans are unable to access social media networks as at today (May 15), the BBC's Tigrinya *Service* reports. People have thus been forced to turn to Virtual ...

Only 6.5% of rejected asylum seekers in Belgium returned to their countries of origin, it emerged from a study conducted by the Dutch authorities based on.

*Since this story was reported, there have been reports of additional restrictions being introduced at the Zalambessa crossing point, making it harder to cross ...

Tiffany Haddish, the American comedienne, with Eritrean roots is headed to the Asmara and she opted to make the trip aboard Ethiopian Airlines, Africa's ...

Sudan is likely to be a major theatre for proxy wars in the Middle East.

They sought information on the whereabouts of 18 journalists detained in 2001 and on 11 former top officials of the People's Front for Democracy and Justice ...

The chair of a U.S. House Foreign Affairs subcommittee has called on the Eritrean government to release an American citizen who has been detained in the ...

Yirgalem Fisseha will never forget the moment her world turned upside down.On February 19, 2009, Yirgalem, a poet and journalist, was working her shift at ...

U.N. experts say Eritrea's human rights record has not changed for the better since the government signed a peace agreement with Ethiopia last year, formally ...

With an extensive client list, David Mulugheta has represented at least one first-round NFL pick in each of the last seven years.

“From a busy business area to a quiet neighborhood in ruins,” the view of Samuel Getachew, an Ethiopian journalist describing the border town of Zalambessa ...

Amid the recent surge of migrants traveling to the U.S. from Central America, groups of travelers from Africa have also been arriving at the southern border.

The UN Security Council has unanimously agreed to lift sanctions against Eritrea after nine years. An arms embargo, asset freeze, and travel ban were imposed ...