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Sudan Tribune
April 29, 2018
Speaking during a meeting of the Popular Call-up for the Development of the eastern Sudan State of Kassala, al-Bashir pointed to the distinct relations with Eritrea, saying Khartoum has supported Asmara in the past and will continue to support the Eritrean people. He underscored his government'sÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 28, 2018
Mendefera — The residents and civic servants in the Mai-Mine sub zone conducted commendable 42 km dirt road renovation popular campaign linking Enda Gergis to Mai-Mine. At the popular campaign conducted on 20 April, the residents of Adi Shim-Tombosa, Adi Chigono and Mekabir TsablaÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 28, 2018
Dear Commissioner King: Human Rights Watch has examined human rights violations in Eritrea since independence in 1991, but especially the steady deterioration of human rights since 2001. In that year, the government closed all independent newspapers, arrested their journalists, and arrestedÃâà...
Human Rights Watch
April 28, 2018
Dear Commissioner King: Human Rights Watch has examined human rights violations in Eritrea since independence in 1991, but especially the steady deterioration of human rights since 2001. In that year, the government closed all independent newspapers, arrested their journalists, and arrestedÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 28, 2018
Asmara — The National Insurance Corporation of Eritrea reported that it's working to ensure the safety of lives and property, expanding and developing its activities, as well as increasing the awareness of the public. The comment was made by Mr. Zeru Woldemicael, General Manager of the Corporation.
Seeking Alpha
April 27, 2018
In Q1 2018, Nevsun's Eritrean Bisha mine copper and zinc recoveries experienced a huge increase. The zinc and copper production was surprisingly high. If Nevsun manages to maintain the Q1 production levels, the 2018 production guidance will be beaten by a wide margin. Nevsun's cash position hasÃâà...
Face2Face Africa
April 27, 2018
The 2018 World Press Freedom Index published on Wednesday shows that Eritrea is the second worst atmosphere for media personnel in the world. The country placed 179 on the 180 country list, only before North Korea. Sudan, Egypt, Burundi, Equatorial Guinea, Djibouti and Somalia also placed in theÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 27, 2018
Keren — As part of the effort to alleviate potable water shortage in their area, the residents of Rehey administrative area, Halhal sub-zone, are conducting popular campaign in cooperation with stakeholders. According to the Administrator of the area, Mr. Mahmud Hamid the popular campaign includesÃâà...
africanews
April 26, 2018
Like everything else in Eritrea, the media are totally subject to the whim of President Issayas Afeworki, a predator of press freedom who is responsible for “crimes against humanity,” according to a June 2016 UN report. He has no plans to relax his grip. “Those who think there will be democracy in thisÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 25, 2018
Asmara — The Ministry of Labor and Human Welfare extended material support to the victims of natural calamity in the Irafaile Administrative area, For sub-zone. The Head of the branch office in the sub-zone, Mr. Ibrahim Omar, indicated that 100 families that were affected by the storm were rehabilitatedÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 25, 2018
Asmara — The medical director of Godaif Community Hospital, Nurse Mengis Issak, said that the investment made on human resource development is making significant contribution in the advancement of the health sector. Noting that the community hospital is providing commendable service to the publicÃâà...
IHS Jane's 360
April 24, 2018
US Acting Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Donald Yamamoto visited Eritrea on 22–24 April, the first visit by a top US official in years. No details have been made public, other than Yamamoto was due to meet Eritrean officials, foreign diplomats, and US embassy staff in Asmara, before movingÃâà...
BusinessGhana
April 24, 2018
A senior US government official is making a rare visit to Eritrea - a country which is under sanctions over alleged ties to Islamist militants. The acting Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, Donald Yamamoto, is to meet government officials at a time when the Eritrean authorities are seeking support to end theÃâà...
The South African
April 23, 2018
As I settled down for dinner in the 1930s Italian-built hotel in Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, I asked for a glass of wine. Local wine. Oh no, they protested, we only stock box-wine. Box-wine from where I asked. South Africa, they replied, rushing in with two boxes of Stellenbosch vintage. They poured me aÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 23, 2018
Dr. Andebrhan Tesfatsion, Acting Director General of Public Health in the Health Ministry, explained that Eritrea is striving to realize the objectives of the Universal Health Coverage and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. He noted that the WHO action program involves leadership andÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 23, 2018
Stating that encouraging achievements have been registered as a result of the training offered and other opportunities provided over the past years, Ms. Amna hailed the participation of women in the national development drive. She further explained that women in Melebso, Mhlab, Aibaba, Quruh and BeltaÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 23, 2018
Massawa — The health facilities in the administrative areas of Derbushet and Jemhile, Dahlak sub-zone, have become beneficiaries of solar energy system, according to Mr. Woldu Haileab, expert of solar energy technology at the Ministry of Health. Indicating that the program is part of the effort to enableÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 23, 2018
Mendefera — The Mendefera School of Assistant Nurses is exerting strong effort to meet the demand of human resources of health facilities. The comment was made by Mr. Bereket Fesehaye, director of the school. Mr. Bereket indicated the School in its 12 commencements has graduated 1,179 AssistantÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 23, 2018
The Director of the Bureau of Standards and Evaluation at the National Higher Education and Research Institute, Dr. Bissrat Ghebru said that the graduates are the products of the firm commitment of the Government of the State of Eritrea to educate its people at all levels so that they become productive andÃâà...
africanews
April 22, 2018
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Ambassador Donald Y. Yamamoto will start off his tour in Eritrea, head to Djibouti and round off his activities in Ethiopia. He arrives in Eritrea today (April 22) with the three-day working tour according to the Department of State centering on “bilateralÃâà...
Inner City Press
April 21, 2018
UNITED NATIONS, April 21 – With the UN Security Council caught in yet another dysfunction, retaining sanctions on Eritrea even after acknowledging no current evidence of support to Al Shabab, on April 21 the US State Department announced that "Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs AmbassadorÃâà...
D Magazine
April 20, 2018
Eritrea is a small country in East Africa at the tip of where Sudan and Ethiopia meet. It is where Mussie Tecleyessuse hails from, and why he named his first restaurant MarRosso, meaning Red Sea, because the country's shore stretches for more than a thousand miles along that body of water. Trained as a lawyer,Ãâà...
Reliefweb
April 20, 2018
INTRODUCTION. Eritrea acceded to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on 14th January 1999 and deposited its instrument of accession on 15th March 1999. Although it is close to two decades late, Amnesty International welcomes Eritrea's submission of its initial report covering the periodÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 19, 2018
With the hope of normalizing the hostile situation between Ethiopia and Eritrea, citizens of the two neighboring countries have recently initiated a new movement under the name 'Peace Song for Ethio-Eritrea Initiative'. As the movement adopted a new bottom up approach to the deal with the issue, scholarsÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 19, 2018
Co-Chairman Hultgren and members of the Commission, thank you for the invitation to testify today. Thousands of Eritreans, many of them young, flee Eritrea every month. This means Eritrea is losing a significant percentage of its population - by far the largest of any country not wracked by active conflict.
PRI
April 18, 2018
According to Freedom House, a watchdog agency that evaluates the state of democracy worldwide, Eritrea is not considered a "free" country. The dictatorship there is considered among the most repressive governments in the world. Military conscription can stretch indefinitely, and rights groups say theÃâà...
The Peninsula Qatar
April 18, 2018
Speaker of the Advisory Council, H E Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Zaid Al Mahmoud, yesterday met separately with the Ambassador of the State of Eritrea to Qatar, Ali Ibrahim Ahmed, the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Qatar Noor Mohammad Julov, and the Ambassador of Republic of Cuba to Qatar,Ãâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 17, 2018
The head of Social Welfare in the Ministry of Labor and Human Welfare branch in the Central region, Mr. Zerezgi Yohannes stated that Eritrea has been conducting all round effort to apply the International Convention on Children's Rights which it endorsed in 1994 and that encouraging results are beingÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 17, 2018
Monetary contribution to augment martyrs trust fund. In continuation to the support they have been providing to the families of the martyrs, the Eritrean nationals residing in different cities of The Netherlands contributed 5,760 Euro to augment the martyrs' trust fund. According to report, the national haveÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 16, 2018
In 1991, there were only 393 schools all over Eritrea. With the efforts made by the Government, the number rose to 1700. Similarly, the number of students increased dramatically from only 168,000 in 1991 to around 700,000. As a result of the expansion in the education sector, the number of students thatÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 16, 2018
Asmara — The 5th YPDJ conference was conducted in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from 11 to 13 April in the presence of Mr. Yemane Gebreab, Head of Political Affairs at the PFDJ, the Eritrean Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Mr. Mohammed-Omar Mahmoud, Eritrean Consuls in the cities of Riyadh and Jeddah asÃâà...
Asmarino Independent
April 15, 2018
Any articles or press releases must contain contact information including your telephone number, exceptions being made for writers from inside Eritrea only. If you are writing from Eritrea, state that you are writing from Eritrea and you will be given instruction to securely verify that you are actually writing fromÃâà...
africanews
April 14, 2018
Uganda is considering a request from Israel to take in 500 migrants from Eritrea and Sudan, a minister said on Friday, the first time the East African nation ... In January, Israel started handing out notices to male migrants from Eritrea and Sudan giving them three months to take the voluntary deal with a planeÃâà...
Asmarino Independent
April 13, 2018
Any articles or press releases must contain contact information including your telephone number, exceptions being made for writers from inside Eritrea only. If you are writing from Eritrea, state that you are writing from Eritrea and you will be given instruction to securely verify that you are actually writing fromÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 13, 2018
Mendefera — The administrator of the Tera Emni sub zone, Mr. Abraham Mekonnen called on members of the dairy farm association in the sub zone to take advantage of the agricultural resources in their area to boost production. Stating that dairy farm is yet unexploited business sector, Mr. Abraham calledÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 13, 2018
Asmara — The Government of Eritrea since 2003 has disbursed around 786 million Nakfa in support of war disabled veteran citizens, according to documents from the Ministry of Labor and Human Welfare. The documents indicate that the support was made for 4707 war disabled veterans and that hasÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 13, 2018
The wrong Eritrean man was detained in Sicily, it says, He is named in the film as Medhanie Tesfamariam Berhe, who fled Eritrea to avoid compulsory military service and had previously earned a living milking cows. Despite numerous attempts on behalf of Berhe, to assert a case of mistaken identity, ItalianÃâà...
East Africa Monitor
April 13, 2018
The United Nations Security Council is to blame for the ongoing border dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea, according to an Eritrean-American analyst and writer with the U.S. Foundation for the Horn of Africa. Sophia Tesfamlariam's comments were published on the website of Eritrea's Ministry ofÃâà...
africanews
April 13, 2018
Sources from the gathering said the premier addressed issues raised by the public that included free movement of citizens, infrastructure development and the Ethio-Eritrea conflict. Ethiopia is currently under a state of emergency that was declared after the former prime minister Hailemariam DesalegnÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 13, 2018
The wrong Eritrean man was detained in Sicily, it says, He is named in the film as Medhanie Tesfamariam Berhe, who fled Eritrea to avoid compulsory military service and had previously earned a living milking cows. Despite numerous attempts on behalf of Berhe, to assert a case of mistaken identity, ItalianÃâà...
africanews
April 12, 2018
The views of Sophia Tesfamlariam were contained in an article titled: “Impotence of the United Nations and Ethiopia's Impunity” and published on the website of Eritrea's Ministry of Information. The writer, an Eritrean-American analyst and writer with the U.S. Foundation for the Horn of Africa stressed that ifÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 11, 2018
Mendefera — Mr. Berhe Gebreselasie who is engaged in vegetable and fruits farming at the Biet-Gebriel administrative area, Adi-Quala sub-zone, is having significant influence on farmers in the area. The agricultural experts in the area indicated that the success of the exemplary farmer emanates from theÃâà...
Asmarino Independent
April 8, 2018
At present 37,800 people are defined by the Israeli government as “asylum seekers”; the vast majority (72%) are from Eritrea and the rest (28%) are mainly Sudanese. Most of these came to Israel prior to 2014, before the building of the border fence with Sinai. It is reported that this year, your governmentÃâà...
Prensa Latina
April 8, 2018
However, Eritrea still insists that the border area of the Ethiopian northwest, in the region of Yirga, is an integral part of its territory, which repeatedly and repeatedly obstructs the calls for understanding of Addis Ababa, said Belete Belachew, an analyst at the Center of Dialogue, Research and Cooperation.
africanews
April 3, 2018
Ethiopia needs to honour its treaty obligations and respect Eritrea's sovereignty and territorial integrity by withdrawing from occupied territories – including Badme. “Peace will indeed be beneficial to the two peoples but obviously, this must be predicated on respect of international law which EthiopiaÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 2, 2018
Mr. Yemane underlined that the current concentration of the Government and people of Eritrea are realizing strong economic development as well as ensuring regional peace, stability and cooperation. At the conference that will stay until 2 April, more than 700 YDFDJ delegates from Eritrea, Norway,Ãâà...
Quartz
April 2, 2018
The landmark agreement is a sigh of relief for the asylum seekers, the majority of whom escaped war and mandatory conscription in Eritrea and Sudan. In January, Israeli officials announced they would purchase tickets, obtain travel documents, and give each migrant $3,500 to leave—threatening themÃâà...
BBC News
April 2, 2018
Ethiopia's new prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, has pledged his readiness to resolve disputes with neighbour Eritrea. Speaking on state television after his swearing-in ceremony, Mr Abiy called for an end to "years of misunderstandings". "I call on the Eritrean government to take the same stand," he said.
InfoMigrants
April 2, 2018
Eritrea is a nation that lies in the Horn of Africa, bordering Sudan, Ethiopia and Djibouti. The country has been under been led by President Isaias Afwerki for almost 27 years. Human rights monitors such as Human Rights Watch (HRW) have described the country as being a dictatorship, where arrests ofÃâà...
BBC News
April 2, 2018
Ethiopia's new prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, has pledged his readiness to resolve disputes with neighbour Eritrea. Speaking on state television after his swearing-in ceremony, Mr Abiy called for an end to "years of misunderstandings". "I call on the Eritrean government to take the same stand," he said.
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