The number of deaths from Senafe landmine incident increases to seven, after two more victims died in Asmara, while receiving medical treatment for their heavy injuries. As it was initially reported on Assenna, 21 people have been in critical condition, where as 13 received light injuries. Five
In the agony and anguish that followed the 9/11 terror attacks, the world lost sight of the horror and fear that have seized tiny Eritrea, Africa’s version of North Korea. For more than 50 years, the strip of rock and sand wedged between Ethiopia and Sudan
The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release September 20, 2011 Fact Sheet: Advancing U.S. Interests at the United Nations Eritrea: In 2009, the United States supported the African Union’s call to sanction Eritrea for that country's role in destabilizing Somalia and the region and its failure
Five people die in Senafe, Eritrea, after a vehicle with 39 people on board travelling to attend a funeral ceremony runs over a landmine, on the 19th September. According to our sources, 34 people are also being treated in Adi-Keih Hospital and Asmara for serious and
The PFDJ leader, Isaias Afewerki is expected to hold a meeting with his supporters in New York, on Sunday 25, 2011, after the event which was scheduled to take place at Washington DC Convention Center has been canceled. Sources indicate the meeting has been diverted to New York due refusal of
-An Urgent Call to All Eritreans to Remove The Totalitarian Regime & Lay Grounds for The Creation of A Free, Just, Democratic & United Eritrea -Troubled by the deteriorating crisis in our country Eritrea that imperil the very existence of our nation Eritrea; -Crestfallen by the,
Michael Abraha – Addis Ababa
The Eritrean government under strongman Isaias Afewerki is in decline and is nervously trying to hang on to power through brute force and terror.
Young Eritreans, born and grown up in Germany demonstrate in front of the PFDJ embassy in Berlin, denouncing the oppressive, dictatorial regime which is terrorising the Eritrean people in the country.
The six-country Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) on Wednesday blocked Eritrea’s representative from attending a ministerial meeting on Somalia.
NEW VIDEO 1 Related video clips VIDEO 2 and VIDEO 3 Click on this link to read news on how the PFDJ meeting hosted by Ambassador T Gerahtu was disrupted by Eritrean Youth.
A PFDJ meeting in Leeds that was organised today by supporters of the dictatorial regime in Eritrea Ambassador Tesfamichael Gherahtu as its main speaker has been disrupted.
Eritrean ambassador in Israel, Mr Tesfamariam Tekeste (Wedi-Bashai) has been beaten by an angry Eritrean refugee inside his embassy premises, according to sources.
OAKLND — Activists crashed the West Coast’s largest Eritrean festival this weekend, turning an event meant to promote Eritrea into a heated debate about the East African nation’s government and future.
KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda has invited Eritrea’s leader, President Isaias Afewerki, accused by the West of stoking Somalia’s Islamist rebellion and destabilising the east African region, to a state visit next week, Uganda’s State House said.
By: Matthew Hill
TORONTO (miningweekly.com) – Nevsun Resources, the owner of the Bisha gold mine in Eritrea, on Wednesday posted second-quarter after-tax net profit of $60.6-million, compared with a $2-million loss for the same period in 2010.
The U.S. threw its support to impose international sanctions on Eritrea for its alleged links to militant attacks, AFP reported.
By Joseph DeCaro, Worthy News Correspondent
SMARA, ERITREA (Worthy News)– Three Christians imprisoned for the testimony of Christ have died during the past months in Eritrea, including a 42-year-old man in solitary confinement Friday, according to a Christian support organization.
By Flavia Krause-Jackson and Bill Varner
Eritrea, one of the world’s poorest nations whose citizens earn just over a $1 a day, may face tougher United Nations sanctions targeting the mining and remittances that keep its economy afloat.
Eritrea’s neighbours have welcomed its decision to return to the East African body, Igad – a move seen as a possible attempt bid to end years of isolation.
UNITED NATIONS – The UN Security Council voted unanimously Friday in favor of extending themandate of its Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea for another year, which is tasked withmonitoring an arms embargo on those countries.
By David Clarke
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Eritrea was behind a plot to attack an African Union summit in Ethiopia in January and is bankrolling al Qaeda-linked Somali rebels through its embassy in Kenya, according to a UN report.
Our sources have informed us that on July 24, 2011 Mr. Yemane Ghebreab special advisor to the Eritrean president and Mr. Osman Saleh Eritrea’s Foreign Minister held unpublished (by invitation only) town hall meeting at Colombia University in New York city for about 60 plus Eritrean regime supporters 40 from NY area and the remaining 20 plus from various states.
Scores of fresh teen conscripts who were taken to Sawa to complete their high school have last week committed mass suicide, sources from Asmara disclosed.
UNHCR Press Release: The United Nations refugee agency today condemned Sudan’s deportation of Eritrean asylum-seekers on Monday, saying it was concerned with the increased frequency of such incidents and said they violated both international and Sudanese law.
It was a “cruel” twist of fate that the diving school, close to where an Eritrean refugee drowned at Paradise Bay on Wednesday trying to save a colleague, had closed early for the first time ever, meaning no assistance was available for the rescue.
A group of 15 Eritrean medical doctors and health professionals, who have been working in Gash Barka region defect the PFDJ regime and seek political asylum in Sudan, according to demo.archive.assenna.com sources in Khartoum.
Chief editor of the Eritrean Government’s official website, Shabait.com, Bealfan Tesfay, abandons the regime to seek asylum in Sudan; according to demo.archive.assenna.com sources from Asmara.
Red Sea football players from Eritrea have surrendered to the Ministry of Home Affairs in Dar es Salaam seeking refugee status after three days of dodging their Asmara-bound return flight.
All but 6 members of the 19 strong Eritrean football club Red Sea’s contingent defect in Tanzania after reaching quarter finals of the Cecafa tournament which has been taking place in Tanzania, till Sunday.
Kenya and its neighbours now want a No Fly Zone imposed on a part of Somalia to cut off arms supplies to the al Shabaab terrorist group.
President Isaias Afwerki’s Eritrean state has been accused of sponsoring Al Shabaab, a Somali militant group associated with the Al Qaeda terror network. Kibaki’s sentiments underline concern about the threat posed to Kenya’s security by Al Shabaab.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – An East African bloc on Monday asked the United Nations and the African Union to impose sanctions on Eritrea’s booming mining sector for its alleged support of rebels seeking to overthrow Somalia’s government.
