NEWS ANALYSIS When Saudi Arabia and its allies severed diplomatic relations with Qatar earlier this month, the fate of Ras Doumeira is unlikely to have figured high in their complex geostrategic calculations. Yet, on this barren, contested strip of land in the Horn of Africa, the

Twenty-six years after Eritrea achieved its independence and gained its sovereignty, the Eritrean people find themselves denied their God-given freedom. Independent Eritrea has become the home to the enslaved Eritreans in general, and the younger generation of Eritrea in particular. Twenty-six years after Eritrea’s independence, the centralized power

Eritrea’s totalitarian state is extreme and includes a ratified Constitution that hasn’t been implemented; the absence of national elections since independence from Ethiopia in 1991; its Parliament does not meet; and the President, Isaisa Afwerki rules without institutional restraint. The government owns all media and

Witness(es): Professor Gaim Kibreab, London South Bank University Professor Richard Reid, School of Oriental and African Studies Martin Plaut, journalist and author  

By Selam Gebrekidan Islamic State fighters in Libya have abducted at least 540 refugees in six separate ambushes over the past 18 months. Many of the women captives are being turned into sex slaves to reward the extremist group’s warriors. On the night of June 2, 2015,

The National Intelligence and Security Service and Federal counter-terrorism taskforce claimed the armed Eritrea’s mercenaries were caught by Ethiopian security forces in the country’s southern regional state. The heavy armed mercenaries were captured in a jungle at the southern tip of the country and were conspiring

September 12, 2015 (KHARTOUM) – A well placed Sudanese source revealed today that a dissident Ethiopian general fled to Sudan on Friday evening along with his soldiers after clashes with the Eritrean army. The source who spoke to the Turkey-based Anadolu news agency on condition of