Reporters Without Borders has learned that MahadSalad Adan, the editor-in-chief of radio Voice of Hiran, was murdered this afternoon in Beledweyn, thecapital of the central region of Hiran. His death comes a day after a suicidebombing in Mogadishu that left many dead and wounded, including

Reporters Without Borders has learned from its sources that two other journalists were injured in yesterday’s suicide bombing in Mogadishu while the Committee to Protect Journalists has named two additional media people as having sustained injuries. This brings the number of journalists injured in the

By JOANNA PARASZCZUK Refugee convicted in plea bargain, asked to serve sentence in Eritrea. In a ruling published on Sunday, the Jerusalem District Court announced that it had sentenced an Eritrean man to 20 years in prison last week, after convicting him of the manslaughter of his

MOGADISHU — (AFP) Ethiopian forces on Monday seized the main base of the Al Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents in central Somalia, the latest stronghold the extremists have lost in recent months, witnesses said. Ethiopian troops and fighters from the pro-government militia Ahlu Sunna Wal Jamaa seized El

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Eritrea's president said Monday that attacks on targets inside his tiny Horn of Africa nation by its archrival Ethiopia was the "handiwork of Washington." Ethiopia said on March 15 it attacked three military posts inside its northern neighbor Eritrea. The country

(Source: International Christian Concern) An imprisoned church leader in Eritrea is in desperate need of medical attention as he is diabetic and his health is rapidly deteriorating without treatment. Patriarch Antonios, head of the Eritrean Orthodox Church, was detained for asking the government to stop interfering

BENSALEM, Pa., Mar 14, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed in the United States District Court, Southern District of New York, on behalf of purchasers of the common stock of Nevsun Resources

Sat Mar 17, 2012 2:08pm GMT * Ethiopia announced previous attack on Thursday * Eritrea says will not be "entrapped" by incursion (Adds background) ADDIS ABABA, March 17 (Reuters) - Ethiopian troops carried out more attacks on Ethiopian rebels inside Eritrea on Saturday, a day after Eritrea called

By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA | Fri Mar 16, 2012 3:13pm GMT (Reuters) - Eritrea urged the United Nations to take action against Ethiopia on Friday for an attack inside its territory which the government in Asmara branded provocative. The Red Sea state said it would not be

Eritrea has said it will not be "entrapped" into retaliating after Ethiopia launched a cross-border border raid on three military bases. Eritrea has said it will not be "entrapped" into retaliating after Ethiopia launched a cross-border border raid on three military bases. "It is those who do

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopia’s government spokesman says that Ethiopia launched a military attack inside its archrival Eritrea. Shimeles Kemal said the attack happened Thursday. He said Ethiopia launched the attack because Eritrea was training “subversive groups” that carried out attacks inside Ethiopia. Ethiopia and Eritrea fought

Michael Abraha While PFDJ’s officials and supporters continued their squabbles over whether or not their former colleague, the late Naizghi Kiflu, should be buried in his homeland, pro-democracy Eritreans were debating how to save the country from insanity and misery at a gathering over the weekend

The refugees, who are originally from Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somali, are departing thanks to the European Union Relocation Project for Malta, better known as EUREMA. The group of refugees that left today consisted of three single adults and two families. They form part of a group of 31

The Toronto youth officially established a branch of the Eritrean Youth for Change (EYC) and the Eritrean Youth Solidarity for change (EYSC) on March 8, 2012. The official unification of the Eritrean Youth for Change Bay Area, and the Eritrean Youth Solidarity for change have inspired

Thousands of African asylum-seekers fleeing persecution could end up in Negev desert camp Israel is to begin construction soon on a vast detention facility in the Negev desert to house the thousands of immigrants that cross illegally into Israel from Egypt every year. Human rights groups fear

Sweden, whose citizen has been jailed by Eritrea for more than ten years without charge, has moved to block the flow of diaspora money to the isolated Red Sea nation. Its parliament, Riksdag, is preparing legislation to block a two per cent mandatory tax collected by

A man has been jailed for life for stabbing an asylum seeker to death in a drunken row in Middlesbrough. Dawit Asmalash, 31, had denied the murder of Haileab Tadesse, 35, but was found unanimously guilty by a jury at Teesside Crown Court. Mr Tadesse of Eritrea,

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Italy violated the rights of Eritrean and Somali migrants by sending them back to Libya. The 13 Eritreans and 11 Somalis were among a group of about 200 people who left Libya on three boats in 2009.

World leaders are attending a major conference on the future of Somalia in London to focus on finding peace and ending threats of terrorism and piracy. As it opened, UK Prime Minister David Cameron said he hoped the process would generate "new momentum". Somalia has endured more

NAIROBI — Eritrea, often accused of supporting Islamist rebels in Somalia, on Monday criticised foreign interference in the war-torn country, ahead of an upcoming peace conference in Britain. "External actors, even those most friendly and most sympathetic to Somalia, need to resist the urge

By Ian Timberlake (AFP) KHARTOUM — Sudan mourned on Sunday the death of musical icon Mohammed Wardi, a former prisoner who spent years in self-imposed exile but who died on home soil after seeing his beloved nation divided. "Mohammed Osman Wardi, Sudan's lead singer, passed away

An Eritrean opposition party official has been missing for two days in eastern Sudan and there are fears he may have been kidnapped by Asmara's security agents, the party alleged on Thursday. Mohammed Ali Ibrahim, a member of the People's Democratic Party central council, left his

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Solabakeren general manager Bjørn Hagen employed asylum seeker Sultan Belay Fsahe eight years ago and was recently fined up to 300,000 kroner for his actions. Mr Hagen told Aftenbladet, “All the paperwork and everything was in order. Sultan, has paid tax the whole time according to

Two families from Somalia and Eritrea who had fled from the Libyan crisis last year and were subsequently given protection in Malta, left the country this afternoon to start a new life in Germany. The German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees will assist the six

SANAA (Reuters) - Eritrea's navy has seized five Yemeni fishing boats in the Red Sea in an area where the two countries have had a territorial dispute, a Yemeni official said on Tuesday. The incident is part of a dispute between Yemen and Eritrea over water

TORONTO (miningweekly.com) – Shares in Canada’s Nevsun Resources shed over one-quarter on their value in early Tuesday trade, after the company slashed its 2012 gold output guidance by half, saying it over-estimated parts of its Eritrean mine’s resources. The company said it would announce a revised

Mr Naizghi Kiflu one of the high ranking officials of the PFDJ regime; a close friend and right hand man of Isaias Afewerki, the tyrannical leader in Eritrea, passed away in London, due to chronic illness, according to sources. After Eritrea’s independence, Mr Naizghi served as

By Manuel Gamiz Jr., The Morning Call Hagos F. Mezgebo, an African refugee living and working in Allentown, had been out with friends last month celebrating the start of his holidays with a few drinks in a bar at Ninth and Chew streets. Around the same time,

Minister for Immigration, Integration and Asylum Policy Gerd Leers informed the House of Representatives in a letter that the Netherlands will not force anyone to return to Eritrea. Asylum seekers from Eritrea who left without permission of the Eritrean authorities will be able to obtain

HUNDREDS of mourners gathered in downtown Winnipeg on Sunday night to pay their last respects to a woman slain last week. As many as 300 members of Winnipeg's Eritrean community filled the Medhanie Alem Church on Edmonton Street to sing hymns and pray in memory of

Working environment The inclusion of Chad, South Sudan and Sudan in the East and Horn of Africa operational subregion as of 2012 will make it one of the largest such areas in which UNHCR operates. There are some 5.5 million people of concern to UNHCR in

By Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Uganda | Jan 27, 2012 (eTN) - Eritrea’s dictatorial and radical regime has been fingered by Eritrean opposition groups, Ethiopian, and other international sources for alleged complicity in the recent spate of attacks on foreign tourists and abductions, as Ethiopian

Syria, Bahrain and Yemen get worst ever rankings “This year’s index sees many changes in the rankings, changes that reflect a year that was incredibly rich in developments, especially in the Arab world,” Reporters Without Borders said today as it released its 10th annual press freedom

Updated: Wed Jan. 25 2012 11:29:28 ctvwinnipeg.ca Winnipeg police have made an arrest in the death of a 34-year-old woman on Jan. 23. Officers and emergency crews were called to the 300 block of Assiniboine Avenue for a report of an assault. A 34-year-old woman was found suffering from

A 34-year-old woman's death late Monday night has left members of Winnipeg's Eritrean community stunned. Emergency officials rushed to a suite at Palmer House, at 372 Assiniboine Ave., at about 10:10 p.m., Monday after an assault was reported. The woman was taken by ambulance in critical