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(MEKELLE, ETHIOPIA) – Thousands of Eritrean refugees held a demonstration on Saturday at a camp in northern Ethiopia in support of the actions taken by a dissident army group to bring about democratic change in one of the most repressive … read more »
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Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir held talks with his Eritrean counterpart Issaias Afeworki on Saturday, official media reported, on a visit to Asmara just days after a protest by mutinous soldiers there. Troops demanding political reform briefly seized the information ministry … read more »
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(Reuters) – Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia demonstrated on Saturday in support of soldiers who forced state media in the Eritrean capital Asmara to call for all political prisoners to be freed. Dissident Eritrean soldiers with tanks stormed the information ministry … read more »
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By BEN HARTMAN, jpost Around 150 migrants gather outside embassy in Ramat Gan in solidarity with political prisoners, army officers in Eritrea. Around 150 Eritrean asylum seekers protested outside the Eritrean embassy in Ramat Gan on Friday morning, in a … read more »
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Last week, soldiers in one of Africa’s most closed and repressive nations — Eritrea — occupied the country’s Ministry of Information and issued demands. The pattern was a familiar one. News spread quickly that a coup was underway. But feisty … read more »
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Eritrea (MNN) ― The buzz word people are using to describe Eritrea’s events over the last 48 hours is “coup,” but do the signs match an actual coup d’état? By the government’s admission, it was a takeover effort, however small, … read more »
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by Selam Kidane When I was a primary school my teacher from grade one was my favourite teacher… one day during lunch hour, we all saw her being led away across our play ground wailing whilst being held by some … read more »
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By Tewelde Stephanos testifanos@gmail.com EriTV’s recent “interview” with Isaias looked more like a rigged boxing match between a giant equipped with spiked gloves and a five-year old with hands tied behind his back. The “champ” stepped in the ring after making … read more »
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Eritrea made a rare foray into international headlines on Monday Jan. 21, as news agencies and social media sites disseminated speculation of a coup attempt. Reliable information on events in Asmara is hard to come by, however, with the tiny … read more »
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The New York Times and its cult followers in the American media, amongst others, manufactured an attempted “coup” that never happened in the small East African country of Eritrea. The story of this “attempted coup” began last Monday morning, … read more »
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – A senior Eritrean diplomat denies there was an attempted coup early this week in the Horn of Africa nation and says reports to the contrary are a deliberate disinformation campaign. Girma Asmerom, Eritrea’s ambassador to the … read more »
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Ezana sehay There is a remarkable consistency over the course of human history: every repressive regime perishes not because of destiny’s blows or external onslaught, but because of internal disease. The imminent slow motion collapse of Isayas Afeworki is no … read more »
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Jacey Fortin Something strange happened Monday morning in Asmara, the capital city of Eritrea, an African nation of about 5.5 million people on the southwestern shores of the Red Sea. Reports emerged of a coup attempt at the Ministry of … read more »
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By Reporters Without Borders; The Eritrean capital, Asmara, saw an uprising on 21 January that was both unexpected and short-lived. Around 100 soldiers staged a mutiny and stormed the information ministry. The army responded by surrounding the building with tanks. … read more »
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Peter Heinlein | VOA A day-long siege at Eritrea’s information ministry Monday ended in a stalemate, with disgruntled soldiers retreating to a strategic location outside the capital, Asmara. That the incident provides rare insight into the inner workings of one … read more »
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By Martin Plaut At around 10am on 21 January a contingent of Eritrean troops stormed the state television station. They rounded up the staff – all employees of the Ministry of Information – and forced the director of Eritrea TV, … read more »
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Peter Heinlein,VOA A day-long siege at Eritrea’s information ministry Monday ended in a stalemate, with disgruntled soldiers retreating to a strategic location outside the capital, Asmara. That the incident provides rare insight into the inner workings of one of the … read more »
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Yosief Ghebrehiwet Western Mining Companies and Slave Labor in Eritrea [On April 21, 2010, I wrote an article addressing only one aspect of what has been going on in the mining projects – the slave labor used by the subcontracted … read more »
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Eritrean Afar nationals have held their first Diaspora Conference in Sweden calling on the international community to intervene to end worsening atrocities committed by the regime in Asmara. The Conference which was held in Uppsala under the theme, ‘Towards Political, … read more »
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Handout A Jan 2013 handout photo of a truck at Nevsun’s Bisha mine in Eritrea. When the Vancouver-based miner initiated construction of Bisha in late 2008, the government ordered the miner to enlist a state-controlled contractor called Segen Construction for … read more »
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Prime Minister Hailemariam on January 1st, 2013 responded to questions raised by MPs’ in a special Parliamentary question and answer session. Questions covered a wide variety of subjects including the performance of the Growth and Transformation Plan, transport problems in … read more »
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One of, if not the last, Eritrean askari, aboy Welday Tecle Weldekidan Melkai Tensai of the village of Damba Minche in the Serai region has passed away at the age of 93. Aboy Welday was drafted into the Italian African … read more »
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By Sani Awol Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegne’s recent statement during an interview on Al-Jazeera that he would go even to Asmara in search for a lasting peace was reported as a new event by the international media and pundits with … read more »
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A central square in the Eritrean capital city of Asmara on May 11, 2008. (Radu Sigheti/Reuters) Eritrean information minister Ali Abdu, who is rumored to have defected this past week, helped build one of the world’s strictest systems of media … read more »
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Bana from Asmara On December 17 and 18, 2012 a second round of investment conference will take place in the Eritrean capital, Asmara. If this event is going to be anything similar to the first round that was held at … read more »
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Gender equality is an issue that is afforded a significant amount of attention right now in Ethiopia. Many facets of public policy are designed to ensure the representation and benefit of women. For these reasons and many others, including the … read more »
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Addis Ababa — The US government has issued new Eritrean travel advice, cautioning its citizens to be aware of the risks. In a renewed alert issued on 29 November, the US state department recommended US citizens avoid all types of … read more »
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At least 14 members of the Eritrea football squad have disappeared in Uganda while playing in a regional tournament and may eventually claim asylum, Ugandan officials said on Monday. Eritrea is one of the world’s most secretive states ruled by … read more »
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By Seyoum Tesfaye The death of a national leader has, intended and unintended, implications for the internal and external policies of a given country. The implications might unfold in a paced protracted process or by way of an abruptly drastic … read more »
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In PIA fan club members’, mistakenly referred to as higdefawiyans, anxiety to show the “open relationship” between PIA and the Eritrean people in a town hall meeting in mid-October 2012 in Zoba Debub, we are given the opportunity to learn … read more »
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