Tag Archives: Eritrea-Ethiopia
After more than a decade of low-level hostilities and sour relations, there are signs Eritrea and Ethiopia could be ready to talk again. BY SALIH NUR On the road from Keren, Eritrea. Photograph by Carsten ten Brink It has been over … read more »
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Tagged Algiers, Algiers Agreement, Badme, Boundary Commission, Eritrea, Eritrea-Ethiopia, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki
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Ghirmay Yeibio Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear … read more »
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Tagged Asmara, Demographics of Eritrea, Eritrea, Eritrea-Ethiopia, eritrean, Eritrean Defence Forces, Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Information Ministry, Isaias Afewerki
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Arson investigations have been launched into three fires that broke out near Stockholm in the early hours of Monday morning in three separate locations, all of which house organizations that sympathize with the regime in Eritrea. All the fires broke … read more »
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Tagged Eritrea, eritrea africa, Eritrea-Ethiopia, eritrean, Högdalen, Husby, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, Politics of Eritrea, Stockholm, Sweden
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By The Local; Two men and one woman have been arrested in Stockholm on suspicion of blackmail and conspiring to commit murder in a case believed to be connected to the Eritrean regime’s systematic oppression of Eritreans living in exile. … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Demographics of Eritrea, Egypt, Eritrea, eritrea sfrics, Eritrea-Ethiopia, eritrean, Eritreans, Horn of Africa, IndepthAfrica, Stockholm, Sudan, Sweden
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Selam Kidane The Biblical story of Samson; sprung to mind somehow as IA was blabbering about the other day… desperately trying to rehypnotise the nation into docile adherence to its tyrannical rule… the thing is much like Samson, after his … read more »
Uganda has granted asylum to the 15 players from the Eritrea football team and the team doctor who absconded in the country in December during the 2012 Cecafa Tusker Senior Challenge Cup. Apollo David Kazungu, the Commissioner for Refugees in … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Soccer, Sports, Uganda
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Tagged Asmara, Eritrea, Eritrea-Ethiopia, eritrean, eritrean news, Eritreans, Houston, IndepthAfrica, Kampala, Office of the Prime Minister, Refugee, Uganda, United States
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Israel accused of coercing Eritrean refugees to ‘volunteer’ for deportation Local UN official, NGO claim Israel tells Eritrean nationals that they can either go back to home, where their lives would be in danger, or remain in jail. By Talila … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Demographics of Eritrea, Dov Khenin, Eritrea, Eritrea-Ethiopia, eritrean, Hotline for Migrant Workers, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Non-governmental organization, Uganda, United Nations
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By BEN HARTMAN 5 Eritrean detainees say they were told by prison officials that their only way to be freed is to agree to go back to Eritrea or Uganda. Eritrean migrants protest Negev detention facility Eritrean asylum seekers in … read more »
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Tagged Asmara, Eritrea, Eritrea-Ethiopia, Eritreans, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, Israel, Khartoum, Refugee, Sudan, Uganda
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A group of 30 believers from Philadelphia Church in the suburbs of Asmara known as Mai- Temenai were taken to prison after their respective houses were raided and some were found to be praying together. These arrests follow an earlier … read more »
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Eritrean president Isaias Afewerki on Friday spoke for first time about last month’s mutiny incident in Asmara after remaining silent for three weeks. On 21 January around 200 mutinous soldiers with two tanks stormed the information ministry and forced the … read more »
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Arbi Harnet Asmara Residents Post Calls for Street Protests in the Capital Members of the Freedom Friday Movement (ArbiHarnet/ JumAt AlTaHrir) in Eritrea have successfully posted flyers and posters with the call for street protests against the regime and in … read more »
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Tagged ArbiHarnet, Asmara, Demographics of Eritrea, Eritrea, Eritrea-Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Information Ministry, Isaias Afewerki, January 21, Monday
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After over two months of secrecy and denials, controversies surrounding his whereabouts, the Eritrean Information Minister and Issaias Afewerki’s right-hand man, confirms his defection on January 30th 2013 to a Swedish tabloid called Expressen. You remember months of media saga … read more »
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By Daniel Berhane, Addis Fortune (Addis Ababa) column Yemane Gebremeskel, director of the Office of the President of Eritrea, reflected, last Tuesday, on the showdown of last Monday, saying, “all is calm today as it all was yesterday.” The well-known spin-doctor … read more »
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analysis The secret world of Eritrea has begun to unravel at a stunning pace. Just two weeks ago, on 21 January 2013, mutinous soldiers overran the Ministry of Information. Reported to number roughly 100, apparently led by junior officers and … read more »
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Selam Kidane Pfdj trying to sink this fish! …this is all about Forto 2013 and where we are and where we are headed… in the pre January 21 world if what happened in Forto was intimated there would have been … read more »
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Over the past few days, after the alleged failed “coup d’etat” attempt on 21st of January 2013 at the Eritrean Ministry of Information which resulted the National to be off from the air one day, a series of raids and … read more »
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Tagged Asmara, Demographics of Eritrea, Eritrea, Eritrea-Ethiopia, Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, London, People's Front for Democracy & Justice, Saudi Arabia, Sweden
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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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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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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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Zekre Lebona As soon as I was released, the French Embassy asked me to translate a booklet on the “Political Program of the United National Front of Kampuchea” that I had brought from the bush. Its contents foreshadowed the horror. … read more »
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By Yohannes Berhe In the first part of my commentaries, The future of democracy in Ethiopia, I presented some of the potential threat to the stability of our country as a result of a sudden turn of events. Further, I … 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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Sudanese law-enforcement officials in Kassala State bordering Eritrea foiled a smuggling operation that involved around 80 vehicles, including lorries and pickups, according to Sudan’s alrakoba.net. The smuggling convoy that was heading to Eritrea was intercepted in West Kassala. When the convoy … read more »
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