Tag Archives: Isaias Afewerki
Eritrea rejects in the clearest of terms Amnesty International’s wild accusations that it has “jailed at least 10,000 political prisoners.” Amnesty’s transparently political assault on Eritrea is totally unsubstantiated, with the organization unable to back its claims with facts. It … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Press Releases
|
Tagged Amnesty, Amnesty International, Demographics of Eritrea, Eritrea, eritrean, Human rights, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, Political prisoner
|
Eritrea’s hardline regime has jailed at least 10,000 political prisoners, many in “unimaginably atrocious conditions”, rights group Amnesty International said in a report Thursday criticising the situation in the Red Sea state. With political opposition banned, independent media quashed and … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Pan African News
|
Tagged Amnesty International, Asmara, Eritrea, eritrean, Ethiopia, Horn of Africa, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, Soviet Union, United States
|
Twenty years after its independence, Eritrea’s prisons are filled with thousands of political prisoners, locked up without ever being charged with a crime, many of whom are never heard from again, Amnesty International said in a report released today. Twenty … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
|
Tagged Amnesty International, Arbitrary arrest and detention, Claire Beston, Eritrea, Human rights, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, Political prisoner, Prison
|
Abdel Latif El-Menawy Al Arabiya THREE years ago I warned of the water crisis and the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam via a series of articles. I traveled to Ethiopia and Eritrea and met with late Ethiopian premier Meles Zenawi and Eritrean … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
|
Tagged Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Isaias Afewerki, Meles Zenawi, Nile, Sudan
|
By Tewelde Stephanos The numbers are staggering. Eritrea, a country of 4 to 5 million, has produced over 250,000 refugees in about 10 years. 35,000 live in a state of limbo in Israel. And these are the lucky ones. Over … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed, Refugees/Migrants
|
Tagged Amnesty International, Asmara, Egypt, Eritrea, eritrean, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, Nevsun, Sinai Peninsula, Sudan
|
By: Paul B. Henze PBH: What is your position on separatism? MZ: We are not separatist. We want a united Ethiopia. But we do not want a centralized Shoan-dominated Ethiopia. I just read the speech you gave to the Eritreans … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
|
Tagged Asmara, Derg, EPLF, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, Soviet, Soviet Union
|
By Gianlucca Mezzofiore A new grassroots movement in Eritrea that draws inspiration from the Arab revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia is poised to challenge the one-party authoritarian rule of president Isaias Afewerki, who has been in power for twenty years. … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
|
Tagged Egypt, Eritrea, eritrean, Eritrean Diaspora, Ethiopia, Horn of Africa, Hosni Mubarak, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, Sudan
|
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 »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
|
Tagged Algiers, Algiers Agreement, Badme, Boundary Commission, Eritrea, Eritrea-Ethiopia, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki
|
(ADDIS ABABA) – A female Eritrean Air Force pilot has defected to Saudia Arabia where she is seeking political asylum in Saudi Arabia, in in a latest sign of embarrassment to the dictatorial regime in Asmara. Captain Rahwa Gebrekristos deserted … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, News, Pan African News
|
Tagged Addis Ababa, Asmara, eritrean, Eritrean Air Force, Gebrekristos, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, Jizan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan Tribune
|
Rizwan Syed in London In Eritrea, President Isaias Afewerki’s regime allows no political opposition. Rights groups estimate that between five and ten thousand Eriteans have been imprisoned for opposing the government, usually with indefinite sentences and without a trial. In … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
|
Tagged Asmara, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, London, Petros Solomon, Walthamstow
|
by Dan Connell Filmon, a 28-year-old computer engineer, fled Eritrea in March 2012 to escape political repression. Several weeks later, he was kidnapped from Sudan’s Shagara refugee camp, taken with a truckload of others to a Bedouin outpost in the … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
|
Tagged Asmara, Eritrea, eritrean, Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, Israel, Middle East, Sudan, United States
|
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS Events in the last twelve months indicate growing discontent inside Eritrea’s tightly controlled regime, as well as deepening political and social divisions. While the mounting number of incidents suggests that President Isaias Afwerki’s regime is vulnerable, … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
|
Tagged African Union, Asmara, Eritrea, eritrean, European Union, Horn of Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, Qatar
|
Change is in the air in Eritrea, a highly authoritarian state, but any political transition will require internal political inclusion and channels for external dialogue if it is to preserve stability and improve Eritrean life. Concerned Western partners, neighbours and … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
|
Tagged Asmara, Eritrea, European Union, Horn of Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, International Crisis Group, Isaias Afewerki, Red Sea
|
A desolate island is a reminder of Qatar’s ambition to pacify the African nation, even if it meant subsidizing one of the most oppressive governments on the continent. A tourist wades out to a boat moored by a campsite on … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
|
Tagged Dahlak Kebir, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, North Korea, Qatar, Qatari
|
ICER Action Alert: Kidnapped from Barantu in Broad Daylight International Commission on Eritrean Refugees March 26, 2013 Volume 2013, Number 18 The Eritrean people’s predicament is too complex that even the Government whom some of us hold responsible is in … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Eritrea, Press Releases
|
Tagged Demographics of Eritrea, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, eritrean, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, Sudan
|
Yosief Ghebrehiwet (II) Discontent at the Top: How Indispensable Is the Prison System to the Eritrean Defense Forces? Four brothers fight over a bicycle. One takes one wheel; the second, the other wheel; the third, half of the frame; and … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
|
Tagged Asmara, EDF, Électricité de France, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, Prison
|
Human Rights Concern – Eritrea has received several disturbing reports from Libya concerning the abusive treatment of Eritrean refugees in that country: 1) 76 Eritrean refugees in Libya are being used to clear land mines in Sirte, the home town … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Press Releases
|
Tagged Eritrea, eritrean, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, Libya, Refugee, Tripoli, United Nations
|
By Andy Ryan, ThinkAfricaPress site analysis Afewerki’s grip on power in Eritirea is showing signs of weakness. But will we see a coup, cosmetic reforms or even an uprising? Ever since 1993, when Eritrea gained independence and the national assembly … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
|
Tagged Afewerki, African Union, Asmara, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Human Rights Watch, IndepthAfrica, indepthindepthafrica, Isaias Afewerki, latest ethiopian news, news ethiopia, Reporters Without Borders
|
by Elsa Chyrum To commemorate the International Women’s Day, March 8, I am reposting this article, two years after it was originally posted, as nothing has changed in Eritrea, and whatever is written on this article is still happening daily. … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
|
Tagged Assab, Eritrea, IndepthAfrica, International Women's Day, Isaias Afewerki, Nakfa, National Union of Eritrean Youth and Students, United Nations, Women's Day
|
ASMARA, ERITREA (BosNewsLife)– There was uncertainty Tuesday, March 5, about the situation of 125 Eritrean Christians who were “beaten and detained” in western Eritrea as part of a new government campaign against Christians worshiping outside the state-backed churches, rights investigators … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
|
Tagged about eritrea, about eritrean, Abune Antonios, arrest, Asmara, Christian, Eritrea, eritrean, Eritrean Christian, Isaias Afewerki, January, Open Doors
|
By: Carol Sanders A group of Winnipeggers is trying to prevent a U.S. woman who made incendiary remarks such as “evil” Jews from entering Canada again. “I don’t know how the Canadian border agency would let this woman come again,” … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
|
Tagged Canada, David Matas, Eritrea, eritrean indepthafrica, Isaias Afewerki, Israel, Politics of Eritrea, United Nations, Winnipeg
|
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 »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
|
Tagged Asmara, Demographics of Eritrea, Eritrea, Eritrea-Ethiopia, eritrean, Eritrean Defence Forces, Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Information Ministry, Isaias Afewerki
|
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 »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
|
Tagged Eritrea, eritrea africa, Eritrea-Ethiopia, eritrean, Högdalen, Husby, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, Politics of Eritrea, Stockholm, Sweden
|
Though Eritrean president Isaias Afewerki claimed on February 11 that the Eritrean military’s takeover of the information ministry was nothing to worry about, very few people in the region believed him. On January 21 a force of 200 to 300 … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
|
Tagged Al-Shabaab, Asmara, Eritrea, eritrean, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia eritrea, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, IndepthAfrica, International Criminal Court, Isaias Afewerki, latest ethiopian news, news ethiopia, Somalia, Uhuru Kenyatta
|
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 »
Paulos Natnael Fear and Silence Cannot Continue Forever! Revolutions, by definition, are unpredictable. As one academic put it “no revolution has ever followed a script.” The recent event that took place in Eritrea, in Asmera to be specific, may have … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
|
Tagged Asmara, Dogali, ELF, eritre ethiopia, Eritrea, eritrea africa, eritrean, Forto, IndepthAfrica, Information Ministry, Isaias Afewerki, People's Front for Democracy and Justice
|
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 »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
|
Tagged Asmara, Eritrea, Eritrea-Ethiopia, Eritreans, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, Israel, Khartoum, Refugee, Sudan, Uganda
|
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 »
Posted in Comoros, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea
|
Tagged about eritrea, Asmara, Demographics of Eritrea, Eritrea, Eritrea-Ethiopia, eritrean, God, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Information Ministry, Isaias Afewerki, Prison
|
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 »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
|
Tagged Afewerki, Al-Jazeera, Asmara, Eritrea, Eritrea news, Eritrea-Ethiopia, eritrean news, erittrea, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, Omar al-Bashir, Reporters Without Borders
|
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 »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
|
Tagged ArbiHarnet, Asmara, Demographics of Eritrea, Eritrea, Eritrea-Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Information Ministry, Isaias Afewerki, January 21, Monday
|
|
Calendar 
