Eritrea News
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Testimonies of jailed Eritrean migrants and asylum seekers (collected by a local NGO) say officials at Saharonim prison in Israel's Southern Negev desert are coercing them to sign "voluntary repatriation" forms. In one of the many testimonies a 28-year-old Eritrean detainee reported being repeatedly visited by a translator telling her to accept deportation to a third country (Uganda). "He said
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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 African Union, said in a statement Saturday that coup reports were "wishful thinking" by people he did not name. Without explaining the incidents on
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Eritrea’s authoritarian government has launched a purge of top leaders following a reported mutiny calling for political reform according to the opposition, although the secretive regime has made no comment. Multiple arrests — some sites say dozens of people detained — include the number three of Eritrea’s only political party, a regional governor and senior military officers, according to website
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Eritrea's government said on Tuesday that all was calm in the capital Asmara a day after armed mutineers seized the information ministry, with opposition sites saying the stand-off was settled. "All is calm today, as it was indeed yesterday," said Yemane Gebremeskel, the director of Eritrean President Issaias Afeworki's office, in a message to AFP. Opposition website Awate.com, based in
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According to reports, a group of soldiers have launched what may have been a coup attempt in Asmara, forcing state TV off the air. About Eri-TV boss Asmelash Abreha to read a statement saying the 1997 constitution will be implemented and political prisoners freed according to correspondent Léonard Vincent. The broadcast was cut. -
Eritrea has surpassed North Korea as the world's top press censor, with Syria and Iran placing third and fourth in a new list published Wednesday by the Committee to Protect Journalists. The New York-based rights group said Eritrea had climbed to the top of the list by banning all foreign media and controlling every detail of the local media's coverage
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Eritrea said it will not retaliate after rival neighbour Ethiopia attacked its territory, dismissing charges it harbours armed groups against Addis Ababa as a "base and bogus lie." "It is those who do not know the price of war who are hungry to go to war," Eritrean Information Minister Ali Abdu told AFP by telephone. "We fought enough for 30
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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... to act on behalf of Somali people, as such an approach has been repeatedly proven to be counter-productive,"
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Addis Ababa - Eritrea on Tuesday rejected increased UN Security Council sanctions on charges that it supports insurgents in war-torn Somalia, saying the decision will worsen tensions in the Horn of Africa region. The Security Council on Monday approved further sanctions raising the number of people and entities that can be hit with travel bans and asset freezes. "The resolution
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East African nations are urging the UN Security Council to tighten sanctions on Eritrea, accusing its government of funding and providing arms to terrorist groups destabilising the region. The presidents of Djibouti, Ethiopia and Somalia, and senior officials from Kenya and Uganda addressed the council by video conference from Addis Ababa on Monday morning and urged members to adopt a
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The UN Security Council on Friday refused to delay a vote next week on taking sanctions against Eritrea so the isolated country's head of state can make his case, diplomats said. The vote is set for Monday but President Issaias Afeworki does not have enough time to get to New York, according to the UN envoy for the impoverished nation,
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Eritrea has complained to the UN Security Council about Kenyan allegations that it sent weapons to Islamist rebels in Somalia, calling for an independent investigation to judge the dispute. Foreign Minister Osman Saleh said in a letter to the Council that Eritrea was confident an investigation would find Nairobi's "defamatory" accusations to be baseless, and urged the United Nations to
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Nairobi - Eritrea's ambassador to Kenya said on Friday that there is no proof to back allegations that Eritrea supplied three planeloads of weapons to al-Qaeda-linked militants in Somalia being pursued by the Kenyan army. Beyene Russom told The Associated Press that it would be impossible for the small, East Africa country to supply weapons because it is under a
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Eritrea's president has asked for a personal hearing before the UN Security Council in a bid to head off new sanctions over alleged support for Somalia's Islamist rebels, diplomats said. Rival Ethiopia has been calling for tougher action against Eritrea for several months after its neighbor was linked to a plot to bomb an African Union summit in Addis Ababa.
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The United Nations refugee agency today condemned the deportation of more than 300 Eritrean refugees and asylum-seekers by Sudan after weeks of detention and in spite of a previous agreement with the UN. File photo: Long-term Eritrean refugees returning from Sudan. Adrian Edwards, a spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told reporters at a press briefing in
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Asmara — President Isaias Afwerki met and held talks in New York on September 22 with the Foreign Minister of Mauritania, Mr. Hamadi Ould Hamadi. The two sides discussed bilateral relations, and regional as well as international issues of mutual interest.
It is to recalled that President Isaias held extensive discussion with the UN Secretary General,
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For 12-year-old Eritrean refugee Ablel, the decision to flee his country was relatively simple.
"I didn't want to be a soldier," he says with a shy smile, revealing a mouthful of crooked teeth.
Getting out, however, was a harder challenge. He is one of thousands of youngsters risking death to sneak across Eritrea's
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It was September 18, 2001. As usual, I had to do my shift as a news reader on Eritrea's national government-controlled state radio Dimtsi Hafash. It was just minutes before 6:30 a.m. I was almost ready with all of the Tigrinya news material given to me for broadcasting and was waiting for the on-air sign to flash and the
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Eritrea, the Red Sea state often criticised for alleged human rights abuses, has accused rights group Amnesty International of plotting to incite popular unrest, similar to uprisings seen in the Middle East.
Amnesty International denied the charges as "completely unfounded and ludicrous".
In a "top secret" document Asmara said had been in the
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Eritrean President Issaias Afeworki rejected Thursday accusations by a UN monitoring group that he backs Somalia's extremist Shebab rebels and that his country was behind a bombing plot on Addis Ababa.
"It is very sad that all these fabrications have made their way into the minds of many," Issaias told reporters in Kampala at the end
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Eritrea on Wednesday accused arch-rival Ethiopia of seeking an excuse for "military adventurism" by demanding strengthened UN sanctions against its neighbour.
Ethiopia has been seeking reinforced international sanctions since a UN panel said last month that Eritrea was behind a plot to stage bomb attacks on an African Union summit in Addis Ababa in January.
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Ethiopia and Djibouti are leading East African nations pressing the UN Security Council to step up sanctions on Eritrea over terror accusations, diplomats said.
Pressure for action has mounted since a UN monitoring group said last month that the Eritrean government was behind planned bomb attacks in the Ethiopian capital during an African Union summit in
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Asmara — Mother and child mortality rate in Eritrea has shown marked decline over the past 20 years since independence, according to Dr. Bereket, specialist in the Orota Referral Hospital.
Dr. Bereket told ERINA that prior to independence, 1000 mothers or children out of 100,000 pregnant women used to die during delivery.
At
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Ethiopia and Djibouti are leading East African nations pressing the UN Security Council to step up sanctions on Eritrea over terror accusations, diplomats said.
Pressure for action has mounted since a UN monitoring group said last month that the Eritrean government was behind planned bomb attacks in the Ethiopian capital during an African Union summit in
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Halhal — A new junior school is under construction in Melebso administrative area, Halhal sub-zone, at a cost of 6.5 million Nakfa.
The head of the infrastructure department of the Anseba region, Mr. Gebru Haile, noted that the new school comprises 12 classrooms, a library, one staff office, water reservoir with a capacity of holding 450
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