Full Coverage: Eritrea

19.06.2008 A call for increased assistance for the thousands of Somalia and Eritrean refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants has been made on the eve of World Refugee Day (20 June) by a leading medical charity.
+ Refugee protection more challenging, says Guterres

30.01.2008 News at last of Eritrean journalist Seyoum Tsehaye, who is being held in cell 10, block A01 of the secret prison camp, Eiraeiro. And with the sighting comes more details of the prison.
OneWorld Guide to Eritrea

28.12.2007 The United Nations peacekeeping mission monitoring the ceasefire between Ethiopia and Eritrea has called on both sides to show maximum restraint after a shooting incident in the border area where the two countries fought a two-year war that ended in 2000.

06.11.2007 War between Ethiopia and Eritrea could break out again within weeks, potentially throwing the entire Horn of Africa into new turmoil, a think tank warns.
From: International Crisis Group

03.11.2007 A grim deadline is approaching that marks the undermining of peacemaking in Africa, says Michela Wrong.
From New Statesman

11.07.2007 Eritrean broadcaster Paulos Kidane has died after attempting to join dozens of journalists fleeing the governmentÂ’s absolute control of the media since a massive crackdown on the now-defunct private press.
From: Committee to Protect Journalists

01.06.2007 The UN refugee agency has protested to the European Commission about the way boatloads of people from North Africa have recently been left stranded at sea, despite being in distress and at risk of death.

23.05.2007 On the eve of the 16th anniversary of EritreaÂ’s independence tomorrow, the European Union has been urged to rethink its policy towards "one of the worldÂ’s most repressive regimes" and adopt targeted sanctions against President Issaias Afeworki.

06.04.2007 Eritrea has banned female genital mutilation, saying it puts women at risk of life-threatening health problems. Over 90 percent of Eritreans are believed to participate in the practice, though rural efforts to combat it are thought to be bearing fruit.

15.02.2006 Arms are flowing into the conflict-ridden Darfur region from neighbouring Chad, Eritrea and Libya, according to a report by UN experts.

09.02.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb 9 (OneWorld) - United Nations experts are urging Sudan's neighbors to stop arms smuggling into the war-wrecked country. The move comes as advocates press the U.S. government to use its leadership of the UN Security Council to calm the killing fields of Darfur.

04.01.2006 Recent actions by Eritrea have raised tensions in the tinderbox dispute with Ethiopia. But why has the UN proved so ineffective in implementing the decisions of the independent border commission, asks Dr.M.Ashaq Raza in Asmara.

30.12.2005 The military situation in the Temporary Security Zone separating Ethiopia and Eritrea remains “tense and potentially volatile,” according to a spokesman for the UN peacekeeping mission there, which has been forced to relocate some staff because of Eritrean demands.
* OneWorld UK Guide to Ethiopia and Eritrea

22.11.2005 My name is Alem, IÂ’m from Eritrea. IÂ’m trying to get a job here in the UK so I can come off benefits and support myself. But I am finding it so hard because I have no experience. In my country I was only ever a soldier.

04.11.2005 UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan this week called for "decisive steps to defuse the escalating tension" between Ethiopia and Eritrea and the commander of UN peacekeeers in the border buffer zone warned of the dangers of "a renewed outbreak of war". The build-up of troops on both sides of the border was not unexpected: several weeks ago OneWorld UK reported on Why Africa's two bald men could return to war.

22.09.2005 There is a real possibility that Ethiopia and Eritrea – currently locked in an uneasy peace – could return to war, the co-editor of a new book on the conflict warned this week, reports Daniel Nelson.

01.09.2005 Many refugees from the Horn of Africa face destitution and despair, according to a new report.

16.08.2005 Hundreds of tonnes of food relief held up since July at Eritrea's Massawa port under new laws that require aid to be taxed are to be released, a senior government official said.

02.08.2005 Thousands of women in Eritrea lost their husbands during the two-year border war with Ethiopia that ended in 2000. Left as the sole breadwinners of their families, war widows in the small village of Abardae are tackling a role traditionally reserved for men in this deeply conservative society.

14.07.2005 Congressmen Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Mark Udall (D-CO) are seeking co-signers on a joint letter from Congress to the President of Eritrea, asking for the release of prisoner-of-conscience Fessahaye Yohannes as well as other detained journalists and prisoners-of-conscience. Amnesty asks you to encourage your representatives to sign the letter.