UN council expands Eritrea sanctions over Somalia
| December 5, 2011 | Posted by admin under News |
* Russia, China abstain from diluted sanctions resolution * Eritrea denies aiding al Shabaab or other militants (Adds details, background) By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS, Dec 5 (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council on Monday expanded sanctions against Eritrea for continuing to provide support to Islamist militants, including al Shabaab, in the virtually lawless Horn… Read more
UN Council refuses to delay Eritrea sanctions vote
| December 3, 2011 | Posted by admin under News |
UNITED NATIONS — 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… Read more
UN Security Council may drain Asmara’s key revenue sources
| October 25, 2011 | Posted by admin under News |
By Kirubel Tadesse (capitalethiopia.com) Crafted by Gabon and co-sponsored by Nigeria, a new draft resolution that would deplete the Eritrean government from key sources of income has been tabled for negotiation at the fifteen-member United Nations Security Council early this week as tougher sanctions against Asmara proves inevitable. The new six-page draft resolution, its copy… Read more
Drought in Eritrea: hunger despite government denials
| September 4, 2011 | Posted by admin under News |
By Martin Plaut Africa editor, BBC World Service The drought and famine that is devastating the Horn of Africa is affecting more than 12 million people. Yet one country in the region, Eritrea, says it has escaped the crisis, reaping a bumper harvest earlier this year. But evidence is now mounting that the real situation… Read more
Eritrea thrown out of IGAD meeting
| August 25, 2011 | Posted by admin under News |
By Argaw Ashine (Daily Monitor) The six-country Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) on Wednesday blocked Eritrea’s representative from attending a ministerial meeting on Somalia. Eritrea reactivated its membership to the bloc after four years of self-suspension, a decision initially welcomed by the IGAD secretariat. But the country’s deputy ambassador to the African Union, Benyam Berhe,… Read more
Eritrean Semhar Tadesse to compete on ‘Survivor: South Pacific’
| August 23, 2011 | Posted by admin under News |
Semhar Tadesse, a 24 year old Eritrean is one of 16 new contestants that will be competing for the million dollars when Survivor: South Pacific kicks off Wednesday, Sept. 14 on CBS. Semhar lives in Los Angeles and was originally from Asmara, Eritrea. She speaks Tigrigna, English and German. Click here to read her interview… Read more
The bad boy of the Horn of Africa: How Eritrea’s strongman uses Kenya as a terror finance hub
| August 7, 2011 | Posted by admin under News |
In early July, as Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki headed to Addis Ababa to chair a meeting of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad), a six-country partnership formed to address issues of drought, security and development in the Horn of Africa, he sounded a stern warning to Eritrea. For Kibaki, a president who is not known… Read more
U.N.: Money raised from Eritrean-Americans helped finance militants in East Africa
| August 7, 2011 | Posted by admin under News |
OAKLAND — Armed rebels in the famine-ravaged Horn of Africa are being partially bankrolled by money from immigrants in the Bay Area, according to a United Nations report. The East African nation of Eritrea finances militants across the region with the help of money funneled from Eritrean-Americans, who are pressured by the government to send… Read more
ERITREA: “Silent crisis” as more Eritreans flee
| August 6, 2011 | Posted by admin under News |
ADDIS ABABA, 5 August 2011 (IRIN) – More and more Eritrean refugees, mostly educated young men, continue to arrive in Ethiopia, with the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, expressing concern over the rising numbers. “Most say they left their country [to avoid] a prolonged military conscription, but they also say they want to join their families… Read more
Tewelde Gebreselassie calls for western nations to bomb Eritrea & Issaias Afeworki
| August 5, 2011 | Posted by admin under News |
Tewelde Gebreselassie leads one of the Horn country’s more influential exiled opposition groups, the umbrella organisation Eritrean Democratic Alliance (EDA), and is committed to “use all the available means of struggle to topple the current Eritrean regime.” “Eritrea is nearing to be a failed state,” he said, and called on international and regional organisations to… Read more