Wed Jun 8, 2011 ADDIS ABABA, June 8 (Reuters) – An Ethiopian court sentenced 14 people to lengthy prison terms on Wednesday for plotting to carry out bombings during an African Union summit in January. Authorities have described the suspects as Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) rebels trained in Eritrea, and said they were caught with […]
Saturday, 04 June 2011 By RAY MOSELY Al Arabiya London Eritrea, which won independence from Ethiopia in 1993 after a 30-year war, has become one of Africa’s most oppressive one-party dictatorships and is described by Human Rights Watch as a “giant prison.” Thousands of its 5.2 million people have been thrown into prison and tortured. […]
Eritrea produces more refugees than almost any other country in the world, with nearly 2000 people escaping every month. Twenty-one-year-old Joseph has been in the smugglers’ hands for over a month and has paid them $2000. He tells Navai that the Eritrean regime forcibly conscripts men and women, and that deserters can be tortured or […]
Posted by Joshua Norman This is an installment in the WorldWatch series, “The world’s enduring dictators,” inspired by events in Tunisia and Egypt, in which CBSNews.com takes a look at the men who continue to rule their lands unimpeded by law. See a complete explanation of the series and a list of others profiled here. […]
Did you know that students of Eritrean refugees drop out of school? They CANNOT afford to pay the fees for their exam sheets Many schools that serve Eritrean refugees cannot afford a copy machine and other necessary materials for students and teachers, which is why schools charge the students for the cost of copying […]
The Federal Government has imposed travel restrictions on the Consul General of Eritrea after being refused access to a Broome skipper detained in the African nation. Five months after Western Australian pearling skipper Adrian Troy and three British men were detained in Eritrea, the British and Australian Governments have made their first move, imposing limited […]