The United Nations Sanctions (Eritrea) Regulation was gazetted and came into effect today 24 September 2010, implementing sanctions against Eritrea imposed by the UN Security Council. The sanctions include prohibition of the supply, sale, transfer or carriage of
ኤርትራዊ ሃገራዊ ኮሚሽን ንደሞክራስያዊ ለውጢ ንመላእ ህዝቢ ኤርትራ ብሓፈሻ ንኣመንቲ ክርስትና ድማ ብፍላይ እንቋዕ ንበዓል መስቀል ኣብጽሓኩም ይብል። በዓል መስቀል ንህዝቢ ኤርትራ በዓል ሰላምን ፍቅርን ሕድገታትን ክኸውን ከኣ ኤርትራዊ ሃገራዊ ኮሚሽን ንደሞክራስያዊ ለውጢ ይምነ።
Almost twenty years ago, Eritrea became Africa’s newest country – de facto in 1991, when the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF) entered Asmara in triumph, and de jure in 1993, following a UN-sponsored referendum on independence. At the time, there was optimism that northeast Africa might finally achieve political and economic stability, and regional development might be founded upon a new relationship between Eritrea and Ethiopia.
press release Eritrean journalist Eyob Kessete was arrested this past summer as he attempted to flee Eritrea and cross the border into Ethiopia. His detention on the eve of the ninth anniversary of a vicious political purge of dissident voices in Asmara in September 2001 is part of a continuing pattern of terror, reports Reporters […]
The September 18, 2010 Public Meeting started with the remembrance of our national martyrs, the most recent of whom was the late Mohammed Saeed Naud, a veteran and founder of Eritrean liberation movement (haraka-mahber 7) in the late 1950s. The occasion was also the 49th commemoration of the starting of the Eritrean Revaluation, whose founder […]
Eritrea is at risk of becoming a failed state, according to a new report from the International Crisis Group. It says internal repression coupled with international military conflict means the country is becoming increasingly isolated in the Horn of Africa. The report says during the past decade Eritrea’s government has clamped down on dissent on […]
By MALKHADIR M. MUHUMED, Associated Press Writer Malkhadir M. Muhumed, Associated Press Writer – Wed Sep 22, 5:57 am ET NAIROBI, Kenya – The international community must engage more with the authoritarian government of Eritrea to prevent the tiny Red Sea nation from becoming another failed state in the Horn of Africa, said a new report by the International […]
The report, from the Global Campaign for Education based in South Africa, ranked countries on factors including access to basic education, teacher-to-student ratio and educational provision for girls. The report says 69 million children who should be in school are not.
Telling the Human Story, 20 September 2010 © UNHCR/K.Ringuette Unaccompanied minors at Shagarab camp in eastern Sudan. SHAGARAB CAMP, Sudan, September 20 (UNHCR) – When 16-year-old Hatim* and two friends left Eritrea for neighbouring Sudan last April they carried only their mobile phones and some extra clothes. Fleeing forced conscription, they thought Sudan was just […]
EUROPEAN UNION Brussels, 17 September 2010 13637/10 PRESSE 241 Declaration by High Representative Catherine Ashton on behalf of the European Union on political prisoners in Eritrea The European Union remains deeply concerned about the detention, since September 2001, of a group of eleven Members of Parliament and of the People’s Front for Democracy and Justice, […]
