Junior miner Nevsun Resources has announced its first gold pour at its Bisha gold/silver/copper/zinc mine in Eritrea as it builds up to full commercial production. Author: Lawrence Williams Posted: Wednesday , 05 Jan 2011 LONDON – Canada’s Nevsun Resources has now achieved its first major milestone with its initial gold pour at its new Bisha gold, silver […]
31 December 2010 Human rights groups say Bedouin smuggling gangs are holding over a hundred African migrants for ransom in the Sinai desert. The BBC’s Rupert Wingfield-Hayes has had rare access to smugglers close to the Israeli border. Dusk is falling across the desert as we arrive at our rendezvous. It has taken five hours […]
Part 6 Saturday 25 December 2010 / by KASSAHUN Eritrea’s importance in the Horn of Africa regional politics is dictated more by its strategic location along the Red Sea than its wealth. Despite talks of gold discovery, Eritrea is one the world’s poorest countries with an economy that was further bankrupted by a costly and […]
Israelis march through Tel Aviv for refugees’ rights; refugees also march carrying signs reading ‘Torture and persecution in Eritrea, detention facility in Israel.’ By Ilan Lior Thousands of Israelis marched through the streets of Tel Aviv on Friday morning in protest against a government plan to construct a massive detention facility for foreigners infiltrating […]
By EA writer (email the author) Posted Monday, December 13 2010 at 17:34 The United States repeatedly warned Eritrea last year that it would be held accountable for any attack on the US by Somalia’s Al Shabaab militants, a leaked diplomatic cable reveals. Eritrea is in a very perilous situation, US ambassador Ronald McMullen is said to have told government […]
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 8 December 2010 21.30 GMT Monday, 09 February 2009, 14:53 S E C R E T ASMARA 000047 DEPARTMENT FOR AF/EX AND AF/E EO 12958 DECL: 02/02/2019 TAGS PREL, PTER, ECON, ER SUBJECT: AN ERITREAN OVERTURE TO THE UNITED STATES REF: ASMARA 35 Classified By: Ambassador Ronald K. McMullen for reason 1.4(d) 1. […]
By Tim Lister, CNN December 9, 2010 — Updated 1136 GMT (1936 HKT) (CNN) — In Eritrea, as in most of east Africa, football — or soccer — is a passion. But so dire is its economic and political situation that its best players, in fact the whole national team, defected in 2009 while at […]
Staff Thu, 02/12/2010 – 14:11 President Hosni Mubarak on Thursday met with his Eritrean counterpart, Isaias Afwerki, in Cairo to discuss African and Middle Eastern issues and bilateral relations. No other officials were present, sources close to the president told Al-Masry Al-Youm. Afwerki last visited Egypt in May. The meeting comes amid deteriorating relations between […]
[21/November/2010] ADEN, Nov. 21 (Saba) – An official talks brought together President Ali Abdullah Saleh, Djiboutian President Ismail Omar Guelleh and Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki held on Sunday in Aden governorate. The talks focused on the bilateral relations between Yemen and each of Djiboutian and Eritrean as well as the last developments in the region, […]
CALGARY HERALD By Aileen McCabe, Asia Correspondent, Postmedia News October 20, 2010 9:04 AM SHANGHAI — Although it works harder at it and spends more money on it than anyone, China is not the world’s worst offender when it comes to media oppression. That dubious honour goes to Eritrea, according to a report issued Wednesday […]
