Diplomats have been refused access to four British men detained in Eritrea since they were arrested four months ago, MPs have heard. On 5 April 2011, in response to an urgent question tabled by Conservative backbencher Ian Liddell-Grainger, Foreign Office minister Henry Bellingham said it was “deeply troubling” that consular access was not being granted […]
Sat Mar 19, 2011 12:20pm GMT By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia warned on Saturday it would take “all measures necessary” against Eritrea, in a rare threat of direct action against a neighbour it routinely accuses of supporting rebel groups. Ethiopia and Eritrea have often traded tough rhetoric since a 1998-2000 border war […]
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 […]
By PETER LEFTIE pmutibo@ke.nationmedia.comPosted Friday, December 17 2010 at 20:06 Eritrean strongman Isaias Afeworki was nearly assassinated while on his way back to Asmara after a family holiday in Kenya, secret American diplomatic cables have revealed. The secret cables posted online by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks accuse Ethiopian leader Meles Zenawi, a one time ally of Afeworki in Addis Ababa’s […]
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 […]
Written by Sim Tack Monday, 26 April 2010 14:41 After trying to fight off accusations on supporting terrorist organizations in Somalia, the Eritrean government is now facing accusations over involvement in a bomb attack that took place in Ethiopia. While at first sight the bomb attack may seem like an unlikely act of Eritrea, some […]
March 13, 2010 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese security services arrested a Somali Islamist leader while he was attempting to cross border to Eritrea, a Somali outlet reported today from Mogadishu.
Muse Abdi Arale, the secretary for defence of Hizbul Islam group has been arrested in Sudan while trying to enter in Eritrea with money embezzled from the rebel group.
Sheikh Hassan Mahdi, a senior official from Hizbul Islam told Mareeg Online that the Sudanese police arrested Arale while he was trying to cross the eastern Sudan border and reach Eritrea.
Muse Arale embezzled the money from the group and travelled from Mogadishu by car to Kenya from where he entered south Sudan and then reached Khartoum secretly.
Led by Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys, Hizbul Islam is facing a leadership crisis inside since the defection of Sheikh Hassan Abdulahi Al-Turki, a notorious Islamist guerrilla leader to Al-Shebab early this year.
Last week, a senior insurgent leader from Hizbul Islam, Bare Ali Bar, has been shot to death in Mogadishu at Bakara market which is a stronghold of Al-Shebab rebels.
The gunmen shot the Hizbul Islam military leader several times in the head and escaped on foot. No one has yet claimed responsibility. But Somali say Bare was an outspoken critic to the Al-Shebab, a former ally of Hizbul Islam.
Formed by four groups to fight the UN backed government of President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, the Hizub Islam is witnessing power struggle and divisions since last year.
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