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Eritrea Denies Knowing Group Linked to Ethiopian Dam Plot
Eritrea’s government denied any knowledge of a rebel group that Ethiopia said had plotted to attack the country’s flagship hydropower plant.
Ethiopian security forces killed 13 members of the Benishangul Gumuz People’s Liberation Movement who’d traveled from Eritrea to attack the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, or GERD, Ethiopia’s deputy government spokesman Zadig Abrha said Thursday by phone. Seven other members of the group fled to neighboring Sudan, whose authorities handed them |
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Eritrean leaders should be tried for crimes against humanity: U.N.
Reuters:
U.N. human rights investigators accused Eritrean leaders on Wednesday of crimes against humanity including torture, rape, murder and enslaving hundreds of thousands of people and called for the case to be referred to the International Criminal Court.
Atrocities had been committed since the country's independence in 1991 and were continuing, the U |
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UAE likely to be building a naval facility in Eritrea
UAE likely to be building a naval facility in Eritrea
Jeremy Binnie, London - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly
18 April 2016
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) appears to be constructing a new port next to Assab International Airport in Eritrea, which could become its first permanent military base in a foreign country.
Satellite imagery shows rapid progress has been made since work began sometime after September 2015. A square of coastline measuring about 250x250 m has al |
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Why people are leaving Eritrea
Why people are leaving Eritrea
DW
Every month as many as 5,000 people flee Eritrea, a country ruled by an authoritarian regime in which human rights violations are widespread. Oliver Ramme has just returned from a rare visit to the African nation.
Tokombia is a village lying some 200 kilometers (124 miles) from the Eritre |
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Hundreds of thousands have fled this country. This ghastly massacre is a reminder why.
Hundreds of thousands have fled this country. This ghastly massacre is a reminder why.
Washington post.
In Eritrea, your last year of high school is also your first year in the army. Rebels from the country fought a 30-year war against its much larger neighbor Ethiopia, and, because of a continuing land dispute, hostilities are still considered active. Although con |
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Eritrean army conscripts 'killed in Asmara escape bid'
Eritrean army conscripts 'killed in Asmara escape bid'
bbc.
Security forces in Eritrea's capital Asmara have killed several young conscripts who tried to escape the convoy they were travelling in, according to opposition media outlets.
There were also civilian casualties after some |
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Al-massar website published the names and details of members of the Committee investigate human rights in Eritrea
Al-massar website published the names and details of members of the Committee investigate human rights in Eritrea
Michael Smith (Australia)
Mike Smith is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Policing, Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism at Macquarie University in New South Wales, Australia. Until July 2013, he was an Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations in New York and Executive Director of the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate, a position he assumed in N |
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Gulf times: Eritreans rally over rights abuses report
AFP/Addis Ababa
Hundreds of Eritreans demonstrate in front of the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa in support of the UN Inquiry report and asking for measures to be taken against Eritrea.
Hundreds of Eritrean refugees demonstrated at the African Union headquarters yesterday in support of a damning report on gross human rights violations by their government, following rival marches elsewhere against it.
The nearly 500-page UN report, released after a year of investigations, deta |
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