(Nairobi) – Eritrea’s use of secondary school to channel students into indefinite government service and its conscription of teachers subjects students and teachers to forced labor and physical abuse, Hum
OPEN LETTER TO THE ERITREAN HEAD OF STATE
OPEN LETTER TO THE ERITREAN HEAD OF STATE
Your Excellency, President Isaias Aferwerki:
We write to convey our most sincere congratulations upon your country’s normalization of diplomatic relations with Ethiopia. This is a development much appreciated by all Africans of goodwill.
We write to you in our capacity as citizens of Africa to pledge our unequiv
2019 World Press Freedom Index – A cycle of fear, Eritrea (up 1 at 178th) is third from last
2019 World Press Freedom Index – A cycle of fear
Eritrea (up 1 at 178th) is third from last
The 2019 World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) shows how hatred of journalists has degenerated into violence, contributing to an increase in fear. The number of countries regarded as safe, where journalists can work in complete security,
View the Amnesty International Report 2017/18 for Eritrea
View the Amnesty International Report 2017/18 for Eritrea
Eritrea 2017/2018
Thousands continued to flee Eritrea while the authorities severely restricted the right to leave the country. Indefinite mandatory national service continued to be imposed. Restrictions on the rights to freedom of expression and of religion remained. Arbitrary detention without charge or trial continued to be the norm
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 over to the Ethiopian government, he said.
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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.N. Commission of Inquiry said in a report that wa
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 already been excavated and dredged, while a pier and
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 Eritrean capital, Asmara. Dogs bark as the scorching sun
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 conscription isn't exactly unusual around the world,
