Eritrea denounced over detentions

HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani receiving Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki at the Emir Diwan yesterday. They discussed bilateral relations and ways to develop them during a session of talks. They also reviewed issues of mutual ...

in Eritrea, President Isaias Afewerki's regime allows no political opposition. Rights groups estimate that between five and ten thousand Eriteans have been imprisoned for opposing the government, usually with indefinite sentences and without a ...

PBH: What is your position on separatism? MZ: We are not separatist. We want a united Ethiopia. But we do not want a centralized Shoan-dominated Ethiopia. I just read the speech you gave to the Eritreans here a couple of weeks ago. I support ...

Recent events in Eritrea have so far shown two things: 1) Discontent is rising. 2) Afewerki can handle it. Ali Abdu Ahmed, Eritrea's former information minister, has not been seen in Eritrea since his trip to Europe in September 2012. This has ...

ABU DHABI: President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in two cables, has extended greetings to Yemeni President, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, on his country's National Unity Day, and to Abdullah II of Jordan on his country's Independence ...

By Tesfa-Alem Tekle May 16, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - The United Nations special rapporteur on Eritrea, Sheila B. Keetharuth, said the human rights situation in the reclusive Red Sea nation remained unacceptable, calling for the country to be closely ...

News Eritrea: Rampant repression 20 years after independence Twenty years after its independence, Eritrea's prisons are filled with thousands of political prisoners, locked up without ever being charged with a crime, many of whom are never heard ...

, at 9:00 PM Berlin Time (at 12:00 PM Los Angeles Time), Yosief Ghebrehiwet will give a speech at Smerr PalTalk under the tile, After Forto. In this Paltalk presentation, various themes will be brought together to explain the current quandary of ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Eritrea's government has jailed about 10,000 dissidents without charge or trial over the years, a rights group said in report Thursday, describing the Horn of Africa nation as one of the world's most repressive states. The ...