Eritrea

Eritrea: President Isaias Afeworki and his supporters

[From: A Week in the Horn of Africa, Oct. 7, 2011 issue.]  Mutual back-scratching by President Isaias and his supporters …

European Parliament resolution on Eritrea [full text]

Highlights (quotes): * Calls on the [EU] Council to urgently consider applying targeted sanctions on relevant Eritrean authorities including visa…

Intellectuals confer on the future of Eritrea

An Eritrean journalist, Michael Abraha, quoted Ethiopian Prime Minister as saying that there will be more sanctions on Eritrea in…

Wikileaks | PM Meles, US diplomats: On the eve of Ethio-Eritrea war

A leaked Cable of US Embassy Addis Ababa, dated August 1998 and classified as ‘Confidential’, discloses a meeting between the…

5 yrs before 9/11: bin Laden linked attacks on Ethiopia

Ethiopia had been fighting a terrorist group linked to Osama bin Laden years before the 9/11 attack on New York…

Wikileaks | Eritrean President ‘visibly drunk’ in China Embassy

A leaked Cable of US Embassy Asmara, dated Oct. 2009 and classified as ‘Confidential’, presents the Eritrean president’s stay at…

Wikileaks | Eritrea: ‘How to escape from Asmara’ [full text]

Everyday thousands of Eritreans cross to Ethiopia and other neighbor countries to escape mandatory indefinite conscription, forced labor and countless…

Wikileaks: Inside Eritrean Army: Coup improbable?

Eritreans look up to the Army to save them from President Isaias Afeworki’s tranny, as a Dec. 2008 Cable of…

Wikileaks: Eritrea’s major port city ‘becoming a ghost town’

Destabilizing the region is not the only factor that earned Eritrea the title Africa’s North Korea, but also information blackout.…

Eritrean Farmers: Screwed by ‘tractor debt’ [Wikileaks – full text]

Leaked Cables of US Embassy Asmara reveals the Eritrean government’s multi-faceted economic repression and exploitation on its own people. One…

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