Category: Eritrea
The State of Eritrea covers 117,600 sq km (45,405 sq mi) and it is bounded on the east by the Red Sea, on the southeast by Djibouti, on the south and west by Ethiopia, and on the north and northwest by Sudan.
It became a de facto state in 1991 after a long secession war, later formalized in 1993 by a referendum.
Isaias Afewerki is the only President of Eritrea since independence with no constitution or election.
Eritrea’s population is estimated about 6 million in 2014. Asmara is the capital, while Massawa is the main port.
Read the posts related to Eritrea below.
Eritrea: President Isaias Afeworki and his supporters
[From: A Week in the Horn of Africa, Oct. 7, 2011 issue.] Mutual back-scratching by.
European Parliament resolution on Eritrea [full text]
Highlights (quotes): * Calls on the [EU] Council to urgently consider applying targeted sanctions on.
Intellectuals confer on the future of Eritrea
An Eritrean journalist, Michael Abraha, quoted Ethiopian Prime Minister as saying that there will be.
A leaked Cable of US Embassy Addis Ababa, dated August 1998 and classified as ‘Confidential’,.
Ethiopia had been fighting a terrorist group linked to Osama bin Laden years before the.
Wikileaks | Eritrean President ‘visibly drunk’ in China Embassy
A leaked Cable of US Embassy Asmara, dated Oct. 2009 and classified as ‘Confidential’, presents.
Wikileaks | Eritrea: ‘How to escape from Asmara’ [full text]
Everyday thousands of Eritreans cross to Ethiopia and other neighbor countries to escape mandatory indefinite.
Wikileaks: Inside Eritrean Army: Coup improbable?
Eritreans look up to the Army to save them from President Isaias Afeworki’s tranny, as.
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.
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.