شنت سلطات الأمن الإرترية سلسلة من الاعتقالات الجماعية في مديرية حلحل القريبة من مدينة كرن ، وأفادت الأنباء إن العشرات من أعيان ومشايخ ومعلمي مديرية حلحل تم اعتقالهم وترحيلهم إلى مدينة كرن ،
The Eritrean government yesterday dismissed as false, accusations by arch-rival rival Ethiopia that Eritrea had plotted to bomb an African leaders’ summit.
Africa’s newest country, independent since 1993, has become a kind of open-air prison guarded by an ultra-nationalist sole party which sees the least democratic claim as a threat to national security. Among the hundreds of political prisoners, at least 13 journalists have just spent their sixth year in jail. Three of them may well have died as a result of conditions reminiscent of a penal colony.
LONDON (AFP) - The United States believes that Somali Islamists who had, until recently, been running parts of the country, are regrouping in Saudi Arabia and Eritrea, the US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs said in an interview with the Financial Times.
High operating costs and frustration over two Horn of Africa nations’ inability to settle their eight-year border dispute have led the UN Security Council to cut back the size of its UNMEE peacekeeping force by six hundred. Former US Ambassador to Ethiopia David Shinn says that Ethiopia’s rejection of an international commission’s border solution and Eritrea’s restrictions on the UN mission’s ability to carry out its mandate are troublesome. But he says both sides remain at a standoff under the continuing international presence, which is stationed for the most part on the Eritrean side of the border.