ASMARA -- Eritrea Saturday dismissed a United Nations decision to extend by six months the mandate of its mission monitoring a disputed border with arch-foe Ethiopia.
An ELF-RC delegation headed by Mr. Mengisteab Asmerom, responsible for the ELF-RC Office for Information and Culture as well as Chairman of the provisional leadership of the Eritrean Democratic Alliance (EDA-1), on 27 July 2007, met for exchange of notes on Eritrea with USA team headed by Ms Deborah Malac, Deputy Director of East African Affairs in the USA State Department in Washington DC.
Shimelba Camp, Ethiopia - In a dusty northern Ethiopian refugee camp near the Eritrean border, a policeman snatches a boy by his collar and demands to know his age.
A Briefing detailing the plight of the detainees who have never been charged or tried in court and are being held facing impending deportation to Eritrea where they may be subjected to ill-treatment and torture.