ASMARA -- On Asmara's streets draped with flags to mark the 16th anniversary of its liberation from Ethiopia, former fighters remember the cost of their bloody 30-year independence war.
On the eve of the 16th anniversary of Eritrea’s independence tomorrow, Reporters Without Borders calls on the European Union to rethink its policy towards what is one of the world’s most repressive and impenetrable countries and, in particular, to adopt targeted sanctions against President Issaias Afeworki.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Mr. Haile Menkerios as his new Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, succeeding Mr. Tuliameni Kalomoh of Namibia. Mr. Menkerios is currently the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
ASMARA -- They sip cappuccinos and gesture in debates, their papers and satellite telephones strewn on tables of hotels in Asmara, a refuge for the Horn of Africa's dissidents and self-imposed opposition leaders.