Eritrea was once one of Africa’s most industrialised parts. Now even the most basic goods, like soap or bottled water, have to be imported. Perhaps a third of the population has fled abroad to escape ...

Nairobi says it is reviewing asylum applications from Ethiopia and Eritrea on a case-by-case basis, after rights groups sued.

Eritrea has rejoined the East African bloc, the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), nearly 16 years after the politically isolated state pulled out of the body, Information Minister ...

Nairobi. The Horn of Africa is facing a renewed surge in human trafficking and irregular migration, with Ethiopia, Somalia, and Eritrea singled out as major hotspots for smugglers exploiting desperate ...

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Australia's Sub-Sahara Resources and Chalice Gold Mines Ltd said on Friday the two firms planned to merge to help fund Sub-Sahara's lucrative Eritrean gold project. Sub-Sahara's ...

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December 17, 2018 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s Defence Minister Awad Ibn Ouf has called on Eritrea to activate its membership at the army’s Chiefs-of-Staff body of the East African Standby Force (ESAF).

THE SOLDIER squints through his binoculars. “They can see us,” he warns, pointing to a silhouette of two figures on a hill in the distance. The men in his line of sight are soldiers from Eritrea. But ...

When Rodas Tewelde was seven years old, she spent three months in an Eritrean prison. Tewelde’s mother had paid a coyote thousands of dollars to escort her and her three youngest children across the ...