Reuters/Washington Post
March 12, 2010
Jeremy Clarke
ASMARA – The United States has intensified its criticism of Eritrea, saying the Red Sea state systematically abuses human rights and is a destabilizing influence in the Horn of Africa.
In its annual human rights country report, released late on Thursday, the U.S. State Department accused Eritrea of sponsoring terrorism in [...]
Category Archives: Eritrea
U.S. report accuses Eritrea of systematic abuses
March 12, 2010 – 11:12 am
2009 Human Rights Report: Eritrea
March 12, 2010 – 8:48 am
US State Dept.
March 11, 2010
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
2009 Human Rights Report: Eritrea
Eritrea, with a population of an estimated 5.5 million, is a one party state that became independent in 1993 when citizens voted for independence from Ethiopia, following 30 years of civil war. The People’s Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), previously [...]
Brought to U.S., Man Is Charged With Aiding Somali Terrorists
March 9, 2010 – 10:58 am
NY Times
March 8, 2010
COLIN MOYNIHAN
A man has been brought to the United States from Nigeria to face charges that he provided money to a Somali terrorist group — and that he received military training from that group.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan unsealed an indictment on Monday accusing the man, Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed, of conspiring to provide [...]
Sudan’s Bashir slams UN sanctions on Eritrea: media
March 6, 2010 – 11:24 am
Reuters
March 6, 2010
Jeremy Clarke
ASMARA – Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has criticized the sanctions imposed on Eritrea last December by the United Nations Security Council, Eritrean local media reported on Saturday.
Bashir paid a one-day working visit on the Red Sea state on Friday during which he held talks with Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki and attacked the [...]
Eritrea seeks Nigeria’s help over UN sanctions
March 6, 2010 – 11:09 am
Farajat/The Guardian, Nigeria
March 5, 2010
Oghogho Obayuwana, Abuja
THE state of Eritrea is seeking Nigeria’s intervention in the wake of the imposition of sanctions on it by the United Nations (UN).
Nigeria assumed a seat as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in January this year.
Describing the set of sanctions as a travesty of [...]
UNICEF wants $24.8 million for Eritrean fund
March 4, 2010 – 1:13 pm
Reuters
March 4, 2010
Jeremy Clarke
* UNICEF to help more than a million Eritreans in 2010
* Poor rainfall has hurt agriculture-based economy
ASMARA – The U.N. children’s agency UNICEF is appealing for $24.8 million to expand its programmes in Eritrea, where aid agencies say drought is causing widespread food shortages and child malnutrition.
UNICEF says it will help more [...]
Sri Lanka-Eritrea ties break-down
March 3, 2010 – 8:28 am
Daily Mirror, Sri Lanka
February 28, 2010
Dianne Silva
The Sri Lankan government’s attempt to establish diplomatic ties with the state of Eritrea have diminished due to certain media reports published in recent times, Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa told Daily Mirror online.
“It came out in the papers and now Eritrea has completely shut down everything; they don’t talk [...]
EU implements international restrictive measures against Eritrea
March 3, 2010 – 8:15 am
European Union
March 1, 2010
Summary: 1 March 2010, Brussels – The European Union implements international restrictive measures against Eritrea
The Council of the European Union today adopted a decision11 (5534/10) imposing restrictive measures against Eritrea in line with the United Nations Security Council resolution (UNSCR) 1907 (2009).
The restrictive measures consist of an arms embargo, as well as [...]
Sunridge Gold expands mineralization at Debarwa deposit of Asmara project, Eritrea
February 28, 2010 – 6:32 pm
Proactive Investors
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Sunridge Gold expands mineralization at Debarwa deposit of Asmara project, Eritrea
Sunridge Gold Corp said that results from the recently completed thirty-five drill holes at the 100 percent owned Debarwa copper-gold-zinc volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposit has expanded the envelope of mineralization both down dip and along strike to the [...]
Eritrea says US-led sanctions won’t derail economy
February 25, 2010 – 8:55 am
Reuters
February 24, 2010
Jeremy Clarke
ASMARA – Eritrea’s ruling party will press ahead with its economic development plans despite U.N. sanctions and what it sees as anti-Eritrean hostility manufactured by the United States, local media reported on Wednesday.
Abdalla Jabir, head of organisational affairs in the ruling party, accused the United States of masterminding the U.N. resolution and [...]
