lRIN August 30, 2010 Photo: Wikimedia Commons A boy carries water at the Shimelba refugee camp in northern Ethiopia ADDIS ABABA – Kibrom Sebhatu, 45, is among hundreds of Eritreans expected to benefit from a recent Ethiopian government ruling allowing Eritrean refugees to live outside the camps. “I am happy that UNHCR [the UN Refugee [...]
Category Archives: Eritrea
Nevsun’s royalty buyout in Africa mine to help results
August 26, 2010 – 12:35 pm
Reuters August 24, 2010 * Buys out royalty stake in Africa mine for C$18.5 mln * Increased stake to add at least $C0.20 per share * Sees mine starting in Q4, commercial production in Q1 Nevsun Resources said it bought out a third party royalty on its flagship mine in the horn of Africa for [...]
Eritrean group set to overthrow government
August 25, 2010 – 4:47 pm
Afrik August 12, 2010 Desalegn Sisay A coalition of ten opposition parties from Eritrea have made a resolution to form a parliament in exile at their just ended assembly in Ethiopia’s Capital, Addis Ababa. For nine days, over 300 members of the coalition gathered in Addis Ababa to find a lasting solution to their political [...]
Gold miner completes strategic production study at Eritrea mine
August 22, 2010 – 6:25 pm
Mining Weekly, South Africa August 19, 2010 Megan Wait Gold producer Sunridge Gold has completed a strategic production study that examined the metallurgical characteristics of four resources at its wholly owned Asmara mine, in Eritrea. The study, carried out by consultancy PEG Mining Consultants, included a high-level evaluation of the economics and the possibilities of [...]
The long road of death, massacre in Sinai
August 19, 2010 – 10:50 am
Jerusalem Post, Israel August 18, 2010 Seth J. Frantzman The Egyptian territory has become a human prison for African migrants. They are hung from trees by metal chains attached to their arms and provided with plastic bags to collect their urine to drink when they are thirsty. They are gang raped, tortured with electricity and [...]
Food supplies most at risk in Afghanistan, Africa
August 19, 2010 – 10:46 am
Reuters August 18, 2010 Alister Doyle * Afghanistan, sub-Saharan Africa top food security risks * Nordic nations, led by Finland, least at risk -Maplecroft OSLO – Afghanistan and nations in sub-Saharan Africa are most at risk from shocks to food supplies such as droughts or floods while Nordic countries are least vulnerable, according to an [...]
Six Eritreans ‘shot dead on Egypt-Israel border’
August 17, 2010 – 11:52 am
AFP August 14, 2010 EL-ARISH, Egypt — Smugglers and police have shot dead six Eritreans near the Israeli border, in the latest case of illegal crossings that have become perilous, an Egyptian security official said on Saturday. The deadly clashes took place late on Friday after the African migrants seized the weapons of the people [...]
Ancient DNA identifies donkey ancestors, people who domesticated them
August 17, 2010 – 11:43 am
University of Florida/Science News, US July 28, 2010 Genetic investigators say the partnership between people and the ancestors of today’s donkeys was sealed not by monarchs trying to establish kingdoms, but by mobile, pastoral people who had to recruit animals to help them survive the harsh Saharan landscape in northern Africa more than 5,000 years [...]
Police fear higher Sinai migrant death toll
August 16, 2010 – 11:51 pm
Reuters August 15, 2010 * Migrants were being held for ransom * More bodies to be discovered, source says ISMAILIA, Egypt – Smugglers may have killed as many as 10 African migrants in an armed battle near the Egyptian-Israeli border last week and dozens more could be lost in the desert, Egyptian security sources said [...]
UNHCR welcomes Ethiopian decision to relax encampment of Eritrean refugees
August 12, 2010 – 7:56 pm
UNHCR/Relief Web August 10, 2010 This is a summary of what was said by the UNHCR spokesperson at today’s Palais des Nations press briefing in Geneva. Further information can be found on the UNHCR websites, www.unhcr.org and www.unhcr.fr, which should also be checked for regular media updates on non-briefing days. UNHCR is encouraged by last [...]
