Mine Web, South Africa August 18, 2011 Kip Keen Sunridge is looking at a high-grade – 16 percent copper – mining option at its Debarwa deposit in Eritrea as it advances to feasibility. HALIFAX, Nova Scotia – Best things come in small packages, they say, and for Sunridge Gold at its Asmara project in Eritrea [...]
Category Archives: Eritrea
Eritrean leader denies support for al Shabaab
August 24, 2011 – 12:32 am
Reuters August 19, 2011 Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA – Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki, accused by the West of supporting Somalia’s Islamist rebellion, denied on Thursday that his country backed the al Qaeda-affiliated group which has been waging a four-year insurgency in Somalia. The diplomatically isolated president, speaking in the Ugandan capital at the end of a [...]
Eritrea: Ethiopia makes “frenzied” sanctions drive
August 24, 2011 – 12:27 am
Reuters August 17, 2011 Patrick Worsnip * Eritrea says Ethiopia seeks regime change, sea access * Proposed sanctions would hit mineral sector, remittances * Ethiopia says Eritrea trying to divert attention UNITED NATIONS – Eritrea accused rival Ethiopia on Wednesday of a “frenzied campaign” to impose new U.N. Security Council sanctions on Asmara in a [...]
South Sudan offers to mediate between Ethiopia and Eritrea over border row
August 24, 2011 – 12:21 am
Sudan Tribune August 17, 2011 Tesfa-Alem Tekle (ADDIS ABABA) – The newly independent Republic of South Sudan has called on Ethiopia and Eritrea to resume peace talks to end their long-standing border dispute. (AP) Refugees from Eritrea waiting to be screened by the Ethiopian authorities in Endabaguna town, Wednesday, July 27, 2011 Between 1998 and [...]
US Envoy Backs UN Sanctions On Eritrea
August 11, 2011 – 8:56 pm
Wall St. Journal August 10, 2011 Samuel Rubenfeld The U.S. threw its support to impose international sanctions on Eritrea for its alleged links to militant attacks, AFP reported. East African nations, led by rival Ethiopia, are lobbying for tougher measures against Eritrea, which first came under sanctions in 2009 (pdf). A United Nations monitoring group [...]
Nevsun reports $60m Q2 profit from Eritrean mine
August 11, 2011 – 8:55 pm
Mining Weekly August 10, 2011 | Matthew Hill TORONTO – Nevsun Resources, the owner of the Bisha gold mine in Eritrea, on Wednesday posted second quarter after-tax net profit of $60,6-million, compared with a $2-million loss for the same period in 2010. Production came in at 93 000 oz at a cash cost of $301/oz, [...]
U.N.: Money raised from Eritrean-Americans helped finance militants in East Africa
August 9, 2011 – 11:59 pm
Contra Costa Times/Mercury News, US August 8, 2011 Matt O’Brien OAKLAND — Armed rebels in the famine-ravaged Horn of Africa are being partially bankrolled by money from immigrants in the Bay Area, according to a United Nations report. The East African nation of Eritrea finances militants across the region with the help of money funneled [...]
UN Council Asked to Target Eritrea With Sanctions on Mining
August 9, 2011 – 12:33 am
Bloomberg August 4, 2011 Flavia Krause-Jackson and Bill Varner Eritrea, one of the world’s poorest nations whose citizens earn just over a $1 a day, may face tougher United Nations sanctions targeting the mining and remittances that keep its economy afloat. Neighboring Ethiopia and Djibouti are urging the 15-member UN Security Council to impose sanctions [...]
ERITREA-ETHIOPIA: “Silent crisis” as more Eritreans flee
August 9, 2011 – 12:01 am
Alertnet/Reuters/IRIN August 5, 2011 ADDIS ABABA – More and more Eritrean refugees, mostly educated young men, continue to arrive in Ethiopia, with the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, expressing concern over the rising numbers. “Most say they left their country [to avoid] a prolonged military conscription, but they also say they want to join their families [...]
FACTBOX-UN Monitoring report on Somalia, Eritrea
August 6, 2011 – 2:45 pm
Reuters July 29, 2011 David Clarke Link to the Monitoring report (Note: it is a 419-page report) NAIROBI – A U.N. Monitoring group report seen by Reuters on Thursday said Eritrea was behind a bomb plot in Ethiopia and that the Red Sea state bankrolled Somali al Shabaab rebels. The report also said networks run [...]