The Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak and three Eritrean journalists  — Temesgen Ghebreyesus, Seyoum Tsehaye and ...

As global momentum builds for Palestinian recognition, Asmara and Yaoundé remain the lone African holdouts, bound to Israel ...

We've talked about some incredibly poor countries on this channel before, but perhaps nothing as bad as the small East African country of Eritrea. This country is a complete military dictatorship, and ...

This video explains how Eritrea’s longtime leader, Isaias Afwerki, earned the nickname “Africa’s Kim Jong Un.” Viewers learn about his iron grip on power, extreme isolationist policies, and the harsh ...

In recent months, Eritrea has increasingly found itself the subject of organized campaigns of vilification. Detractors, often driven by political zealotry or hidden agendas, have sought to portray the ...

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Eritrea, the tiny Horn of Africa nation is once again in the international spotlight for its atrocious military campaign in Tigray, Ethiopia’s northernmost regional state. Eritrean forces (EDF) are ...

Ethiopia's football federation says it has been informed that opponent Eritrea has withdrawn from the African Nations Championship qualifying competition. Federation spokesman Melaku Ayele says his ...

The UN Security Council unanimously voted on Wednesday to lift 9-year-old sanctions against Eritrea that imposed travel bans, asset freezes and an arms embargo. The East African country was hit with ...

Editor’s Note: Vanessa Berhe is a Swedish-Eritrean human rights activist and founder of One Day Seyoum, a youth-led organization that campaigns for the release of political prisoners in Eritrea, ...

ERITREA, one of Africa’s newest countries, was born in battle. First it fought for 30 years to break away from Ethiopia, its bigger neighbour to the south, achieving that goal in 1993. In 1998 it was ...

IT IS AN unlikely pairing. Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s prime minister, is young, charismatic and says he is committed to democracy in Africa’s second-most-populous country. Until war erupted in November in ...