news

by country & category

Eritrea

Eritrea

Population: 4.5 million
GNI: $890 million
Debt: $720 million
Overview: Ineffectual mediation means the border dispute with Ethiopia continues. President Issayas Afeworki will still counter Ethiopia by backing Ogaden secessionists and Somali oppositionists.

news from Eritrea

Category: all

Found 30 articles.

Displaying 11-20 out of 30 results.

  • Vol 46 No 22
  • 04/11/2005

Breaking point, again

There may be some diplomatic method in Asmara's apparent madness

  • Vol 46 No 7
  • 01/04/2005

Wrong numbers again

The United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea already has big credibility problems because of Ethiopia's continuing failure to implement a boundary commission ruling on where the frontier with Eritrea lies. Now, it emerges, some UNMEE staff have ...

  • Vol 44 No 18
  • 12/09/2003

War drift

The United Nations Security Council will renew the mandate of the UN Mission to Eritrea and Ethiopia next week but the border remains unresolved and there is concern over mounting costs (AC Vol 44 No 15). Most Eritrean opposition parties, many in Premier ...

  • Vol 43 No 13
  • 28/06/2002

Disarmed but not demobbed

People grow poorer and less free but the regime stands by its guns

  • Vol 43 No 8
  • 19/04/2002

Missing Badme

As promised, both countries have accepted the (carefully crafted) ruling by the Eritrea-Ethiopian Boundary Commission, published last weekend. Both sides want peace but the propaganda war still rages and normal relations look distant. Both claim victory b...

  • Vol 43 No 7
  • 05/04/2002

Politics before economics

After consolidating his power, President Issayas will turn to the anaemic economy

  • Vol 42 No 20
  • 12/10/2001

Hagos heads home

As war-hero-turned-dissident Mesfin Hagos prepares to return home to near certain imprisonment for criticising President Issayas Afewerki, international pressure is mounting on the government to reverse its recent moves to suppress dissent (AC Vol 42 No 1...

  • Vol 42 No 19
  • 28/09/2001

Crackdown

The President has gaoled the reformers ahead of the ruling party's congress

  • Vol 42 No 15
  • 27/07/2001

Nervy

Nerves are jangling in Asmara after the resignation of the Ambassador to Sweden, Norway and Finland. Hebret Berhe boldly criticised the resistance to reform and democracy of the ruling People's Front for Democracy and Justice and President Issayas Aferwor...

  • Vol 42 No 14
  • 13/07/2001

Crimes against the state

The President still claims he won the war as his regime wobbles around him

Displaying 11-20 out of 30 results.