Eritrea

Eritrea

Population: 5.7 mn.
GDP: 3.1 bn.
Debt: 1.0 bn.
Overview:

President Issayas Aferwerki will make more trips to Qatar for medical treatment. Yet he keeps control, with no obvious rival in the wings. Ethiopia's new leadership may prove less hostile. Inflation will rise and the promised rises in public sector pay will fall short. 

 


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  • Vol 48 No 13
  •  22nd June 2007

Warriors by proxy

With Somalia looking more settled, Ethiopia has been looking towards Eritrea, which it sees as the regional spoiler. On 8 June, Addis Ababa wrote to the United Nations Security Council President calling for Chapter VII sanctions against Eritrea, in order ...

  • Vol 48 No 9
  •  27th April 2007

The Jihadists' friend

Eritrea now condemns foreign involvement in Somalia. Last year, it sent large quantities of arms and fighters, and a training mission, to the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), then in power. In January, President Issayas Afeworki sent a minister to Nairobi to r...

  • Vol 47 No 11
  •  26th May 2006

Omissions

The latest meeting of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission, in London on 17 May, started badly, with the Commission President, Sir Elihu Lauterpacht QC of Britain, irritated by news reports suggesting the process was now led by the United States. Ethi...

  • Vol 47 No 6
  •  17th March 2006

Tentative

Secret talks in London on 10 March between American lawyers may help unblock the border dispute between Eritrea and Ethiopia, that killed 50-100,000 people in 1998-2000. Both governments were coaxed into joining talks with the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Co...

  • Vol 46 No 22
  •  4th November 2005

Breaking point, again

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

  • Vol 46 No 7
  •  1st April 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 been...

  • Vol 44 No 18
  •  12th September 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
  •  28th June 2002

Disarmed but not demobbed

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

  • Vol 43 No 8
  •  19th April 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
  •  5th April 2002

Politics before economics

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

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