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Eritrea
Population: 5.3 mn.
GDP: 2.1 bn.
Debt: 0.6 bn.
Overview:

Still isolated over his policies on Somalia and Ethiopia, President Issayas Aferwerki will be boosted by a medium-term revenue bonanza from Canada's Nevsun gold mine and other mining projects. Afewerki is unlikely to face sanctions. 

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  • 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

  • Vol 42 No 20
  •  12th October 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
  •  28th September 2001

Crackdown

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

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