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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 42 No 15
  •  27th July 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
  •  13th July 2001

Crimes against the state

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

  • Vol 42 No 4
  •  23rd February 2001

Winter in Asmara

President Issayas is freezing some of his key officials out of politics

  • Vol 41 No 24
  •  8th December 2000

Peace at last

Suspicion and mutual recriminations persist but a peace treaty is to be signed on 12 December.

  • Vol 41 No 13
  •  23rd June 2000

Time of reckoning

The agreement signed on 18 June in Algiers has little to recommend it to Eritrea. Only after a comprehensive peace agreement - still some way off - is the Eritrean-Ethiopian border to be demarcated, according to 'colonial treaties' and international law. ...

  • Vol 41 No 11
  •  26th May 2000

Force majeure

Ethiopia simplifies the military situation but complicates the political game

  • Vol 40 No 22
  •  5th November 1999

Ceasefire under threat

The OAU peace deal between Asmara and Addis Ababa is hanging by a thread as both sides rearm and turn up the war rhetoric

  • Vol 40 No 22
  •  5th November 1999

Battling for Badme

Badme, taken by Eritrea in May 1998, has this year been the focus of several deadly battles. In February, Ethiopia attacked with artillery, then aircraft and tanks, then human-wave assaults. After four days and heavy losses, Ethiopia broke the Eritrean de...

  • Vol 40 No 22
  •  5th November 1999

Getting DC's drift

Ethiopia is angry at what it sees as the international failure to condemn Eritrean aggression. When receiving the new United States' Ambassador to Ethiopia, Tibor Nagy, in early October, Ethiopian President Negasso Gidada pointedly noted that 'aggression ...

  • Vol 40 No 9
  •  30th April 1999

World-class war

UN envoy Mohammed Sahnoun mediates while the world ignores its biggest war

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