As thousands flee regime, Eritrea goes it alone

Written by The Washington PostTuesday, 15 December 2009 20:49 Facing the prospect of U.N. sanctions and increasing ‘brain drain,’ young nation’s authoritarian president chooses defianceBy Stephanie McCrummenWashington Post Foreign ServiceMonday, December 14, 2009 ASMARA, ERITREA — With the threat of U.S.-backed sanctions looming over this isolated Red Sea nation, Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki recently summed…

Climate Change

Written by Irish TimesTuesday, 13 October 2009 21:58 CLIMATE CHANGE is wreaking havoc in the world’s coffee and tea growing regions and the next decade is likely to see many of the areas in which these crops are grown rendered unsuitable for cultivation, according to experts. This bleak forecast has emerged from an initiative called…

Inter African Group Conference

Written by Herui T BairuTuesday, 09 September 2008 01:00 Inter Africa Group Conference9/9/2008 12:33:25 PMThis paper was written in the spirit of exchange of views regarding the security puzzle in our region. The seminar gave me the opportunity to emphasize that winds of peace are blowing from Asmara. It is the hope of the Eritrean…

Minding The Iran Weapons Pipline

Eritrea has a deserved reputation as an arms depot for various radical and rebel groups around the world. Sri Lanka’s government has accused Eritrea of providing arms to the recently defeated LTTE rebels (who fought for over two decades to partition the island nation).Now an Eritrean dissident is accusing Eritrea of supplying rebels in Yemen…

General Sebhat Ephrems’s Schedule Fuels Speculation in Asmara

On November 12, General Sebhat Efrem, Eritrea’s minister of defense, left Eritrea accompanying a military team that included a cartographer, communication officer (code operator) and an intelligence officer. The destination or the purpose of the visit is unknown: it was not announced in the state-owned media and even senior military officers are unaware. But he has, according…