Africa’s seven press freedom predators are Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, Eritrean President Issaias Afeworki, Equatorial Guinean President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, Rwandan President Paul Kagamé, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, Swaziland’s King Mswati III and Somalia’s Islamist militias (Al-Shabaab and Hizb-Al-Islam)
We, Eritrean Community members in Sheffield, are issuing this short press Release following our successful demonstration to explain for all concerned people both Eritrean Citizens, and the United Kingdom people and government that we staged a protest a meeting called by the Eritrean Ambassador to the UK with Eritrean refugees residents … more
The jailed Eritrean-born journalist, Dawit Isaak, has won the Golden Pen of Freedom Award for 2011.
Members of the Eritrean National Commission for Democratic Change met on October 22, 2010 with US State Department officials at the State Department office in the Washington DC. Commissioners Teklai Abraha and Kibrom Debru met with the officials to discuss the current developments in the Eritrean situation, specifically focusing on … more
The September 18, 2010 Public Meeting started with the remembrance of our national martyrs, the most recent of whom was the late Mohammed Saeed Naud, a veteran and founder of Eritrean liberation movement (haraka-mahber 7) in the late 1950s.
The Eritrean authorities continue to gag all forms of free expression and recently arrested another journalist as he was trying to flee the country, Reporters Without Borders said today,
30 June 2010 RSF: Reporters Without Borders condemned a bomb attack yesterday that left around a dozen people injured including about eight journalists who were seriously hurt.
30 June 2010 RSF: Reporters Without Borders condemned a bomb attack yesterday that left around a dozen people injured including about eight journalists who were seriously hurt.
“I went to that meeting to try to cover what they were going to say,” he said. “I knew already what the meeting was about.” Houston’s police told CPJ they were investigating the incident, but Menghistu said some of the witnesses present appeared fearful to testify because they feared reprisals … more
“I went to that meeting to try to cover what they were going to say,” he said. “I knew already what the meeting was about.” Houston’s police told CPJ they were investigating the incident, but Menghistu said some of the witnesses present appeared fearful to testify because they feared reprisals … more
Apparently, and as it is becoming more crystal clear, after decades of war of liberation and almost two decades of independence Eritrea still finds itself with a government in which absolute power is vested in a single man-the almighty Isayas.
Apparently, and as it is becoming more crystal clear, after decades of war of liberation and almost two decades of independence Eritrea still finds itself with a government in which absolute power is vested in a single man-the almighty Isayas.
Reporters Without Borders condemns the closure of the Khartoum-based daily Rai al-Shaab (Opinion of the People) by the security forces on 16 May and the arrest of four of its journalists.
Reporters Without Borders condemns the closure of the Khartoum-based daily Rai al-Shaab (Opinion of the People) by the security forces on 16 May and the arrest of four of its journalists.
Reporters Without Borders strongly condemns the Islamist militia Al-Shabaab’s announcement today that it is banning local radio stations in the regions it controls from retransmitting the broadcasts of the BBC and Voice of America on the grounds that they carry Christian propaganda.
Reporters Without Borders strongly condemns the Islamist militia Al-Shabaab’s announcement today that it is banning local radio stations in the regions it controls from retransmitting the broadcasts of the BBC and Voice of America on the grounds that they carry Christian propaganda.
On 23 December 2009 the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adopted resolution 1907, imposing sanctions against Eritrea in response to the ongoing border dispute between Djibouti and Eritrea, as well as Eritrea’s support to armed groups destabilising and undermining peace and reconciliation in Somalia, which the UNSC determined constituted a … more
On 23 December 2009 the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adopted resolution 1907, imposing sanctions against Eritrea in response to the ongoing border dispute between Djibouti and Eritrea, as well as Eritrea’s support to armed groups destabilising and undermining peace and reconciliation in Somalia, which the UNSC determined constituted a … more