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Eritrea calls for lifting of sanctions, rejects UN accusations
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Eritrea has asked the U.N. Security Council to lift sanctions against it after a recent U.N. experts’ report showed that the tiny east African state had cut ...
Eritrea ‘reduces support’ for Somalia’s al-Shabab
Kulafa Al Rashidin mosque in Asmara, Eritrea. Eric Lafforgue/photo. UN report says the east African country decreases its help for the al-Qaeda-allied group amid international ...
The Role of Djibouti to foster Security in the Horn of Africa
Djibouti’s Interior Minister, Hassan Darar Houffaneh, pays a visit to the Public Security Direction and the National Police General Investigation Unit in May 28,2012 (Djibouti ...
Ethiopia says Eritrea-trained gunmen killed tourists
ADDIS ABABA — Gunmen have killed five foreign tourists in Ethiopia’s remote northern Afar region, after crossing into the Horn of Africa country from neighbouring ...
Eritrea claims major advantage over its mining rivals
ASMARA — President Isaias Afwerki of Eritrea says the country’s mining activities have a major comparative advantage over their rivals, in terms of both time ...
SOMALILAND: Bomb blast targets police station in Las Anod
BURAO — At least two people including a police officer were hurt in the town of Las Anod when unknown assailants hurled a powerful hand ...
Eritrean and Ethiopian runners fight at cross country race in Spain
PUNTA UMBRIA — During the 2011 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Punta Umbria, Spain, Eritrean athlete Samuel Tsegay, and his Ethiopian counterpart Abera Kuma, ...
Somalia’s Puntland region leader rushes to Ethiopia over Somaliland clashes and ONLF weapons
ADDIS ABABA — The Ethiopian government led by Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Foreign Affairs Haile Mariam Desalegne called on the leader of Somalia’s ...
SOMALILAND: Refugees Angry At Status Change
HARGEISA (Somalilandpress) — The announcement by the government of Somalia’s self-declared republic of Somaliland that there were no refugees in the region – only economic ...
Qatar to deploy troops between Djibouti and Eritrea
DJIBOUTI (Somalilandpress) — A high military delegation led by the Chief of Staff of the Qatari Army arrived in Djibouti as a part of diplomacy ...
Isaias Afwerki Appeals for Arab Sympathy
MOGADISHU, (Somalilanpress) — With his brinkmanship diplomacy facing a dead-end, Eritrea’s strong man, Isaias Afwerki, is approaching members of the League of Arab States (“Arab ...
Eritrea On The Spot Again Over It’s Support Of Somali Militant Groups
The government of Eritrea has quickly reacted to sharp criticism and aiding the from the United Nations that it is assisting the Somali militant group ...
AU Wants Somalia Declared No Fly Zone
THE Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AU) has asked the UN to impose a no-fly zone on Somalia and block sea ports ...
Black Mamba Boy is an epic journey
Nadifa Mohamed describes herself as her father’s griot, as this, her debut novel, is a recounting of his epic journey across 1930s East Africa. Jama ...
Why the US Needs to be Concerned about East Africa.
While the eyes of most pundits and spies are on the current Military Action in Yemen. The Situation on the other side of the Gulf ...
Top Al-Qaida operatives depart Iraq, Afghanistan for Somalia and Yemen
MOGADISHU (Somalilandpress) — The United States government which continues to provide support to the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia [TFG] has said senior Al-Qaida members ...
CPJ’s annual prison census 2009: In Sub-Saharan Africa, 9 out of 10 detained without charge
New York, 8 December 2009 (Somalilandpress) – On December 1, a total of 25 journalists were imprisoned in Sub-Saharan Africa in retaliation for their journalism, ...
Eritrea’s Repayment Of Its Fraternal Debt To The Somali People
HARGEISA, 12 November 2009 (Somalilandpress) – I have just read Sophia Tesfamariam’s diatribe of character assassination and vilification against Professor Peter Pham on American Chronicle ...
Eritrea fanning conflict in region.
One of the frustrations with which Africa’s friends have had to repeatedly cope over the years has been the seemingly utter incapacity of the African ...
Youth Migration: A Personal Account
HARGEISA, 11 October 2009 (Somalilandpress) – Migration can be defined as the movement of large groups of people go to live in another area or ...
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