Politics | Human rights
Calm Eritrea avoids talks of rebellion
afrol News, 2 March - Eritrea, the most closed dictatorship in Africa, has censored all news about the popular unrest in North Africa and neighbouring Djibouti. Only the exiled opposition talks about revolution.
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Politics | Society
Djibouti sees Eritrea President as "lunatic"
afrol News, 10 December - The Foreign Minister of Djibouti, in talks with the US Embassy, called President Issaias Afwerki of neighbouring Eritrea "a lunatic". He also revealed Eritrea opposes any real Somali peace talks.
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Politics
Eritrea "heading towards failed state"
afrol News, 21 September - Analysts fear Eritrea could soon join Somalia's road towards a failed state. The economy is heading towards a collapse, poverty is rising and the dictatorial regime has lost all its legitimacy.
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Politics
Eritrea still far from sanctions' lift
afrol News, 28 June - While Eritrea is hailed for its new peace agreement with Djibouti, the Asmara regime still is not complying with the world's demand not to destabilise its neighbours. Sanctions therefore will not be lifted, the UN concludes.
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Politics
Eritrea opposition "prepares military attack"
afrol News, 9 June - Exiled Eritrean groups have regrouped in neighbouring Ethiopia and Sudan, allegedly uniting to prepare a "massive attack" on the regime of President Isaias Afwerki. Few however believe they will be successful.
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Politics
Djibouti-Eritrea border dispute towards solution
afrol News, 8 June - Djibouti and Eritrea have signed an agreement that see the Qatari government as mediators. Qatar is also to deploy its troops on the Eritrea-Djibouti border in a move that helps out a pressured Djiboutian government.
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Politics | Human rights | Society
Eritrea "intimidates emigrants into paying tax"
afrol News, 26 May - The numerous refugees from Eritrea around the world are now mobilising to counter "blackmailing" and "surveillance" of them by "agents of the Eritrean regime." The Eritrean Diaspora claims it is intimidated to pay an illegal "tax" to Eritrea.
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Politics
Eritrea desperate to undo UN sanctions
afrol News, 23 April - Eritrea President Isaias Afewerki is on a diplomatic offensive to make the UN lift sanctions against the country last year for training and supplying Somali and Yemenite rebels. Holy cows are being slaughtered in Asmara.
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Human rights | Media
Journalists still locked away in Eritrea
afrol News, 9 April - In the reclusive Red Sea nation of Eritrea, the fate of 10 journalists who disappeared in secret prisons following a September 2001 government crackdown has been a virtual state secret - only occasionally pierced by shreds of often unverifiable, secondhand information smuggled out of the country by defectors or others fleeing into exile.
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Society | Human rights | Gay - Lesbian
Homosexuality "against Eritrean values"
afrol News, 26 March - Eritrean government officials for the first time have answered to rights activists' questions about the country's tough anti-homosexuality laws. Legalisation was out of question, the official said.
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Economy - Development | Politics | Agriculture - Nutrition | Society | Human rights
Eritrea was provoked - government
afrol News, 4 January - Eritrean authorities say Ethiopian forces successive attacks in a disputed area on the border between the two countries has forced its troops to retaliate with excessive force.
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Politics | Human rights | Gender - Women | Society
30 Christian women arrested in Eritrea
afrol News, 11 December - The Eritrean authorities have arrested and detained 30 elderly Christian women during a prayer meeting. The women are reportedly held without charge by the district office of the federal security service.
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