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Sahel nations lose 1.7m ha land
afrol News, 28 April - On average each year, Sahelian countries lost 1.7 million hectares of arable land to desertification, environmental experts told journalists. Read more
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100 Eritrean migrants nabbed
afrol News, 25 April - At least 100 Eritrean illegal migrants have been arrested and detained by Egyptian security after they attempted to enter Israel through Sinai.
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Economy - Development | Politics | Society | Human rights
Eritrean officials punch UN
afrol News, 6 March - Eritrean authoritires have renewed their attack on the United Nations, accusing it of supporting Ethiopia over the border dispute case. Read more
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Politics | Society | Human rights
Eritrea damns allegations
afrol News, 21 February - Eritrean authorities have brushed aside allegations that they are obstructing and impeding the transfer of the UN peacekeeping mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea [UNMEE] to Ethiopia. Read more
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Eritrea: Worst press freedom abuser
afrol News, 16 October - Eritrea has ranked last in an index measuring the level of press freedom in 169 countries throughout the world. This is contained in the worldwide press freedom index 2007 report published by the Paris-based media rights watchdog, Reporters sans frontières (RSF). Read more
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Society | Human rights
Eritrea’s arms embargo violations uncovered
afrol News, 27 July - A report by United Nations monitoring group on Somalia indicted Eritrea of violating the 1992 international arms embargo by secretly supplying huge quantities of arms - explosives and surface-to-air missiles to Somali Islamic insurgents. Read more
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Human rights | Media
Editor killed in bid to flee Eritrea
afrol News, 16 July - Independent sources now confirm that Paulos Kidane, a prominent editor and presenter at Eritrea's government controlled broadcaster 'Eri-TV', died in an attempt to flee the country last month. Eritrean authorities earlier had claimed that his death was "accidental."
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Politics
Eritrea supports Iran's nuclear programme
afrol News, 6 June - Eritrea's President Isaias Afewerqi continues on his anti-Western crusade. Receiving Iran's new ambassador to Asmara, the Eritrean leader said he fully supported Iran's controversial nuclear programme, noting that the US was in no position to criticise Iran after having used nuclear arms against other nations.
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Gender - Women | Health
Eritrea criminalises FGM
afrol News, 5 April - At last, the Eritrean government has got the fit to publicly announce the banning of female genital mutilation (FGM), the age-old culture that allowed not only the cutting of clitoris, but also tampering of other areas of the genitalia. Read more
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Politics | Human rights | Society
Eritrean footballers join row of asylum seekers
afrol News, 27 March - Six players of Eritrea's national football (soccer) team have sought refuge in Angola after their team's 1-6 defeat in Luanda on Sunday. The football players join a long list of Eritreans fleeing their increasingly despotic government. Not all get a similar reception in their choice of refuge as the football stars got in Angola.
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Agriculture - Nutrition
Locusts threaten Eritrea, Sudan, Somaliland
afrol News, 23 March - Eritrea, Sudan and Somaliland are strongly advised to carefully monitor "a developing and potentially dangerous situation" arising from second-generation locust infestations that are now developing, according to the latest UN update on of the crop-devouring insects.
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Politics
Eritrea accused of terrorism over Western hostages
afrol News, 15 March - The Ethiopian government has accused Eritrea of "terrorism" after the kidnapping of European tourists and their Ethiopian guides. While the five European tourists where released in Eritrea and sent to Britain via Ethiopia, the eight abducted Ethiopians remain in the neighbour country.
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Human rights | Media
Eritrea state journalists remain supervised
afrol News, 23 February - A total of eight out of the nine Eritrean state media journalists being held for several weeks at a police station in Asmara reportedly have been released. But the reporters are being constantly supervised by state agents, who fear they might follow the example of several colleagues that fled the country.
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» 14.02.2007 - Another Eritrea journalist killed in prison
» 04.01.2007 - Eritrea copper-zinc deposits attract investment
» 02.01.2007 - Humiliated Eritrea blames US for Somali war
» 14.12.2006 - Eritrea turns to Iran for support
» 22.11.2006 - Eritrea's mediation in Darfur controversial
» 22.11.2006 - "Terror reigns again among journalists in Eritrea"
» 15.11.2006 - Eritrea now sees US as arch-enemy
» 15.11.2006 - Three journalists "killed in Eritrean prison"
» 06.11.2006 - Eritrea expels more aid agencies
» 31.10.2006 - US warns Eritrea, Ethiopia on Somali war
» 27.10.2006 - Ethiopia suspicious of Eritrea
» 16.10.2006 - Eritrea breaks ceasefire with Ethiopia
» 05.09.2006 - "UN spies" expelled from Eritrea
» 03.05.2006 - The most censored countries: Equatorial Guinea, Libya, Eritrea
» 03.03.2006 - UN blames peacekeeper's death on Eritrea
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