We've talked about some incredibly poor countries on this channel before, but perhaps nothing as bad as the small East African country of Eritrea. This country is a complete military dictatorship, and ...

Asmara, 28 September 2025 - World Tourism Day 2025 was commemorated at the Abrha Bahta School for the Hearing Impaired in Asmara under the theme "Tourism for Sustainable Transformation."Ms. Liya ...

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The Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak and three Eritrean journalists  — Temesgen Ghebreyesus, Seyoum Tsehaye and ...

As President Trump pulls back U.S. funding of the United Nations, countries like China, Russia and Qatar are seeking to ...

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Eritrea has accused Ethiopia of making threats and concentrating forces near areas along their common border. Eritrea’s information minister Yemane Gebre Meskel made the allegations against the ...

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) says it is only “a matter of time” before Ethiopia regains control of the Red Sea port of Assab, continuing his administration’s determined pursuit of a maritime access ...

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An eerily familiar set of headlines is making the rounds in Ethiopia, troubling many in the fragile, northern Tigray region. Successive delegations of civil society and religious leaders have, in ...