Category: Eritrea
Eritrea: Weldab tells "I don't know what happened to the rest of my friends"
Rome (HAN) July 19, 2015 – Real-time national security updates. Eritrea is nursing serious leg wounds after being shot twice by people he says were Eritrean soldiers stationed near the border with Ethiopia. “Even after I fell down, I could hear the bullets whizzing past me,” Weldab tells me from a clinic bed in Mai-Aini…
Eritrea: Council Asked information About G-15 members
Asmara (HAN) July 7, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Humanitarian News – UN Human Rights Council are preparing a resolution condemning Eritrea over G-15 members report. Resolution condemns Eritrea’s targeting of G-15 members; while President Afwerki responded: Council neither interested in facts nor human rights in Eritrea. The UN Human Rights Council has drafted…
Eritrea: Isyas Faces Another Step Closer to ICC Global Court
Asmara (HAN) July 5, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Security News – The Hague, the first permanent global criminal court moves another step closer to being fully operational to investigate human rights violations in Eritrea and Eritrea’s strong man, Isaias Afwerki. Updates: Eritrea faces a second year of scrutiny by human rights investigators after the…
Eritrea: Threat and Act of Intimidation of the Eritrean Regime
New York (HAN) June 24, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Humanitarian Security News – The Commission of Inquiry on Eritrea presented its report to the United Nations Human Rights Council. Swiss police were guarding three U.N. investigators into Eritrea’s human rights record in Geneva on Wednesday after a top official said they had received threats on the street and…
Eritrea: Plights "Due to Threats from long-standing Enemy Ethiopia"
Nairobi (HAN) June 23, 2015 – Regional Security strategy News. Intelligence Update. Eritrea has defended its controversial policy of decades-long national service from which about 5,000 people flee each month, saying it has “no other choice” due to threats from long-standing enemy Ethiopia. “is effectively denying the Eritrean people the right to defend themselves in an…
Eritrea: Why Eritrea Matters?
Asmara (HAN) June 20, 2015 – Regional Security strategy News. Security Industry Tracker. American Military University. By Dr. Patricia Campbell, Assistant Provost at American Public University System. In 1993, the first post-colonial peaceful separation of two African states occurred when Eritrea seceded from Ethiopia. Post-colonial Africa is littered with failed secessionist attempts that have left millions…
Eritrea: Foreign Ministry Rejected the U.N. Findings as "Indecent Hyperbole"
New York (HAN) June 13, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Security News. By Louis Charbonneau. Eritrea denied that it subjects its citizens to indefinite national service or kills people trying to flee the country, two of the most serious allegations among the findings of a year-long United Nations investigation. The 484-page U.N. Commission of…
Eritrea: Clean your House, EU Tells Afwerki
Rome (HAN) May 24, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Security News. The European Parliament this week called on Isyas Afwerki’s government in Eritrea to immediately and unconditionally release an imprisoned news editors, News Bloggers, ELF supporters, religious leaders and two other political prisoners. An EU parliamentary resolution also established a monitoring of Eritrea’s human…
Eritrea: EU Agrees to Naval Intervention on Migrant Smugglers
Rome (HAN) May 23, 2015, Regional Humanitarian Security and safety news. Kanter, James. The migration crisis that has led to thousands of deaths at sea has prompted European foreign and defense ministers to use naval forces to intercept and disrupt ships smuggling migrants. The program’s goal is to stop smugglers with human cargo before or…
Eritrea: Tightening the Noose on ISIS in Africa
Asmara (HAN) May 19, 2015 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Security News. By Abosede Musari -ngrguardiannews- He was an innocuous Tunisian plying his fruit trade, until Mohammed Bouazizi, was push to the wall by a government that did not consider his existence. After several attempts to eke out a living through the sale of fruits,…
