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World
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Africa
5/23/2023 10:25:00 AM
Eritrea, which is widely considered to be one of the world's most repressive states, marks three decades of independence on Wednesday.
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World
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Africa
3/21/2023 11:32:43 PM
The governments of Ethiopia and Eritrea on Tuesday angrily rejected US claims their forces had committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during the devastating two-year war in Tigray.
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World
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Africa
3/20/2023 7:17:24 PM
The United States has concluded that Ethiopian and Eritrean troops as well as rebels committed war crimes during the brutal two-year conflict, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday, days after he visited Addis Ababa.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
1/31/2023 4:39:04 PM
Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church held earlier in the month their first-ever Christmas eve mass in Saudi Arabia for Coptic Egyptians and Eritreans residing in the country, according to the official publication of the church El-Keraza.
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World
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War in Ukraine
1/26/2023 7:33:08 PM
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Eritrea on Thursday for a one-day surprise visit, the information ministry announced, as part of an African tour aimed at drumming up support for Moscow.
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World
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Africa
1/22/2023 2:10:00 PM
Eritrean forces have been leaving towns in the war-torn region of Tigray, locals told AFP, as the United States hailed a pullout seen as key to a landmark peace deal.
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World
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Africa
1/20/2023 6:46:08 PM
Witnesses in some towns across Ethiopia’s Tigray region say troops from neighboring Eritrea have started withdrawing in large convoys, a potentially significant development after a devastating conflict in the region ended late last year.
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World
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Region
1/5/2023 6:37:16 PM
The United Arab Emirates on Thursday detailed its role in an international operation to arrest an Eritrean fugitive in Sudan accused of being "the world's most wanted" people smuggler.
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World
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Africa
12/2/2022 3:01:26 PM
Eritrean troops have continued killing dozens of civilians in Ethiopia's Tigray region and committing other abuses weeks after the two main warring parties signed a peace deal, according to an official document seen by The Associated Press.
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World
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Africa
10/29/2022 6:35:38 PM
Even as Ethiopia's warring sides attend their first formal peace talks in a devastating two-year conflict, witnesses in the country's embattled Tigray region tell The Associated Press that forces from neighboring Eritrea are killing some civilians and looting as they and allied Ethiopian forces head for the regional capital.
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World
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Africa
10/23/2022 9:08:22 PM
Ethiopian and Eritrean forces took control of the historic town of Adwa in the embattled Tigray region, a humanitarian worker said Sunday, ahead of the start of anticipated peace talks between the warring parties.
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World
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Africa
10/18/2022 11:01:28 PM
The African Union pledged in 2016 to “silence the guns” by the end of 2020, an ambitious agenda of ending armed conflicts on the continent. Just two months before that deadline, the deadliest war in years erupted in Ethiopia.
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World
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Africa
10/18/2022 12:52:00 PM
Tigrayan rebels said Tuesday that Ethiopian and Eritrean forces had taken control of the strategic city of Shire in northwestern Tigray.
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World
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Africa
10/17/2022 11:13:46 PM
UN chief Antonio Guterres warned Monday that the situation in Ethiopia was "spiralling out of control" as fighting raged in the north of the country and the government vowed to seize control of airports and other sites in Tigray.
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World
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Africa
10/15/2022 6:04:17 PM
The International Rescue Committee said Saturday one of its aid workers was among three civilians killed in an attack in Tigray where Ethiopian and Eritrean forces have launched an offensive.
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World
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Africa
10/4/2022 12:10:16 PM
Authorities in Ethiopia's rebel-held Tigray region said they had withdrawn fighters from occupied parts of a neighbouring region to counter a major offensive unfolding to the north.
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World
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Africa
9/22/2022 10:26:17 PM
UN-backed investigators said Thursday they have turned up evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity by Ethiopian government forces, Tigray forces and Eritrea's military _ including rape, murder and pillage _ over the nearly two-year war centering on Ethiopia's northern Tigray region.
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World
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Africa
9/20/2022 5:00:11 PM
Tigrayan authorities say Eritrea has launched a full-scale offensive along the country's border with northern Ethiopia in what appears to be an escalation of last month's renewal of fighting.
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World
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Africa
9/18/2022 10:45:23 AM
Eritrean authorities have called on their armed forces to mobilise in response to the renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia, the British and Canadian governments said.
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World
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Africa
9/3/2022 9:21:45 PM
The United States on Friday dispatched an envoy to Ethiopia to seek an end to renewed fighting, and condemned neighboring Eritrea for re-entering the conflict in the northern region of Tigray.
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