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11/09/2018

Addis and Asmara form phosphate team to take on Djibouti

Ethiopia and Eritrea's newfound friendship has a decisive mining component. The two countries have plans to set up joint phosphates [...]

Spotlight 27/07/2018

The crucial role of the Afars in peace in the Horn

Ethiopia's race towards the Red Sea is under way, but the landlocked country can only access the ports via Afar territories. The Afars therefore find themselves at the centre of negotiations between Eritrea (with which Addis Ababa has established closer [...]

27/07/2018

The Eritrean opposition asked to leave Ethiopia…

There is one casualty of the rapprochement between Ethiopia and [...]

Breaking news 19/07/2018

Creeping paranoia in Djiboutian diplomatic circles

In a missive addressed to his ambassadors which The Indian Ocean Newsletter has obtained a copy of, the Djiboutian foreign [...]

10/07/2018

Nevsun allowed to appeal forced labour ruling

Canadian firm Nevsun Resources' request to be allowed to appeal [...]

29/06/2018

Who is negotiating peace between Addis and Asmara, and where?

Discreet talks between Ethiopia and Eritrea are under way far removed from the demonstrations in Badme, where the local population [...]

15/06/2018

The Americans and French beg to differ… Free

According to our sources, France is pushing for United Nations [...]

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18/05/2018

France's plans for handling the refugee situation

On 9 May, the Djiboutian prime minister Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed received a delegation of the foreign affairs commission of the [...]

18/05/2018

Feeling a potential threat by Qatar, Asmara mobilises the army

On 14 May, the Eritrean Ministry of Information issued a [...]

27/03/2018

Alasdair Smith strikes for gold again

In early March, New Zealand geologist Alasdair Smith started exploration on the Kerkasha project in Eritrea that his fledgling junior [...]

16/02/2018

Can the Addis-Amara rapprochement last?

Following the resignation of Desalegn, will talks between the two rival countries continue? [...]

26/12/2017

Geologist Bereket Berhe's homecoming

In early December, Bereket Berhe, Eritrean-born Canadian geological engineer was due to travel to Asmara to officially submit his request [...]

12/12/2017

Former Asmara executives immersed in Nevsun affair

On November 21, the Vancouver court of appeal rejected junior Nevsun Resources' request to have a court case in which [...]

17/11/2017

Further schisms in the opposition

On the initiative of the Ethiopian government, the Eritrean National Council for Democratic Change (ENCDC), the exiled opposition parliament based [...]

20/10/2017

Three members of the diaspora killed in Asmara

Three members of the Eritrean diaspora, who had travelled from [...]

20/10/2017

Abraham Fessehaye sues the Stanbic Bank of Uganda

In early October, the Eritrean Abraham Fessehaye brought a lawsuit against the Stanbic Bank of Uganda (SBU) for $4 million, [...]

03/10/2017

Nevsun escapes Asmara's military creditor

A Canadian court has rejected arms broker Delizia's appeal to have junior Nevsun Resources' assets seized in an attempt to recover its debts with the Eritrean government. [...]

25/08/2017

Stephane Auvray moves from Congo-K to Horn of Africa

French national Stephane Auvray has been named political affairs specialist at the United Nations Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea. [...]

01/08/2017

UNDP, champion of Colluli potash project

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is currently recruiting three [...]

21/07/2017

Eritrea's opposition down in the dumps

With the government of president Issayas Afeworki gaining a lot of ground because of his ties to Arab countries, Eritrea's [...]

26/05/2017

Oromo opposition figures granted asylum in Kampala

According to security sources, Uganda’s government granted political asylum on [...]

28/04/2017

Asmara appoints new charge d'affaires

The Eritrean government under president Issayas Afeworki recently named a [...]

07/04/2017

Ethiopia adopts a war-like stance against Asmara

A veteran of the liberation war and former defence minister, [...]

10/03/2017

A fake attack on GERD?

While Ethiopian prime minister Hailemariam Desalegn claims to have foiled [...]

07/03/2017

Robert Connochie changes companies in Danakil

Canadian Robert Connochie, who joined the board of Australian company Danakali in early February to kick off potash production at [...]

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