Eritrea

CHOPPING UP THE RED TAPE

A bombshell communique from the office of head of state Isaias Afwerki on May 2 broadcast next day on the [...]

A MINISTER UNDER FIRE

According to information still unconfirmed in official circles, Eritrean defence minister Mesfin Hagos, who was named to the post in [...]

NEW MINING LAW

Eritrea has just promulgated a new mining law in the wake of a Petroleum Operating Code adopted in November. 1993 [...]

MINING LAW PROMULGATED

Eritrea has completed promised new mining legislation by promulgating Mining Proclamation 68/1995, Mining Income Tax Proclamation 69/1995, and Mining Operations [...]

Omar Ali Mirrah, the son of sultan Ali Mirrah (an [...]

WAR OF WORDS

The day that Khartoum saw the opening of the Arab and Islamic conference (held from March 30 to April 2) [...]

The four foreign companies which the Asmara authorities recently closed [...]

DANIEL YOHANNES

The new Eritrean consul in France, Daniel Yohannes, who is currently working out of the Ethiopian embassy in Paris, is [...]

When some five hundred Eritrean illegal immigrants in Saudi Arabia [...]

France is expected to announce (on April 4) its policy [...]

SPECIAL IGADD SUMMIT

According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter from diplomatic sources in Nairobi, the Kenyan government, spurred on by [...]

Following a presidential directive of October 25 concerning Jehovah's Witnesses [...]

MATTEO ZUPPI

A delegation of the Roman Catholic community Sant'Egidio headed by [...]

Speaking at a recent news conference, Eritrean head of state [...]

SEEING IT THEIR WAY

Once spread right across Africa, Italian cooperative assistance (except to North Africa) has been recycled in recent years into two [...]

South Korean company Keangnam Enterprises Limited, a member of the [...]

GERMAN COOPERATION

Germany's minister for trade and cooperation Carl Dieter Spranger was in Eritrea last week at the head of a large [...]

AMDEMIKAEL KAHSAI

The former representative in France of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front at the beginning of the 1980s, a former mayor [...]

U.S. KEEN ON EXPLORING

The question of oil exploration figured on the agenda during Eritrean president Isaias Afeworki's trip to the United States between [...]