Eritrea

MINDFUL OF ITS MINES

Eritrea is reassessing its mineral deposits and how to exploit them. There are four major deposits: the Debarwa mine (estimated [...]

IGADD AND THE UNITED NATIONS

Following the breakdown of Yemen's mediation in the Eritrea-Sudan conflict after the Khartoum authorities refused to disassociate themselves publicly from [...]

COUNSEL BY WORLD BANK

A voluminous Country Economic Memorandum on Eritrea compiled by World Bank experts was handed out to participants at the Bank's [...]

REHABILITATION PRIORITIES

According to a recent World Bank document on rehabilitation programmes for Eritrea's infrastructures, priorities in transport cover revamping berths 5 [...]

THUMBS-UP FOR ASMARA

Fund donors who met in Paris on December 19 and 20 for the World Bank's first consultative group meeting on [...]

The national airlines Eritrean Airlines and Ethiopian Airlines decided last [...]

PRIVATE CURE FOR ENERGY BRANCH

The World Bank is calling for the energy sector in Eritrea to be gradually turned over to private hands in [...]

ASMARA VERSUS JIHAD

Eritrea's foreign minister Petros Solomon used his recent diplomatic tour of Europe (France, Germany, The Netherlands) to confirm that an [...]

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RUPTURE WITH KHARTOUM

Eritrea's decision on December 5 to break diplomatic relations with its neighbour Sudan is a clear expression of Asmara's profound fears of what its leaders privately refer to as "Sudan's Islamic and imperialistic ambitions". Asmara is not alone in perceiving [.

TEMPERS FRAYING AGAIN

An Eritrean foreign ministry report released in Addis Ababa last week accuses Sudan of having trained more than seven hundred [...]

TOE-THE-LINE TERMS FOR NGOS

The head of the Eritrean Relief and Rehabilitation Agency (ERRA), Naryo Tekle, recently spelled out the three principal conditions laid [...]

Eritrean foreign minister Petros Solomon left Asmara on November 27 [...]

ACCELERATED EDF AID

The European Development Fund (EDF) has allocated ECU 20 million (US$24.5 million) to an emergency aid programme for Eritrea. The [...]

OSMAN SALEH

Eritrea's education minister Osman Saleh and his Ethiopian opposite number [...]

The European Investment Bank is providing ECU 16.8 million (US$20.8 [...]

HORST WINKELMANN

German ambassador to Ethiopia Horst Winkelmann, who is also responsible [...]

OPINION ON CONSTITUTION FROM ELF

Bereket Habte Selassie, chairman of the commission which the Eritrean government has charged with drawing up a draft constitution, says [...]

ANDE BIRHAN WALDE GIORGIS

The head of Eritrea's central bank went to Stuttgart (Germany) [...]

The situation of the conflicting relations between Sudan and Uganda [...]