Eritrea

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FIRST DIFFICULTIES

After all the euphoria of the referendum on self-determination last April, now-independent Eritrea is running into its first difficulties: a cereals harvest which looks like being very much lower than last year and international aid which is flowing only very [.

The Eritrean government has issued a Call for bids for [...]

The ruling group in Asmara, Eritrean Peoples' Liberation Front (EPLF), [...]

FRENCH STUDIES

The Eritrean government has accepted the offer of a study fund of FFr.3 million as a gift to be put [...]

After a week of discussions in Asmara between an Ethiopian [...]

Membership of the International Telecommunications Union has elevated Eritrea into [...]

LYNDA CHALKER

Britain's cooperation minister was due to carry out (on September [...]

MARTINE BILLANOU

This Asmara resident had been proposed by France as honorary [...]

UN-ORTHODOX QUARRELS

Patriarch Paulos of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EtOC) and five bishops recently visited Eritrea and met twice with the head [...]

An important US Navy delegation headed by an admiral visited [...]

MARTINE BILLANOU

The Asmara resident is expected to be appointed France's honorary [...]

Price increases (on electricity, medicaments, rents, telephones, water) introduced in [...]

COLLAPSE OF JIHAD ISLAMIYYA

A communique from the Eritrean movement Jihad Islamiyya issued in Saudi Arabia on August 25 and published by the Saudi [...]

DUNCAN DOW

The Eritrean government has requested the services of Duncan Dow, [...]

AFEWORKI VISITS KING FAHD

Eritrean president Issayas Afewerki's visit to Riyadh where he was received by the Saudi King Fahd as well as by [...]

ROBERT HOUDEK

The new United States ambassador in Eritrea is a diplomat with many years of experience in African affairs. Aged 53, [...]

REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT PLAN

A United Nations-sponsored meeting was heald in Geneva, Switzerland on July 6, to encourage donors to contribute to the financing [...]

ROBERT HOUDEK

United States president Bill Clinton has appointed Robert Houdek ambassador [...]

A mission from the Caisse Française de Développement (CFD) arrived [...]