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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Asmarino website celebrates its 12th anniversary: “Twelve years is a lifetime for a website. As in an individual’s personal growth, Asmarino’s development went through various phases without altering the basic values it holds dear…”
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
On 20 August 2009, off the Italian island of Lampedusa, the Italian coastguard rescued five of the remaining 78 Eritrean passengers aboard a rickety boat set sail from the Libyan capital, Tripoli. While a number of European sailing vessels had passed their boat in the three weeks it had spent at sea, only one stopped to give them life jackets, bread and water.
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Sify (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
CAIRO (Reuters) - Djibouti's foreign minister accused neighbouring Eritrea on Sunday of arming and training militias to carry out sabotage in the tiny Horn of Africa country, and of fomenting chaos in the region.
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FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
The Real Genocide is Playing Out in Ethiopia--And the West is Funding It By TOM MOUNTAIN October 22, 2009 Courtesy Of Counter Punch Asmara, Eritrea. As one of the first to write about the problems in West Sudan/Darfur, in mid 2003, and living side by side here in Asmara for three years with representatives of the Darfur, and other Sudanese resistance, my investigation has found no evidence of genocide....
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Pan-African News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Map of area in Somalia where attacks were made by the resistance forces against the US-backed President who was boarding a plane enroute to Uganda. AMISOM and funding from the Obama administration has kept the TFG barely afloat. Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos October 23, 2009 Somali Insurgents Attack Airport By MOHAMMED IBRAHIM MOGADISHU, Somalia — The Islamist insurgent...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
The president of Somalia's Puntland State government has publicly criticized Eritrea for the first time, while warning against perceived threats posed by economic migrants, Radio Garowe.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
One of the frustrations with which Africa's friends have had to repeatedly cope over the years has been the seemingly utter incapacity of the African leaders to deal with their more problematic peers: witness the annual African Union (AU) summit's literal embrace of Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe last year on the very morrow of a farcical "re-election" criticised the pan-African organisation's...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Somali Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed "Jengeli" has condemned Eritrea for fanning the flames of war in Somalia, Radio Garowe reports.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Often, the Ethiopian government is blamed for its military interventions in parts of Somalia. Rightfully so, since Ethiopian troops occupied Mogadishu in a period (2007-2008) marked by some of the worst violence witnessed during the ongoing Somali civil war. The Ethiopian government has a genuine stake in Somali affairs, given that flames from a neighbor's burning house affects the overall political...
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Geostrategy (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Executive SummaryDjibouti is situated at the southern entrance to the Red Sea, forming a cross-road of major international maritime routes. With a surface area of approximately 23,000 Km², Djibouti borders Somalia to the South-East, Ethiopia to the West and South-West, and Eritrea to the North-West. The country is poorly endowed with natural resources although a few important minerals such as
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Geostrategy (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Executive Summary:The Djibouti-Eritrea border dispute is unlikely to be resolved because of the Eritrea government’s refusal to cooperate with the United Nations (U.N). The U.N.'s lack of reprisal against the Eritrean government for non-compliance is highly likely to encourage Eritrea defiance.Discussion:In January, the United Nations Security Council UNSC) adopted a resolution which demanded...
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ABC News (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Britain calls for sanctions on Eritrea for supplying arms to opponents of Somali government
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
The Minister of Land, Water and Environment, Mr. Tesfai Gebreslassie, stated that the fast growing economic investment in Gash-Barka region should proceed parallel with the careful and judicious utilization of land and water resources.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
In a meeting with youth employees and students in Massawa city, the Administrator of the Northern Red Sea region, Ms. Tsegereda Woldegergis, stressed the paramount importance of youths fully acquainted with correct and timely information in the nation-building process.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
More than 6,400 women farmers in Serejeka sub-zone, Central region, are now able to read and write thanks to the illiteracy eradication program undertaken over the past 10 years.