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Eritrea: Rights Group Calls for Release of Leaders Detained for 10 Years (press release)
Amnesty International, 15 September 2011
The Eritrean authorities must immediately and unconditionally release 11 prominent politicians, including three former cabinet ministers, who have been held incommunicado without ... read more »
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Eritrea: European Parliament Calls for Release of Journalists
Committee to Protect Journalists, 16 September 2011
Eritrea was on the hot seat Thursday in Strasbourg and Brussels. Ten years after a massive crackdown on dissent in Asmara that included the arrests of 11 independent journalists, ... read more »
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Africa: Issaias Afeworki - No Less Dangerous Than Muammar Gaddafi or Bashar Al-Assad (analysis)
Reporters sans Frontières, 16 September 2011
Ten years ago, on 18 September 2001, the entire world's eyes were still turned to New York, the target of Al Qaeda's devastating attacks the previous week. In Asmara, the Eritrean ... read more »
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Eritrea: President Seeking Regional Acceptance? (analysis)
Institute for Security Studies, 17 August 2011
On Tuesday 16 August, Eritrean President Isaias Afeworki embarked on a three day visit to Uganda at the invitation of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, in what observers termed a ... read more »
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Eritrea: World Must Act to Prevent Another 'Failed State' (guest column)
allAfrica.com, 7 October 2010
Just a decade ago, Eritrea might reasonably have been described as challenged but stable. Today it is under severe stress, if not yet in full-blown crisis. read more »
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Africa: Governance Improves in Liberia, Angola, Togo But Declines in Eritrea, Madasgascar
allAfrica.com, 4 October 2010
Governance standards have improved significantly in Angola, Liberia and Togo over the past four years, but have declined in Eritrea and Madagascar, according to a leading survey ... read more »
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Somalia: AU Peace and Security Council Calls for No-Fly Zone (press release)
African Union, 25 February 2010
The Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AU), at its 217th meeting held on 25 February 2010, received an update on the situation in Somalia by the Special ... read more »
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Somalia: African Union Calls for Sanctions on Eritrea
allAfrica.com, 23 May 2009
The African Union (AU) has appealed to the United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions on Eritrea and other parties backing the insurgents fighting to overthrow Somalia's ... read more »
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Rubish. The good thing is Africans are waking up to the paid hit-men like the RSF who try to foment hyteria by lying thru their teeth about countries like Eritrea that refuse to be exploited by former colonizers.
WHAT EVER IS BEST FOR AFRICA IS IMPORTANT. THE PRESIDENT MAY HAVE AN AGENDA BUT RIGHT NOW WHAT HE IS PROPOSING IS NEEDED BADLY. THE PEOPLE OF SOMALIA NEED PEACE THE HORN OF AFRICA NEED PEACE. SOMALIA NEEDS TO BE REINTEGRATED AS A WHOLE NATION. AL-SHBAB MUST BE ENGAGED THEY NEED TO KNOW THAT SOMALIA HAS TO HAVE FAIR ELECTIONS AND NO US GOVERNMENT PUPPETS CAN RUN SOMALIA THEY THE GOVERNMENT OF SOMALIA MUS BE VOTED IN DEMOCRATICAL;YY AND THEY MUST BE THE PEOPLE S CHOICE AND ALL RESULTS MUST BE HONOURED FOR THE PARTIES WHO WILL TAKE PLACE IN ELECTIONS WILL ASSURE THAT EVERYTHING IS ABOVE BOARD. AFRICA .THE WEST IS VERY UNIFIED THE SOUTH IS EWE DO NOT WANT ANY MORE US OR NATO ACTIVITIES IN THE REGION THIS MUST STOP . ALL THE EASTERN COUNTRIES WHO LIKE FOREIGN AID MUST START EARNING TRUEW MONEY FROM THE NATUAL RESOURCES THAT YOU HAVE IN EAST AFRICA. AFRICA IS THE MOST RESURCED LAND ANYWHERE ON THE PLANET SO WHO DOES NOT WANT TO BE ;EADERS AND VISIONAIRES AND TRULY LOOK AT THE CONTIENENT AND PURSUE POLICIES THAT WILL INTEGRATE THE CONTINENT SO THERE WILL ONLY BE AFRICANS WHO HEAD ALL MAJOR DECISION MAKING ORGANISATIONS . THE GIFT TO MAN WAS THIS GLORIOUS CONTINENT AND ITS CARETAKERS THIS NOT TO BE LEASED OR RESOLD WE ARE ONLY THE CARE TAKERS AS WE HAVE BEEN FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS .THIS IS A GRAND LEGACY THAT MUST BE MANTAINED THIS THE GIFT OF "THE ALMIGHTY GOD" THERE ARE MANY ON THE PLANET WHO ENVY THE LANDS OF THESE GREAT PEOPLE AND THE SELLING OR LEASING OF LANDS TO FOREIGNERS IS UNACCEPTABLE.THOSE LANDS CAN BE DEVELOPED AND MUST BE DEVELOPED FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE ENTITLED LANDS .THEYNEED MODERN ACCESS TO WHAT THE FOREIGNERS INTEND TO DO THAT IS IF THEY DO WHAT IS NOBLE .AFRICANS MUST BETAUGHT EDUCATED THEY HAVE INGENUITY AND THEY NEED MODERNITY WITH THE INTERJECTION OF MODERINITY WITH THE RIGHT TOLLS THEY WOULD ACCOMPLISH AND REPLENISH AFRICAN WEALTH FOR AFRICANS. " REMEM BER SLAVERY" REMEMBER SLAVER" "SELLING OUT IS NOT THE WAY FORWARD" AFRICA FOR AFRICANS"
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