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Eritrea

June 2024

  • Abiy Ahmed, with close-cropped hair and in a short-sleeved shirt and sunglasses, grinning at Khartoum airport with men around him and a plane labelled "Ethiopia" behind them

    The long read
    From Nobel peace prize to civil war: how Ethiopia’s leader beguiled the world

  • Children on a cart cross the border between Sudan and Chad.

    Children trapped in war zones because of UK refusal to ease refugee visa rules

January 2024

  • A Somali police officers stands guard during a march against the Ethiopia-Somaliland port deal.

    ‘We are ready for a war’: Somalia threatens conflict with Ethiopia over breakaway region

  • A supporter of the Eritrean government at an event picketed by protesters in Canada last year.

    Police on alert for potential violence at Eritrean festival in Melbourne

November 2023

  • Eritrea at the Cecafa Cup in 2019 in Uganda.

    Eritrea withdrew from 2026 World Cup qualifying ‘over fears players will flee’

    Eritrea’s FA withdrew its men’s team from qualifying over fears players would try to seek political asylum during trips abroad, according to sources close to the squad

October 2023

  • An African man in glasses, a suit and bow tie, poses for a photograph

    Africa’s ‘optimist-in-chief’ on the continent’s renaissance: ‘Don’t just believe me, believe the data’

    In an exclusive interview, Akinwumi Adesina, head of the African Development Bank, says the outlook is good for a continent with the workers of the future and the best investment opportunities

September 2023

  • More than 100 people injured in clashes between rival Eritrean groups in Tel Aviv – video

    Supporters and opponents of Eritrea’s government faced off with planks of wood, pieces of metal and rocks, smashing shop windows and police cars in Tel Aviv
  • A riot police officer swings a baton at a protester

    Netanyahu says Eritreans involved in Tel Aviv clashes should be deported

    Israeli PM also orders plan to remove all African asylum seekers after protests by rival groups of Eritreans
  • Demonstrators holding sticks on the street with mounted police in the background

    Eritrean asylum seekers and police injured in clashes in Israel

    Violence broke out as Eritreans protested at event held by the country’s embassy in Tel Aviv

August 2023

  • A Tigrayan woman who says she was gang raped by Amhara fighters, stands for a portrait in eastern Sudan, near the border with Ethiopia, on March 23, 2021. "Let the Tigray government come and help you," she recalled them saying, even while they were raping her. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty) rape

    Rape still a weapon of war in Tigray months after peace deal

    Medical records from across the region show sexual violence continues to be used ‘to intimidate and terrorise communities’
  • Police contain protesters after an Eritrean festival erupted into violence in Stockholm.

    Eritrean diaspora vow to continue disrupting festivals that ‘promote dictatorship’

    Events marred by violence in Sweden, Canada and the US were billed as cultural, but activists say they are militaristic and full of hate speech
    • Eritrean festival canceled by Toronto following outbreaks of violence

    • ‘People are under siege’: why Ethiopia’s war in Tigray isn’t over

    • Dozens injured after protesters storm Eritrean festival in Stockholm

July 2023

  • Workers load grain at a port in Izmail, Ukraine, on 26 April 2023.

    Putin promises free grain to six African nations after collapse of Black Sea deal

    President says Russia will replace blocked Ukrainian exports after it abandoned pact on passage of ships

May 2023

  • The baby boy born in a Cairo hospital

    Heavily pregnant woman who escaped from Sudan gives birth to ‘miracle baby’

    Woman’s husband has been granted asylum in UK and has been trying to get her a visa to join him
  • Refugees at the Um Rakuba settlement in south-east Sudan.

    ‘I saw many bodies’: having escaped one conflict, Tigray refugees face new terrors

    Living in UN camps in a rapidly collapsing Sudan, refugees from Ethiopia are being kidnapped, taken across the Sahara, and tortured for ransom – in a brutal, multimillion-dollar industry
  • People prepare to board a bus departing from Khartoum in the Sudanese capital's south in April amid fighting  between the army and paramilitaries

    Eritrea accused of forcibly repatriating civilians caught up in Sudan fighting

    More than 3,500 refugees are said to have been forcibly deported over the border in recent weeks

April 2023

  • pixelated images of family

    Pregnant woman and child stranded in Sudan due to Home Office delays, says husband

  • Women walk past the carcass of a cow in Marsabit, northern Kenya

    Human-driven climate crisis fuelling Horn of Africa drought – study

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