A weekend festival for Eritreans last year in Tacoma encountered a challenge on Day 2: A large crowd protesting the Eritrean government arrived and blocked traffic while some tore down vendor tents ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An Eritrean man accused of involvement in a brutal migrant smuggling network appeared at a pretrial hearing in the Netherlands on Tuesday, as prosecutors told judges that ...

Many gave their analysis on why Eritrea opted to do so. Some said that Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki is ideologically anti-West. Others explained that it was because of the American sanctions, ...

An Ethiopian asylum seeker displays his tattoo with the words “God Help Me” at the Um Rakuba refugee camp in Sudan Dec.3, 2020, which houses Ethiopians fleeing the fighting in the Tigray region of the ...

Once hailed as part of a new generation of reformist African leaders, Eritrea's president, who recently marked 32 years in power, has long defied expectations. Isaias Afwerki now spends much of his ...

Landlocked Ethiopia's calls for access to the Red Sea through Eritrea has triggered a fierce war of words. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed first openly declared in 2023 that his nation's access to ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. In 1977, at the age of twenty-five, Seyoum Tsehaye dropped out of college to join the fight for Eritrea’s ...

NAIROBI, Kenya— Abune Antonios, a confined Eritrean Orthodox Church Patriarch and the longest-serving prisoner of conscience in the Horn of Africa, died on Feb. 9 at the age of 94. He was still ...

Africa Spectrum, Vol. 56, No. 1, Special Focus: Transnational Lived Citizenship - The Case of the Eritrean Diaspora (April 2021), pp. 19-38 (20 pages) In the collective memory of Eritreans, the ...

SHY AND awkward, the teenage Issaias Afwerki did not stand out. As a student in Asmara, Eritrea’s capital, the future president was known less for his bookish brilliance than for sudden flashes of ...