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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A draft U.N. Security Council resolution calls for an arms embargo against Eritrea and travel bans and asset freezes for members of its government and military for aiding Islamist insurgents in Somalia.
I want to bring the spotlight back to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. The adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA) in 1995 ushered in a new era in terms of addressing women's empowerment and...
Author: Jeremy Clarke Posted: Thursday , 19 Nov 2009 ASMARA (Reuters) - Canada's Nevsun Resources pumped $21.7 million during the third quarter into its Eritrean Bisha project, the project's general manager said on Thursday....
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A prominent Nobel Prize judge has urged Eritrea to release a Swedish-Eritrean journalist imprisoned there since 2001. The Swedish Academy's permanent secretary Peter Englund says the African country should...
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SANAA, Yemen, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- Iran has sent warships to the Gulf of Aden, ostensibly to combat Somali pirates preying on major shipping lanes. But the deployment, announced Saturday in Tehran, could bring closer the prospect...
opinion Early this month Kenya Railways Corporation took a full page advertisement defending its Railways Master Plan. However, the plan by the Railway Corporation to initially stop the line at Malaba is short-sighted and...
Saudi Arabian naval blockade on the Yemeni coast is aiming to halt Eritrean weapon smuggling from reaching rebels. Saudi Arabia is trying to stop weapons reaching Al-Houthi rebels in Northern Yemen by imposing a naval blockade...
"We were fortunate to spend two days in a small coastal town of Agrigento where in the central part of the city stands a Catholic church with the figure of a black priest carved in stone perched high above in the church tower....
