President Isaias Afwerki has been in power since the country gained independence from Ethiopia ... in what he called the "propaganda war". "The Eritrean government is very weak when it comes ...

(RNS) — Thirty years after Eritrea revoked the citizenship of Jehovah’s Witnesses, international human rights experts are ...

Only veterans of the Eritrean independence war, like Mr Berhane, or members of the national service can be buried there. His body has not yet been released, his family said, and it is not clear ...

which was part of Ethiopia until Eritrean independence more than 30 years ago. Since the 1998 Ethiopian-Eritrean war and the closure of the border between the two countries, the Assab docks have ...

All we ask is for the war to stop,” Tesfay said. Six years after Ethiopia formally granted independence to its tiny neighbor on the Red Sea, the country is at war with Eritrea over disputed stretches ...