Eritrea News

SHEGERAB, Sudan: Fleeing from a military regime, thousands of young Eritreans stream into neighboring east Sudan, the first stage of their long migration to Europe, Israel or even Khartoum.

President Omar Hassen Al-Beshir of Sudan, who conducted a one-day working visit to Eritrea today, said that the people and Government of Sudan reject the unjust sanctions Resolution 1907 against Eritrea.

Following my earlier article on the historical nation of Blemmyes / Bejas and their ongoing persecution in Sudan, I herewith publish the integral text of the Eastern Sudan Peace Agreement that was signed in October 2006 in Asmara between the Eastern Front and the Sudanese government with Eritrea as guaranteeing power.

F rom the outset, let us be very clear about the important points in the UN Resolution, which passed by a vote of 13-1, as a result of Eritrea's refusal to withdraw its troops following conflict with Djibouti and arming groups undermining peace and reconciliation in Somalia .

" The Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki has recommended to his Sudanese counterpart Omer Hassan Al-Bashir a 2-year delay to the April national elections and the 2011 referendum in South Sudan, an official in Asmara said today.

Australia began implementing UN Security Council sanctions against Eritrea, Asmerino.

The Department of Sociology at the in the University of Botswana , together with the Archeological Unit held a three-day film festival from Wednesday to Friday.

" The International Committee of the Red Cross said on Monday that it is ready to closely collaborate with Ethiopian and Eritrean authorities to facilitate the currently frozen repatriation operation, if agreement between the two concerned states is reached to resume the operation.

In an Al-Jazeera interview on Saturday, President Isayas Afewerki repeatedly denied there was any evidence that his regime was destabilizing Somalia.

Asmara Teachers Education Institute is offering training to 558 out of whom 161 are women, in a bid to produce competent teachers, Mr.

Milkias Yohannes Al-Jazeeras Jane Dutton on Saturday boldly confronted Eritreas besieged President Isayas Afwerki with legitimate questions which every journalist would love to put to a dictator.

The incessant Anti-Eritrean literature that has been worldwide diffused over the past years is not an isolated phenomenon and does not hinge exclusively on the colonial involvement in the wider Eastern African region and the support offered by the three colonial regimes to the tyrannical administration of Abyssinia .

" Eritrean President Issayas Afeworki said that his government will never promise to create a democratic ground to any political party intending to confront his rule.

DOHA, Qatar, : The Sudanese government late Tuesday signed here a ceasefire agreement with the Justice and Equality Movement , a key rebel group in Darfur, in a big step toward ending seven years of conflicts.

Some 5,000 Eritreans from around Europe rallied on Monday in front of the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva to protest against UN Security Council sanctions on Eritrea, police said.

The United States accused Eritrea on Monday of working to destabilize the Horn of Africa region and urged President Isaias Afwerki to bring a halt to what it called a threat to international peace.

Reporters Without Borders has just learned from credible Eritrean sources that journalist and essayist Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu has been held in solitary confinement for the past few weeks in May Srwa prisons, to the north of Asmara.

The Red Sea Afar Democratic Organization carried out yet another successful operation on a FURI military base, in Central-Dankaliya, inflicting heavy damage to the military as well as personnel of the repressive Eritrean Regime.

Eritrea's state-run media is running a sustained campaign charging the US with masterminding the UN sanctions imposed on it and says Washington wants to control the whole Horn of Africa region.

Since 1942 On Wednesday , the veteran news organization, Voice of America, behaved like a propaganda mouthpiece for Ali Abdu, the Eritrean Information Minister.