In recent years, Eritrea's mining and energy sector has garnered considerable attention. However, much like broader international coverage of the country, mainstream narratives about Eritrea's ...

A week after 9/11, Eritrea rounded up its journalists and put them in jail. Now, only one independent radio station broadcasts in the closed state.

HRW says Asmara’s move was an effort to distract from independent reporting on the ‘country’s dire rights record’.

Today the UN Human Rights Council firmly rejected Eritrea’s attempt to end scrutiny of its human rights situation. Council ...

1991 - Eritrean People's Liberation Front captures the Eritrean capital Asmara and forms a provisional government.

Voices Eritrea is Africa's North Korea - but UK bureaucrats won't accept its citizens are refugees The Home Office has accepted assurances from Eritrea’s ruthless regime that any people returned ...

As what is mainly a western caused climate disaster continues to hammer Africa, with tens of millions facing famine and starvation in the Horn of Africa, ...

Eritrea has punished the family members of thousands of alleged draft evaders during a conscription drive intended to bolster its military campaign in neighboring Ethiopia, Human Rights Watch said ...

Longtime foes Ethiopia and Eritrea could be headed towards war, officials in a restive Ethiopian region at the centre of the tensions have warned, risking another humanitarian disaster in the Horn ...

“Eritrea’s government has robbed Ciham Ali Abdu of 10 years of her life, effectively disappearing her since she was 15,” said Laetitia Bader, Horn of Africa director at Human Rights Watch.

1991 - Eritrean People's Liberation Front captures the Eritrean capital Asmara and forms a provisional government.