May 23, 2007 –As of May of 1991, when Eritrea emerged as a politically independent and self-governing sovereign nation, May 24 is Independence Day in Eritrea. This year Eritrea and Eritreans celebrate ...

The end of Eritrea’s antagonisms with its neighbours means its existential threats are now internal. For Isaias Afwerki, who has been in power since 1993, this could mean the beginning of the end.

Eritrean forces prevented a UN-led humanitarian mission from entering a village in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray on Thursday, in what would mark violation of a peace deal ending fighting in ...

On May 24, 1993, following a UN-supervised referendum in Eritrea in which the local population voted overwhelming to separate from Ethiopia and establish an independent state, Eritrea was declared an ...

THE cold war between Ethiopia and neighbouring Eritrea once seemed irresolvable. An uneasy stalemate had endured since 2000, when a UN-brokered peace agreement ended two years of trench warfare that ...

Naqfa is a small town in northern Eritrea. The Sahel Mountains which surround the town favour defenders than assailants. Throughout the thirty year war, probably no other place had experienced more ...