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May 23, 2024 at 7:21 PM. [@hawelti] Police forces across the world are prepped for Eritrea’s independence day this Friday - fearing violent clashes as disgruntled Eritreans unable to protest at ...
Eritrea ( / ˌɛrɪˈtriːə / ⓘ ERR-ih-TREE-ə or /- ˈtreɪ -/ -TRAY-; [17] [18] [19] Tigrinya: ኤርትራ, romanized: Ertra, pronounced [ʔer (ɨ)trä] ⓘ ), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara. It is bordered by Ethiopia in the ...
Isaias Afwerki ( Tigrinya: ኢሳይያስ ኣፍወርቂ, [2] pronounced [isajas afwɐrkʼi] ⓘ; born 2 February 1946) [3] is an Eritrean politician and partisan who has been the president of Eritrea since shortly after he led the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) to victory on 24 May 1991, ending the 30-year-old war for independence ...
e. The politics of Eritrea and the government of Eritrea take place in the framework of a single-party presidential republican totalitarian dictatorship. The President officially serves as both head of state and head of government. The People's Front for Democracy and Justice is the only political party legally permitted to exist in Eritrea.
Eritrean refugees and asylum-seekers report that during compulsory national service they experienced torture, inhumane or degrading treatment, sexual and gender-based violence, forced labor and ...
Martin Plaut. Martin Plaut (born 1950) is a journalist and academic specialising in conflicts in Africa, especially the Horn of Africa. [1] He worked as a BBC News journalist from 1984 to 2012 and is a member of Chatham House. [1] [2] As of 2019, Plaut was a senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies of the University of ...
The foreign relations of Eritrea are the policies of the Eritrean government by which it administers its external relations with other nations. Since its independence, Eritrea's foreign relations have been dominated by conflict and confrontation, both in the regional and international arenas. It has maintained often troubled, and usually ...
A widespread famine affected Ethiopia from 1983 to 1985. [4] The worst famine to hit the country in a century, [5] it affected 7.75 million people (out of Ethiopia 's 38–40 million) and left approximately 300,000 to 1.2 million dead. 2.5 million people were internally displaced whereas 400,000 refugees left Ethiopia.