SANA'A, Yemen, June 1 (UNHCR) - Military service is mandatory in many countries around the world, but in Eritrea it is often indefinite in duration and conducted under harsh conditions, prompting ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. In 1977, at the age of twenty-five, Seyoum Tsehaye dropped out of college to join the fight for Eritrea’s ...

“Named for the year the Eritrean press was dissolved, 2001 was produced by Vanessa Tsehaye’s organization, One Day Seyoum, which advocates for the release of those imprisoned by the government. The ...

ADIKESHI CAMP, Eritrea -- Almaz Tela wants to return to her old ways, farming millet, sorghum and corn and tending to cows, goats, sheep and chickens. But her farmland lies in the temporary security ...

Lila Yohannes was born in Asmara, Eritrea, where she had a wonderful early childhood. With her father having a ministerial position with the government and her mother working in banking, she enjoyed a ...

Abiba Haimanot at the the traditional coffee making area in her restaurant along Ngong Road. She serves Ethiopian and Eritrean delicacies. [Photo: David Gichuru/Standard] As sweet aromas of anjera, ...

Kidane Zekarias escaped from court premises in Addis Ababa after nearly a year of trial on eight counts of human trafficking ADDIS ABABA, June 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An Eritrean trafficker ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - 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 ...

ASMARA, Eritrea—On a cool March evening soon after his 16th birthday, Binyam Abraham waited until his mother and young siblings were sleeping and slipped away to begin the long trek toward Eritrea’s ...

ADDIS ABABA, June 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An Eritrean trafficker who starved and tortured his victims to death was sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia in Ethiopia on Wednesday, after ...