President Isaias Afwerki has been in power since the country gained independence from Ethiopia ... in what he called the "propaganda war". "The Eritrean government is very weak when it comes ...

Only veterans of the Eritrean independence war, like Mr Berhane, or members of the national service can be buried there. His body has not yet been released, his family said, and it is not clear ...

It was drafted when Eritrea was still gripped by the euphoria of independence, and ratified in 1997. It was shelved the following year after the outbreak of the border war with Ethiopia.

(RNS) — Thirty years after Eritrea revoked the citizenship of Jehovah’s Witnesses, international human rights experts are ...

All we ask is for the war to stop,” Tesfay said. Six years after Ethiopia formally granted independence to its tiny neighbor on the Red Sea, the country is at war with Eritrea over disputed stretches ...