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/ 15 December 2005
The United Nations on Thursday began pulling North American and European peacekeepers out of Eritrea, 24 hours ahead of a deadline for their expulsion as ties between Asmara and the world body plummeted amid soaring tensions along the Ethiopian-Eritrean border and fears of a new war between the arch-rivals.
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/ 29 November 2005
Eritreans are fleeing their country in growing numbers amid fears of a new war with Ethiopia and economic hardships blamed on authoritarian government policies, according to diplomats and United Nations figures. Diplomats say the numbers are rising even as those who leave risk being shot if caught and their families face prosecution.
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/ 17 October 2005
The United Nations operation monitoring the increasingly tense border between Ethiopia and Eritrea said on Monday that Asmara’s ban on helicopter overflights would force it to vacate nearly half its posts on Eritrean territory. The UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea said a review of the ban had led it to conclude that it could no longer staff 18 of the smallest and most isolated of its 40 observation posts.
Nearly a decade after accidentally discovering a previously unknown language on an Indian Ocean archipelago off the Eritrean coast, a French linguist is fighting to save the unwritten, untaught tongue. Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle and colleague Martine Vanhove found Dahlak island fishermen conversing in the unusual vernacular nine years ago.
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/ 22 October 2004
Relations between fractious neighbours Asmara and Khartoum reached a new low this week after Eritrea claimed to have uncovered a Sudanese-backed plot to assassinate President Issaiais Afeworki. Its announcement that it had arrested a ”terrorist” cell allegedly deployed to attack civilians as well as kill Afeworki sparked a furious reaction from Sudan.
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/ 29 September 2004
Draped in white shawls, thousands of Asmarinos thronged September Square, the largest in the Eritrean capital, to mark the Meskel, the highlight of the orthodox religious calendar, which commemorates the discovery of Christ’s cross by Saint Helen. About half of Eritrea’s four million inhabitants are Orthodox Christians, according to the government.