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Africa Aanu Adeoye, Simon Allison, Amindeh Blaise Atabong & Abdul S Brima - 27 Apr 2020

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A letter to Ciham Ali, in an Eritrean jail on her birthday

Africa Vanessa Tsehaye - 3 Apr 2020

Ciham Ali was born in the United States and moved to Eritrea with her family. When Ciham tried to leave, she was arrested at the border. After eight years, Human Rights Watch have called for her release

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Prime Minister has his work cut out to keep Ethiopia’s transition on track

Africa International Crisis & Group 2 - 17 Dec 2019

Ethiopia’s political opening has won plaudits but also uncorked ethnic strife. The government should proceed cautiously ahead of elections in 2020

Life as an Eritrean journalist

Africa Abraham T Zere - 2 Oct 2019

It’s official: Eritrea is the world’s most censored country. This is one journalist’s account of what it is like to work there

Africa’s most authoritarian school

Africa Simon Allison - 16 Aug 2019

The militarised Warsai Yikealo Secondary School is at the heart of Eritrea’s repressive regime, according to Human Rights Watch

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How the glow of the historic accord between Ethiopia and Eritrea has faded

Africa Martin Plaut - 8 Jul 2019

A year ago Eritreans could hardly contain their joy as Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed touched down in Asmara. The city had seen...

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Open letter to Eritrea’s president: Let us visit detained activists and journalists

Africa Wole Soyinka & John Githongo 1 - 11 Jun 2019

103 of Africa’s most prominent thinkers ask to visit their incarcerated colleagues in Eritrea

Abiy Ahmed’s Ethiopian exceptionalism

Africa Simon Allison - 19 Oct 2018

Ethiopia’s new prime minister is trying to do things differently. If he succeeds, the consequences will be felt beyond his borders

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With border open, Ethiopia and Eritrea are back in business

Africa Chris Stein - 15 Oct 2018

After 20 years of bloody conflict and grim stalemate, the Ethiopia-Eritrea border is bustling once again

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Ethiopia reopens embassy in Eritrea as relations warm

Africa Agency - 6 Sep 2018

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed signed a peace pact in July

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World Bank to give Ethiopia $1bn in budgetary assistance — PM

Africa Agency - 26 Aug 2018

In first press conference since taking office in April, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed also says 2020 election will be free and fair

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Song, dance and tears as Ethiopian flight lands in Eritrea

Africa Chris Stein - 18 Jul 2018

The emotion-filled Ethiopian Airlines flight took off less than two weeks after the neighbouring countries declared an end to two decades of bloodshed

Eritrea reopens embassy in Ethiopia amid thaw

Africa Agency - 16 Jul 2018

More than 20 years after the two countries broke off relations, Eritrea's president reopened his country's embassy in Ethiopia

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Ethiopian Airlines to operate daily flights to Eritrea

Africa Staff Reporter - 10 Jul 2018

The opening of ties could be an economic boon to the two nations, both poor but on very different paths

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