Latest articles on Eritrea

Don’t Look the Other Way! Lessons in Leadership from a Dutch UN General

Africa David L Smith - 9 Feb 2021

Former UN force commander Patrick Cammaert preferred asking for forgiveness than permission

The Africans in exile who live in fear of transnational repression

Opinion Isabel Linzer - 4 Feb 2021

Governments across sub-Saharan Africa violently pursue exiles abroad. Democracies must push back

Somali troops may have been drawn into Ethiopia’s civil war

Africa Amanda Sperber - 20 Jan 2021

The Mail & Guardian spoke to Somalis about their relatives who disappeared after signing up for military training and fear they may have been killed

A glimpse into the future of government propaganda

Africa Samuel Gebre & Claire Wilmot - 8 Dec 2020

The Ethiopian government has created its own ‘fact-checking’ unit — and it is not the only government to do so.

African leaders must continue to press for talks: Ethiopia is too big to fail

Africa Comfort Ero - 17 Nov 2020

The conflict in Ethiopia could spill over into the entire Horn of Africa region. AU and regional leaders need to step up their efforts to de-escalate the situation

Ethiopia is about to cross the point of no return

Africa Rashid Abdi & Tobias Hagmann - 10 Nov 2020

As the conflict between the national government and Tigray escalates, the window for intervention is closing fast

Abiy Ahmed won a Nobel peace prize. Now Ethiopia is on the brink of civil war

Africa Zecharias Zelalem - 4 Nov 2020

Even as the prime minister was being feted in Oslo last year, the seeds of this conflict were being sown.

Controls on remittances risk driving financial flows to Somalia underground

Africa Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime - 9 Sep 2020

The regulations aim to prevent money laundering and financing terror organisations, but implementing them is proving to be difficult

Crisis, what crisis? How not to handle a pandemic

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

So far, most countries on the African continent are dealing with Covid-19, but not all leaders are taking the coronavirus pandemic seriously

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

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

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 nothing like...

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

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