BY ULRICH COPPEL | WESTFALISCHE NACHRICHTEN* Sixty years of war, permanent mobilization and widespread isolation by some Western countries paralyzed the country of Eritrea. But since the peace agreement with Ethiopia in the summer of 2018, there are high hopes. On the sidelines of a private visit to Münster, Germany, our colleague Ulrich Coppel spoke […]
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BY SHABAIT The Government of Eritrea enacted the law on National Service in 1992, in the immediate aftermath of the country’s independence after a tortuous, three-decades-long, war of national liberation. The original law was further amended in 1995 and enacted as Proclamation 82/1995.
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BY EZEGA NEWS Former Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) rebels being rehabilitated at the Tolay camp in Ethiopia begun a hunger strike to protest poor living conditions, according to AfricaNews. One of the ex-rebels in the rehab center told the BBC Afaan Oromo Service they were being subjected to inhumane treatment and no one cares about […]
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BY ENGIU WOLDIE | ESAT NEWS Germany is to finance the demobilization and return to civilian lives of the about 35,000 soldiers of opposition political groups that have recently returned to Ethiopia from their base in Eritrea.
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“When to revert national service to 18 months statutory terms will be a question of time” – Yemane G.Meskel BY NIZAR MANEK | BLOOMBERG Eritrea says it will cut the size of its army as part of changes to a system of mandatory national service that the United Nations blames for propelling tens of thousands […]
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“We need to reward these gestures and show them as an example of what can be achieved” – UN BY REUTERS Foreign donors must come forward to support Ethiopia and Eritrea after the long-time arch rivals ended a war which spanned two decades and hampered efforts to improve the lives of millions of people, a […]
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