What’s in Blue: Vote on Draft Resolution on Eritrea Sanction

Council members concern: Lifting of sanctions while Eritrea not fully cooperating with the SEMG sends negative signal to the behaviour of other countries under UN sanctions By Security Council, Today, the Council is scheduled to adopt a resolution on Somalia and Eritrea Sanctions. It is not clear if every issue has been addressed to the satisfaction of […]

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UNSC to Reconsider Eritrea Sanction, Reiterates No Evidence Eritrea Supported Al-Shabaab

By TesfaNews*, The Somalia-Eritrea Sanctions Committee provided an update to the Security Council yesterday (18) on the recent findings of its Monitoring Group and called Eritrea for “frank and sincere” cooperation over its reported involvement in the Yemen conflict, support for armed groups in Ethiopia and progress on the question of Djibouti prisoners of war. […]

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The 2012 Somalia and Eritrea Sanction Committee Report

By TesfaNews, The outgoing Chairman of the Somalia-Eritrea Sanction Committee, Ambassador Hardeep Singh Puri of India, has presented his annual report to the Security Council. The Sanctions Committee for Somalia and Eritrea, which is now re-named as the “Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 751 (1992) and 1907 (2009) concerning Somalia and Eritrea” will be chaired by Ambassador […]

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Ethiopia’s Tekeda Alemu Feigns Concern over Djibouti-Eritrea Relations

BY SOPHIA TESFAMARIAM It is rather interesting that Tekeda Alemu would today feign concern and call on Eritrea to show a “pacific disposition” towards Djibouti, Somalia and Ethiopia [i]. As this author recalls, it was Tekeda Alemu that asked the US to break the otherwise amicable and neighborly Djibouti-Eritrea relations. How can Eritrea have a […]

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Reading between the Lines: Obama’s Unfounded “Slavery” accusation on Eritrea (Opinion)

By Yacob W., A few years ago, I used to have unflinching faith on Obama’s honesty and assumed that he would be a man of truth and integrity. As a result I used to have the wishful expectation that Obama would get to the bottom of Eritrea’s matter so that the repeated cyclic of American bullying on […]

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