Eritrea Regrets Security Council Missed Another Opportunity for Regional Peace and Stability

Statement Delivered by Mr. Amanuel Giorgio, Charge D’Affairs Permanent Mission of Eritrea to the United Nations, New York, 10 Nov 2016. By Eritrea Mission to UN, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for giving my delegation the opportunity to address the Council. Allow me also to congratulate Senegal for assuming the Presidency of […]

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UN Security Council Monitoring Group Report on Eritrea

By TesfaNews, The seven members of the UN Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea today submitted the signed and final report on Eritrea to Rafael Darío Ramírez Carreño, the Chairperson of the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 751 (1992) and 1907 (2009) concerning Somalia and Eritrea. Chairman Rafael Darío Ramírez Carreño, on his part transmitted […]

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Eritrea Objects UN Monitoring Group’s Obsession with its Air Force

By Eritrean Mission, The Permanent Mission of Eritrea to the UN is aware that the Somalia-Eritrea Monitoring Group (SEMG) has submitted its February monthly report to the Sanctions Committee sometime early this month. In spite of our repeated requests to receive, in time, a copy of the report, we have not yet formally obtained the […]

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Eritrea Dismisses US Sanctions on Shabaab-linked Suspects

By Capital FM, Eritrea on Saturday denounced as unfounded US sanctions imposed on two Eritrean government officials accused of links to al-Qaeda affiliated Somali rebels. They had been targeted “not because there is a shred of truth or material evidence to the false accusations heaped upon them” but because the US wanted to give the […]

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The tale of “Eritrean Weapons Caught in the Hands of Terrorists”

By Shabait, One of the many baseless and false accusations fabricated to accuse Eritrea was that “weapons originating from Eritrea were found in with Somali warlords.” And the serial numbers of the weapons supposedly found in the hands of the warlords were presented to the monitoring group as evidence. “We have asked and confirmed that Russia […]

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The Two Wiki Files that Froze the Zenawi Regime’s Spine

By TesfaNews, Here we go again, on another eye boggling denials by the shameless minority Ethiopian regime after embarrassed by a series of revelation from a secret US Embassy cables released by the whistle blower website Wikileaks. Yesterday, they issued a frantic ‘press statement’ with the usual denials and full of amature diplomatic languages concerning […]

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Ethiopia Rebel Group Protests over UN body’s AU Terror Plot Report

Sudan Tribune, An Ethiopian rebel group, the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), wrote a protest letter to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, denying any involvement in the alleged bomb plot at an African Union Summit held in Addis Ababa earlier this year. A UN Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea (MGSE) report on July 28th […]

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