Representatives from the Government of Japan made a two-day visit to Asmara recently to meet with government officials to discuss ongoing bilateral projects with Eritrea. The Japanese delegation comprised of Mr. Yoshihiro Katayama, Chargé d’Affaires and interim of Japan to the State of Eritrea, and Mr. Hirotaka Ishikawa, First Secretary and the Head of Economic […]
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By SHABAIT, Eritrea has received an award for outstanding achievement in the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI). The award was organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Eritrea was nominated for the award at the conference held in the first week of September in Entebbe, Uganda, in which 22 […]
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By EriNews, THE Government of Eritrea submitted a consolidated report on the implementation of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC), covering the period from 2002-2013. The 254-page Report submitted to the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) describes in detail the measures […]
Continue ReadingBy UNDP, Eritrea has achieved impressive progress on health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), members of the United Nations and the Government observed here in an event organized during the UN General Assembly. The discussion was hosted by the Permanent Mission of Eritrea to the United Nations, the UN Resident Coordinator in Asmara, Christine Umutoni, with the […]
Continue ReadingBy Shabait, ERITREA‘s experience in implementation of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has been presented to representatives of national and international organizations side by side with the 69th UN General Assembly session. In a meeting conducted yesterday at UN headquarters in New York in which Foreign Minister Osman Saleh and Ms. Yoka Brandit, Deputy Executive Director […]
Continue ReadingBy Relief Web, AMBASSADOR Tomas Ulincy, Head of Delegation of the European Union to Sudan (EU) and Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Representative in Sudan launched yesterday at Corinthia Hotel two newly EU funded projects to strengthen access to quality primary education in the states of Gedarif, Red Sea, Kassala, Blue Nile, South Kordofan and the Darfur […]
Continue ReadingBy Thomas C Mountain, The UN has announced that in 2010-2012, including the Great Horn of Africa Drought period, at least 250,000 Somalis starved to death. Most of those who died from starvation were internally displaced persons, displaced in the main by the military invasion and occupation of southern Somalia by the UN backed Ethiopian […]
Continue ReadingBy Madote, Eritrea’s adult literacy rate improved to 80 percent, owing in large part to its Adult Education Program, according to Tiqabo Ayimut, head of curriculum planning and development in the Ministry of Education. In an interview held with state media, Tiqabo disclosed that since the Adult Education Program was launched in 2000, more than 600,000 […]
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