WikiLeaks: President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan Stashed $9bn in UK Banks

“To claim that the president can control the treasury and take money to put into his own accounts is ludicrous – it is a laughable claim by the ICC prosecutor” – Government spokesperson. BY AFUA HIRSCH | THE GUARDIAN Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president, has siphoned as much as $9bn out of his impoverished country, […]

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The Saga of the UN Monitoring Group and Eritrea

SEMG drifts into uncharted territory to dwell on tangential issues to prolong mandate and give new lease of life to the unwarranted sanctions BY SOPHIA TESFAMARIAM It is that time again. The annual ritual at the United Nations where the Somalia Eritrea Monitoring Group (SEMG) presents its findings, and Ethiopia and its handlers find way […]

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The Ethiopian Government Theatrics about Al-Shabab Threat

By ONLF Press Release, The Ethiopian government has declared that it has heightened security inside the Ogaden and the Somali border on the pretext of Al-Shabab threat. This declaration is a calculated ruse to misguide the international community, which is intended to camouflage the massive campaign of detentions and harassment it is conducting in the […]

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Eritrea Opposition Sites Funded and Backed by CIA: Wikileaks

By TesfaNews, Whistle blower website Wikileaks citing email communications from U.S. intelligence contractor STRATFOR suggests that most of the Eritrean opposition websites are funded and backed by CIA and the Ethiopian government. The dramatic revelation comes after it published the five million e-mails dated between July 2004 and late December 2011 from the Texas based “Global […]

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Contravention Of International Law, An Embarrassment to the Int’l Community

By Shabait, As the flagrant invasion over Eritrea, which was carried on from May 1998 to June 2000, was dealt a blowing rebuff, it is to be noted that a comprehensive peace agreement aimed at resolving the alleged border dispute was concluded in December 2000 in Algiers. The Algiers Agreement was reached following the mediation […]

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Human Trafficking and the Human Rights Agenda Against Eritrea

By Red Sea Fisher, On March 1, 2013, Joel Millman of the Wall Street Journal published a piece entitled “Ruthless Kidnapping Rings Reach From Desert Sands to U.S. Cities.” The article chronicles the touching personal accounts of Eritrean refugees being kidnapped and taken for ransom in Egypt’s Sinai desert. As disheartening as this piece may […]

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Eritrea: Charges Shift from “Destabilizing Somalia” to “Destabilizing Ethiopia”

The Goal Post Keeps Moving: Monitoring Group’s Charges against Eritrea shift from “destabilizing Somalia” to “destabilizing Ethiopia” By Ghidewon Abay Asmerom, By now, it has become abundantly clear that the two sanctions against Eritrea, 1907(2009) and 2023(2011), had nothing to do with stabilizing Somalia or reconstituting it as a viable state. It also had nothing […]

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