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Eritrea: Training On Material Management And Procurement
MENAFN
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August 18, 2025
(MENAFN- APO Group) The Ministry of Agriculture organized training for 62 of its members on material management, procurement, and transit management. The training was conducted at the Ministry's Regulatory Service Office in Villagio. The...
Reframing Eritrea’s Post-Independence Paradox
Awate
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August 18, 2025
For more than three decades, the story of Eritrea has been told in a narrow and predictable register. It begins with the extraordinary military triumph of 1991, moves quickly to the UN-supervised referendum of 1993, pauses briefly on the promise...
Eritrea’s Missing Architects: The Intellectual Void Behind a Crippled Nation-Building
Awate
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August 17, 2025
Eritrea’s liberation struggle stands as one of the most extraordinary military victories of the modern era. In 1991, the EPLF decisively defeated Ethiopian forces and freed the country. Yet instead of declaring independence immediately, it opted...
Survival and Its Determinants of HIV/AIDS Patients Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy in Two National Referral Hospitals in Eritrea: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Dove Medical Press
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August 18, 2025
Introduction HIV/AIDS continues to be a public health concern globally, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. According to the Global Health Observatory, as of 2023, 39.9 million people were living with HIV, with 1.3 million new...
Weekend review: GCR Task Force files update; persecution in Eritrea and more
Alabama Baptist
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August 16, 2025
To read a quick recap of some of the latest news reports and other articles from The Baptist Paper this week, see below. 1. Picking back up on the third meeting, which took place Oct. 27, 2009, Dallas-Fort Worth, here are a few more highlights. 2....
Changing Tide: Shire Emerges as Hub for Gold Smuggled from Eritrea, Sudan
The Reporter Ethiopia
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August 16, 2025
Long a center of Tigray’s gold trade, the northern town of Shire has transformed into a hub for a gold smuggling network that stretches across Ethiopia and into neighboring countries. An investigation conducted by The Reporter found that gold of...
Campaign urges release of seven ministers in Eritrea
The Baptist Standard - Texas
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August 15, 2025
21Wilberforce and the Baptist World Alliance are joining other Christian groups in calling for the release of seven church leaders in Eritrea who have been detained without trial more than 20 years. The #Voices4Justice campaign is urging Eritrean...
Eritrea: Commendable Greening Campaign In Central Region
MENAFN
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August 13, 2025
(MENAFN- African Press Organization) Download logo Mr. Beraki Kidane, a forestation expert at the Forestry and Wildlife Authority, indicated that an effective greening campaign is being carried out with strong community participation. Regarding...
Aksum and Adulis From One Kingdom to Ethiopia and Eritrea
Zehabesha
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August 15, 2025
Aksum and Adulis were twin pillars of the Aksumite Kingdom, linking highland markets to Red Sea trade between 300 BCE and 1,000 CE. Today, Aksum lies in Ethiopia while Adulis is in Eritrea. What is the connection between Aksum and Adulis? Why are...
Are Eritrea and Ethiopia already at war?
Pan African Review
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August 14, 2025
The Horn of Africa is once again on the edge, as is often the case whenever tensions between Eritrea and Ethiopia rise. In such a context, it is important to assess how Eritrea’s threat-sensitive posture, Ethiopia’s ambitions for sea access,...
Eritrea’s Succession Crisis: A Nation on the Brink
Awate
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August 10, 2025
In the long arc of Eritrean history, few moments have been as ominous as the present. The country stands on the edge of a precipice—not because of natural calamities, foreign invasions, or economic collapse, but because of a dangerous void at its...
Eritrea: Eye Surgery Conducted On 260 Citizens In Akordet
MENAFN
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August 10, 2025
(MENAFN- APO Group) Cataract surgery has been performed on 260 citizens, including 11 children, at Akordet Hospital. Dr. Eyob Beyene, an eye surgery specialist at Birhan Aini Hospital in Asmara, said the program was part of nationwide efforts to...
Isaias Afwerki: My Struggle for Eritrea and Africa
Black Agenda Report
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Michel Collon has interviewed Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki and says the world must listen to him. Michel Collon is a French investigative journalist and co-founder of the website Investig’Action. He believes that we must listen to Eritrean...
Going Farther with the Gospel!
CBN News
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Pastor and evangelist Benny Hinn recently held a miracle healing crusade in Uganda. The event took place over four days (an extra night was added) at Miracle Centre Cathedral in Rubaga, Kampala, from June 27th to 30th, 2025, and included worship,...
Full list of 72 'do not travel' countries as Foreign Office warns UK tourists
Chronicle Live
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August 19, 2025
The Foreign Office has put a series of countries on a "do not travel" list in advance of the summer holiday season. Out of 226 countries or territories with foreign travel advice pages, 72 are presently marked as having no-go areas owing to...
The Gedo Stratagem: Ethiopia’s High-Stakes Proxy Politics
Ethiopia Insight
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August 19, 2025
Somalia’s Gedo region has become the nexus of proxy wars, clan rivalries, and Al-Shabaab resurgence, threatening to destabilize the entire Horn of Africa. Straddling the tri-border area of Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia, the Gedo region has become...
“We are learning from Africa”: Vatican Official Lauds Church in Africa’s Conservation, Human Dignity Initiatives
ACI Africa
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August 18, 2025
The 50-year-old Italian member of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA) also known as Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco acknowledged the Holy Father’s support for the project, saying, “Imagine Pope Leo XIV endorsing the project and even...
Eritrea: Official Reception For Olympian Athlete Biniam Girmay
MENAFN
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August 8, 2025
(MENAFN- African Press Organization) ASMARA, Eritrea, August 8, 2025/APO Group/ -- An official reception was organized for Olympian athlete Biniam Girmay upon his return home after participating in the 2025 Tour de France. The ceremony was held...
Revolution: from Zanzibar to Zufar to Eritrea
Awate
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August 11, 2025
The young may not know Tanganyika or Zanzibar, but they know Tan-Zan-ia. Tanganyika was the mainland country, and Zanzibar was an island off the coast of East Africa. In April 1964, just after the Revolution and Genocide of Zanzibar, the two...
Asmara: Africa’s ‘Little Rome’ Where Time Stands Still
Africa.com
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August 6, 2025
Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, is earning global admiration as the “Rome of Africa” thanks to its stunning Italian-inspired architecture and time-capsule charm. Once envisioned by Mussolini as the heart of Italy’s African empire, the...