NAIROBI (Reuters) - President Isaias Afwerki has turned Eritrea into Africa's "biggest prison for the media" since 2001 and four journalists have died in captivity, Paris-based Reporters Without ...

Landlocked Ethiopia's calls for access to the Red Sea through Eritrea has triggered a fierce war of words. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed first openly declared in 2023 that his nation's access to ...

Eritrea has been ranked the most notorious country in censoring the works of journalists in the world. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) argued that shutting out international media and ...

The report demonstrates the gulf that exists between legal protections for free expression at the international level and the realities for journalists on the ground in Eritrea. (ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – 31 ...

* President says CIA organised U.N. sanctions * Anti-U.S. anger in Eritrea seen rising By Jeremy Clarke ASMARA, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Eritrea's state-run media is running a sustained campaign charging ...

FILE PHOTO: Eritrea's President, Isaias Afwerki receives a key from Ethiopia's Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed during the Inauguration ceremony marking the reopening of the Eritrean Embassy in Addis Ababa, ...

Conor is a staff writer for Newsweek covering Africa, with a focus on Nigeria, security and conflict. On September 18, 2001, as the world reeled from the September 11 ...

Eritrean-Swedish journalist Dawit Isaak, who was taken away from his family 20 years ago, becomes one of the longest detained journalists in the world and is yet to be charged. This statement was ...

Ethiopia’s national airline will take a 20 percent stake in Eritrean Airlines, the state-owned Ethiopian Press Agency reported , citing unidentified Eritrean media. Ethiopian Airlines Enterprise, ...

Eritrea has punished the family members of thousands of alleged draft evaders during a conscription drive intended to bolster its military campaign in neighboring Ethiopia, Human Rights Watch said on ...