A Canadian newspaper Q&A with the author Martin Plaut, the former Africa Editor of the BBC’s World Service, of the updated book (cited above). There's also a 17 min Vice documentary (undated). I note...
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The Most Repressive State You May Have Never Heard Of
A Canadian newspaper Q&A with the author Martin Plaut, the former Africa Editor of the BBC’s World Service, of the updated book (cited above). There's also a 17 min Vice documentary (undated). I note...
Understanding Eritrea Inside Africa's Most Repressive State
A new edition of this book and from the publisher's summary:
Link:https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/understanding-eritrea-2/?mc_cid=5907f9b2ea&mc_eid=80d42c7c0a
Principles -v- Migration
An interesting commentary on how the EU appears to be "bending" its rules and principles to provide aid to Eritrea, mainly to stem the flow of migrants to Europe....
Eritrea, the ultimate garrison state
A book review:Link:http://talkinghumanities.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2016/11/08/eritrea-the-ultimate-garrison-state/
What a description:
Yemen’s Houthi forces attack Eritrea’s Airport, Navy base : rebels
Not sure what to make of this article, which starts with:
Link:http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article60311
Diplomatic footwork
Hat tip to WoTR for this article on the UAE's expanding role in Eritrea:http://warontherocks.com/2016/09/west-of-suez-for-the-united-arab-emirates/
A "taster":
No war, no peace
Last month the BBC had a reporter in Eritrea, first to report on:Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-36358235
A less restrained, wider...
Lonely no more
IIRC Eritrea has been a rather lonely nation diplomatically, but the war in the Yemen may have changed this:...
Africa's Cuba or North Korea?
Once again The Guardian report on Eritrea, this time from within:http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/23/eritrea-conscription-repression-and-poverty-recipe-for-mass-emigration
A taster:
A series of articles in The Guardian on this...
A series of articles in The Guardian on this forgotten country, where 3% of the population have fled, even though there is no war today, just a strict dictatorship.
Amongst the thousands of...
A year since the last post this forgotten country...
A year since the last post this forgotten country gains an advocate in a retired DoS diplomat:http://africanarguments.org/2013/12/16/time-to-bring-eritrea-in-from-the-cold-by-hank-cohen/
An update on a forgotten country
An ICG report, 28 pgs. on this forgotten country, partly as it appears to rebuff all external interest and is a...