In fact, Friday’s vote at the UN Human Rights Council was a resounding victory. Only four states – China, Cuba, Bolivia, and ...

Learn about sources of continued violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and how the United Nations, African Union, and neighboring countries are struggling to curtail it.

Today the UN Human Rights Council firmly rejected Eritrea’s attempt to end scrutiny of its human rights situation. Council ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday rejected a bid by Eritrea to end the mandate of a U.N. expert investigating alleged abuses in the country, in a relief to Western diplomats who feared ...

The Pretoria Peace Agreement, signed in November 2022, ended the Tigray war but excluded Eritrea from negotiations, a decision that sowed seeds of discord.

Once hailed as part of a new generation of reformist African leaders, Eritrea's president, who recently marked 32 years in ...

The first phase of the war lasted until mid-June 1998. Both sides used aircraft types available before the war. MiG-21 and MG-23BN by Ethiopia and Aermacchi MB-339 by Eritrea.

Relations between neighbours Ethiopia and Eritrea have deteriorated in recent months over access to the Red Sea. Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki recently accused Ethiopia of preparing for war. Amid ...

Ethio-Eritrean relations Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia in 1993, but a border conflict between 1998 and 2000 killed around 80,000 people (archived here).

A survivor of a plane crash which took place in 1998 has now issued a statement after realising that the sole survivor from the Air India crash yesterday (12 June) sat in the exact same seat as him.

US President Donald Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the war in Gaza and stop talk of an attack on Iran, according to a source familiar with the conversation.