Life in Eritrea’s News Desert. ... Today, documenting life in the country as Seyoum did would be nearly impossible. * * * Throughout the 1990s, Eritrea enjoyed a relatively free press.

One former soldier, who was imprisoned as a dissident in Eritrea, says he will do any kind of work. “I’m more inclined to physical labor,” says the man, 45, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

We've talked about some incredibly poor countries on this channel before, but perhaps nothing as bad as the small East ...

From his home in the far north of Ethiopia, Hagos can see Eritrean soldiers positioned on the other side of his town, Alitena, and says all his neighbours fear a full occupation. Hagos regularly ...

Eritrea has conscripted men and unmarried women over the age of 18 into indefinite military or government service since fighting a border war with Ethiopia from 1998-2000.

After scoring two goals for Eritrea’s national under-20 soccer team during a tournament in Uganda late last month, Mewal defected with three teammates. But after applying for asylum they are ...

I was born right in the middle of the Eritrean War of Independence, while Eritrea and Ethiopia were at war, in total, for 30 years. Life in Eritrea was dangerous and unpredictable.

While the plight of war refugees is in the news, and deservedly so, the struggle of refugee families from Eritrea is not often in the headlines. Located in Northern Africa, Eritrea is led by an ...

Voices Campaigns Voices in Danger The life of a state journalist in Eritrea. Journalist Abraham T. Zere has been identified as a 'security threat', and watched his colleagues go to prison.

PALERMO, Italy (AP) — Soccer gave Mewal Tesfai Yosief hope in an authoritarian nation, a job in a country of forced military conscription and, possibly, freedom at last. After scoring two goals ...