The diplomatic crisis, which has pitted Qatar against Saudi Arabia and its allies, is threatening to revive a bloody border dispute in a historically troublesome corner of Africa. The frontier separating Eritrea and Djibouti—countries that have both sided with Riyadh...
The renewed Djibouti-Eritrea border dispute is the first ripple effect of the Gulf crisis in Africa. The media has been quick to associate Qatar's decision to withdraw its peacekeeping forces from the disputed Djibouti-Eritrea border with the Gulf crisis. This...
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African Union says it will send a 'fact-finding mission' to the countries as tensions between the neighbours mount. The African Union (AU) has urged Djibouti and Eritrea to show "restraint" as tensions over a disputed border territory intensified and threatened to revive a long-standing...
It appears that there are new efforts to ‘engage’ or ‘re-engage’ with the Eritrean regime led by President Isaias Afwerki. Yet the international organisations attempting to do this appear to have learnt few lessons from the failure of previous...
14 Jun 2017 - Interactive dialogue with: - The Commission of inquiry on Eritrea A/HRC/35/39 Item 4: Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention - 21st Plenary Meeting 35th Regular Session of the Human Rights Council. HRC extranet (information on daily...
Item 4 Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Eritrea Last year’s Council resolution condemned “in the strongest terms” the “systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations” by the Eritrean government.  The Council cited arbitrary detention, torture, sexual violence, religious...
Eritrea has become the latest African state to side with Saudi Arabia and its allies in the diplomatic crisis involving Qatar. A group of Arab nations, led by Riyadh, cut diplomatic ties with the Gulf country last week, accusing Qatar...
DOHA, Qatar –  Qatar said Wednesday it has pulled all of its troops from the border of Djibouti and Eritrea, east African nations that have a long-running territorial dispute which Doha had helped mediate. Qatar offered no explanation for the...
On September 18, 2001, as the world reeled from the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in New York and international attention focused on the United States, the president of a tiny African country decided journalists were no longer needed...