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Eritrea: UN Commission has urged referral to the International Criminal Court
African Press Organization
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October 28, 2016
States must heed the pleas of countless victims of crimes against humanity for justice and accountability, Sheila Keetharuth of the former UN Commission of Inquiry on human rights in Eritrea urged the UN General Assembly today. The Commission has...
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Executive Board Concludes 2019 Article IV Consultation with the State of Eritrea
African Press Organization
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July 24, 2019
Download logo On July 22, 2019, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV Consultation [1] with the State of Eritrea. Eritrea has recently emerged from a long period of conflict and international...
IMF Executive Board Concludes 2019 Article IV Consultation with the State of Eritrea
International Monetary Fund
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July 23, 2019
July 23, 2019 On July 22, 2019, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV Consultation [1] with the State of Eritrea. Eritrea has recently emerged from a long period of conflict and international...
Eritrea: 15 years later still no information on jailed senior politicians and independent journalists
African Press Organization
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September 16, 2016
The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea, Sheila B. Keetharuth, today called on the Eritrean Government to urgently provide information on the whereabouts and state of health of senior government officials and...
UN Human Rights Council 41: explaination of vote on Eritrea
African Press Organization
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July 11, 2019
Download logo Thank you Mr President. I am delivering this explanation of vote on resolution L.15 on the human rights situation in Eritrea. At the outset, allow me to welcome the Joint Declaration of Peace and Friendship between Eritrea and...
UNHCR appeals to Eritrea over refugee camp closure
African Press Organization
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July 3, 2019
Download logo UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is appealing to Eritrea not to close the Umkulu refugee camp after hundreds of refugees left the site in recent weeks, amidst reports that local authorities had asked residents to leave. Umkulu camp,...
UN Human Rights Council 41: Eritrea
African Press Organization
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July 2, 2019
Download logo Thank you, Mr Vice-President, The United Kingdom thanks Ms. Kravetz, for her report and her work over the past year. We are disappointed that the Government of Eritrea, as a member of this Council, has not engaged with the Special...
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) joins call for UN to continue scrutinizing human rights situation in Eritrea
African Press Organization
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June 12, 2019
Download logo The Committee to Protect Journalists and 29 other civil society organizations yesterday sent a letter to members of the United Nations Human Rights Council urging them to continue to scrutinize the human rights situation in Eritrea....
Eritrea: IMF Executive Board Holds Informal Board Briefing
International Monetary Fund
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June 27, 2016
Press Release No. 16/306 June 27, 2016 On June 24, 2016, the Executive Board of the International Monetary fund (IMF) was briefed on economic developments in Eritrea, whose Article IV consultation is delayed by 64 months. Informal sessions to...
Subhash Chand appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the State of Eritrea
African Press Organization
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May 10, 2019
Download logo Shri Subhash Chand, presently Deputy High Commissioner in the High Commission of India, Abuja, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the State of Eritrea. He is expected to take up the assignment shortly.Distributed...
Farnesina and UNICEF to support minors in Eritrea
African Press Organization
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August 6, 2019
Download logo “Building the resilience of children, youths and communities to prevent irregular migration” is the title of the UNICEF project worth almost one million euros that the Foreign Ministry financed through its Africa Fund. This project...
Consensus Building Workshop on National Infection Prevention Control Guidelines Eritrea
African Press Organization
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July 31, 2019
Infection prevention and control (IPC) is a scientific approach and practical solution designed to prevent harm caused by infection to patients and health workers. In view of this, WHO jointly with MOH held a consensus building workshop on...
IMF Staff Completes 2019 Article IV Mission to Eritrea
International Monetary Fund
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May 22, 2019
May 22, 2019 End-of-Mission press releases include statements of IMF staff teams that convey preliminary findings after a visit to a country. The views expressed in this statement are those of the IMF staff and do not necessarily represent the...
Japan - Eritrea Foreign Ministers’ Meeting and Working Lunch
African Press Organization
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March 28, 2019
Download logo On March 28, commencing at around 00:00 p.m. for approximately one hour, Mr. Taro Kono, Minister for Foreign Affairs, held a meeting with H.E. Mr. Osman Saleh, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of Eritrea, who was making a...
UN Human Rights Committee publishes findings on Angola, Eritrea, Estonia, Niger, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Viet Nam
African Press Organization
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March 28, 2019
Download logo The UN Human Rights Committee has published its findings on the civil and political rights record of countries it examined during its latest session: Angola, Eritrea, Estonia, Niger, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Viet Nam....
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of Eritrea, H.E. Mr. Osman Saleh to Visit Japan
African Press Organization
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March 25, 2019
Download logo 1. H.E. Mr. Osman Saleh, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of Eritrea, will visit Japan from 25 to 29 March upon invitation by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. 2. On this occasion, Mr. Taro Kono, Minister of Foreign...
An European Union (EU) road project in Eritrea
African Press Organization
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February 18, 2019
Download logo EU Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development Neven Mimica visited Eritrea at the end of last week, launching an initial €20 million project for road connections between the Ethiopian border and Eritrean ports. During...
Joint Press Statement between the Federal Government of Somalia and the State of Eritrea
African Press Organization
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December 14, 2018
Download logo President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo, President of the Federal Republic of Somalia and President Isaias Afwerki, President of the State of Eritrea, held a two-day consultation meeting in Mogadishu, Somalia on December...
‘Wind of hope’ blowing through Horn of Africa says UN chief, as Ethiopia and Eritrea sign historic peace accord
African Press Organization
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September 17, 2018
Download logo There is a powerful wind of hope blowing across the Horn of Africa region, said UN chief António Guterres on Sunday, in Saudi Arabia to witness the signing of a peace agreement between Ethiopia and Eritrea, ending decades of...
Change of Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Eritrea in February 2019
African Press Organization
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December 17, 2018
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