Eritrea

Sport Weekly: Child athletes on the joys and the perils of competing
This week Al Jazeera covers issues for child athletes, Eritrea’s deserting footballers and scolded Pakistani cricketers.
Published On 1 Dec 2023
Missing in action: How Eritrean football was deflated at home and abroad
A series of desertions by Eritrean players to escape mandatory military conscription has impacted the football sector.
Published On 28 Nov 2023
Is landlocked Ethiopia starting another war over ports in Horn of Africa?
Ethiopia’s tone on access to a seaport is seen as either a distraction from domestic policy failures or start of a war.
Published On 7 Nov 2023
Crimes against humanity continue in Ethiopia despite truce, say UN experts
UN experts say Ethiopia and its allies, including Eritrea, are still violating human rights in the Tigray region.
Published On 19 Sep 2023

At least 26 police officers injured in the riot that broke out between supporters and opponents of Eritrean government.

International law bars Israel from pushing Eritreans out. But that, as Palestinians know well, hasn’t stopped it before.

Amnesty report details how Eritrean soldiers extrajudicially executed civilians and sexually enslaved women for months.

Africa, which contributes just 4 percent of global CO2 emissions, will suffer the most from climate change.

PM Netanyahu says he wants African ‘infiltrators’ out of Israel after Sunday’s fighting in Tel Aviv.

Israeli PM also requested that ministers present him with plans ‘for the removal of all the other illegal infiltrators’.

Supporters and critics of Eritrean government engage in violent clashes at a pro-government event in Tel Aviv.

Ethiopia and Eritrea are historical adversaries, though their troops fought alongside each other in the war in Tigray.

Eritrea quit the body in 2007 in protest of its neighbour Ethiopia deploying troops to Somalia to fight al-Shabab.

The whereabouts of hundreds of fighters on both sides of the Ethiopian war are still not known, despite truce.

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