Peer accuses UK of aiding Eritrean government

--> !----> !-- Labour peer and former Foreign Office minister Baroness Kinnock has demanded an explanation of why the UK "facilitated meetings between the Eritrean government and a range of mining and investment companies". Lady Kinnock wanted to know if the government had been helping an administration she called "one of the most secretive and repressive regimes in the whole world". Foreign Office Minister Baroness Warsi admitted such a meeting was "not something I'm aware of" and said Lady Kinnock was "more well-informed than I am on this issue" but promised to write to her. The issue was first raised...

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FIRST INTERVIEW WITH ERITREA’S ALI ABDU: INFORMATION MINISTER CONFIRMS: HAS LEFT THE REGIME

Expressen newspaper interview translated by Google Translate from Swedish, 30 January 2013 Ali Abdu BEIRUT. Eritrean dictator Isaias Afewerkis Information Minister Ali Abdu Ahmed has fled the country and is living today in a secret location. It confirms himself today in a world exclusive interview with Expressen Kassem Hamade. Ali Abdu says he is surprised that the Swedish authorities did not seek him for information about what happened to the imprisoned journalist Dawit Isaak. But he dare not give any hope to Isaak’s family in Sweden. Neither I nor any other minister dared to ask what happened to Isaak says Ali Abdu. Eritrea’s...

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Hadas Eritrea January 26-29, 2013

Hadas Eritrea January 29, 2013 Hadas Eritrea January 28, 2013 Hadas Eritrea January 27, 2013 Hadas Eritrea January 26, 2013 ...

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Italian, Eritrean scientists uncover million-year-old fossil

Milan, January 28An Italian-Eritrean research team has discovered skull fragments of a human ancestor dating back approximately one million years. The fossils were found at Muhuli Amo in Eritrea, which lies in the Horn of Africa, at an archaeological site where a wealth of early tools have been found. The international research team, led by paleoanthropologist Alfredo Coppa of Rome's University Sapienza, says the skull fragments belong to the same individual whose remains have been previously discovered by researchers. This time, the fossil fragments will help researchers put together a larger section of the skull. That, said Coppa, will lead to a better understanding of man's origins. "These new findings confirm conclusively that the area that we are investigating is one of the areas with...

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Senior diplomat denies there was attempted coup in Eritrea, describes such reports as wishful

A senior Eritrean diplomat denies there was an attempted coup early this week in the Horn of Africa nation and says reports to the contrary are a deliberate disinformation campaign. Girma Asmerom, Eritrea's ambassador to the African Union, said in a statement Saturday that coup reports were "wishful thinking" by people he did not name. Without explaining the incidents on Monday, Asmerom wrote of "terrorist acts" being called an attempted coup. But activists and experts said about 100 dissident soldiers stormed the state broadcasting at Ministry of Information in the capital, Asmara, and read a statement vowing to free all political...

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Hadas Eritrea January 22-25, 2013

Hadas Eritrea January 25, 2013 Hadas Eritrea January 24, 2013 Hadas Eritrea January 23, 2013 Hadas Eritrea January 22, 2013 ...

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Short-lived Takeover of Eritrea’s State Media Not a Coup Attempt, Says Journalist

Eritrean-born journalist Tewolde Tesfagabir says the brief seizure of the Information Ministry and state media in Asmara Monday was an effort by dissident soldiers to focus government attention on issues of concern to many Eritreans. Political Prisoners  The release of political prisoners is one of the demands issued by the dissident soldiers. Tewolde, who works for the VOA’s Horn of Africa service, says civil society and the Eritrean government do not agree on who is considered a political prisoner. “In a country where the constitution is not effectively implemented, political movements can be considered as paramount to treason,” he says. “In a democratically-elected government where the term of the president in limited by the constitution, it’s another issue.” Freedom of Speech  Human...

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Nevsun beats 2012 guidance, mid-year transition to copper on track

TORONTO (miningweekly.com) – Eritrea-focused miner Nevsun Resources beat its upwards-revised gold production guidance of 300 000 oz for 2012 at 313 000 oz, which was mainly attributable to processing higher grades. During the fourth quarter ended December 31, the company produced 46 000 oz of gold and the company said it expected to continue producing the yellow metal up to the second quarter this year, by which time construction and commissioning of its copper expansion project would be complete and the company would switch to producing the red metal. The company said most of the fresh ore was mined from the low-grade areas of the Harena...

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Dissident soldiers take over Eritrea’s ministry of information

ASMARA, ERITREA (Aljazeera) — A group of dissident soldiers have laid siege to the Eritrean information ministry and forced the state media to announce a call for the release of political prisoners, according to a senior Eritrean intelligence official.The renegade soldiers forced the director of state television to make an announcement, the intelligence official said.“The soldiers have forced him to speak on state TV, to say the Eritrean government should release all political prisoners,” the source said on condition of anonymity.There was no immediate official comment.Dozens of soldiers with two tanks surrounded the ministry building in Asmara, regional diplomatic sources said.They said state television and radio had gone off air.There was no immediate indication it was an attempt to overthrow...

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Ambassador Girma Asmerom’s interview with Bloomberg Reporter

Eritrean Permanent Mission to AU and UNECA: H.E. Girma Asmerom's inverview with Bloomberg News Ambassador Girma Asmerom, Eritrea's Permanent Representative to the African Union and ECA gave an hour long interview to Mr. William Davidson, Bloomberg Correspondent in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on the latest Human Rights Watch (HRW) report concerning the Eritrean Mining Sector and the National Service programme.  Below is excerpt from the interview that was held on 16 January 2013.  * The recent HRW report on the Eritrean Mining Sector and National Service programme is financially and politically motivated cheap shot, and is replete...

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Hadas Eritrea January 21, 2013

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Hadas Eritrea January 20, 2013

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La Tropicale Amissa Bongo (2.1) Stage 7 Result

stage 7 Winner DOCKX Gert Rank  Rider Name Team 1  DOCKX Gert Lotto Belisol Team 2  GRMAY Tsgabu Gebremaryam Team MTN Qhubeka 3  ROBERT Frederique Lotto Belisol Team 4  PALINI Andrea Lampre - Merida 5  PETIT Adrien Cofidis Solutions Credits 6  GENE Yohann Europcar 7  OUEDRAOGO Rasmane Burkina Faso 8  TEWELDE WELDEGABER Jani Team MTN Qhubeka 9  BEN YOUCEF Abdellah Groupe Sportif Petrolier Algerie 10  HADDI Soufiane Marocco 11  TESHOME...

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La Tropicale Amissa Bongo (2.1) Stage 6 Result

Yohann Gene Stage 6 winner Rank  Rider Name Team Time 1 GENE YohannEuropcar 3:09:24 2 HADDI SoufianeMarocco ,, 3 BILLE GaetanLotto Belisol Team ,, 4 REYNES MIMO VicentLotto Belisol Team ,, 5 OUEDRAOGO Rasmane Burkina Faso ,, 6 TESHOME Meron Eritrea ,, 7 GRMAY Tsgabu Team MTN Qhubeka ,, 8 JELLOUL Adil Marocco ,, 9 SONGEZO Jim Team MTN Qhubeka ,, 10 ZINGLE Romain Cofidis SolCredits ,, 11 BELLEMAKERS Dirk Lotto Belisol Team ,, 12 NGUE NGOCK Yves Cameroon ,, ...

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Berhane and Kudus: Eritrea's champions of the future

Kudus Merhawi, Tour of Rwanda 2012 Photo by Gregor Brown The buzz at the Tropicale Amissa Bongo stage race in Gabon is all about the Eritreans. Four days into the race, the national squad leads the African teams' classification and have five riders in the top twenty overall, having matched strong European squads like Europcar and Lotto-Belisol blow for blow. And all with a six-man team born entirely in the 1990s. "They're the next Colombians," five-time Tour de France champion Bernard Hinault says. Sitting in the Horn of Africa, Eritrea was colonised by the Italians in the late 19th century, who brought with them a love of...

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La Tropicale Amissa Bongo (2.1) Stage 5 Result

ROBERT Frederique stage 5 winner  Rank     Rider Name Team 1     ROBERT Frederique Lotto Belisol Team 2     PALINI Andrea Lampre - Merida 3     DOCKX Gert Lotto Belisol Team 4     PETIT Adrien Cofidis Solutions Credits 5     GENE Yohann Europcar Source: http://www.precyclingstat.c...

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CPC official meets with Eritrean delegation

BEIJING, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- A senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Wednesday met with a delegation of the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ) of Eritrea, pledging topromote party-to-party ties. Liu Qibao, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and head of the CPC Central Committee's Publicity Department, commended the relationship between China and Eritrea as wellas the ties between the CPC and the PFDJ during his meeting with Yemane Ghebreab, head of political affairs of the PFDJ. Liu said the two countries have enjoyed sound development in bilateral relations since the establishment...

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Eritrea Slams Group’s Report of Forced Labor at Nevsun Mine

Girma Asmerom Eritrea’s government rejected as “cheap shots and lies” a report by Human Rights Watch that said forced labor was used to construct a gold mine it owns with Canada’s Nevsun Resources Ltd. (NSU) Segen Construction Co., a sub-contractor owned by the ruling People’s Front for Democracy and Justice that worked on the project, used conscripts during the building of the Bisha Mine from 2009 to 2011, the New York-based advocacy group said in a report released Jan. 15. “Conscripts are regularly subjected to torture and other serious abuses,” it said. HRW’s report is a “distortion” of Eritrea’s national- service program, said Girma...

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La Tropicale Amissa Bongo (2.1) Stage 4 Result

Stage 4 winner Adrien Petit-Cofidis Solutions Credits Rank Rider Name Team 1  PETIT Adrien Cofidis Solutions Credits 2  PALINI Andrea Lampre - Merida 3  REYNES MIMO Vicente Lotto Belisol Team 4  BILLE Gaetan Lotto Belisol Team 5  AMANUEL Meron Eritrea 6  GENE Yohann Europcar 7  HANNACHI Abdelbaset Group Sport Petrolier Algrie 8  TEWELDE Jani Team MTN Qhubeka 9  CAMMAERTS Edwig Cofidis Solutions Credits 10 ...

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