Meriam Shawush first star of Shingrwa!!

The third round Shingrwa contest that commenced on 19th of March 2011and conducted in five stages was finalized on 15th of March 2012 and was live broadcast on EriTV.

At the ceremony conducted in Cinema Roma in the presence of Government officials and invited guests, Mr. Arefaine Berhe, Minister of Agriculture, said that the Shingrwa program has multifold advantages for it is a program with which our cultural diversity was reflected, young artists emerged, and gives impetus to the development of our national culture. He further called on the sustainability of the program.

The six finalists presented one cultural and one modern song each, and according to the verdict of the judges Ms. Meriam Shawush emerged the first star of Shingrwa contest and became the winner of special award and 100,000 Nakfa. Yohannes Habteab stood second and received 70,000 Nakfa and Simon Kahsai third and won 50,000 Nakfa.

Financial awards was also given to the other competitors who stood fourth, fifth and sixth.

A number of observers described this round Shingrwa contest unique for the first stage was conducted in the six administrative regions in which our cultural diversity was reflected and strong competitors observed.

In the first stage of the third round of Shingrwa contest there were 360 competitors, 100 in the second stage out of which 30 made it to the third stage, 10 to the fourth stage and 6 finalists.

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Yemeni naval soldiers still in custody in Eritrea

Eritrea refused a request by current President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi to release the three Yemeni naval soldiers who have been held in Eritrea for over three years.

Hadi made it clear to the Eritrean foreign minister who visited Yemen last month that Eritrea has to release the three naval soldiers who were taken prisoners because they unintentionally entered the African neighbor territorial waters and that it should stop its repeated assaults and attacks on Yemeni fishermen.

Apparently, Eritrea ignored Hadi's calls though it promised to follow up the case.

The family of the naval officer, Adel Abdullah Haza al-Sharabi, who has been imprisoned in Eritrea for three years, demanded that the government assume its role and spare not effort in making sure that al-Sharabi and his colleagues be released, and thanked the interest showed by Hadi in the case.

It called on the Ministry of Interior to keep constant contact with the Eritrean authorities and ensure that al-Sharabi and his colleagues be released as soon as possible.

For his part, Abdu al-Qarashi, a tribal damnatory from Sharab area of Taiz, said that when Yemen has captured an Eritrean soldier, the Eritrean government has quickly sent its foreign minister to Sana'a to negotiate his release.

Its now our turn to send our foreign minister to Eritrea to negotiate the release of Yemeni captured soldiers, said al-Qarashi.

Al-Sharabi, and two other soldiers were captured by the Eritrean authorities when powerful wind forced their boat to enter the African country's territorial waters whilst on their way to Al-Zubier Island.

Yemen Post.

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Sunridge Gold says Asmara contains 1.27 bln pounds of copper, unveils new Gupo resource

Sunridge Gold Corp. (CVE:SGC)(OTCQX:SGCNF) Tuesday received the final resource estimate update for the Gupo gold deposit in Eritrea, the fourth deposit that forms the basis of the Asmara North prefeasibility study.

Total contained metal at the Asmara project, on a measured and indicated basis, now stands at 1.27 billion pounds of copper, 2.6 billion pounds of zinc, 930,000 ounces of gold and 28.36 million ounces of silver.

Total measured and indicated resources at Asmara amount to 76.09 million tonnes.

The Asmara North deposits include the Emba Derho volcanogenic-massive-sulphide (VMS) copper-zinc-gold deposit, the Adi Nefas zinc-gold-copper VMS deposit and the Gupo gold deposit.

The prefeasibility study for Asmara North is also considering the possibility of processing ore from the Debarwa copper-zinc-gold VMS deposit at Asmara at a centralized mill near the Emba Derho deposit. This study is expected to be complete later in April.

In January, the company said it expects a feasibility study for the Debarwa copper-zinc-gold-silver deposit at Asmara in the first quarter of this year, which will examine the potential for a stand-alone open-pit mine and process plant at the deposit over a seven year mine life.

"All four deposits on Sunridge's Asmara project now have updated NI 43-101 compliant resource estimates completed as part of the current prefeasibility study on the Asmara North and the feasibility study on Debarwa," Sunridge president and CEO Michael Hopley said.

"We expect that most of these resources will be converted to reserves in the preliminary feasibility study and management looks forward to a very positive study."

Gupo is the smallest of the four deposits on the Asmara project and is being examined in the prefeasibility study as a possible source of feed for a centralized gold recovery plant that would include the gold caps from the Emba Derho and Debarwa deposits.

The new resource estimate at Gupo gave an indicated resource of 951,800 tonnes at a cut-off grade of 0.5 grams per tonne gold (g/t), with an average grade of 1.53 g/t containing 46,780 ounces of gold.

Gold mineralization at Gupo extends intermittently over a strike length of approximately 1.6 kilometres and is associated with stockwork quartz veins and a sericite alteration halo controlled by a shear zone 10 to 30 metres in width.

The deposit crops out at surface where there are several shallow pits resulting from artisanal mining during the Italian colonial period. Drilling by Sunridge has shown mineralization to extend up to 150 metres vertically from surface and in many locations is open to depth, the company said.

In February, Sunridge unveiled significantly increased resources for both the Emba Derho and Adi Nefas deposits.

Sunridge is a mineral exploration and development company focused on the acquisition, exploration, discovery and development of base and precious metal projects on the Asmara project in Eritrea and exploration properties in Madagascar.

Full details of Asmara's resources can be found on the Sunridge Gold website: http://www.sunridgegold.com

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Eritrea calls for UN inquiry over Ethiopian attacks

Eritrea President Isaias Afeworki has urged the UN Security Council to launch an independent inquiry over recent Ethiopian military attacks against his country.

In his letter to the UN, President Afeworki accused the US of financing and providing intelligence support to the Ethiopian attackers.

Last month, Ethiopian authorities confirmed a missile strike and a ground military foray inside Eritrean territory.

The places attacked were Ramid, Gelahbe and Gimbi, some 16km inside south-eastern Eritrea.

Addis Ababa said the attack targeted "military posts that have been used to organise, finance and train terrorist groups".

The attack, apparently, was against a rebel group which was involved in a previous abduction and killing of five Western tourists.

Afar Revolutionary Democratic Union Front (ARDUF) had claimed a responsibility for the abduction of the tourists, but blamed Addis Ababa for their deaths during an exchange of fire as Ethiopian troops launched a rescue mission.

Two Germans, two Austrians and one Hungarian were killed in the January attack on the slopes of Ethiopia's famed Erta Ale volcano, in the desolate Afar border region.

Ethiopia insisted Eritrea was behind the abductions, a charge Asmara denied.

The two countries remain bitter foes since they fought a bloody war in 1998-2000 in which more than 80,000 people died.

While condemning Ethiopia's latest incursion, Eritrea said it had no plans to retaliate.

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Eritrean man gets 20 years for wife's manslaughter

In a ruling published on Sunday, the Jerusalem District Court announced that it had sentenced an Eritrean man to 20 years in prison last week, after convicting him of his wife's manslaughter.

Alam Tiama stabbed his wife to death last year. The couple were residing in Israel without a residency permit.

According to the original indictment, Tiama met his wife at the bus stop, and the two spoke. As the couple began to walk down the street, Tiama pulled out a knife and stabbed his wife in the throat, then continued to stab and kick her before fleeing the scene and throwing away the knife.

Tiama was originally charged with murder, which attracts a mandatory life sentence. However, he was convicted of manslaughter under a plea bargain agreed between his defense lawyers and the state attorney's office. A murder charge requires that the defendant planned to kill his victim beforehand, and in the plea bargain Tiama's lawyers argued that he had lost control in the heat of the moment and had not planned to kill his wife.

Both the prosecution and the defense agreed that Tiama should receive the maximum sentence for manslaughter of 20 years in prison.

Since Tiama's arrest, he was hospitalized in a closed psychiatric facility where he received "significant psychiatric care", his lawyer, attorney David Halevy, said.

Tiama suffers from schizophrenia, Halevy added.

Halevy asked the court to consider allowing Tiama to serve his sentence in his home country of Eritrea, should it be possible for Eritrea and Israel to come to an agreement over the matter.

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Yemeni Presi. urges Eritrea to release detainees

Yemeni President Abdo Rabu Mansour Hadi called on the Eritrean authorities to release Yemeni soldiers who are held in Eritrean jails since three years.

During his meeting with Eritrean Foreign Minister Othman Saleh, who left Sanaa earlier on Saturday after paying a short visit to Yemen, President Hadi has requested to set free lieutenant colonel Adel Abdullah Al-Shar'abi and the soldiers Ibrahim Saleh and Othman Abdullah, Yemeni News Agency said.

The three detainees were arrested when they were sailing in a small boat and lost their way outside the territorial waters inadvertently.

Yemeni Minstry of Defense announced that the three personnel were missing in January 2010, after the change of sea-condition where waves pushed their boat to an Eritrean island near Sudan.

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