Family, friends and neighbors of Saron Teclu Belay, a 37-year-old mother of two who is mentally-disabled, have issued a plea for help and offered a reward to help find the woman who has been missing for more than two weeks. Belay was last seen January 8 at 10:00 a.m. after being released from a Long Beach hospital and inadvertently dropped off by a taxi at the wrong location in Norwalk, CA. Ms. Belay... 

  The Government of Eritrea has urged the African Union to respect its membership rights and not to discuss any matter regarding Eritrea at AU Summits convened in Addis Ababa. Eritrea’s concerns are predicted on the following: i. Ethiopia continues to occupy sovereign Eritrean territories – including the town of Badme -  by flouting the Algiers Peace Agreement and the Charter... 

Fri Jan 29, 2010 By Barry Malone ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – The West is ignoring a jailed Ethiopian opposition leader to keep the Horn of Africa stable despite her being this week named on a United Nations list of arbitrary detainees, her party said on Friday. Birtukan Mideksa, leader of the Unity for Democracy and Justice party (UDJ), was first jailed with other opposition leaders when the 2005... 

Friday, January 29, 2010 Follow-up drilling during the quarter by South Boulder Mines (ASX: STB) at the newly discovered Terminator Gold Prospect defined further shallow mineralisation that is considered open in all directions with some compelling targets defined. Best results included: - TBAC014 – 31m @ 1.07g/t Au from 1m including; 8m @ 2.68g/t from 1m; - TBAC024 – 60m @ 1.30g/t Au... 

  SANA'A, Jan. 28 (Saba)- Security authorities have arrested 67 Africans, including 18 women, in various districts of Taiz province coming from the Horn of Africa, according to Interior Ministry. The security authorities said that the Africans are from Ethiopia and Somalia, noting that the number of Somalis out of the arrested people reached 53. The Somali refugees were gathered and... 

Thursday, January 28, 2010 POWER – In Eritrea were not available the necessary funds to cure a boy of 10 who suffers from Hodgkin's lymphoma, but in Basilicata has been possible thanks to the Region program that finances medical expenses of this type, and therapies Crobar – the Institute of nursing a scientific character of Rionero in Vulture (Potenza) – which enabled a regression... 

By: Loni Prinsloo 29th January 2010 – miningweekly The Eritrean government has granted Canadian-explorer Sunridge Gold extensions to two of its exploration licences that make up the company’s Asmara project, in the north-eastern African country. These extensions have increased the overall size of the Asmara project by about 60%, from 665 km2 to 1 062,5 km2. The extensions expand the... 

ABEL MALINGA The sanctions do not target the interests of mining companies Mining Weekly By: Loni Prinsloo 29th January 2010   South Africa’s State-owned Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) has reaffirmed its commitment to providing $89-million in project debt facilities for the Bisha gold project, in Eritrea, despite the imposition of a number of sanctions on the... 

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Jan 28, 2010, 9:24 GMT Al-Arish, Egypt – Egyptian border guards arrested three African migrants attempting to enter Israel illegally, police said Thursday. Police told the German Press Agency dpa that border guards spotted the three, identified as two Ethiopians and one Eritrean, as they were trying to cross into Israel the previous night. The three migrants are being held in a prison in the...