Ali Abdu's interview with VOA Click below to listen Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.   Ali Abdu said his government has evidence of the weekend attack. “On the first of January, 2010, they tried to attack our forces, and our force killed... 

Jan 6, 2010 – Ethiopian Review Representatives of Ethiopian People's Patriotic Front (EPPF) chapters in Europe and the U.S. held a worldwide teleconference on Sunday and decided on a resolution affirming their solidarity with the people and government of Eritrea. EPPF representatives from Washington DC, London, Texas, Chicago, Las Vegas and North Carolina had participated in Sunday's... 

  Australian based international resource company Gippsland (ASX: GIP) has unveiled promising results from a reconnaissance drainage geochemical survey from within the three Prospecting Licences in Eritrea. The news saw shares in Gippsland increase 9.4% to 7c during the afternoon trade. The survey saw a total of eleven Thematic Mapper alteration targets sampled by collecting 196 drainage... 

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Threats from Al-Qaeda frightened the U.S. and Britain into indefinite closure of their embassies in Yemen, on Sunday. According to the U.S. embassy website, the danger is that the group's Yemen-based offshoot, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, grows stronger, and is planning attacks on western targets. But the US and Britain have also promised to increase military aid to Yemen. Without serious... 

WASHINGTON – January 5 "It is impossible to separate the situation in Somalia from wider regional tensions, especially the historic tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea and the instability in Yemen, to name but a few. Renewed engagement in Somalia requires renewed engagement with the wider region. This has been missing over recent years and it is an essential component of any... 

An Eritrean government official has described reports that an international body will soon demarcate the border between his country and Ethiopia as rumors. (VOA) An Eritrean government official has described reports that an international body will soon demarcate the border between his country and Ethiopia as rumors. Information minister Ali Abdu said Ethiopia is “illegally” occupying... 

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Eritrea’s Yared Asmerom will line up in the 2010 Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon on January 22 backed by a remarkable success story that saw him claim a top ten place at the Beijing Olympics just four years after joining the ranks of competitive running. Asmerom comes to the world’s richest marathon six years after taking to the track for the first time as a reluctant competitor in an... 

For OpEdNews: Rick Rozoff – January 3, 2010 January 1 has ushered in the last year of the first decade of a new millennium and ten consecutive years of the United States conducting war in the Greater Middle East. Beginning with the October 7, 2001 missile and bomb attacks on Afghanistan, American combat operations abroad have not ceased for a year, a month, a week or a day in the 21st century. The...