By ESMART Research Group Somalia Eritrea Monitoring Group Attempts to Stop Eritrean Diaspora from Sending Help to Needy Relatives       At a time when developing regions like Africa are trying to get their immigrants in the West to give back to the communities they left behind, a UN group mandated to monitor arms shipments in and out of the Horn of Africa is working... 

The history of the UN is one of corruption and infectiveness.  During the Cold War, the US and the Soviet Union had competing global agendas and interests. As a result the UN was irrelevant unable to pursue its stated purpose because it lacked the mandate, leadership, funding and principled organizational structure worthy to lead the billions of people inhabiting the earth.   Until 1993,... 

  By Matthew Russell Lee, Exclusive | Inner City Press UNITED NATIONS, June 27 — The day after Inner City Press noted, reported and asked the UN about the removal from the Internet of the "Report of the Secretary General on Eritrea," Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's spokesman Martin Nesirky confirmed that Ban's Secretariat was responsible for taking the report down. We... 

  By Matthew Russell Lee, Exclusive | Inner City Press UNITED NATIONS, June 26 — Earlier this month the "Report of the Secretary General on Eritrea" was circulated and was put on the UN Security Council's web site, dated June 8, assigned symbol S/2012/412.   Then, as Inner City Press exclusively reported on June 15, there were rumblings that Secretary General Ban Ki-moon... 

  By Robert Evans GENEVA | Mon Jun 18, 2012 9:03am EDT (Reuters) – United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay accused on Monday gold-rich Eritrea, which holds a strategic stretch of the Red Sea coast, of carrying out torture and summary executions.   Pillay told the U.N. Human Rights Council there were between 5,000 and 10,000 political prisoners in the secretive... 

By Matthew Russell Lee | Inner City Press June 15 Inner City Press exclusively has learned on Friday that an amateurish post-publication is taking place on the forthcoming report on Eritrea. The report already has a number (S/2012/412) and has been on the UN's ODS Official Document Service.  But unlike the Western Sahara watering down, in this case it's a matter of watering UP —... 

  It is easier for this generation of African Americans to forget the legacy of slavery, segregation and the hell their ancestors went through given the hectic individual life they live in. However, it is impossible to forget because the legacies are engrained into the daily life of all blacks regardless of age or status. The physical, emotional, social and legal imprints are everywhere thus... 

(VOA)-Eritrea’s envoy to the United Nations says his country is vindicated following a recently-released preliminary U.N. report that found insufficient evidence that Asmara provided weapons to Somalia militant group al-Shabab last year. Eritrea has often maintained its innocence over accusations it supports militant groups including al-Shabab, which accusers say destabilizes not only Somalia,... 

WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO:   block the push to strengthen existing sanctions and to lift the sanctions that were imposed on Eritrea We are outraged that your ambassador at the UN is pushing the Security Council to place more sanctions against the people of Eritrea. This latest call for sanctions, like the one in 2009 doesn’t serve US national interest and it will not bring... 

Eritrea categorically rejects the illegal and unjust sanctions resolution passed by the United Nations Security Council on Monday. The resolution is yet another injustice perpetrated on the Eritrean people and it will heighten tenstions and stoke an already explosive situation in the Horn of Africa... (Watch video for full coverage) Click here to read the PDF article  Read More →