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Ethiopia's soccer federation will not allow its team to travel to neighboring Eritrea for a qualifying game in the African Nations Championship because of simmering hostilities between the countries and the lack of security guarantees.Federation spokesman Melaku Ayele says Ethiopia is happy to host the Eritreans for the second leg of their tie in January but wants a neutral venue — preferably Sudan — for this month's first leg, scheduled for Eritrea's capital, Asmara.Melaku told reporters on Wednesday "who can give you the security guarantee in Asmara? Nobody can give you a security guarantee ... even you foreign journalists don't get that. That's the reality."The African Nations Championship is a continent-wide competition restricted to domestically based players....
Police say they suspect arson in a fire that broke out in a Jerusalem apartment housing African migrants, seriously burning an Eritrean man.Police spokesman Micky Ro...
Stossel holds a 'real or fake' contest about taxes, exposes hidden fees and looks at an IRS parody video
South Sudan's military spokesman says 24 people were killed and dozens wounded during a battle between government troops and rebels who had overrun a town.Col. Phili...
Reporters Without Borders says it has confirmed the death in captivity of three Eritrean journalists who'd been imprisoned in the African country since 2001.The medi...
Israel is refusing to allow entry to a small group of African migrants huddled at a desert border fence with Egypt, officials said Wednesday, underscoring a toughene...
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Kenya's foreign minister summoned Eritrea's ambassador on Friday and "raised concern" over the possibility that planes from Eritrea are supplying w...
Richard Falk, the United Nations Human Rights official who said last month that the Boston Marathon bombings were connected to the "American global domination projec...
Religious freedom is in short supply in the Middle East, according to the bipartisan U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, which has issued a report fi...
In a stinging rebuff to the United Nations and its anti-poverty efforts, Eritrea, one of the poorest countries in Africa, has told the world body that it wants out o...
The new U.S. ambassador to Malta has said farewell to 27 Somali and Eritrean refugees headed to the United States under a refugee resettlement program.Since 2007, 98...
The Horn of Africa nation Eritrea leads the world in imposing censorship on the media, followed closely by North Korea, Syria and Iran, a journalism group said Wedne...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The international community must engage more with the authoritarian government of Eritrea to prevent the tiny Red Sea nation from becoming anot...
A rights group says Eritrea's government has jailed about 10,000 dissidents for several years without charge or trial.Amnesty International says in a new report that...
A Ugandan government official says 17 Eritrean soccer players and a team doctor have applied for political asylum after going missing during a regional tournament.Mu...
An author who writes about the small nation of Eritrea says soldiers took control of the country's Ministry of Information and read a statement on air saying the 199...
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 disinfor...
Ethiopian officials Saturday accused Eritrean forces of kidnapping five British citizens and 13 Ethiopians who were touring a remote region near the African countrie...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — A group of exiled Eritreans say they're setting up an interim government to serve in case Eritrea's authoritarian government collapses.T...
An international human rights group is accusing the Eritrean government of using forced labor to construct a gold mine it jointly owns with a Canadian company worth ...