Strategic Thinking on East Africa

From The Standard Highlights: Eritrea is piling pressure on Botswana to have repatriated the ten players by end of business today [Wednesday]. All the 10 players are members of the Eritrean army, and repatriation means court-marshalling them. South Africa-based Eritrean Movement for Democracy & Human Rights has hired a lawyer to defend the rights of […]

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Eritrea has been in the news recently-from the hundreds of thousands of Eritrea who fled seeking political asylum to the U.N. report on gross human rights violations against the Eritrean people by the government. This video uses numbers to capture the tragedy of what was once a promising, newly independent country.

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Challenges to US Diplomacy: Dealing with Terrorism and Instability in the Horn of Africa Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Annandale, Virginia 13 October 2015   David H. Shinn Adjunct Professor, Elliott School of International Affairs George Washington University   Introduction For the purpose of this presentation, I define the Horn of Africa as Sudan, South Sudan, […]

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From The BBC Image copyrightAFPImage captionMembers of the Eritrean football team in December 2012 Ten players from the Eritrean football team have refused to return home after playing a World Cup qualifying match in Botswana and are now seeking asylum there, officials say. The men were detained by police after deciding not to board their […]

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John Luke, The Times Geoffrey Heeren, director of the immigration clinic at Valparaiso University Law School, center, with current L3 student Mayombo Mbanza, left, and recent graduate Jordan Chelovich. VALPARAISO | A man who was tortured for speaking out against his country’s government has received asylum in the United States, thanks to the tenacity of two […]

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From The Globalist The life of Eritrean political refugees – from Atlanta to Portland. By Geoffrey Berlin, October 10, 2015 Credit: Wead Shutterstock.com Takeaways “At least in a war you have other people around. There in South Dakota, we were all alone.” A political refugee: “America was built on values. And I’m not so sure I like […]

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From The Guardian UN security council to assess expert report on alleged support for subversive activity as EU moots possibility of increasing aid to tackle migration problem A report on Eritrea’s alleged support for subversive regional activity comes with relations between the country’s government and the international community at a crossroads. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images The […]

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Reposted from African Arguments By David Shinn Posted on January 13, 2014 by AfricanArgumentsEditor This is not a rejoinder to Hank Cohen’s piece – Time to Bring Eritrea in from the Cold – published by African Arguments on 16 December 2013. It is rather an analysis of the same issue with the added suggestion that it will be exceedingly difficult to achieve […]

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Normalizing Relations Between Eritrea and the United States: Farsightedness or Foolishness? By Guest Editor “Bringing in Eritrea from the Cold” Almost one year ago, Ambassador Herman Cohen, former US Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, wrote an article advocating “bringing Eritrea in from the cold.”[1] What does that mean? It means, according to Ambassador […]

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Aid officials say more than 114,000 people have fled war-torn Yemen, and figure could reach at least 200,000 by end of 2016. Middle East Online They arrive often traumatized and exhausted ADEN - More than 114,000 people have fled war-torn Yemen, and the figure could reach at least 200,000 by the end of 2016, aid […]

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