Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. In 1977, at the age of twenty-five, Seyoum Tsehaye dropped out of college to join the fight for Eritrea’s ...

And its rapprochement with Ethiopia has not contributed to the relaxation of the regime that President Issayas Afeworki introduced in 1993. Still as secret as ever, he is surrounded by the faithful, ...

The geopolitical temperature is rising in the Red Sea. Ethiopia is threatening Eritrea, its diminutive neighbour, making a claim on the Eritrean port of Assab. Ethiopian President Abiy Ahmed recently ...

Upon closer examination, the TGE’s mandate inherently lacks full authority. Transitional governments, by their very nature, ...

The end of Eritrea’s antagonisms with its neighbours means its existential threats are now internal. For Isaias Afwerki, who has been in power since 1993, this could mean the beginning of the end.

The one thing you notice about these taxi drivers is they’re always talking. Laughing, shouting, arguing, confiding. They’ll stop only if a passenger comes trundling across from the Santa Fe Depot to ...

Naqfa is a small town in northern Eritrea. The Sahel Mountains which surround the town favour defenders than assailants. Throughout the thirty year war, probably no other place had experienced more ...