Eritrea was once one of Africa’s most industrialised parts. Now even the most basic goods, like soap or bottled water, have ...

As global momentum builds for Palestinian recognition, Asmara and Yaoundé remain the lone African holdouts, bound to Israel ...

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki sees himself as a crusader for peace. Despite an ongoing 22-month war with neighboring Ethiopia, the passionate leader is cool and confident, even while discussing ...

Isaias was born in Asmara, in 1946, to a mother from Tigray as well as a father with deep familial roots in Tigray, which ...

"We can't plan anything at the moment — we're just trying to survive. A new war could break out tomorrow," said a woman in Mekele, the capital of Ethiopia's Tigray region. Speaking to DW, she ...

Once hailed as part of a new generation of reformist African leaders, Eritrea's president, who recently marked 32 years in power, has long defied expectations. Isaias Afwerki now spends much of his ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - In what has now transgressed into a norm, Eritrean President Isaias Afeworki visited Addis Ababa on Wednesday, a trip that further reaffirms PM Abiy Ahmed's revolutionary peace ...

Hundreds of Eritreans demonstrate in front of the African Union headquarters in Ethiopia, in support of a UN Inquiry report and asking for measures to be taken against Eritrea, in 2015 [File: Nichole ...

The Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak and three Eritrean journalists  — Temesgen Ghebreyesus, Seyoum Tsehaye and ...

There have been celebrations at the border between Ethiopia and Eritrea as communities from the frontier villages came together for the first time in five years. Separated by the closed border since ...

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki has warned neighbour Ethiopia against launching a new war between the bitter foes, with tensions high in the Horn of Africa region.

A Eritrean delegation led by Osman Saleh, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Eritrea is on an official visit to Ethiopia. Osman Saleh also delivered message to Prime Minister Dr Abiy Ahmed from of ...