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Girmay Gebru, BBC Tigrinya reporter based in Mekele, has been taken in by Ethiopian forces this evening. Girmay was in a Mekele tea room when he was suddenly approached by four people dressed i...

https://asmarino.com/news/5279-ethiopian-army-jails-bbc-reporter-in-mekele

ኽንዲ ሽሕ ኔርካ፡ ኣሽሓት ድማ ኣፍሪኻ ኢኻሞ፡ ብሰላም ዕረፍ ክቡር ሓርበኛ ጅግና ተጋዳላይ ኣድሓኖም!  “ ነዚ ክብርን፡...

https://asmarino.com/obituaries/5278-19-2021

For the first time the president has come out to admit that Eritrea is involved in the Tigray war in Ethiopia. The conflict in Tigray region started on 4 Nov, 2020.

https://asmarino.com/news/5277-president-isaias-afwerki-it-is-our-duty-to-provide-help-to-ethiopia

The United States says it has directly “pressed senior levels” of Eritrea’s government to immediately withdraw its troops from neighboring Ethiopia, where witnesses have described them loot...

https://asmarino.com/news/5276-us-directly-presses-eritrea-to-withdraw-forces-from-tigray

Four former U.S. ambassadors to Ethiopia wrote a joint letter to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed voicing concern over the conflict in the northern Tigray region, rising ethnic tension in the country an...

https://asmarino.com/news/5275-former-u-s-envoys-alarmed-by-violence-and-hate-speech-in-ethiopia

Ali's son was one of three young Somali men whose families told Reuters they had been recruited by Somalia's federal government for jobs in Qatar, only to surface in Eritrea, where they were sent...

https://asmarino.com/news/5274-families-say-men-are-being-recruited-to-jobs-in-qatar-only-to-be-find-themselves-forced-to-serve-in-the-military-in-eritrea