• Eritrea June 21st 2016 Geneva Demonstration…#IStandWithEritrea

    Written by Billion Temesghen June 21st, 2016, despite the rain, the Place des Nations in Geneva, at the UN Headquarters, was home to more than 10,000 Eritreans and friends of Eritrea who came together from 81 different countries to rally in protest against the latest appalling report of the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights…


  • Eritrea: Exposing the COIE’s Factual Errors and Deliberate “Mistakes”

    Written by Omer Abdelkarim On 08 June 2016 the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in Eritrea (COIE) declared that it “has reasonable grounds to believe that crimes against humanity have been committed in Eritrea since 1991,” and recommended that the matter be sent to the United Nations Security Council for referral to the International…


  • A Future Abundant of Intellectuals: Eritrean Institutions of Higher Education

    Written by Billion Temesghen Eritrea has strongly relied on the resource of its people since the first arising steps of its history. With the passing of each day like ever and more than ever, the people and Government of Eritrea to the best of its capacity, strives in supplementing buoyant grounds for a future full…


  • Challenging Assumptions: A Note on Recent Coverage of Eritrea

    Written by Dr. Fikrejesus Amahazion Last week, Eritrea Profile featured an interview with Mary Harper, Africa Editor for BBC World News. Harper recently spent several weeks in Eritrea covering the country’s Independence Day celebrations, and her analyses, both within her interview with Eritrea Profile as well as in other outlets, have been balanced, impartial, thoughtful,…


  • Eritrea Press Statement: Response of the Government of Eritrea to the Report of the Commission of Enquiry

    Press Statement by H.E. Mr. Yemane Gebreab Presidential Adviser The State of Eritrea Geneva 8 June 2016 Preliminary Response of the Government of Eritrea to the Report of the Commission of Enquiry A three-person panel, called the “Commission of Inquiry” (COI), is campaigning to take yet another African country, this time Eritrea, to the International…


  • WikiLeaks Exposes that Sanctions Imposed against Eritrea are politically motivated

    Eritrean Center For Strategic Studies WikiLeaks Exposes that Sanctions Imposed against Eritrea are politically motivated to divert the attention from Ethiopia’s Occupation of Sovereign Eritrean territory, including the town of Badme. The Sanction was imposed on 23 December 2009, but the concerted and coordinated disinformation campaign started in 2006, way before the Somalia and Eritrea/Djibouti…


  • Press Release: Eritrean Global Action Day Of Defiance

    PRESS RELEASE Eritreans in Europe, outraged by the recent assault on their people and country by the so-called Commission of Inquiry of the UN Human Rights Council, and standing for genuine human rights, are holding a protest rally in Geneva, Switzerland on Monday 22 June, 2015. The UN Commission of Inquiry for Human Rights in…


  • Eritrean hidden treasures

    Written by Berhane Woldu Eritrea is a country that fascinates everybody with its centuries old traditions, rich history and oral history. Just when you think you know it well enough, you find there is much more to discover. According to Historians “The Peripheral of the Red Sea” 70 AD and “The Christian Topographic” 525 AD.…


  • Eritrea: It is an ambitious plan to construct over 500 Schools between 2015 and 2016?

    In an assessment meeting held at Imperial Hotel from 26-28 December 2014, the Ministry of Education along branch offices and technical experts of the six regions of the country made extensive deliberation to find ways and means of making use of the already gained experience in the construction of schools through active participation of communities.…


  • Eritrea: “The Cuba of Africa”

    By T.J. Petrowski There exists in the Horn of Africa a small nation that few living in the West have heard of. A former Italian colony, Eritrea is only reported on in the mainstream media when the U.S. imposes further sanctions on this small country of six million, or when Hollywood makes a movie about…