During the 1960s, the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) led the Eritrean independence struggle. In 1970, some members of the group broke away to form the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF). By ...

In 1962, only one year before Kenya formally annexed the ten-mile Coastal Strip, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia unilaterally dissolved the parliament of Eritrea and formally turned that region ...

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.

In 1991, Isaias Afwerki was celebrated as a national hero in his country after he had led the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) into victory, gaining independence from Ethiopia after 30 years ...

On May 24, 1993, following a UN-supervised referendum in Eritrea in which the local population voted overwhelming to separate from Ethiopia and establish an independent state, Eritrea was declared an ...

Eritreans are preparing to celebrate the 35th anniversary of one of the greatest military victories in the thirty-year armed struggle for independence, Fenkil Operation, under the theme “Fenkil- the ...

THE cold war between Ethiopia and neighbouring Eritrea once seemed irresolvable. An uneasy stalemate had endured since 2000, when a UN-brokered peace agreement ended two years of trench warfare that ...

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 ...