Copenhagen, Denmark: A 29- year old man of Eritrean descent, was wounded when a motorcycle gang hit him in a drive by shooting.  It is said that there are frictions between motorcycle gang members and immigrant groups in Copenhagen. The shooting happened in an ethnically – mixed part of  Copenhagen. By chance a news team of the Doha based Al Jazeera News Channel was close by to the scene. Read here The exclusive report

PRETORIA (Reuters) – South Africa’s ruling ANC headed for election victory on Thursday despite a reinvigorated opposition challenge and party leader Jacob Zuma was easily on course to become president weeks after beating graft charges.

In a recent Press Release of the Insitut for OneWorld Health, DR. Menghis Bairu, who was born in Eritrea, was appointed to a Member of the Board of Directors of OneWorld Health. The Organisation is a non-profit pharmaceutical entity, which develops drugs for people of the developing world. The company is located in San Francisco USA and has branches around the world. Read the Press Release

On this day in 1993, after a long history of foreign rule and decades of war, the small East African country of Eritrea began three days of voting on a referendum to make official its independence from Ethiopia. The struggle for independence went on over generations of families and lasts until today in the minds of the people of  Eritrea.

Egypt's health ministry says a six-year-old boy has died of bird flu, bringing the number of Egyptians killed by the virus to 24.The ministry Tuesday said the boy was from the outskirts of the Egyptia…

General Goitom Ghebrezghi came to international prominence when he deserted the Derg regime of Ethiopia in 1974 and joined the Eritrean Liberation Front. The event was seen as a big political development in the region at the time and was reported internationally, including by the BBC. Times Online UK.

JERUSALEM (MarketWatch) — Moses once parted the sea somewhere around there, but that was some 4,000 years before the Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea were actually rejoined by the builders of the Suez C…

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An Ethiopian official says Sudan’s president is in Ethiopia for talks but will not face arrest despite a warrant for genocide. Foreign ministry spokesman Wahide Belay says Omar al-Bashir will discuss routine issues with neighboring Ethiopia on Tuesday and will leave Wednesday. The International Criminal Court issued the arrest warrant in March on charges of genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region. Prosecutors are monitoring al-Bashir’s movements but have no police force to execute the warrant. Many African countries have said they will not arrest al-Bashir. Since the warrant was issued, he has visited Eritrea, Egypt, Libya and Qatar.

 Al-Bashir’s Arab-led government has been battling ethnic African rebels in the region since 2003, and some 300,000 people have died in fighting.

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PRETORIA, Apr 20 (IPS) – African trade ministers who met in Addis Ababa at
the African Union (AU) in March urged world leaders to
"place African economic development at the centre of
international efforts to build strategies towards the recovery of
the global economy?? ahead of the G20 summit in London.

LIBREVILLE (Reuters) – African nations must stop signing away their natural resources in skewed deals with foreign firms, the African winner of the 2009 “Green Nobel” prize said in an interview.

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Eritrea and Ethiopia are countries on the Horn of Africa covering 1,127,750 and 125,750 Sq. Km. respectively. Eritrea and Ethiopia are mountainus countries, and the highest peak is Ras Dejen in the Semien Mountains of Ethiopia (4543 m). At least seven other mountains reach above 4000 m. The two contries are located in Sudanian and Sahelian vegetation zones, and they should therefore be expected to have a dry climate and a vegetation dominated by woodland, wooded grassland and subdesert scrub. While this is true for the lowlands, the Eritrean and Ethiopian highlands have a climate and a vegetation much modified by altitude, and much more plant diversity than should be expected. One of the collaborators of the Flora of Eritrea and Ethiopia, Prof. Chr. Puff, Vienna, has made a number of photographs of the Semien Mountains available, both from the high altitude areas and from the surroundings. Read more:NHBS.

Nigeria will host the 12th Afro-Arab Parliamentary Conference slated for April 21-24 at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, the Lagos-based Guardian newspaper reported on Saturday. The governm…

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