This message is to inform U.S. citizens that, due to limited staffing, the U.S Embassy in Asmara can provide only emergency services to U.S. citizens in Eritrea as of today, May 7, 2012. We regret that at this time we cannot offer non-emergency services, such as passports, Consular Reports of Birth Abroad, Consular Reports of...
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Evading arrest under gunfire, I fled Eritrea in 2001, arriving in Canada near the end of the following year. More than eight more years would pass before I could bring my wife and children here. They joined me in 2010, after crossing the Sudanese border with the help of a professional smuggler. Others have...
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Birds of Eastern Africa: Updated Edition (Princeton Illustrated Checklists) by Ber van Perlo This is a fully updated edition of the only pocket guide that illustrates and describes all 1,487 bird species of eastern Africa, an area that includes Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, and...
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In this realm Cohen is Admiral General Aladeen, a composite dictator of typically oil rich North African nation (the fictional Wadiya, slapped more or less on top of Eritrea) who is trying to secretly militarize under the UN’s nose despite being exceptionally incompetent. After his uncle (Sir Ben Kingsley, who seems willing to take...
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The isolated and impoverished country of Eritrea is now the most censored country on the globe, according to new rankingsfrom the Committee to Protect Journalists. Under President Isaac Afewerki, who has led Eritrea since it wrested its independence from Ethiopia nearly two decades ago, the heavily militarized East African nation has clamped down on dissent....
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