Eritrea

For the second year running, 21-year-old cyclist Biniam Girmay has been recognised as the best African cyclist by the organisers of La Tropicale Amissa Bongo, an annual tour of Gabon

The country has yet to start vaccinating its population against Covid-19, said the head of the African Centres for Disease Control; it is the only country that has not joined the family of 55 African Union member states that are proceeding with it

Eritrean citizens in the Italian cities of Florence, Bari and Catania held seminars focused on the situation in their homeland; the meeting in Florence was held by Fesehatsion Petros, Eritrean Ambassador to Italy

China's ambassador and Eritrea's foreign minister signed a MoU on the Belt and Road Initiative, making the country the latest African country to join the BRI on 25 November

Today closes the ten-day training on the discovery and research of ancient and historical heritage organized by the Culture and Sports Commission for its 35 operators

Residents of the 13 sub-areas of Asmara and three other sub-areas in the central region are electing their area administrators, chief executive officers and village coordinators in 83 administrative areas

Eritrean nurse Mebrak Ghebrehiwet, who fled to the UK when she was 14, has been hailed by the Prime Minister for her work in transforming care for eating disorder patients after winning Nurse of the Year four years ago

United Nations General Assembly has chosen Eritrea, often criticised for alleged rights abuses, to take a seat on the UN Human Rights Council as of 1 January

A new candidate for the oldest person ever dying in the village, 127 years of age; some relatives believed he was actually 137 years old and had been baptized at the age of 10 because there was no clergyman in town before that

Swedish-Eritrean writer Dawit Isaak, accused of treason, has been held in prison in the country since 23 Sept 2001 without trial; UN experts recently called for the release of the journalist now imprisoned for 20 years, who may no longer be alive

Amnesty International, through its new #WhereAreEritreasDissidents campaign, has called for the Eritrean authorities to immediately and unconditionally release 21 journalists and politicians arrested 20 years ago

The country participated in the ministerial conference on marine litter and plastic pollution recently held in Geneva, Switzerland, with the aim of finding a binding global agreement to prevent and control sea pollution

The country criticized the sanctions imposed by the United States on the head of the Eritrean army, accused of deploying troops in Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray region, causing human rights violations