
Addis Abeba – The Eritrean Afar National Congress (EANC), a political group opposing Eritrea’s government, has announced it is preparing for armed struggle against the regime of President Isaias Afwerki.
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In today’s digitally connected world, the idea of living without internet access seems almost impossible. We rely on the internet for everything — from communication to entertainment, education, and even daily financial transactions. However, one country stands apart from the global web: Eritrea. This East African nation remains largely disconnected, with extremely limited internet access, no mobile data, and virtually no social media or ATM facilities for its citizens. Explore why Eritrea remains the only country with no easy access to the internet, the government’s strict control policies, and what this means for its people’s social and economic development.
Addis Abeba – The Eritrean Afar National Congress (EANC), a political group opposing Eritrea’s government, has announced it is preparing for armed struggle against the regime of President Isaias Afwerki.
By Taha Sakr July 3, 2025 5:00 pm
Source: DNE Africa
Fresh armed clashes have erupted in Ethiopia’s Tigray region between rival Tigrayan factions, raising concerns of renewed intra-regional violence at a time when northern Ethiopia remains fragile. According to local sources, the Tigray Defense Force (TDF), aligned with the Debretsion-led faction of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), has reportedly engaged militarily with another emerging armed group known as the “Tigray Peace Force” (TPF).
Read more: Rival Tigrayan Factions Clash in South Tigray, Sparking Fears of Renewed Conflict
Warning: this article contains extremely graphic and distressing testimony and images
Tens of thousands of Tigrayan women report brutal wartime abuse by Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers, such as gang-rape and the insertion of objects into their uteruses. But justice seems a distant prospect
Photographs and reporting by Ximena Borrazas
For two years, Tseneat carried her rape inside her. The agony never faded. It attacked her from the inside out. The remnants of the attack stayed in Tseneat’s womb – not as a memory or metaphor, but a set of physical objects:
Eight rusted screws.
A steel pair of nail clippers.
A note, written in ballpoint pen and wrapped in plastic.
“Sons of Eritrea, we are brave,” the note reads. “We have committed ourselves to this, and we will continue doing it. We will make Tigrayan females infertile.”
The objects, revealed by X-ray and surgically extracted by doctors more than two years later, were forced inside Tseneat as she lay unconscious after being gang-raped by six soldiers.
Addis Abeba – A newly released report presents detailed evidence indicating that Eritrea’s leaders actively planned and prepared for the war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region well before hostilities erupted.
The report also found evidence indicating that the Eritrean Defense Forces (EDF) engaged in and orchestrated industrial-scale looting operations during and after the war in the Tigray region.
In the past and in our generation, the people in Ethiopia and Eritrea have been continuously afflicted by difficult hardships and anxieties arising from on going wars and threats by leaders being dictating their people to stay in power all the time. Peace is not the absence of war but requires must be built up continuously.
The 2018 peace agreement between the two leaders, thus between the Eritrean president, Essayas and the prime minister, Abiyu Ahmed was not true peace agreement for the common good to both the Eritrean and Ethiopian people. Genuine peace can only be attained by a firm determination of both the people of Ethiopia and Eritrea based on mutual respect and dignity, for these reasons, both the Ethiopian and Eritrean civil society organization must come together, practice the truth in equality, fraternity and democracy and join with all true peacemakers.
Read more: Fostering Peace and Promoting Development in Ethiopia and Eritrea