Addis Ababa/Geneva - The Ethiopian government and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Wednesday called for an additional 13 million dollars to support refugees from Somalia and Eritrea living in the...
PERTH (miningweekly.com) – East Africa-focused Chalice Gold has agreed to form a joint venture (JV) with US-based gold major Newmont to explore for gold in Eritrea. The proposed JV would see Chalice subsidiary Keren Mining and Newmont explore and evaluate regional gold...
Canadian miner Nevsun Resources’ large precious-metals- and base-metals-rich volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposit, located 150 km west of Asmara, Eritrea, is expected to reach commercial production during the first quarter of 2011. Deposit...
WASHINGTON â The United States should add Eritrea to a terrorism blacklist over its support for an Al-Qaeda-linked group tied to last week's deadly bombings in Uganda, a senior US lawmaker urged Tuesday. Representative Ed Royce, the top Republican on a House...
UNITED NATIONS ' A top UN official on Tuesday hailed recent steps by Eritrea and Djibouti to settle their border dispute through Qatari mediation. 'We commend the recent concrete steps taken by Eritrea and Djibouti...
PERTH (miningweekly.com) – ASX-listed gold-miner Chalice Gold expects the green light for the development of its Koka gold project, in Eritrea, as early as the beginning of next year, MD Doug Jones said on Tuesday. The company...
The extortion of its citizens by ruthless and callous warlords; the mushrooming and proliferation of piracy along its coasts and adjacent sea lanes; the unconscionable plundering of its maritime resources by extraneous forces; the instrumentalization of the weak and...
By Jeremy Clarke Nairobi - Eritrea is taking steps in the right direction but should do more to prove it is complying with United Nations resolutions on security issues affecting its neighbours, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday. Eritrea participated in a...