Eritrea With an area of 121,300 square kilometers (46,800 square miles) and an estimated population of 4.5 million, Eritrea is a relatively small state located on the Red Sea. It is bounded on the north and west by Sudan, on the south by Ethiopia, and...

State of Eritrea Hagere Ertra CAPITAL: Asmara (Asmera) FLAG: A red triangle divides the flag into two right triangles; the upper triangle is green, the lower one is blue. A gold wreath encircling a gold olive branch is centered on the hoist side of the...

A land of dramatically changing terrain, Eritrea spans 670 miles of coastline along the Red Sea on the northeast Horn of Africa. It has six provinces covering mountainous highlands and arid lowlands over a total of 48,000 square miles. To the north...

Eritrea POPULATION 4,465,651 SUNNI MUSLIM 50 percent ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN (TEWAHDO) 40 percent EASTERN CATHOLIC (EASTERN RITE) AND ROMAN CATHOLIC 5.5 percent PROTESTANT 2.4 percent AFRICAN INDIGENOUS BELIEFS 1 percent SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST 0.5 percent...

Eritrea (IPA: /ˌɛrɨˈtreɪə/, /ˌɛrɨˈtriːə/) (Ge'ez: ኤርትራ ʾErtrā), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country situated in northern East Africa. It is bordered by Sudan in the west, Ethiopia in the south, and Djibouti in the...

WHEN DEFENSE Secretary Donald Rumsfeld stopped in Eritrea this week, he was politely noncommittal about the prospect of US troops being stationed there. The Bush administration is right to be wary of commitments as long as President Isaias Afewerki represses his people and antagonizes...

A rebel offensive in the Ethiopian province of Eritrea holds the prospect of creating a new country in Africa. More important, it holds the hope of providing permanent relief to the Eritrean people, who have suffered repeatedly from the combined impact of drought and...

Eritrea dismissed Ethiopia's announcement that it has accepted a U.N. commission's ruling over a disputed town, saying Friday that Ethiopia attached conditions that undermined the spirit of the decision.Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia in 1993 following a 30-year guerrilla war. The Horn of Africa neighbors...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned in a report released Wednesday that another war could break out between feuding neighbors Ethiopia and Eritrea if progress is not urgently made on a stalled peace process.Ban urged the Security Council to extend the U.N. peacekeeping mission monitoring a...