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Eritrea: Vocational Training For Students Of College Of Medicine And Science
MENAFN
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June 29, 2025
(MENAFN- APO Group) Vocational training programs lasting from three to five months have been provided to 146 students, including 90 female students, at the College of Medicine and Science. Mr. AbrhaleyAsefaw, Head of the National Union of Eritrean...
Annual Eritrean Community Festival In Italy
MENAFN
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June 29, 2025
(MENAFN- African Press Organization) ASMARA, Eritrea, June 29, 2025/APO Group/ -- The annual Eritrean community festival in Italy was officially opened by Mr. Fesehatsion Petros in Milano under the theme“Our Cohesion – Our Armour.” The opening...
US embassy in Monrovia tells visa applicants to make social media accounts 'public' for vetting
Africanews
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June 25, 2025
Liberians applying for US visas will have to give American authorities access to their social media, according to the US embassy in Monrovia. In a statement posted on its website, the embassy said that people “applying for an F, M, or J...
KITFO TV Is Building a Streaming Home for Ethiopian and Eritrean Stories
OkayAfrica
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June 24, 2025
It started with a bold declaration at a panel discussion. While preparing to moderate a conversation in 2023 about Ethiopian and Eritrean representation in film and television, Denkinesh Argaw came to a clear conclusion. Two challenges stood out...
Human Rights Council Members Should Reject Eritrea’s Bid to End Scrutiny
Human Rights Watch
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June 24, 2025
The government of Eritrea has been working the corridors of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva to try to end the mandate of the UN special rapporteur on Eritrea. In an clear attempt to scuttle the annual mandate renewal resolution,...
EUROTRASH Monday: The Tour is On the Start-Line!
PezCycling News
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June 30, 2025
Only a few days to go before the biggest bike race on the planet starts in Lille, and we have loads of news from the race, the riders and the teams. The National road and time trial championships were last week and we have as many of the results...
Sulaiman Addonia: A novelist shaped by displacement and the redemptive power of art
Middle East Eye
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June 23, 2025
Sulaiman Addonia is an Eritrean-Ethiopian novelist who lives in Brussels. His most recent novel, The Seers (2024), unspools in a single, 136-page paragraph, exploring the world of Hannah, an Eritrean refugee in London, and the redemptive power of...
Media reports more African nations face US visa prohibition
MENAFN
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June 19, 2025
(MENAFN) The United States intends to widen its controversial travel restrictions to citizens from 36 additional countries, with 25 of them located in Africa, according to an internal State Department memo reported by The Washington Post over the...
Eritrea: A New Supply Route for Burhan’s Forces
The Reporter Ethiopia
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June 17, 2025
By: Nihad Mustafa Eritrea has emerged as a new gateway for smuggling weapons to the government forces in Port Sudan, according to media reports revealing the arrival of a military supply shipment that includes anti-aircraft systems, barrel bombs,...
Who is Yonas Kibreab, 14-year-old Filipino-Eritrean star of Pixar's Elio?
The National News
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In Elio, a boy is transported to a utopia in the middle of the galaxy. It’s called the Communiverse, a place where aliens from across the stars joyously share the secrets of the universe. For young Elio, it’s a dream come true. Yonas Ascuncion...
FIFA once again deals with New World TV for World Cup and WWC rights
Sportcal
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June 19, 2025
New World TV (NWTV), the Togo-based satellite television network operating across sub-Saharan Africa, has snapped up rights to soccer's next two FIFA World Cups – one men's edition and one women's. Both the men's 2026 World Cup (to be held across...
Three decades, one leader - how Eritreans had their hopes dashed
BBC
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June 19, 2025
Teklemariam BekitEditor, BBC Tigrinya ShareSave For many Eritreans, the hopes of the early days of the presidency of Isaias (left in 1994) have been dashed 30 years later Once hailed as part of a new generation of reformist African leaders,...
2025 Tour de France cyclists to watch: Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard lead GC contenders
NBC Sports
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June 30, 2025
Ten riders to watch at the 2025 Tour de France, which airs live on Peacock from July 5-27 (broadcast schedule here) ... Tadej Pogacar UAE Team Emirates XRG/Slovenia 2020, 2021, 2024 Tour de France winner Can become the sixth (and, at age 26, the...
Travel bans and global sport
Trinidad Express
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It is probably too late to consider removing the United States as a host of next year’s football World Cup. And in any event, it is unlikely that Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, the governing body of world football, would even contemplate...
Contemporary Global Music, With an Oud
The East Hampton Star - New York
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Whitney White wrote the music and lyrics for “The Case of the Stranger,” which she will perform with two other vocalists at Guild Hall. Whitney White, a writer, performer, and Tony Award-nominated director, will bring “The Case of the Stranger,”...
2025 Tour de France route: stage profiles, previews, start, finish times
NBC Sports
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June 30, 2025
A stage-by-stage look at the 2025 Tour de France route with profiles, previews and estimated start and finish times (all times Eastern) ... Stage 1/July 5: Lille Metropole-Lille Metropole (115 miles) Flat Neutralized Start: 7:10 a.m. Estimated...
Civic Space still Under Siege in Eritrea
CIVICUS
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Geneva 16 June 2025 Statement at the 59th Session of the UN Human Rights Council Interactive Dialogue on the report of the Special Rapporteur on Eritrea Delivered by Olimjon Bakhtaliev, CIVICUS Mr President, CIVICUS appreciates the work of the...
Meles Zenawi asks Egypt to deport Eritrean refugees to Ethiopia (and not Eritrea)
Zehabesha
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WASHINGTON, DC – The government of Meles Zenawi in Addis Ababa is ready to receive thousands of Eritrean refugees “stranded in Egypt and scheduled for deportation,” an Eritrean opposition website reported on Saturday. “The Ethiopian government has...
Eritrea: Vocational Training Provided To Members Of The Defense Forces
MENAFN
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June 10, 2025
(MENAFN- African Press Organization) Download logo A three-month vocational training program has been provided to 163 members of the Central Command of the Eritrean Defense Forces, including 31 females, in Keren. The training covered music...
Asmara Marathon creates opportunities for emerging athletes
Xinhua News Agency
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ASMARA, June 8 (Xinhua) -- The 2025 Asmara Marathon kicked off on Sunday in Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, attracting more than 10,000 runners to participate in a range of categories, including a public joint run, a wheelchair race, a women's...