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• Eritreas national soccer team seeks asylum in Kenya

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 949
  KAMPALA, UGANDA -- Eritreas entire national soccer team is seeking asylum in Kenya, joining tens of thousands of compatriots who have fled one of Africas most repressive governments.
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• Eritrea Releases Elderly Christian Women

  
  Free Christian Press — Authority: 133
  Washington, D.C. /Christian News/ International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that yesterday at 3:30 PM local time, Eritrean officials released all the Christian women they had arrested on December 5.The elderly women were detained for praying together at a house in Asmara, Eritrea’s capital. Eritrean security ...
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• Eritrea releases elderly Christian women

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  International Christian Concern : "International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that yesterday at 3:30 PM local time, Eritrean officials released all the Christian women they had arrested December 5th . . . for praying together at a house in Asmara."Wikipedia: Eritrea
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• The Frightening Rise Of Christian Persecution

  
  Jesus Lives! — Authority: 150
  From This is the end of the world as we know it There is a widely quoted statistic that more Christians died for their faith in the 20th century than in the 19 centuries leading up to it. But as bad as the 20th century was, the 21st century is starting to make that look like a Sunday picnic. In every corner of ...
  23 hours ago

• Eritrean Soccer Team Defects In Kenya

  
  Blogger — Authority: 167
  A 12-member Eritrean soccer team went missing in Kenya after a regional tournament in which they were eliminated by Tanzania. Defections are common from Eritrea, one of Africa’s newer nations and one of its most authoritarian and repressive. Writer Steve Bloomfield talks to Renee Montagne about the defections.
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• Eritrean football team missing after match in Kenya

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Entire Eritrean national football team has gone missing after failing to board a flight home following a match in Kenya. Only the squads coach and one other official arrived back in Eritrea after the team was knocked out in the quarter finals of the CECAFA tournament for east and central Africa. The Eritrean national ...
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• UN Council to put sanctions on Eritrea – diplomats

  
  East Africa Forum — Authority: 145
  Reuters December 16, 2009 Louis Charbonneau * Diplomats: sanctions could be approved by next week * Of 15 Security Council members, only Libya is opposed UNITED NATIONS – U.N. Security Council members have agreed to impose an arms embargo on Eritrea this month, as well as travel bans and asset freezes for ...
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• Eritrea players fear for lives

  
  East Africa Forum — Authority: 145
  The World Game , Australia December 17, 2009 A senior Kenyan government official says the 12 Eritrean national team players who defected claim they cannot return home because they will be killed. The players say they swore an oath to the Eritrean government before leaving the country that they would not defect, ...
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• Riding the iron road

  
  Captain Greybeard - Travel Advice - Mirror.co.uk — Authority: 126
  The Eritrean Railway was constructed in the 1930s when the Italians occupied this part of Africa. It runs for 73 miles from Massawa to the capital, Asmara, and after being put out of action by damage inflicted during the war with Ethiopia, is now in use again carrying freight and the occasional passengers. It must be ...
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• Massawa in pictures

  
  Captain Greybeard - Travel Advice - Mirror.co.uk — Authority: 126
  Of all the fascinating places visited on my recent cruise in the Red Sea, the highlight was undoubtedly the day in Eritrea, partly because of the chance to take a ride on a veteran steam train, but mostly because of the smiling faces of the people who have stayed defiant against years of war and famine. First some ...
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• Elderly Eritrean Christians released

  
  Persecuted Church Weblog — Authority: 131
  It was just reported that the Eritrean Christians arrested on December 5 have been released. Praise the Lord! Heres the report from International Christian Concern:Eritrea Releases Elderly Christian WomenWashington, D.C. (December 16, 2009)–International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that yesterday at 3:30 PM ...
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• N.Korean Arms Cache ‘Bound for Sudan’

  
  East Africa Forum — Authority: 145
  The Chosun Ibo , South Korea December 16, 2009 (Janes provides some information on weapons found on the plane , as of December 14) A Georgian cargo plane carrying North Korean weapons that was intercepted in Thailand last Saturday was bound for Sudan, reports say. Christian LeMiere, the editor of Jane’s ...
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• Eritrea frees 27 Christians: diplomat

  
  East Africa Forum — Authority: 145
  Reuters December 16, 2009 Jeremy Clarke NAIROBI – A group of mostly elderly Christian women said to have been arrested last week for practising a religion not endorsed by the Eritrean government have been released in the capital, a diplomat said on Wednesday. The women were members of the Faith Mission ...
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• Eritrea frees 27 Christians - diplomat

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 687
  Source: Reuters * Eritrea says no arrests religiously motivated * Rights group says thousands still behind bars By Jeremy Clarke NAIROBI, Dec 16 (Reuters) - A group of mostly elderly Christian women said to ...
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• Missing Eritrea football team ‘welcome home’

  
  East Africa Forum — Authority: 145
  BBC December 15, 2009 Officials said it was the third time an Eritrean team had failed to return Eritrea’s national football team, who have gone missing in Kenya, are welcome to return home, officials say. Information Minister Ali Abdu told the BBC they would get a “good welcome” despite “betraying” ...
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• Small North African Nation Misplaces Soccer Team

  
  ninme — Authority: 136
  Telegraph – Eritrean football team missing after match in Kenya The twelve players are believed to be hiding somewhere in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, where there are tens of thousands who have fled Eritrea’s government. Huh.
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• Eritrean National Team Reserves Now Happiest People In Eritrea

  
  http://unprofessionalfoul.com/ — Authority: 577
  Such poor losers, twelve members of the Eritrean football team decided not to go home after the team was beaten by Tanzania in the quarter finals of a regional tournament being held in Kenya. Or maybe the fact that nobody wants to go home to Eritrea has more to do with it. From the wire report : “The United ...
  2 days ago

• NABU protects unique wild coffee forests in Ethiopia

  
  East Africa Forum — Authority: 145
  NABU (Birdlife in Germany), Germany December 15, 2009 NABU (BirdLife in Germany), in cooperation with the Ethiopian Government and other partners, will run a special project to protect the last natural forests where the world famous ‘arabica’ coffee is produced. In the last 10 years, almost 43% of these ...
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• Eritrean Field Notes: A lonely nation under a glass

  
  East Africa Forum — Authority: 145
  Washington Post December 13, 2009 Stephanie McCrummen I set off for Asmara having read about Eritrea’s extraordinary liberation struggle against Ethiopia, about its fierce sense of independence and its experiment in self-reliance. I also knew that many people now consider Eritrea to be one of the most ...
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• Eritrean Soccer Team Apparently Not Big Fans Of Eritrea [Soccer]

  
  Deadspin — Authority: 782
  A dozen members of Eritreas national football team mysteriously "disappeared" after playing in a tournament in Kenya. (Not because of foul play. They are presumed to have defected.) Have they tried looking in Mozambique ? [ Guardian ]
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