Tending graves knee-deep in dry grass and purple flowers, Eritrea’s last native Jew clutches memories of a forgotten community. Sami Cohen was born 58 years ago in the tiny Horn of Africa state into a ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - As a daughter of freedom fighters from East Africa, Meron Fessehaye understands the importance of independence, she said. Her father, an Eritrean native, volunteered as a medical ...

Before leaving for the University in 1996 for a doctorate in geography, Yohannes Gubsa was a lecturer at the University of Asmara in the Eritrean capital. Eritrea, which seceded from Ethiopia in 1993, ...

Woman empathizes with those who died on voyage to Italy After seeing her former countrymen dying while trying to flee their country in the Horn of Africa, an Eritrean native with a personal connection ...

Eritrea sits on the Red Sea in the Horn of Africa, and landlocked Ethiopia is just to the south. A 1998-2000 war killed at least 70,000, and tensions have persisted — a closed border, no flights ...