Eritrea

The UN World Food Programme on Tuesday warned that it is running out of food aid to assist more than 91,000 Eritrean refugees living in camps in Sudan.

On 17 September 2002, RSF called on the international community, especially the United Nations and the European Union, to take sanctions against the rulers of Eritrea to force them to lift their one year-old ban on all privately-owned newspapers and free 18 jailed journalists.

The international human rights organisation, Amnesty International, has called on the Eritrean authorities to immediately release a number of political dissidents and journalists who have been in detention for a year.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has confirmed that Simret Seyoum of the banned private weekly Setit has been in detention since early January 2002.

One million of Eritrea’s 3.7 million total population were at risk from drought-associated diseases and malnutrition due to a failure of seasonal rains aggravated by the aftermath of the recent war with Ethiopia, the UN and the Eritrean government have warned.

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