NAIROBI, March 30, 2008 (AFP) - The United States has issued a fresh travel warning to Eritrea, due to domestic travel restrictions and the large number of troops massed along its border with arch-rival Ethiopia.

ASMARA, March 28, 2008 (AFP) - The red and blue logo of US-government food aid is all over Eritrea, though now on grain sacks re-stitched into popular shopping bags or cooking oil tins retooled as windowsill flower pots.

Any food inside is long gone, and not being replaced.

NAIROBI, March 25, 2008 (AFP) - Eritrea's national development minister urged other east African nations Tuesday to reduce their dependence on foreign aid by pursuing policies of self-reliance.

The minister, Woldai Futur, was addressing a regional conference on the role of trade unions in east Africa's economic integration, according to a statement on his ministry's website.

CAIRO, March 23, 2008 (AFP) - Egyptian security forces have arrested 70 illegal Eritrean migrants in the extreme south of the country near the border with Sudan, the official MENA news agency reported on Sunday.

The group was discovered south of the Red Sea resort of Hurghuda, where they will be referred to a 'special court,' MENA said.

STOCKHOLM, March 23, 2008 (AFP) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has criticised Sweden's plans to deport a 23-year-old Eritrean asylum seeker, Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter reported on Sunday.

MASSAWA, Eritrea, March 23, 2008 (AFP) - It's been a long time since the old bank in Eritrea's main Red Sea port had a customer.

Like much of the ancient city of Massawa, it was devastated by heavy Ethiopian bombing raids during its liberation in 1990 by Eritrean guerrilla fighters.

ADDIS ABABA, March 19, 2008 (AFP) - More than 3,000 Eritreans, about a third of them soldiers, have fled their country for northern Ethiopia in the past six months, officials said Wednesday.

PRETORIA, March 18, 2008 (AFP) - Ethiopia is determined to solve its border dispute with Eritrea peacefully, the country's foreign minister Seyoum Mesfin said Tuesday.

EL-ARISH, Egypt, March 18, 2008 (AFP) - Egyptian police shot dead a 30-year-old Eritrean woman on Tuesday as she tried to cross illegally into Israel, a security official told AFP.

The woman, identified as Karima, was shot three times including a fatal head wound, the source said. Another Eritrean woman trying to cross at the same time was arrested with her one-year-old infant.

UNITED NATIONS, March 13, 2008 (AFP) - Eritrea must fully cooperate with the temporary withdrawal of UN peacekeepers from its territory, which is linked to a fuel delivery dispute, members of the Security Council said Thursday.