Lagos, Nigeria (Haaba) - Nigerian authorities have arrested and deported Somalia terror suspect Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed. Ahmed is set to become the latest alleged terrorist to be tried in New York. US prosecutors say Mr Ahmed learned how to make bombs from the Islamist militant group Al-Shabab. US prosecutors say Ahmed is believed to be a citizen of the tiny East African country of Eritrea, who lived in Sweden.

Some 5,000 Eritreans from around Europe rallied on Monday in front of the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva to protest against UN Security Council sanctions on Eritrea, police said. The demonstrators waved Eritrean flags and carried banners such as "No to sanctions based on lies," and "Eritrea will never go on its knees".

An Eritrean opposition group told AFP on Tuesday it was "prepared to launch attacks" on government troops after the United Nations last week imposed tough sanctions on Asmara. "This is a good opportunity for us," Cornelios Osman, head of the Democratic Movement for the Liberation of the Eritrean Kunama (DMLEK) said in a phone interview.

Five children and 48 women were among the migrants travelling in a small boat spotted by Italian authorities, the report said.It was not known from where exactly the migrants had set off.

A draft resolution, seen by AFP, was circulated on Wednesday by Uganda, part of a six-nation east African regional bloc that has been calling for months for sanctions to be imposed. There will be no vote on the proposal before December to give time for experts and ambassadors from the 15 members of the UN Security Council to debate the move, diplomats said.

"They (rebels) are receiving their arms from Iran through Eritrea," Bashir Eshaq, head of external relations for the opposition Eritrean Democratic Alliance, told AFP in an interview.

"The weapons arrive in Eritrea's coastal towns -- mainly Assab, and from then onwards, Huthi...

The UN Security Council on Wednesday gave Eritrea five weeks to withdraw its forces from a contested area along its border with Djibouti and demanded that it start talks with its neighbor for a...

Applications for asylum in Switzerland jumped 53.1 percent last year as more people from the African nations of Eritrea and Somalia sought refuge here, the Federal Office for Migration said Tuesday.

Groups of children giggling as they walk home from school in the shadow of Mount Asimba and the timeless stillness of Ethiopia's northeastern highland convey a deceptive sense of peace.

Every morning at dawn, groups of Ethiopian soldiers poke long metal-tipped poles into the soil on the dirt track linking this dusty border town with civilization, looking for landmines.