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Dec 7, 2016

Eritrea’s economy: Ideology and opportunity

By Seth Kaplan

Eritrea is often in the news for all the wrong reasons: its high rates of migration to Europe (it has sent more refugees to Europe in recent years than any other African nation), its conflicts with neighboring Ethiopia and Djibouti, and controversy over its mandatory and indefinite national service conscription program. Human rights activists, in […]

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Issue Brief

Dec 7, 2016

Eritrea: Coming in from the cold

By Bronwyn Bruton

Eritrea has long been stigmatized as a regional “spoiler” by Washington, and despite little evidence of wrongdoing, the country remains under Security Council sanctions for supporting terrorist groups in Somalia. Now is the time to rethink that relationship, argues Atlantic Council Africa Center Deputy Director Bronwyn Bruton in a new issue brief entitled “Eritrea: Coming […]

Africa Civil Society

Issue Brief

Dec 7, 2016

Eritrea: Coming in from the cold

By Bronwyn Bruton

trea has long been stigmatized as a regional “spoiler” by Washington, and despite little evidence of wrongdoing, the country remains under Security Council sanctions for supporting terrorist groups in Somalia.

Africa Civil Society

In the News

Sep 14, 2016

Bruton Testifies Before House Foreign Affairs Committee on Eritrea

By Bronwyn Bruton

Read the full testimony here.

Eritrea

In the News

Jun 23, 2016

Bruton in the New York Times: It’s Bad in Eritrea, but Not That Bad

By Bronwyn Bruton

Read the full article here.

Eritrea

In the News

Jun 23, 2016

Bruton Quoted by the Eritrean Ministry of Information on the COI Eritrea Report

By Bronwyn Bruton

Read the full press release here.

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AfricaSource

Jun 14, 2016

A Frightening Flare-up on the Ethiopia/Eritrea Border, and Another Resounding Silence from Washington

By Bronwyn Bruton

According to Eritrean officials, in the early hours of Sunday, June 12, Ethiopian forces launched an unprovoked assault over the Eritrean border at the town of Tsorana. Heavy fighting lasted throughout the day and continued after dark, when the Eritrean forces managed to launch a counter-offensive that ended the assault. Near midnight on June 12, […]

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New Atlanticist

Jun 7, 2016

What the UN Gets Wrong About Rights in Eritrea

By Ashish Kumar Sen

A finding of crimes against humanity would be indefensible, said the Atlantic Council’s Bronwyn Bruton A UN panel’s expected conclusion that crimes against humanity are being committed in Eritrea would be legally indefensible because of the flawed methodology in the compilation of the report and would further erode the credibility of the International Criminal Court […]

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