HORN OF AFRICA, ITALY’S ROLE IN ERITREA, SOMALIA AND ETHIOPIA In the Horn of Africa, peace between Eritrea and Ethiopia changed the scenario. And Italy may play a role. A trip of PM Giuseppe Conte to Ethiopia and Eritrea is planned in October.   The Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has planned a […]

The Eritreans on board the military ship “Diciotti” On 20th August the “Diciotti” Italian military ship stopped in the harbour of Catania. The Italian Ministry of the Interior did not allow the landing of about 150 “illegal” migrants on our coasts, who were on board the boat. An arm wrestle […]

BETWEEN ERITREA AND ETHIOPIA THE HOUR OF PEACE HAS COME Asmara, President Isaias Afewerki during his speech on Martyrs Day, 20th June 2018. ERITREA WILL SEND A DELEGATION TO ADDIS ABABA. Eritrea, after Ethiopia announced its commitment to respect the Algiers Agreement which has been  left unimplemented since 2002, replied […]

HUMAN TRAFFICKING: THE SECURITY COUNCIL OF THE UN SANCTIONS SIX TRAFFICANTS, four Libyans, an Ethiopian, an Eritrean head of the network The United Nations Security Council  five years after the sinking of Lampedusa, in which 366 people died, most of them Eritrean, sanctioned six men accused of trafficking in men. […]

EritreaLive interviews Alessandro Pellegatta: ERITREA, end and rebirth of an African dream The book “Eritrea, fine e rinascita di un sogno africano” by Alessandro Pellegatta will be published in the next few days, (Casa Editrice Besa, euro 15) A beautiful book to be read in one breath, almost a novel, […]

Amete Debretzion: “30 years ago I was like Rosa Parks: on the bus they shouted me to give up my seat to white people” Amete Debretzion, who is originating from Eritrea, was the victim of a case of racism in 1988 in Rome, which caused much uproad. “Italy has got […]

THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY IN ERITREA IS ITALIAN – ERITREALIVE INTERVIEW WITH PIETRO ZAMBAITI,D.G. of ZaEr, Zambaiti Eritrea Pietro Zambaiti, Chairman of the Board of Za.Er, Zambaiti Eritrea travels back and forth from Bergamo and Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, where he manages his family-run textile industry. Cotton has always been […]

  The scam of false Eritrean refugees More than 100 thousand migrants that reached Italy in the last four years declared to be Eritrean citizens. But many aren’t: it is thought that 40 per cent is of Ethiopian nationality. A trick organised to obtain political asylum. by Fausto Biloslavo (14 […]

In memory of Tsegereda Woldeghiorghis. CeRDO director of the archeological excavation site of Adulis, Mr. Angelo Castiglioni and archeologist Serena Massa tell us about her. Last Monday, on the eve of the Assumption holiday, the Governor of the Northern Red Sea Zone, Mrs. Tsegereda Woldeghiorghis passed away in Eritrea. She […]

Yordanos Mehari, one year in Asmara. From Italy to Eritrea, on business. Yorda is a young Eritrean woman, born and grown in Milan. An inverse route, from Italy to Eritrea, Asmara, to live and work there, how come? As many other Eritreans, I was also born in the diaspora. With […]