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Two pastors have been imprisoned in the African country of Eritrea for 20 years. More than 80 Christians have been arrested and detained in the first five months of 2024 alone. Photo courtesy of Voice of the Martyrs.

After 20 years, it’s time for Eritrea to release 2 pastors, other Christians

By Todd Nettleton and Voice of the Martyrs – Special to Higher Ground

Farmer Teklemariam Gebremichael, 40, who said he was shot by Eritrean forces in Enticho six months ago and is still recovering, speaks to a doctor, left, at the Ayder Referral Hospital in Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, on Thursday, May 6, 2021. For months, both Ethiopia and Eritrea denied the presence of Eritrean soldiers in Tigray but Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed later acknowledged in March that Eritrean troops were “causing damages to our people.” (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Election could prove last chance for Ethiopia’s falling star

By Tonny Onyulo - Special to The Washington Times

President of the Sudanese Transitional Council General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, left, greets Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki at the Khartoum airport in Khartoum, Sudan, Tuesday, May 4, 2021. Eritrea’s president arrived in Khartoum on Tuesday for talks with Sudanese officials amid tensions between the two countries over the Tigray conflict on Sudan's border. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

Eritrea’s president visits Sudan amid tensions over Ethiopia

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 30, 2020 file photo, Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed responds to questions from members of parliament at the prime minister's office in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ethiopia's leader said in an address before lawmakers Tuesday, March 23, 2021 that atrocities have occurred in Tigray, the country's northern region where fighting persists as government troops hunt down its fugitive leaders. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene, File)

Ethiopia says Eritrea agrees to withdraw troops from Tigray

Associated Press

Eritrea says EU sanctions on security agency are ‘malicious’

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

An elderly woman who fled to the city of Axum in the Tigray region of Ethiopia to seek safety sits with her head bandaged after being wounded during an attack on the city, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020. She later died of her wounds. As Ethiopia’s Tigray region slowly resumes telephone service after three months of conflict, witnesses gave The Associated Press a detailed account of what might be its deadliest massacre, at the sacred Ethiopian Orthodox church in Axum. (AP Photo)

Eritrea disputes AP story detailing massacre in Tigray

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

Medecins Sans Frontieres staff transport a patient at a mobile clinic in the town of Hawzen, south of the city of Adigrat, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. Rare witness accounts are illuminating the shadowy conflict in Tigray, which is largely cut off from the outside world as fighting enters a fourth month in a region of 6 million people. (Konstantina Konstantinidou/Medecins Sans Frontieres via AP)

‘We’ll be left without families’: Fear in Ethiopia’s Tigray

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

Report: Images show latest ‘attack’ on Ethiopia refugee camp

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

A general view of Kassala Mountains near the border with Eritrea, eastern Sudan, Nov. 20, 2020. Ethiopia's deadly conflict with its northern Tigray region spilled over the border as several thousand people fled into Sudan, along with soldiers seeking protection, while the Tigray regional leader accused Eritrea of attacking at the request of Ethiopia's federal government. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Ethiopian army official confirms Eritrean troops in Tigray

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

Aid group says colleague ‘murdered’ in Ethiopia’s conflict

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020, file photo, Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, center, arrives for the opening session of the 33rd African Union (AU) Summit at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ahmed left Ethiopians breathless when he became the prime minister in 2018, introducing a wave of political reforms in the long-repressive country and announcing a shocking peace with enemy Eritrea. Now, Abiy is waging war in the defiant Tigray region. (AP Photo/File)

Peace was swift in Ethiopia under Abiy. War was, too.

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

Map locates the Tigray area

First witness account emerges of Ethiopians fleeing conflict

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

Bawi UK, 22, is photographed in his apartment in Providence, R.I., Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020. UK was a small child when his parents fled Myanmar, leaving him and his siblings to be cared for by their maternal grandmother. UK said the family suffered discrimination as Christians in a predominantly Buddhist nation. The military government was also trying to forcibly conscript his father. &quot;To run for office, you had to be a Buddhist; to rent a house, you had to be Buddhist,&quot; said UK, a social work student at Rhode Island College and a youth leader at the Refugee Dream Center, an advocacy organization in Providence. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

New US citizen refugees excited for first presidential vote

By ANITA SNOW - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011 file photo, hundreds of newly trained al-Shabab fighters perform military exercises in the Lafofe area some 18 km south of Mogadishu, in Somalia. U.N. experts said in a report circulated Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019 that al-Shabab extremists in Somalia remain &quot;a potent threat&quot; to regional peace and are manufacturing home-made explosives, expanding their revenue sources and infiltrating government institutions. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

UN adds explosive components ban to Somalia arms embargo

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, from left, Eritrean under-20 soccer players Hermon Fessehaye Yohannes, Simon Asmelash Mekonen, Hanibal Girmay Tekle, and Mewael Tesfai Yosief talk together in a house where they are staying in Uganda. Four young players with Eritrea's national under-20 soccer team have defected during a tournament in Uganda, the latest players to leave one of the world's most tightly controlled regimes. (AP Photo)

Eritrean soccer players who defected say they live in fear

By JUSTIN LYNCH - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday July 15, 2018 file photo, Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, second left, and Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, center, hold hands as they wave at the crowds in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Once official rivals, the leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea have embraced warmly to the roar of a crowd of thousands at a concert celebrating the end of a long state of war. The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize was given to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Friday Oct. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene, File)

A look at the Ethiopia-Eritrea war whose end brought a Nobel

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019 file photo, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed at the European Council headquarters in Brussels. The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize was given to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Friday Oct. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, file)

The Latest: UN council to say well done in person to Ahmed

Associated Press

Rights group says Eritrea high schools center of repression

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

Eritrean refugee in Utah graduates high school

By Marjorie Cortez - Associated Press

US removing Eritrea from counterterror non-cooperation list

Associated Press