But today, Eritrean women are facing what they are calling the second struggle -- to change attitudes toward their role in a peaceful society. After independence from Ethiopia in 1993, women were ...

‘Eritrean women’ were just my fans —Senator Mike Sonko By Pkemoi Ng'enoh | Feb. 5, 2016 Mike Sonko in his office with Eritrean fans Nairobi Senator Mike Sonko was the subject of social media debate ...

An audio-visual project shifts between past, present, and an unknown future, documents five young women, who underwent an arduous journey from their homeland Eritrea to Israel. In their own words, ...

(Adds quotes, details) By Jack Kimball ASMARA, April 5 (Reuters) - Eritrea has banned female circumcision, a life-threatening tradition that aid groups say afflicts some 90 percent of the country's ...

HAGAZ, Eritrea (Reuters) - For 3-year-old Amira, a law banning female genital mutilation in Eritrea came too late. Wrapped in an orange traditional dress, Amira's mother, who gives her name only as ...