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According to the 2008 Landmine Monitor Report, the country has not deployed new anti-personnel landmines since the end of the war with Eritrea (1998-2000), but the report notes casualties have occurred each year since 2003 due to newly laid anti-vehicle landmines in the temporary security zone separating the two countries.
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Rida accused secularists of immorality and treason;126 al-Qaradawi portrays them as an elite rejected by the people and wonders who is behind them.127 For Rida, Christian Ethiopia's independence proved that the western colonial powers targeted Muslim lands;128 for al-Qaradawi, western support for Ethiopia against Eritrea was one of the examples that proved the fallacy of claims that the west is interest-driven, not anti-Islam.129 Despite his criticisms of Mu'awiya, Rida idealized the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates;130 al-Qaradawi consecrated his book Our Calumniated History to defend them against their detractors.131 Both attributed the end of the caliphate to a Jewish conspiracy,132 and contrasted the tolerance of the Qur'an with the bloodthirstiness of the Torah,133 and so on. Ri...
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Emily Onufer has accompanied her physician parents to Egypt, Nepal, Fiji and Eritrea on medical mission trips. But one day she hopes to go somewhere even they have never been: outer space.
Emily, who was scheduled to graduate Friday from Princess Anne High School, wants to be an astronaut. She'll attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall and study biomedical or aerospace engineering.
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Aiding Eritrea
The ambassador from Eritrea yesterday insisted that his country values foreign assistance from the United States but has major problems with how that aid is spent.
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... the exception of the 1998-2000 Ethiopia-Eritrea border war, it is difficult to classify the nature...
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Washington has yet to respond, but NSC is hoping that local representatives here will be sympathetic to their plight. For recent arrivals like [Min Oo], now 17 and a senior at South Philly High, it's hard to imagine a nation unwelcoming to his countrymen. "On the plane, I thought my dream would become truth," he says, decked out in gauged earrings and a wispy mustache. "I'm very, very lucky to come to the U.S. Later on, I get out of college and I help people," says Oo, who hopes to go to community college next year to improve his English before transferring to a four-year college and pursuing a degree in mechanical engineering. "My dream is to make a community of Burmese people to live together.
Akberom Mehretab was one of them. Mehretab, 55, is a refugee from Eritrea who fled the coun...
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* The Capital Times reports that some north-side residents are outraged over incumbent state Rep. David Travis' campaign signs that say, "He's one of us." They charge that this plays off the fact that Travis is white and his Democratic primary challenger, Henry Sanders, is black. Travis' office says the signs are from an old campaign to years ago, when a Republican candidate, who had just moved to Madison from Chicago, ran against him.
* U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirms that Asmeret Yosef, a Madison mother of two married to a U.S. citizen, will be deported to her native Eritrea. Yosef entered the U.S. legally in 2000 and applied for political asylum, but was denied; she later married. Her lawyer says Yosef submitted incorrect paperwork, based on bad advice.
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...Hamed Mohammed, a native and citizen of Eritrea, petitions for review of the denial of his applica...
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ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRAZER HOLDS A NEWS BRIEFING ON U.S.-ERITREA RELATIONS, WASHINGTON, D.C., AS RELEASED BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT
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CHICAGO - Even with a translator, the newly-arrived refugees from Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea were only half-understanding the nutrition workshop. But they seemed to get the message when they watched a man puke in a McDonald's drive-through lane, part of the documentary "Super Size Me.
So, nutritionist Bindi Desai asked, what had they learned about fast food? "It tastes very, very good," one man chimed in. "But it makes you feel very bad."