South Africa has welcomed the introduction of regular flights from Eritrea, saying this would further strengthen relations between the two countries.
  Eritrean Airlines will now fly directly to Cape Town International Airport and Johannesburg's OR Tambo International FOUR times a week. The first flight landed in South Africa on Monday.
  South African company SENET has established an office in Eritrea's capital, Asmara, and is involved with the Eritrean government in developing the country's mining infrastructure, focusing on gold and copper.Hence the relationship of the two countries is growing 
The fact the economy is showing fast growth, with gross domestic product having increased by an estimated 17% in 2011,many countries are showing interest in infrastructural,mining and transport investment in Eritrea. 
It is also helpfull Eritrea is one of the few African countries that are on track towards meeting the UN Millennium Development Goals for child mortality and water conservation.

Eritrea's economy is projected to grow by a respectable 7.5 percent in 2012, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Driven largely by an increase in major infrastructure development, solid agriculture output and mineral exports, forecasts taken from World Economic Outlook (WEO) released by the IMF on April 17, 2012, reveal Eritrea will register the fastest-growing economy in East Africa this year.
Despite high fuel prices and some macroeconomic imbalances hindering the economy, the Washington-based body said Eritrea's consumer prices will decline from 13.2 percent in 2011 to 12.3 percent this year.
 After coming off of a red-hot 17 percent economic growth last year, the Red Sea state aims for 7 to 10 percent annual GDP growth levels between the years of 2012-2015. With the Zara and Koka gold mines both set for production in late 2013, Eritrea's economy will likely expand by double-digit figures next year. 

 The government of Lebanon has condemned Ethiopian government,for its desperate attempt to jam the increasingly popular Eritrean Television from being viewed in Ethiopia and the region.The practice of trying to jam Eri-TV has knocked a number of other satellite TV operators out from the service of Arabsat and Nilesat networks.
Lebanon, the latest victim country, is now openly warning for the illegal practice that came after several of its TV channels went out of the Arabsat network.
The country’s telecommunications Minister, Mr. Nicolas Sehnaoui, has thrown his accusations at the increasingly totalitarian government of Ethiopia after results from the preliminary investigations into the jamming of Arabsat satellite transmission confirms Ethiopia as the source of the jamming signal.

 The world's largest travel guide book 'Lonely Planet' has named the Eritrean capital, Asmara, as one of the top 10 tourism attraction cities in the world for the second consecutive year.
According to a detailed research the website undertook in 2011,German city of Berlin is listed as the first, followed by the Peruvian city of Ayacucho, Lebanon city of Beirut, the cities of Asmara, Glasgow of Scotland, Len of Nicaragua, and Rotterdam of the Netherlands, Volgograd of the Russian Federation, Yellowknife of Canada and Belgrade of Serbia respectively.
In connection with Asmara City, the magazine called Asmara "Africa's most beautiful city", besides ranking first in the African continent and fourth at the global level for its beauty,peace and stability.
Lonely Planet which is owned by the BBC also referred to Asmara as being unique for its innovative art deco architecture, which was built in the days of Mussolini's unsuccessful campaign to create a second Roman Empire. 

China's heavy-industries manufacturer LiuGong delivered latest orders of 130 machines valued at $ 70 million as part of a bid for contracts offered by the Eritrean government.The order include 30 excavators, 50 graders and 50 rollers. The machines will be used by the state of Eritrea to work in mining, port construction and infrastructure projects to meet state construction needs. Totally Eritrea purchased around 1,000 machines, including construction machines, trucks and agricultural equipment.
The company invited Mr.Tseggai Tesfazion, Ambassador for the State of Eritrea to visit LiuGong headquarters to learn about LiuGong’s full product lines, tour manufacturing plants, and inspect machine quality. The visit was led by reception hosted by LiuGong’s Chairman Wang Xiaohua. 

   Many political analysts exposed the so-called Eritrean involvement in Somalia is a proxy war waged by Ethiopia and engineered by the US. They added ''Eritrea has very little to do with Somali politics,but is more about the relationship between Eritrea and USA.''  
Emmanuel Kisiangani, senior researcher with the South Africa-based Institute for Security Studies, calls Eritrea’s involvement in Somalia as ”fierce campaign” by Ethiopia
. ”Eritrea has had differences with USA'' said Kisiangani.And now the US is using Ethiopia as regional ally and any nation that discomforts the Washington regime would be polarized systemically mainly using the tried-and-worked ''blame-game'' for other countries' misfortune in this case Somalia.
Kisiangani also noted that in 2006, Ethiopian forces entered Somalia to back the Western-backed Transitional Federal Government fighting a group called the Islamic Courts Union.

 Eritrean community in Winnipeg,Canada demonstrated outside the offices of the ''Free Press'',to show their frustration with the on-going false stories being written about Eritrea,portraying it as a rogue state having terrorist links.
Lambros Kyriakakos, president of the Eritrean Community in Winnipeg Inc, said he wants to see an apology in the Free Press.
"We want to see action," Kyriakakos said. "Our children are being called terrorists... this causes damage..The actions of two or three people can't stigmatize the whole community." he added.
Among the protesters, some adults and children waved signs reading "We are victims of terrorists" and "Don't victimize the victim." Some of them waved large Eritrean flags.

   Kenya which was one of the main nations to accuse Eritrea for helping rebels in somlia at the UN summit last month has a wrong strategy in the region said analysts.Now the country is also heading for a major setback as it faced diplomatic rows with Sudan.There is a growing feeling that Kenya needs to rethink its foreign policy.The Kenyan government’s reaction to strong protests by Sudan following a court ruling ordering the arrest of President Omar al-Bashir if he sets foot in Kenya, has revealed major flaws in its foreign policy.
 Eritrean government hinted that Kenya is being influenced by the propaganda of Ethiopea.The diplomatic row with Eritrea and Sudan goes to show that Kenya needs a consistent foreign policy regarding its interests in the region.
“This is the time to formulate a new foreign policy based on the new Constitution and international treaties we have signed. We need more detailed and consistent foreign policy because previously our foreign policy has been reactionary,” A Kenyan diplomat said.
  President Bashir gave Kenya two weeks to resolve the situation in his favour or face punitive measures, which will include cutting trade and diplomatic ties and banning planes leaving or bound for Kenya from over-flying Sudanese airspace. Other measures include throwing out about 1,500 Kenyans working in Sudan.

   The idea of hitting Eritrea with new  economic sanctions that could cripple our economy may not be materialized,according political annalists.
 The shameless UN security committee is mulling more punitive measures against Eritrean new-found economic stability.The mining sector and remittances sent from abroad key sources of foreign exchange are both said to be targeted.Eritrea is wrongly accused of arming and bankrolling al Qaeda-linked Islamic militants fighting to topple Somalia's Western-backed government.
David Shinn, a former U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia disclosed China and Russia among others are likely to oppose any kind of resolution.
  Both China and Russia typically oppose sanctions on African nations, a position that makes especially China a strategic ally to many peace-seeking African countries,unlike the hypocrite U.S. 

   Egypt should stop forcing detained Eritreans to sign repatriation forms and should allow the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to interview all detained Eritreans to identify refugees among them, Human Rights Watch said. According to UNHCR, it has already registered 40 Eritreans as refugees in Sudan. The renewed deportations signal a return to Egypt’s mass deportations of Eritreans in 2008 and 2009, Human Rights Watch said.
   “Detaining Eritreans and then beating them to force them to sign ‘voluntary’ return papers can’t mask the fact that Egypt is about to commit refoulement, the forced return of refugees to likely persecution,” said Gerry Simpson, senior refugee researcher and advocate at Human Rights Watch. “Instead of ripping up refugee law, ignoring UNHCR, and beating migrants and refugees, Egypt should protect them.”
Human Rights Watch spoke with multiple credible s sources with regular recent access to about 160 Eritrean men and women detained for the past month in al-Shalal prison in Egypt’s southern city of Aswan.

      The government of Eritrea has complained to the UN Security Council about Kenyan allegations that it sent weapons to Islamist rebels in Somalia, calling for an independent investigation to judge the dispute.
    Foreign Minister Osman Saleh said in a letter to the Council that Eritrea was confident an investigation would find Nairobi's "defamatory" accusations to be baseless, and urged the United Nations to take action against Kenya in the dispute.
Kenya has accused Eritrea of flying in weapons for al-Shabaab, an insurgent group liked to al-Qaeda which has been fighting the Western-backed Somali government since 2007, and which is now also battling Kenyan forces.
 "If, as Eritrea confidently believes, the investigation determines that there is no basis whatsoever to the very serious and harmful accusations by the government of Kenya, Eritrea calls on the Security Council to take action that would redress the injustice suffered by the people and government of Eritrea," Saleh wrote in the letter, seen by Reuters.
"Defamation of a member state of the United Nations should not be indulged in with impunity and must not be tolerated, given its negative implications for regional peace and security," he said in the letter, dated November 16.

  The National football team have nocked out of 2014 World Cup qualification after its 3-1 defeat to Rwanda in Kigali on Tuesday.
    All 18 players on the squad boarded the team bus bound for Kigali airport Wednesday morning and all 18 were on the flight home.Tuesday’s match was Eritrea’s first away match since 2009. 
  
    The Eritrean National Cycling Federation also pulled out of Sunday’s Tour of Rwanda. Eritrea was crowned continental champions last week, and its leading cyclist, Daniel Teklehaimanot, won the Tour of Rwanda in 2010. No reason was given for the withdrawal.