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Eritrea
Politics, Human Rights, Economic Development, and Environment

• African Development Bank Group on Eritrea (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)
  Basic economic indicators and links to other "country operations" reports.
  
  
• Algiers Peace Agreement, June 2000 PDF format (via United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
  
  
• Amnesty International on Eritrea--Brief Profile (New York and Washington, DC, USA)
  
  
• Chatham House "Horn of Africa Group" Research Project (London, UK)
  • Lost opportunities in the Horn of Africa: how conflicts connect and peace agreements unravel. (June 2008) By Sally Healy. A Horn of Africa Group report. 50 pages in PDF format
    
  • Ethiopia and Eritrea: allergic to persuasion. (January 2007) By Sally Healy and Martin Plaut. A Horn of Africa Group briefing paper. 12 pages in PDF format
    
  • About the "Horn of Africa Group"
  
  
• Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA): Eritrea Home Page (Lusaka, Zambia)
  Basic country information, banking infrastructure, investment guidelines, and other major economic indicators.
  
  
• Constitution of the State of Eritrea, May 23, 1997 (via Asmarino.Com, California, USA)
  
  
• Development Gateway Country Overview on Eritrea (Washington, DC)
  A clearinghouse of links to a wide variety of organizational websites with economic data. Originally founded by The World Bank, the DG has been an "independent", donor-funded organization since 2001.
  
  
• Directory of Development Organizations: Eritrea (2008) (Bert Wesselink, The Netherlands?) PDF format.
  
  
• Eritrea: Official Documents, 1993 (via University of Pennsylvania)
  
  
• Eritrea: Climate, Energy, Environment and Technology Site (Dr. Robert van Bushkirk, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California)
  A compilation of data (including some colorful maps) on Eritrea for 1998-2000.
  
  
• Eritrean Government Statement (UN International Conference on Population & Development, Cairo 1994)
  
  
• Eritrean Development Foundation (Washington, DC)
  • "The EFT is an independent nonsectarian organization dedicated to supporting economic, social and cultural development in Eritrea."
  • Appeals & Updates: "News" on current situation in Eritrea.
  
  
• The Ethiopia-Eritrea Conflict of 1998 and Selected Historical Documents & Map (1891-1908) (Prof. Habte Ghebre-Ab, University of Cincinnati History Forum; via GeoCities)
  
  
• Food and Agriculture Organization on Eritrea (Rome, Italy)
  • FAO Country Profile -- Eritrea (Current)
    
    
  • FAO Global Information and Early Warning System: Special report: FAO/WFP Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission to Eritrea (27 November 2003)
    See also: Dec. 1995 | Dec. 1996 | Oct 2002
    
    
  • FAO Aquastat Programme: Eritrea, 2005
    A brief profile of Eritrean water resources. "The 'thirst' for water data is ever increasing and there is indeed considerable demand for data on rural water use from national governments and development agencies. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations initiated an activity in 1993 to meet this demand with particular focus on irrigation. This resulted in the AQUASTAT Programme, the objective of which is to generate rural water use data at country level in a systematic manner."
    
    
  • FAO Document Repository--Eritrea
    
    
  • FAO Forestry Outlook Study for Africa: Eritrea (2000)
  
  
• Grassroots International: Eritrea, 2000- (Boston, Massachusetts)
  "Grassroots International is an independent, non-profit agency working for social change ... financial and material support for community-led development in Brazil, Eritrea, Haiti, Mexico, and Palestine." General information on emergency relief and development assistance appeals, situation reports, and some news links.
  
  
• Human Rights Watch on Eritrea (New York & Washington, DC)
  • HRW on Eritrea -- Press releases, letters, etc.
  • Essential background: overview of human rights issues in Eritrea (Jan. 2004)
  • Eritrea, 2002. In Human Rights Watch World Report 2003. (Online).
  • Eritrea, 2001 In Human Rights Watch World Report 2002. (Online).
  
  
• In Focus: Eritrea, by Dan Connell. In Foreign Policy in Focus. Vol. 2, no. 45, September 1997. (Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC; Interhemispheric Resource Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico)
  
  
• Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre: Internally displaced persons in Eritrea (2006--) Norwegian Refugee Council (via Geneva, Switzerland)
  For each country in the IDMC survey, the document collection includes recent news, an overall summary, population figures, social indicators, and some analyses.
  
  
• International Crisis Group, Crisisweb: "Ethiopia and Eritrea: war or peace?" (September 2003) (Washington, DC)
  
  
• The International Monetary Fund: Eritrea Country Info (Washington, DC)
  Summaries, full length reports, and recent news. Note: Some documents are in PDF format, requiring Adobe Acrobat.
  
  
• MBendi AfroPaedia: Eritrea (MBendi Information Services, South Africa)
  A basic business and investment country profile; plus links to reports and news.
  
  
• United Nations Development Programme: Human Development Index for Eritrea (2005 data) (New York)
  
  
• UNFPA--United Nations Population Fund: Search for Eritrea Country Indicators, Policy Developments, and Overview (New York)
  
  
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on Eritrea (Geneva, Switzerland)
  See Research/Evaluation...Country and Legal Information Search.
  
  
• United Nations. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA)
  • Integrated Regional Information Network(IRIN) on Eritrea
    Daily and weekly regional news bulletin. Note: the archive only contains back issues from the past month or less.
  • ReliefWeb on Eritrea
    Links to current or breaking news stories.
  
  
• United Nations Peacekeeping Operations: UNMEE--United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea, 2000-2008 (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
  
  
• United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) on Eritrea (Helsinki, Finland)
  • "Displaced communities and the reconstruction of livelihoods in Eritrea," by Gaim Kibreab (June 2001). Discussion paper ; no. 2001/23.
  • "Building new states: lessons from Eritrea," by Göte Hansson (August 2001). Discussion paper ; no. 2001/66.
  • WIDER Publications -- Full List
  
  
• United States Agencies on Eritrea (Washington, DC)
  • United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Eritrea
    • USAID on Eritrea -- Country Information
      
      
    • USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse (General)
      Search the entire USAID database for downloadable (in PDF) reports on projects and studies on Eritrea.
    • USAID--Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET) (General)
      Information on the Horn of Africa, Sahel--West Africa, & Southern Africa.
    • FEWS NET Eritrea Center
      Current news and analysis of the food security situation on Eritrea -- read online or download as a PDF files; plus links to other FEWS NET resources.
    
    
  • United States. Census Bureau. Foreign Trade Statistics:
    -- US-Eritrea Trade Balance, 1993--
    -- US International Trade Statistics: Eritrea, 1996-- (Search)
    
    
  • United States. Department of State
    • Country Commercial Guides for Eritrea: 2000 (in PDF) | 1999
    • Eritrea Country Report on Human Rights Practices: 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
    
    
  • United States. Commercial Service: Recent documents on Eritrea economy (International Trade Administration)
    
    
  • United States Embassy in Asmara, Eritrea
    Press releases and other statements by the US Ambassador and others.
  
  
• University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Land Tenure Center on Eritrea (Madison, Wisconsin)
  • "Recent developments in land tenure law in Eritrea, Horn of Africa," by Luca G. Castellani Working paper (Online) ; no. 37 (June 2000). (Abstract in HTML, full text in PDF)
  
  
• The World Bank on Eritrea (Washington, DC)
  • The World Bank in Eritrea, 1999--
    A country brief and a profile of economic indicators; plus a searchable database.