Word: eritrea
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...Sinai desert, nervously eyeing the barbed-wired fence that separated her from her destination: Israel. Only a few hundred meters away, the fence along the border was low enough to jump. But Beyene, who was there with her three children and a group of some 20 asylum seekers from Eritrea, Darfur and southern Sudan, knew that before they reached the other side they would have to get past the armed Egyptian border police...
...Atop the list, which is compiled based on questionnaires completed by hundreds of media experts and journalists worldwide, are a Scandinavian quartet - Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden - and Ireland. The bottom three spots are occupied by Turkmenistan (173rd), North Korea (174th) and, for the third year in the row, Eritrea (175th). The report calls these nations "the infernal trio ... where the media are so suppressed they are non-existent." In between those poles, a few other regions made notable moves this year. Though it's long been a pace-setter for journalistic freedom, Europe faltered, while Israel plummeted as officials...
...municipality of Tel Aviv, where most of the immigrant workers live, together with about 17,000 refugees mainly from Darfur and Eritrea, provides free health care and day care for children, including vaccinations and education. Adult health services are provided by Physicians for Human Rights. The Hotline for Migrant Workers has people on call 24/7 to provide welfare and legal advice. "Whoever is in our territory deserves our services," deputy mayor Yael Dayan tells TIME. "It's not a question of grace, it's really a question of right. It's not doing them a favor...
TUNISIA ALGERIA MOROCCO GAMBIA BURKINA FASO NIGER EQUATORIAL GUINEA CAMEROON ANGOLA LIBYA EGYPT ERITREA CHAD SUDAN UGANDA ZIMBABWE LESOTHO SWAZILAND...
Before leaving Kenya for her next stop, South Africa, Clinton met with Somali President Sheik Sharif as part of U.S. efforts to help the weak Transitional Federal Government fight the militant Islamic al-Shabaab insurgency, which is supported by neighboring Eritrea. She was clear that this was in Washington's interest, warning that "if al-Shabaab were to obtain a haven in Somalia which could then attract al-Qaeda and other terrorist actions, it would be a threat to the U.S." To make the point, Clinton visited the site of the 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Nairobi...