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A handful of vaccine holdouts in the world’s least-inoculated continent could pose another big challenge for global efforts to end the pandemic. Burundi, Tanzania and Eritrea have so far rejected the World Health Organization’s advice to register for Covax, an initiative to distribute vaccines to poorer countries, with some officials …

Eritrea told the United Nations Security Council on Friday that it has agreed to start withdrawing its troops from Ethiopia’s Tigray region, acknowledging publicly for the first time the country’s involvement in the conflict. The admission in a letter to the 15-member council – and posted online by Eritrea’s Ministry …

Thousands of Eritreans, including many children, continue to flee Eritrea because of human rights abuses and the nation’s indefinite national service, a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report says. Legally, conscription begins at the age of 18, but many children are also caught during round-ups, especially in urban areas, and sent …