Morning breaks over Shimelba refugee camp in northern Ethiopia. The mud brick houses with thatched roofs are home to around 11,000 refugees who have fled from persecution in neighboring Eritrea. Many of the refugees are children and teenagers who now face life growing up in a refugee camp in a foreign country.

May 24 2010: We have seen great tragedy these days where around 80 Eritrean asylum seekers who departed to claim asylum in Italy, perished in the sea. Only five of them survived to tell the tragedy.

Talk to Al Jazeera - President Isaias Afwerki:
Following is a transcript of an interview that Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki had with Al-Jazeera television of February 20.

UN Security Council Sanction On Eritrea 981