{"id":8343,"date":"2017-04-06T04:23:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T04:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/?p=8343"},"modified":"2017-04-06T04:23:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T04:23:47","slug":"eritrea-slams-u-s-inexplicable-sanctions-following-north-korea-4517-811","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/2017\/04\/06\/eritrea-slams-u-s-inexplicable-sanctions-following-north-korea-4517-811\/","title":{"rendered":"ERITREA SLAMS U.S. FOR \u2018INEXPLICABLE\u2019 SANCTIONS FOLLOWING NORTH KOREA 4\/5\/17 AT 8:11 AM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eritrea has criticized the United States\u2019 decision to place\u00a0\u201cinexplicable\u201d sanctions on the Eritrean navy.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. State Department recently announced it had proscribed dealings with the Eritrean navy under a law prohibiting trading in certain types of military equipment with North Korea, Syria and Iran, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enca.com\/africa\/eritrea-slams-us-sanctions-after-n-korea-military-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">AFP reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In February, a United Nations sanctions monitoring body <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-northkorea-sanctions-un-idUSKBN164043\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a> it had discovered a shipment of North Korean-made military communications equipment, leaving Pyongyang for Eritrea via China, in July 2016. The United States did not cite the report in its decision to ban dealings with the Eritrean navy.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"figure embed\"><picture class=\"mapping-embed\"><source srcset=\"http:\/\/s.newsweek.com\/sites\/www.newsweek.com\/files\/styles\/full\/public\/2017\/04\/05\/eritrea-information-minister.jpg 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 1200px)\" \/><source srcset=\"http:\/\/s.newsweek.com\/sites\/www.newsweek.com\/files\/styles\/embed-lg\/public\/2017\/04\/05\/eritrea-information-minister.jpg 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 992px)\" \/><source srcset=\"http:\/\/s.newsweek.com\/sites\/www.newsweek.com\/files\/styles\/embed-tablet\/public\/2017\/04\/05\/eritrea-information-minister.jpg 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"http:\/\/s.newsweek.com\/sites\/www.newsweek.com\/files\/styles\/embed-tablet\/public\/2017\/04\/05\/eritrea-information-minister.jpg 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 481px)\" \/><source srcset=\"http:\/\/s.newsweek.com\/sites\/www.newsweek.com\/files\/styles\/embed-sm\/public\/2017\/04\/05\/eritrea-information-minister.jpg 1x\" media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mapping-embed\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/s.newsweek.com\/sites\/www.newsweek.com\/files\/styles\/embed-lg\/public\/2017\/04\/05\/eritrea-information-minister.jpg\" alt=\"Eritrea information minister\" width=\"342\" height=\"247\" \/><\/picture><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"figure embed\"><span class=\"figcaption\"><span class=\"caption\">Eritrea&#8217;s Information Minister Yemane Ghebremeskel speaks at a Reuters interview in his office in the capital Asmara, February 20, 2016. Eritrea&#8217;s government has slammed the United States for imposing fresh sanctions on its navy.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">THOMAS MUKOYA\/REUTERS<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shabait.com\/news\/local-news\/23722-press-release\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">statement<\/a> released by the Eritrean Ministry of Information on Monday condemned the State Department\u2019s decision as evidence of \u201cmisguided policies\u201d by the U.S. \u201cThe pattern is sadly the same. Fallacious reports are first floated and illicit measures subsequently announced by the same architects who act as the plaintiff, prosecutor and judge,\u201d said the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Eritrea has been under sanction by the U.N. Security Council since 2009, when it was accused of lending support to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/somalia-drought-al-shabaab-famine-573856\">Islamist militant group Al-Shabab<\/a> in Somalia. The sanctions are due for review later in April.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"small-related\">\n<div class=\"title\">\u201cThe apparent objective [of the State Department] is to give a \u2018new lease of life\u2019 to the illicit U.S.\/ \u2018UNSC\u2019 sanctions that are widely seen as utterly unjustified,\u201d said the Eritrean statement, referencing the Security Council sanctions.<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Human rights groups have accused Eritrea of widespread repression and media outlets have dubbed the Horn of Africa state as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/who-isaias-afwerki-eritreas-enigmatic-dictator-515761\">Africa\u2019s North Korea<\/a> : The country is ranked bottom of the NGO Reporters Without Borders\u2019 press freedom index, below even Pyongyang.<\/p>\n<p>Isolated by the West and regional neighbors such as South Korea, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/north-korea-ally-572012\">North Korea has sought allies elsewhere<\/a>, including in Africa. The country has established relationships with Angola and Benin among other sub-Saharan African countries and smuggled thousands of tons of weapons into Congo in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>REPORT BY CONOR GAFFEY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eritrea has criticized the United States\u2019 decision to place\u00a0\u201cinexplicable\u201d sanctions on the Eritrean navy. The U.S. State Department recently announced it had proscribed dealings with the Eritrean navy under a law prohibiting trading in certain types of military equipment with North Korea, Syria and Iran, AFP reported. In February, a United Nations sanctions monitoring body [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_ml_titleColor":"#000000","_ml_titleFont":"Roboto","_ml_titleFontSize":1.1359999999999998987476601541857235133647918701171875,"_ml_titleFontWeight":"400","_ml_titleLineHeight":1.3000000000000000444089209850062616169452667236328125,"_ml_metaColor":"#708090","_ml_metaFont":"Montserrat","_ml_metaFontSize":0.67849999999999999200639422269887290894985198974609375,"_ml_metaFontWeight":"400","_ml_metaLineHeight":0.92000000000000003996802888650563545525074005126953125,"_ml_bodyColor":"#a9a9a9","_ml_bodyFont":"Open Sans","_ml_bodyFontSize":0.84999999999999997779553950749686919152736663818359375,"_ml_bodyFontWeight":"400","_ml_bodyLineHeight":1.1999999999999999555910790149937383830547332763671875,"_ml_wooPriceColor":"#666","_ml_wooPriceFont":"Open Sans","_ml_wooPriceFontSize":0.90000000000000002220446049250313080847263336181640625,"_ml_wooPriceFontWeight":"400","_ml_wooPriceLineHeight":1.270000000000000017763568394002504646778106689453125,"_ml_headingColor":"#000","_ml_headingFont":"Merriweather","_ml_headingFontSize":2.020000000000000017763568394002504646778106689453125,"_ml_headingFontWeight":"700","_ml_headingLineHeight":1.4699999999999999733546474089962430298328399658203125,"_mlglobal_userfontcolors":{"headingColorUser":[],"titleColorUser":[],"metaColorUser":[],"bodyColorUser":[],"wooPriceColorUser":[]},"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ERITREA SLAMS U.S. FOR \u2018INEXPLICABLE\u2019 SANCTIONS FOLLOWING NORTH KOREA 4\/5\/17 AT 8:11 AM - UNITED ERITREA MEDIA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ERITREA SLAMS U.S. FOR \u2018INEXPLICABLE\u2019 SANCTIONS FOLLOWING NORTH KOREA 4\/5\/17 AT 8:11 AM - UNITED ERITREA MEDIA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Eritrea has criticized the United States\u2019 decision to place\u00a0\u201cinexplicable\u201d sanctions on the Eritrean navy. 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