{"id":4712,"date":"2015-10-09T17:09:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T17:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/?p=4712"},"modified":"2015-10-09T17:32:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T17:32:40","slug":"eritrea-faces-day-of-reckoning-as-un-weighs-choice-between-sanctions-or-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/2015\/10\/09\/eritrea-faces-day-of-reckoning-as-un-weighs-choice-between-sanctions-or-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Eritrea faces day of reckoning as UN weighs choice between sanctions or aid theguardia news"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UN security council to assess expert report on alleged support for subversive activity as EU moots possibility of increasing aid to tackle migration problem<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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A report on Eritrea\u2019s alleged support for subversive regional activity comes with relations between the country\u2019s government and the international community at a crossroads. Photograph: AFP\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u00a0The UN security council will meet on Friday to consider a report on Eritrea\u2019s alleged support for subversion across the Horn of Africa. The report, by the UN Monitoring Group on Eritrea and Somalia<\/a>, will play an important part in the global body\u2019s decision on whether to continue sanctions against the Eritrean regime.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Relations between President Isaias Afwerki\u2019s government and the international community are at a crossroads. The UN and the EU may decide to embrace the regime despite its dire human rights record, ploughing aid into the country and attempting to crack down on the smugglers who have enabled tens of thousands of Eritreans<\/a> to flee their homeland.<\/p>\n