Eritrea

NAIROBI, Kenya - The international community must engage more with the authoritarian government of Eritrea to prevent the tiny Red Sea nation from becoming another failed state in the Horn of Africa, said a new report by the International Crisis Group.

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Authorities in the self-declared republic of Somaliland say their troops have surrounded up to 300 Ethiopian rebels who entered the territory illegally.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - A group of exiled Eritreans say they're setting up an interim government to serve in case Eritrea's authoritarian government collapses.

NAIROBI, Kenya - Eritrea's information minister is calling for the East African bloc of nations to halt plans to send more troops to Somalia, saying it will only increase the chaos there.