{"id":277547,"date":"2019-05-30T04:59:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T08:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiXWh0dHBzOi8vbmV3YnVzaW5lc3NldGhpb3BpYS5jb20vdS1zLXJlbW92ZXMtZXJpdHJlYS1mcm9tLWNvdW50ZXItdGVycm9yLW5vbi1jb29wZXJhdGlvbi1saXN0L9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:28:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:28:21","slug":"the-us-removed-eritrea-from-its-counter-terror-non-cooperation-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277547","title":{"rendered":"The US removed Eritrea from its counter-terror non-cooperation list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 New Business Ethiopia and other outlets reported that the United States removed Eritrea from the annual list of countries judged not fully cooperating with U.S. counterterrorism efforts.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-420569\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Eritrea.png?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The US removed Eritrea from its counter-terror non-cooperation list\" \/>\n<p>Eritrea had been on that Arms Export Control Act list since 2008; the May 2019 Federal Register notice left Iran, North Korea, Syria, and Venezuela named instead.<\/p>\n<p>The shift followed Ethiopia\u2013Eritrea peace, the lifting of UN sanctions, and a rare U.S. congressional visit, even while rights groups still described Asmara as highly closed.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as Horn geopolitics archive, the delisting is a dated U.S.\u2013Eritrea thaw marker from 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/newbusinessethiopia.com\/u-s-removes-eritrea-from-counter-terror-non-cooperation-list\/\">New Business Ethiopia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/general-news-3a8cd4480d92477ca328d8da2c51535a\">AP News<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US removes Eritrea from counter-terror non-cooperation list&nbsp;&nbsp;New Business EthiopiaEritrea is being removed from the list of countries deemed not to be cooperating fully with US counter-terror efforts. The reclusive East African nation is no l&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":420569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Eritrea.png?fit=650%2C338&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1acz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754967,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277547\/revisions\/754967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}