2020 in Eritrea

Events in the year 2020 in Eritrea.

Incumbents

 * President: Isaias Afewerki

Events
Ongoing – COVID-19 pandemic in Eritrea


 * March 21 –The first case of COVID-19 in the country was confirmed in Asmara; the index case was an Eritrean national arriving from Norway.
 * November 15 – Diplomats say that rockets fired from Tigray Region, Ethiopia, landed near the airport in Asmara.
 * December 4 – Twenty-eight Jehovah's Witnesses are released after being imprisoned for five 26 years. Twenty-four other members of the sect remain in prison.

Deaths

 * May 13 – Afwerki Abraha, chemist, freedom fighter, diplomat; died of COVID-19 in the UK (b. 1949)