ERITREA'S government says the capital Asmara is calm after armed mutineers seized the information ministry, with opposition websites saying the stand-off has been settled.
"All is calm today, as it was indeed yesterday," said Yemane Gebremeskel, the director of Eritrean President Issaias Afewerki's office, in a message to AFP.
Opposition website Awate.com, based in the United States but with close connections inside Eritrea, said that the commander of around 100 rebel soldiers had agreed to surrender.
It was not clear if the mutineers had formally surrendered.
Amanuel Ghirmai, an Eritrean journalist in Paris for independent Radio Erena, said army mutineers stormed the hill-top ministry - which towers over the capital of the Red Sea state - early on Monday morning.
They reportedly ordered news readers at the government-run television and radio station - the only source of media for the authoritarian state - to read a statement.
The state-run Eri-TV and radio broadcasts were taken off air on Monday, but had resumed broadcasting on Tuesday, several sources said.
"Eri-TV, under regime loyalists, has resumed broadcasting live," added Awate. "All Ministry of Information employees have been released."
Multiple sources reported that one of those held inside the information ministry was the daughter of Afewerki, who has ruled the Horn of Africa nation with an iron grip since independence in 1993, following an epic 30-year liberation war from neighbouring Ethiopia.
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