Source: Kenya Standard Tigray the latest battlefront in Afwerki’s three decades of wars By Martin Plaut In this photo provided…
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Tag: Conscription
Empty village streets and hyenas eating the dead: The price of Eritrea’s involvement in the Tigray war
Eritreans have described the measures President Isaias has taken to round-up conscripts to feed into the war in Tigray. This…
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Eritreans hunted down as military call-up intensifies over Ethiopia’s Tigray war
Eritrean authorities have intensified military mobilisation and are hunting down draft dodgers across the country, as the war in neighbouring…
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Eritrea has called up thousands of reservists to fight in Tigray
Source: Economist Eritrea has called up thousands of reservists to fight in Tigray The escalation complicates efforts to end Ethiopia’s…
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BREAKING: Eritrea extends conscription to 16 year olds; trained or untrained
This brief message has been received from inside Eritrea. “All families have been asked to hand in their children from…
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Eritrea Busses Thousands of Students to Military Camp
Government Ignores its own Covid-19 Restrictions Source: Human Rights Watch Government Ignores its own Covid-19 Restrictions Laetitia Bader Director, Horn…
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Time to Act: End forced labour in Eritrea!
Divest from forced labor in Eritrea Source: Freedom United Call on foreign businesses and institutions to divest from forced labor…
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Eritrea’s forced labour funded with EU funds?
Funded with EU funds? Source: Deutschlandfunk [Computer translation from German] The EU subsidizes a road construction project in Eritrea in…
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Human Rights Watch full report on Sawa and National Service
“They Are Making Us into Slaves, Not Educating Us” How Indefinite Conscription Restricts Young People’s Rights: Access to Education in…
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BBC: Testimonies from SAWA conscripts – what indefinite National Service really means in Eritrea
First hand testimonies from young Eritreans.
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