Source: Human Rights Concern – Eritrea 30 December 2020 Eritrean Refugees in Hitsats Camp in Tigray have not received any…
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Tag: Hitsats refugee camp
Evidence Mounts of Eritrean Troops Abducting and Forcibly Returning Eritrean Refugees from Camps in Tigray
Source: Human Rights Concern – Eritrea (HRCE) 14 December 2020 Eye-witness testimony is emerging confirming reports that the Eritrean military…
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Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia resist camp closure amid COVID-19 fears
‘If the government tells us to go, then we have no choice but to go.’Jaclynn Ashly Independent multimedia journalist based…
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Memories of Hitsats refugee camp – Ethiopia
Refugee committees in both camps had already disagreed with the relocation as there is not enough land available to build…
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Refugees in crossfire
Refugees continue to flow in Source: Africa Confidential Ethiopia no longer automatically gives refugee status to fleeing Eritreans. Neither they…
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‘Down with Issayas! Down with Abiy!’
Source: London Review of Books ‘Down with Issayas! Down with Abiy!’ Nizar Manek and Natalia Paszkiewicz The refugee camp at Hitsats, an…
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Eritrean gov’t behind the closure of refugee camp in Tigray,Ethiopia, say refugees
Source: Borkena Photo credit : DW Amharic service borkena April 17, 2020 Last week, the Ethiopian government announced that it…
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Ethiopia: Unaccompanied Eritrean Children at Risk
Asylum Policy Changes Threaten Eritreans’ Rights Source: Human Rights Watch Eritrean refugee children play within Hitsats refugee camp near…
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Ethiopia plans to close Eritrean refugee camp despite concerns
Please note: there have been a series of articles with different reports on the situation. See previous posts. Source: Al-Jazeera…
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Norway: “Ethiopian government has postponed closure of Hitsat refugee camp”
A Norwegian supporter of Eritrea, the campaigner Finn Våge, has been in contact with the government of Norway about the…
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