This story from Awate is supported by other sources, including the tweets below Martin Posted on December 9, 2022 by Gedab News in Gedab…
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Tag: National Service
Tigray the latest battlefront in Afwerki’s three decades of wars
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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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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EEPA Situation Report – Horn of Africa – No. 261, 05 September 2022
Situation in Tigray & Amhara (per 05 September) Bloomberg says hundreds of former UN peacekeepers originating from the Tigray region…
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Another important document for refugees claiming asylum
The Eritrean Military/National Service Programme: Slavery and the Notion of Persecution in Refugee Status Determination by Sara Palacios-Arapiles Forced Migration Unit,…
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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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European aid for Eritrea involving “slave labour” challenged in two courts
Two court cases have been launched to contest European Union aid for Eritrea that employs National Service conscripts. The cases…
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