Source: African Arguments https://africanarguments.org/2019/01/15/ethiopia-border-open-why-eritrea-sudan-fleeing/ By Michael Emile Kynaston Jones January 15, 2019 Despite huge regional shifts, Eritreans continue to flee…
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Tag: Refugees
The appalling treatment of refugees in Libya: UN
Geneva/Tripoli, 20 December 2018 – Migrants and refugees are being subjected to “unimaginable horrors” from the moment they enter Libya,…
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Tragic: MSF forced to end refugee rescues in Mediterranean
Since the start of its search and rescue mission in February 2016, the MSF’s boat, the Aquarius, has assisted nearly…
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Plea from Eritreans trapped in a Libyan detention centre
By Giulia Tranchina, human rights lawyer specialising in immigration and asylum Tragic plea for help from another detention centre in…
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Israel Will Keep Deporting ‘Infiltrators’, Eritrea-Ethiopia Peace Treaty Will Help Accelerate Expulsion
Netanyahu boasts of setting up a border fence to keep migrants away, says that despite left-wing organizations’ appeal deportation will…
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Urgent appeal on behalf of refugees trapped in Libya
The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants and The America Team for Displaced Eritreans has issued the urgent appeal below. They: Call…
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A forensic analysis of the ‘rescue’ at sea of refugees – in which 20 die
This is astonishing: a meticulous reconstruction using video, animation and sound of just one event off Libya on 6…
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Eritrea’s exodus – updated
Earlier today a story on the numbers of people leaving Eritrea for Ethiopia was published (see below). Now further information…
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Eritrean exodus threatens to overwhelm Ethiopian border areas
The pace at which Eritreans are leaving the country is increasing rapidly. With the Ethiopian border open at 18 entry…
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Ethiopia: 2.7 million internally displaced as conflict drives thousands to flee their homes
Summary: Intercommunal conflict in the Somali and Oromia border regions that escalated on 4 August has led to the internal displacement…
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