Source: UNHCR Humanitarian access urgently needed to reach civilians, Eritrean refugees in Tigray This is a summary of what was…
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An urgent appeal: Write to the UNHCR about the plight of Eritrean refugees in Tigray
NOTE: If you wish to send this letter, please print it, sign it and post it [Insert your address here]…
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Eritrean refugees cut off from aid, threatened by Ethiopia’s continuing conflict
The refugees are regarded as “traitors” by the hardline government of Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, and there have been accounts of refugees…
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BREAKING: Eritrean Refugees in UNHCR camp in Tigray being forcibly returned to Eritrea
The following has been learned via a reliable source, but there is no further information at present. UNHCR are checking…
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Eritrean refugees “forcibly conscripted from UN camps to fight in Mekelle”
This news comes from two different sources. It has been gathered from the camps holding some 100,000 Eritrean refugees in…
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Tigray refugee update – 42, 575 have arrived in Sudan to escape the fighting
Source: UNHCR The UN Refugee Agency has given the total number of people arriving in Sudan after fleeing the fighting…
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UPDATE: Report from Adi Harush refugee camps for Eritreans, now trapped by Tigray fighting
The Adi Harush refugee camp in Tigray, which houses thousands of Eritrean refugees, was overrun by Ethiopian Federal Forces and…
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Pace of Ethiopian refugee arrivals in Sudan unseen in the last two decades
Source: UNHCR This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Babar Baloch – to whom quoted text may be…
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UNHCR: Humanitarian crisis deepens amid ongoing clashes in Ethiopia’s Tigray region
“In Ethiopia, fighting in Tigray yesterday moved closer to Shimelba refugee camp – which hosts 6,500 Eritrean refugees – raising…
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The Tigray war threatens to transform the Horn of Africa
Ethiopia, Eritrea and the war in Tigray Martin Plaut The conflict in the northern Ethiopian state of Tigray is a…
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