Reports are emerging that 6,000 Eritrean Refugees, who were living in two of the four refugee camps and in the town of Shire in the Tigray Regional State of Ethiopia, have been abducted by Eritrean armed forces working in Tigray with the permission of the Ethiopian…

Reports are coming through that one of the four refugee camps in Tigray province of Ethiopia, Adi Harush, has been bombarded with artillery by the Federal Government forces. It is reported that five refugees are dead and ten wounded.   Following a period of electoral and constitutional…

Human Rights Concern-Eritrea (HRCE) has received credible evidence that the Eritrean Armed forces including conscripts, have been sent to the Tigray region of Ethiopia and are engaged in heavy fighting with the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Forces (TPLF), alongside the Ethiopian armed forces. The TPLF fought a…

A civil war within Ethiopia in which the Ethiopian army is advancing into the northern province of Tigray has been seriously escalated by the participation in hostilities of the neighbouring state of Eritrea, which has signed a peace agreement with Ethiopia.  In an apparent response to…

Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s prime minister, has ordered the military to confront the Tigrayan regional government because, he says, it attacked a military base; he has also cited months of “provocation and incitement”. Heavy fighting is reported to have broken out in Tigray —the Northernmost of 9 regional…

Two Eritrean refugees (aged 36 and 41), enduring long-term detention without charge in a prison for criminals in Egypt, have been on hunger strike since yesterday, 27th October 2020, in protest at the prolonged injustice of their treatment. Both men have been detained for 8 years without…