Britain’s new policy proposal to send asylum seekers who have not arrived by legal routes to Rwanda in East Africa is unethical and probably illegal under international humanitarian law. Britain’s Home Secretary Priti Patel recently signed a deal to remove to Rwanda asylum-seekers arriving in Britain…
Eritrean refugees in Mai Aini and Adi Harush camps in Tigray region, Northern Ethiopia, are dying from hunger and hunger-related diseases. No food rations have been allowed to reach them for over two months. People are dying from starvation, and children particularly are dying from malnutrition-related illnesses. They…
News from Eritrean Refugees in Sudan indicates an organized campaign by local security personnel to arrest, imprison, and extract money from desperate and impoverished Eritrean refugees. Evidence is continuing to be received that, since mid-February 2022, police and soldiers have been rounding up Eritrean refugees in…
The United Nations Refugee Agency says thousands of Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia’s embattled northern Tigray Region are living under life-threatening conditions because they have no access to humanitarian aid, notably food and water, but also medical supplies. More than 25,000 refugees live in Mai Aini and Adi…
Ethiopian air force strikes refugee camp, killing 3 and injuring 4 Eritrean refugees An air strike by Ethiopian government aircraft hit Mai Aini refugee camp near the southern town of Mai Tsebri, in Tigray province, northern Ethiopia on Wednesday 5th January 2022, killing three Eritrean refugees, two…
