On 27th February, armed men entered Mai Aini refugee camp and terrorised the inhabitants all night. At about 1:20a.m. on 27th February 2021, armed men entered in Mai Aini refugee camp in Tigray and terrorised the refugees with gunshots. The militia harassed, attacked, robbed, and injured…

The State of Ethiopia has announced that it “plans to close two camps” in the north of province of Tigray, the Shimelba and Hitsats refugee camps. These camps housed more than 20,000 refugees, nearly all of them from Eritrea. The Head of the Ethiopian Agency for…

Ethiopian and Eritrean officials have repeatedly denied that Eritrean forces are operating in Tigray. However, these denials are contradicted by eyewitness accounts. So conspicuous are the Eritrean military in Tigray that Eritrean soldiers have even attended meetings in which humanitarian workers negotiated access to Tigray with…

The Ethiopian government claims the conflict in Tigray has ended. This is very far from the truth. Violence and war crimes against helpless Eritrean refugees continue on a massive scale. And the perpetrators have been clearly identified as Eritrean military personnel, who do not have the…

Eritrean Refugees in Hitsats Camp in Tigray have not received any food at all since the end of November 2020, because of the war in Tigray.  Many were forcibly returned to Eritrea by Eritrean military forces. The remaining refugees are desperate for food, and there is a…

Locked-Down Eritrean Population Facing Appalling Food Shortages Nearly 80 percent of the Eritrean population lives in the rural areas and depends on subsistent agriculture and  nomadic pastoralism.  Nearly 80 percent of the Eritrean population lives in the rural areas and depends on subsistent agriculture and nomadic pastoralism. …

Gradually, as the two-month-old war in Ethiopia unfolded, the evidence of the involvement of Eritrean Forces in the Tigray conflict has mounted. Despite attempts by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Government to restrict access to the war zone, news has filtered out. On Sunday, 20 December 2020…

Criminal armed assailants have free access to Eritrean Refugees in Adi Harush, the UNHCR Refugee camp at in the Tigray Regional State of Ethiopia, and are attacking and robbing refugees unimpeded by the Ethiopian military and government, in what has become a regular pattern of criminal…