Eritrea Hunts Down its Young People for Enforced Military Service

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In the intense search for young people to “press-gang” into the military, whole families are being made homeless by Eritrea’s security forces. Further disturbing news is emerging from Eritrea in the context of the news that the conflict in Tigray, Ethiopia, has once again erupted into…

A Day to Celebrate?

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On 24th May 2022, it will be 31 years since Eritrea gained its independence! Is this not, surely, a time for great rejoicing? With hard-won independence, we would expect this, above all, to be a day to celebrate…a nation’s freedom, perhaps? Sadly, it remains at present…

The Real Implications of the UK – Rwanda Refugee deal

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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…

Mass Starvation of Eritrean Refugees and the Tigrayan people in Tigray Region: Ethiopia’s Blockage of all Humanitarian Supplies Could Result in Thousands of deaths

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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…

Eritrean Refugees in Sudan Arbitrary Rounded up, Imprisoned and Fined

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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…