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   Valerie Frank REPORTS ON ERITREA TEND TO ASK WHY SO MANY ARE FLEEING THE COUNTRY. THE MORE RELEVANT QUESTION IS: WHY ARE SO MANY FLEEING THE COUNTRY NOW? In one of the latest major media reports on the large numbers of refugees fleeing Eritrea, the BBC followed in the …

The Eritrean,  May 24 youth movement , a human right movement, held an evening of solidarity with the Eritrean patriotic artist Idriss Mohamed Ali on the 10th  anniversary of his detention by the Eritrean authorities. The evening was held on December 25, 2015 in the Egyptian capital Cairo under the …

On opposite sides of the Red Sea, Yemen spirals deeper into civil war and chaos, while Eritrea accepts foreign cash and commodities for its support in fighting against Yemen’s rogue government. Why then is Eritrea, population 6.3 million, sending tens of thousands more refugees to Europe than Yemen is, population 24.4 million? …

The Afars, a tightly knit Muslim minority in one of the most inhospitable corners of Africa, are determined to keep their home and the culture that sustains them. By Dan Connell Thousands of refugees have made their way to eastern Ethiopia across Eritrea’s porous southern borders in recent years. Many …

Thousands flee isolated Eritrea to escape life of conscription and poverty ASMARA, Eritrea—On a cool March evening soon after his 16th birthday, Binyam Abraham waited until his mother and young siblings were sleeping and slipped away to begin the long trek toward Eritrea’s southern border. With his father trapped in …

The migrant camps in Calais are all over the news. But what happens to the people who make it to the UK after that dangerous trip – strapped to a speeding train or stuck in the rumbling dark of a lorry? Rhys Cutler works in our refugee service in Kent …

By Jean Shaoul 22 June 2015 A United Nations report has exposed the dreadful conditions in Eritrea, located in the Horn of Africa, that have prompted hundreds of thousands to flee the country. By mid-2014, there were nearly 360,000 Eritreans registered as refugees worldwide by the UN, out of a …

By Jean Shaoul 22 June 2015 A United Nations report has exposed the dreadful conditions in Eritrea, located in the Horn of Africa, that have prompted hundreds of thousands to flee the country. By mid-2014, there were nearly 360,000 Eritreans registered as refugees worldwide by the UN, out of a …

The EU may be saving lives in the Mediterranean but it is turning a blind eye to the political repression in Africa’s worst dictatorship Europe’s response to the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean has rightly – if belatedly – focused on saving lives. Not a week goes by now without …

We have become accustomed to headlines about migrants in the Mediterranean. Most recently it was reported that the Italian authorities rescued nearly 7,000 migrants off the coast of Libya over one weekend. Often, tragically, we read instead of thousands drowning. Last year more than 170,000 migrants arrived by boat in Italy last year. …