The Eritrean Lowlanders League (ELL) has been following with great concern, the political and military developments in northern Ethiopia, centered mainly on internal conflicts between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front, which have turned disputes into an all-out war.  ELL has also observed, with utmost dismay, the …

Egypt: Forced Returns of Eritrean Asylum Seekers Children, Adults Arbitrarily Detained, Denied Access to UN Refugee Agency (Beirut) – Egyptian authorities are deporting Eritreans seeking asylum, including children, without assessing their asylum claims or other protection needs, Human Rights Watch said today. On December 24, 2021, Egypt deported 24 Eritrean asylum seekers, including children. …

By MK BHADRAKUMAR Chinese foreign ministers have traditionally marked the new year by visiting the African continent. Wang Yi’s 2022 African tour begins with Eritrea against the backdrop of the US strategy in the Horn of Africa to gain control of the strategically vital Red Sea that connects the Indian …

By AAP Newswire The Tigray People’s Liberation Front, the party that controls most of the northern Ethiopia region of Tigray, has accused Eritrea of attacking its troops. In another development in the conflict, aid organisations suspended their operations in an area of northwest Tigray where 56 civilians were killed by …

December 23, 2021  More than 200 Eritrean asylum seekers, including 44 children, have been detained in Egypt, a report by the Refugee Platform in Egypt has revealed. They include a seven-year-old girl and a minor girl who had given birth while in detention. The detention was arbitrary and the conditions extremely poor, …

by Markus Rudolf In Ethiopia’s north, violent conflict is escalating. Refugees from neighbouring Eritrea are among the victims. They need protection, but the camps they live in are exposed to violence from different parties. Serious civil strife erupted in Ethiopia in November 2020, pitting the central government in Addis Ababa …

By Declan Walsh Dec. 20, 2021 NAIROBI, Kenya — After Ethiopia’s embattled prime minister pulled off a stunning military victory earlier this month, reversing a rebel march on the capital that threatened to overthrow him, he credited the bravery of his troops. “Ethiopia is proud of your unbelievable heroism,” the jubilant leader, …

How the Ethiopian leader and the peace award winner suddenly found himself fighting the Tigrayan rebels as a frontline soldier. “We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end,” said the famous French philosopher Blaise Pascal nearly four hundred years ago. Pascal’s centuries-old observation …

By Rachel Chason  and Rael Ombuor   NAIROBI — They watched friends die in the mountains of Tigray. They survived imprisonment. They paid bribes and suffered from injuries as they fled the civil war devastating Ethiopia. When the four Tigrayan asylum seekers made it to Nairobi this spring, at first they …

The recent coup dashed hopes raised by the end of the military regime but newly liberated artists refuse to submit quietly Young Sudanese paint murals on a wall in the Khartoum neighbourhood of Arkawit last year. Photograph: Ashraf Shazly/AFP/Getty Global development is supported by About this content Lizzy Davies Mon 6 …