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 …
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MAY 4, 2021 by Priyanka Boghani The United Nations estimates that Eritrea is among the top three countries, alongside Syria and South Sudan, with the greatest proportion of their citizens who have become refugees — with 12,500 refugees per 100,000 people. According to the U.N.’s last available estimates, released in mid-2020, more than …
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People are jailed in cellars of houses, a network of informers has destroyed trust between people and hundreds of thousands have fled. A rare visit to the ‘North Korea of Africa’ Tamara Baraaz Apr. 7, 2019 ASMARA, Eritrea – The streets in the city center are spotless. There’s very little …
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