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 …
Read More »HRW slams Egypt’s ‘forced return’ of Eritrean asylum seekers
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. …
Read More »Tigray party accuses Eritrea of attacks
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 …
Read More »Eritrea refugees faced forced deportation from Egypt
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, …
Read More »The tripartite alliance destabilising the Horn of Africa
The common political vision of the leaders of Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia threatens to throw the region into turmoil. Goitom Gebreluel Political analyst focusing on the Horn of Africa Published On 10 May 2021 Three years ago, a wave of political change swept across the Horn of Africa. In Sudan and …
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