BY JERRY OMONDI | CGTN AFRICA Rwanda will later this week receive the first batch of refugees stranded in Libya as part of commitment made by President Paul Kagame’s government in 2017 to help ease the migrant crisis in the North African country.
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Israeli plan to forcibly deport illegal African migrants ‘no longer on agenda’ BY MEE The Israeli government has scrapped plans to deport tens of thousands of African migrants. The government informed the High Court of Justice on Tuesday that it decided to U-turn on its original plans after failing to secure a deal to deport the African […]
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BY SHIMON COHEN | ARUTZ SHEVA In a ruling issued by the Swiss Federal Court, it was determined that there is no legal impediment to forcibly deporting an Eritrean immigrant who has been denied asylum. The immigrant, a married woman in her early thirties, filed a request for asylum in Switzerland after she claimed to […]
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The court said the open-door policy was unjustified. By AFP, A Swiss court has slammed shut the Alpine country’s open-door policy toward Eritreans which had automatically granted them refugee status. In announcing its decision Thursday, the court said the lax policy was unjustified. It had also been criticised by several Swiss politicians who claimed it […]
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By BBC News, Britain, the European Union and the World Bank have announced a plan to create 100,000 jobs in Ethiopia to help tackle the migrant crisis. Two industrial parks will be built in the country at a cost of $500m. Ethiopia, which proposed the plan, will be required to grant employment rights to 30,000 […]
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By Ilan Lior | for Haaretz.com, An Israeli court has denied a petition challenging the detention of asylum seekers who do not wish to be resettled in Uganda or Rwanda. The government has ordered the migrants to be resettled there or be detained in Israel indefinitely. Still, the Be’er Sheva District Court recommended that the […]
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By TesfaNews, The government of Botswana has reversed its decision to grant asylum for the disgraced 10 Eritrean football players and asked to go back home or seek refuge elsewhere. A letter wrote to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) by the Ministry of Defense, Justice and Security secretary, Segakweng Tsiane, indicates that the government […]
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By TesfaNews, Habtom Zerhun, an Eritrean asylum seeker who was lynched after being shot during Sunday’s deadly terrorist attack at Be’er Sheva central bus station, having being mistaken for a terrorist, will not be recognized as an official victim of terrorism by the State of Israel. Reason? Because he is an “infiltrator”, a dregatory word […]
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