By TesfaNews, The British government has published a new 285-page report that challenges the existing narrative of most Eritrean migrants, the UN and pro-migrant NGOs that their home country Eritrea mistreats them when they return. Past British as well as Danish reports had contradicted the general narrative on the issue, but both reports were called into […]
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By Marilena Dolce, In the past few years, as we all know, the network has enveloped the world. Data referring to the internet in 2015 indicate that 3 billion people, 41% of the world’s population actively uses the net – with 2.1 billion of these, i.e. 29% participating in a social media and 3.6 billion, […]
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By Yacob Zecharias, MUCH has been said about the recent UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) report on Eritrea. The legitimacy and other issues have been eloquently raised by others more versed in these matters than I. However, on reading the report’s methodology and sections of the report, it became quite evident that the report was […]
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By Gil Ronen, A REPORT issued in late March by the British Home Office determines that defectors from the Eritrean army do not, in fact, face life-threatening danger in Eritrea, and therefore do not deserve refugee status in other countries. Britain has issued new guidelines for dealing with the Eritreans who have flooded that country. […]
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By TesfaNews, The UK Home Office has issued a new and ‘up-to-date’ guidelines that policy makers should adhere on handling claims made by Eritrean asylum seekers in the country. The two crucial documents that was released last month, namely “Country Information and Guidance Eritrea: National (incl. Military) Service” and “Country Information and Guidance Eritrea: Illegal […]
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By Astier M. Almedom, IN COPENHAGEN, media debates on what is and isn’t true about Eritrea have spilled over into 2015. The conversation is internal, almost always conducted in Danish. It reveals both genuine ignorance, some degree of arrogance, and deliberate spinning of facts and figures – a reminder of the celebrated Danish writer’s, Hans […]
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By TesfaNews, A DELEGATION from the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has arrived in Eritrea this week for a bilateral talk. The delegation was led by Mr. Andrads Szabo, Head of the African Desk. The delegation is currently holding a series of bilateral talks with a number of government ministries on investments, trade, […]
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By Seble Ephrem, Over the summer months of 2014 various European countries reported that they were being innundated by a huge number of asylum seekers identifying themselves as ‘Eritrean’. Denmark recorded a dramatic 500% spike, and ‘took the initiative to send a ‘fact finding mission’ to Eritrea to investigate the reasons for the sudden increase […]
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