British Foreign and Home Office Delegation in Asmara

By TesfaNews, FOLLOWING last week’s EU – Horn of Africa Migration Route Initiative Ministerial Conference in Rome, a delegation from the British Foreign and Home Offices have arrived in Asmara for talks with the Eritrean government on multi-layered facets of migration and human trafficking. It was not yet confirmed whether the delegations also came to […]

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Legitimacy and Integrity of Professor Gaim Kibreab’s Complaints Compromised

By TesfaNews, IT was during summer this year that Denmark experienced a surge in the number of asylum seekers who claim to be from Eritrea. Almost all of them mentioned the fear of being punished for illegal exit from the country or desertion from national service as grounds for asylum. The available data, however, give […]

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Danish Report Finds Eritrean Migrants Aren’t Refugees

By Shimon Cohen, A SPECIAL research delegation of the Danish Immigration Service (UDL) went to Ethiopia and Eritrea to clarify the political realities in the region in terms of “refugee status” for immigrants illegally leaving Eritrea, and last month published its precedent setting results. The report, released November 14 and entitled “Eritrea – Drivers and Root […]

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Danish Report: ‘Politiken’ Attempting to Bury Facts

By TesfaNews, AFTER the Danish Immigration Services (Udlændingestyrelsen) technically obliterate a decade old Human Rights allegations levelled against Eritrea by sending an investigative team on the ground on two occasions for five weeks and made public its findings, a number of activists and human right organisations that authored those allegations are quick to downplay and […]

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Eritrea Denounces Human Trafficking, Urges Review of EU Migration Policies on Eritreans

By Shabait, THE Eritrean Delegation to the meeting of the EU-Horn Africa Ministerial Conference in Rome has denounced human trafficking activities and would reinforce its struggle against the crime. The delegation headed by Foreign Minister Osman Saleh underscored the need to draw up both concrete time framework and tangible action measures against the malaise.

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Danish Fact-Finding Mission has it Right on Eritrea Human Rights

By Bereket Kidane, ERITREA has had the unfortunate reality of being the only African nation whose nation building efforts and sovereignty are continuously challenged by the morally-bankrupt UN bodies, NGOs and Ethiopia’s Western allies at the UNSC. No other country has been the target of such non-stop, well-funded, and highly organized propaganda campaign designed to […]

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