Eritrean President Criticizes Israel’s Migrant Deportation Plan

‘Eritreans who wish to return from Israel have every right to do so’ – President Afwerki BY ASSOCIATED PRESS In an interview, Eritrea’s president has expressed his displeasure with Israel’s plan to deport tens of thousands of African migrants, saying they deserve far more than the $3,500 they were offered to leave. President Isaias Afwerki’s […]

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Rwanda, Uganda Deny Deal With Israel to Take Africa Migrants

BY YVONNE RARIEYA | CGTN AFRICA The governments of Rwanda and Uganda are denying any deal with Israel to host thousands of African migrants told to leave that country in the next three months or face incarceration. Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority this week called on migrants from Sudan and Eritrea to leave “to their […]

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IOM Evacuation Operations for Stranded Ethiopians and Somalis from Yemen Resumes

“Yemeni authorities are deporting hundreds of Ethiopian and Somali migrants to Djibouti under deplorable conditions.” – IOM By IOM, IOM evacuation operations are resuming in Yemen, after a pause imposed by airstrikes and ground fights in the country. Reception capacity for the large influx of migrants from Ethiopia and other Horn of Africa countries returning […]

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Finally, EU Gets Tough on African Migrants

By Gabriela Baczynska and Alastair Macdonald, Encouraged by their success in halting a mass influx of refugees by closing Greek borders and cutting a controversial deal with Turkey, EU leaders are getting tough on African migrants too. A Brussels summit on Thursday will endorse pilot projects to pressure African governments via aid budgets to slow […]

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Politicizing Eritrean Economic Migrants

By Madote, It sounds like every developing country in the world has economic migrant issues except for Eritrea. This is because when Eritrean economic migrants leave their country, they are falsely labeled as “refugees” or “asylum seekers“. This unfair politicization of migrants is kept in place to induce more Eritreans to leave their country by […]

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