By Reuters, AN ASYLUM seeker from Eritrea was arrested on Thursday and faces charges of killing a 20-year-old compatriot in Dresden, an eastern German city that has become a center of protests against Islam and refugees. State prosecutor Jan Hille told Reuters that the man had admitted attacking the victim during a dispute over the […]
Continue ReadingBy Aljazeera, SUDAN is reported to have ordered two senior UN officials to leave, amid tensions between Khartoum and the peacekeeping mission in the western Darfur region. A UN spokesperson, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said Ali Zaatari and Yvonne Helle were ordered to […]
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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 […]
Continue ReadingBy AFP, AS many as 500 migrants are feared to have drowned after traffickers rammed and sank their boat in what the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) described Monday as “the worst shipwreck in years“. Horrific details of the shipwreck near Malta, told to IOM by survivors, came after dozens of African migrants were reported […]
Continue ReadingBy Bosire Boniface, SECURITY authorities in Garissa County say they are concerned that the conflict between the Ethiopian government and the outlawed Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) is spilling over into Kenya with fatal consequences. ONLF is a rebel group that has been fighting with the Ethiopian government since 1984 for independence of the Ogaden region, […]
Continue ReadingAn Ethiopian athlete absconded during the just ended Gaborone 2014 Africa Youth Games (AYG) and is believed to have fled to South Africa By Lekopanye Mooketsi, THE Chairperson of the AYG, Regina Sikalesele-Vaka confirmed the incident of the missing Ethiopian athlete. Vaka said the athlete initially absconded on May 27 with one of his mates […]
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BY TESFANEWS According to the March 2014 fact sheet released by UNHCR Eritrea, over 3000 Somalia refugees currently living inside the Umkulu refugee camp near the port city of Massawa while other refugee groups from Sudan and South Sudan lives in the urban areas getting the required protection and assistance. The report indicates that the […]
Continue Reading“When you consider the life of those in camps, concentration camps, of Israel you can’t even say there is anything worse or more horrific than that,” President Isaias Afwerki By Reuters, A compound of one-storey buildings deep in the southern Israeli desert is now home to some 400 African migrants who face the prospect of […]
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