Eritrean Refugee Arrested Over the Murder of Khalid Idris Bahray in Germany

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 […]

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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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500 Feared Dead in Mediterranean Migrant Shipwreck

By 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 […]

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Kenya: Authorities Concerned Spillover of Internal Conflict in Ethiopia

By 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, […]

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Over 3000 Somali Refugees Receiving Protection in Eritrea: UNHCR

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 […]

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No Easy Way Out for African Migrants in Israeli Desert Detention

“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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