A Spike in Diplomatic Shuttle – Eritrea: What is All About?

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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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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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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