HITSATS, Ethiopia, June 13 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency has opened a new camp in northern Ethiopia to house the increasing number of Eritrean refugees entering the country. A total 776 Eritrean ...

The Afars, a tightly knit Muslim minority in one of the most inhospitable corners of Africa, are determined to keep their home and the culture that sustains them. The Assayita refugee camp ...

Ethiopia plans to shutter a camp for Eritrean refugees and resettle thousands of its inhabitants in other camps that the UN considers already full, an official said, despite concerns this could make ...

When Rodas Tewelde was seven years old, she spent three months in an Eritrean prison. Tewelde’s mother had paid a coyote thousands of dollars to escort her and her three youngest children across the ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by senior writer Benyamin Cohen. Eritrean Youth ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Kris Janowski – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 8 July 2003 In the last ...

The United Nations refugee agency appealed on Tuesday to Ethiopian authorities for access to 96,000 Eritrean refugees in the northern Tigray region, where it said food is believed to have run out ...

Israel attempted to deport 25 Eritrean asylum seekers in violation of international conventions, according to an Israeli NGO supporting the rights of migrants. A group of some 25 Eritrean refugees ...

Tens of thousands of Eritrean refugees have been found languishing in camps in Egypt and Sudan over the last decade, where many were kidnapped and subjected to rape and torture by traffickers, ...

ASMARA, Nov. 14, 2003 — President Isayas Afewerki has said the repatriations of Eritrean refugees from Sudan should be conducted in a programmed and coordinated way and completed within a limited time ...

Eritrea, a small country in the horn of Africa, generally receives little attention in the international media. But in recent years there have been occasional reports of mass drownings of Eritrean ...

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