R.I.P Courtesy of family Injury: Fatal Gender: Male Hometown: Fontana Occupation: Health department employee Marital status: Married Children: 3 Isaac Amanios immigrated from Eritrea to California in 2000 to escape violence and repression in his home country, his brother said. “Nowhere is safe,” Abraham Amanios said, standing in front of his brother’s home in Fontana. […]

  Ethiopian Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, has told a local private newspaper that Saudi Arabia and the UAE will bear the consequences of Ethiopia’s response if their operation in and around Eritrea’s Port of Assab supports the ‘Eritrean regime’s destabilization agenda against Ethiopia.’ He made the remarks after a recent United Nations monitoring group report […]

Refugees from other countries have been ignored while all eyes are on Syria, says a group of Vancouver activists who want to bring attention to the refugee crisis in Eritrea. Daniel Tseghay, the main organizer of the informal group, says that federal government’s$1.2-billion plan to expedite Syrian refugees highlights the attention paid to some refugees […]

This country of ours i.e. Ethiopia; has a lot going for her in so many fronts despite the enormous challenges still ahead of her. In the area of development, IMF and World Bank resoundingly projected that Ethiopia will become a middle income country in just 10 years! The train lines, the mega dams, the roads, the […]

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. . . Nairobi (AFP) – Eritrea’s claims it has ended indefinite national service are untrue and refugees arriving in Europe should not be labelled economic migrants, Amnesty International said in a report Wednesday, warning of “persistent atrocities” in the Horn of Africa country. Refugees from the repressive Red Sea state make up the third-largest […]

  Tamil Nadu woman Kasturi Munirathnam tortured in Saudi ArabiaIndia Today video/screenshot   [Latest: India seeks action against Saudi citizen who chopped off Tamil Nadu woman’s hand] A woman from Tamil Nadu — working in a Saudi household as a domestic help — has been hospitalised in Riyadh in a critical condition after her right hand was chopped […]

Every month, thousands of Eritreans flee the country, crossing to neighbouring Ethiopia and Sudan, and increasingly, to Europe. Since the early 2000s, the flow of refugees has been on the rise, robbing the country and its rural communities, in particular, of a young work force, and exacerbating the already impoverished population after decades of war. […]

Image captionMany Eritreans, including unaccompanied children, first flee over the border to Ethiopia Conscription in Eritrea continues to be indefinite despite the government saying last year it would be limited to 18 months, Amnesty International says. The compulsory service, which often lasts decades, is the main reason cited by those who flee the country. Eritreans […]

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