Eritrean Authorities Have Arrested 50 Locally Employed U.S. Embassy Personnel

The former US ambassador to Eritrea, Ambassador Ronald McMullen disclosed for the first time last week that between 2001 and 2010 the Eritrean authorities arrested dozens of Eritrean employees of the US embassy in Asmara. Ambassador McMullen, US Ambassador to Eritrea 2007-2010, said: “Forty eight of our Eritrean employees have been arrested from 2001 to […]

Ethiopia: Protecting Labour Migrants Through Legal Means 28 AUGUST 2015

Labour migration, which has been mounting nowadays, is being favored by young Ethiopians from rural Ethiopia as a strategy for moving out of poverty. Generally, the immediate cause for migration is search for employment and a better life, which is not far from the truth, but only partially. Ironically a single would-be immigrant to the […]

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Veteran Eritrean freedom fighters launch underground opposition By Monica Mark, Guardian August 28, 2015

    In the spring of 1976, two young Eritrean men walked into the glass-fronted United Nations building in downtown Geneva to make a desperate plea. It was years into Eritrea’s struggle to break away from neighbouring Ethiopia, and occupying troops had recently shuttered schools across the country. With no outside help forthcoming, Habte Tesfamariam […]

200 feared dead in latest migrant disaster off Libya’s coast By MOHAMED BEN KHALIFA4 hours ago

 ZUWARA, Libya (AP) — Libyan authorities were collecting the bodies of migrants who drowned off the western coastal city of Zuwara, with some 200 feared dead on Friday in the latest disaster involving desperate people trying to reach Europe across the Mediterranean. An Associated Press photographer at the scene saw workers removing bodies from the […]