More than 3,000 Eritrean refugees have been detained in Egypt this year and some have reported sexual violence and torture, a human rights NGO said Monday. Eritrea, a Horn of Africa country of approximately 3.5 million inhabitants, has one of the most repressive governments in the world. Led since 1993 by President Isaias Afwerki, who has never…
ARAB NEWS ADDIS ABABA: The UN has urged Ethiopia and Eritrea to respect each other’s territorial integrity, voicing concern over “renewed tensions” between the two neighboring countries. For months, the Horn of Africa nations have traded accusations of destabilization, raising the spectre of a new war. Eritrea, which gained independence from Ethiopia in 1993 after…
Editor, BBC Tigrinya Thirteen people held for more than 18 years without trial in Eritrea have been released from a notorious military prison, relatives of the detainees have told the BBC. Among those freed were several prominent figures, including 69-year-old Olympian cyclist and businessman Zeragaber Gebrehiwot. They had been held at Mai Serwa prison, known…
28/1/2026 A Dutch court on Tuesday sentenced an Eritrean human trafficker to 20 years in prison after convicting him of running a migrant smuggling network in Libya and subjecting migrants to serious abuses in order to extort money from their families. According to Reuters, the 42-year-old defendant, known as Amanuel Walid, also referred to as…
AllAfrica analysisBy International Crisis Group The respected Brussels-based think tank, the International Crisis Group, has identified three conflicts in Africa as among the 10 world-wide which – following a violence-wracked 2025 – are expected to continue and which should receive most attention in 2026. The ICG’s list of “conflicts to watch” include those affecting Ethiopia and…
Dec 13 2025 Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General, has called on Ethiopia and Eritrea to recommit to the terms of the Algiers Agreement as the two countries commemorate the 25th anniversary of the peace accord that ended a brutal conflict between them at the turn of the millennium. “Today marks the 25th anniversary…
Paul Leech | Georgetown U. Law Center, US December 16, 2025 07:41:27 am The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) issued a press release on Monday calling for the release of thousands of people arbitrarily detained in Eritrea. The release states there are believed to be over 10,000 people arbitrarily detained in…
The Norwegian Directorate of Immigration has announced the start of formal procedures to revoke citizenship and permanent residence permits from a number of Eritrean refugees, after authorities discovered that they continued to provide direct support to the Eritrean government despite having received protection in Norway on the grounds of fleeing its practices. The directorate said…
Monday, 3 November 2025 NL-TIMES The substantive trial in one of the largest human smuggling cases in Dutch history is underway in the court in Zwolle, De Stentor reported. The first of nine planned sessions began Monday against Eritrean suspect Walid D., who is accused of running a vast criminal network that smuggled thousands of migrants from…
13 Oct 2025 Ethiopian Foreign Minister alleges Eritrea is working with a TPLF faction and Amhara rebels A dangerous rift between Eritrea and Ethiopia is growing ever wider. In a 2 October letter to UN Secretary General António Guterres, Ethiopia’s Foreign Minister Gedion Timothewos accuses Eritrea of waging a proxy war via a faction of the Tigray People’s…