Addis Abeba — The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said following complaints filed to the commission by Eritrean refugees and Asylum seekers in Addis Abeba, it observed that hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers, mostly Eritreans have been imprisoned in several sub-cities in the capital on the basis of failing to present documents revealing their…
The rights group said authorities arbitrarily detained or expelled relatives of those who evaded forced military conscription from their homes. Eritrea has punished the family members of thousands of alleged draft evaders during a conscription drive intended to bolster its military campaign in neighbouring Ethiopia, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday. Women as old as…
NAIROBI, KENYA — Three people have been killed Saturday in attacks on a church in southern Ethiopia, according to reports by a religious media outlet. The violence erupted against a backdrop of tensions in the ancient Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church after rebel bishops created their own synod in Oromia, the country’s most populous region. Abune…
At least 56 journalists across Africa have been jailed in connection with their work, with Egypt and Eritrea being among the top jailers of journalists globally, ranking position seven and nine, respectively, according to a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) published on Wednesday. Eastern Africa leads sub-Saharan Africa in jailing of journalists,…
The churches date from the 6th and 7th century AD, when Northeast Africa and South Arabia during Classical antiquity to the Middle Ages, was ruled over by the Kingdom of Aksum. The Aksumite Kingdom emerged during the mid-1st century AD in the former territories of the fallen D’mt Kingdom. The kingdom played an important role…
BBC ንኤርትራ ወኪሎም ኣብ ሻምፒዮና ኣትለቲክስ ዓለም ንምስታፍ ናብ ኣሜሪካ ግዝኣት ኦሪገን ተላኢዀም ዝጸንሑ’ሞ “ጠፊኦም” ካብ መንጐ ዝተባህሉ ሓሙሽተ ኤርትራውያን ኣትለታት፡ እቶም ሰለስተ ንውድድር ናብ ካልኦት ሃገራት ከም ዝኸዱ ተገሊጹ። ኣብ መበል 18 ሻምፒዮና ኣትሌቲክስ ዓለም ንምስታፍ ካብ ዝተላእኩ ጕጅለ ኣትለቲክስ ኤርትራ፡ ናብ ሃገሮም ከይተመልሱ ኣብ ኣሜሪካ ዝተረፉ ኣትለታት ኣለው ዝብሉ ጸብጻባት ይወጽኡ ኣለው። እንተዀነ፡…
Julia Holladay May 27, 2022 Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray is in the midst of ongoing conflict that has displaced more than 1.7 million people and killed thousands. The situation is particularly dire for the more than 96,000 Eritreans in the region who fled Eritrea over several decades. All sides of the conflict have perpetrated…
Posted by: Dehai Date: Saturday, 02 April 2022 Access to the Sea in the Context of Eritrea and Ethiopia By Gebre Hiwet Tesfagiorgis* Introduction Access to the sea is currently a topic of discussion among Eritreans and Ethiopians in the mass media primarily due to continuous assertions of access to the Red Sea by Ethiopian…
Source: UN Human Rights Council Human Rights Council holds separate interactive dialogues on the human rights situations in Eritrea and in Sri Lanka 4 March 2022 The Human Rights Council this afternoon held separate interactive dialogues on the situations of human rights in Eritrea and in Sri Lanka. Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker, United Nations Special Rapporteur…
The “Refugees Platform in Egypt – RPE ” monitored and documented that the Egyptian authorities committed the crime of forced deportations against 31 Eritrean asylum-seekers from Egypt to Asmara – the capital of Eritrea – during the past week. Among the women forcibly returned was a disabled woman who could neither speak nor hear –…