BY BRIAN GICHERU KINYUA The Horn of Africa is synonymous with land conflicts, but a recent lecture by Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed could shift focus to the control of the Red Sea. In July, rumors started spreading that the Ethiopian government was plotting to establish a link to the Red Sea, with hope of…
BY TIA GOLDENBERGUpdated 7:02 PM CEST, September 3, 2023 TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he wants Eritrean migrants involved in a violent clash in Tel Aviv to be deported immediately and has ordered a plan to remove all of the country’s African migrants. The remarks came a day after bloody…
By MAARIV ONLINE Published: SEPTEMBER 3, 2023 05:44 he violent clashes that occurred at the Eritrean Embassy in Tel Aviv on Saturday was only the most recent in a series of escalating protests against the Eritrean government. The violence that broke out on Saturday in Tel Aviv during protests outside the Eritrean embassy was not the first event of its…
By Saba Aziz Global NewsPosted August 25, 2023 7:58 am Tensions are boiling over in Canada’s Eritrean community after festivals turned violent this month. Chaos erupted at the Festival Eritrea between attendees and protesters at two locations in Toronto over the August long weekend. Several gatherings in Edmonton related to an annual festival also ended in violence, with multiple people…
13 Jul 2023 A group of United Nations investigators and experts called on Ethiopia on Thursday to halt the deportation of Eritreans and the arbitrary detention of Eritrean refugees, asylum seekers and migrants. The group also condemned what they called the “summary expulsion of hundreds of Eritreans” by Ethiopia at the end of June. “Collective…
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…