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A witness told AFP that 26 or 27 refugees were taken by the EDF to an unknown location. [5] On 2 February, Filippo Grandi, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), stated after a visit to Ethiopia that Eritrean refugees had been "caught in crossfire, abducted and forced to return to Eritrea under duress by Eritrean forces ...
The refugees have settled in a number of poor neighborhoods in the city of Tel Aviv, Israel's economic capital. [1] The clashes erupted during an event organized by the Eritrean embassy to mark Revolution Day on September 1, which commemorates the start of Eritrea's war of independence against Ethiopia in 1961. [5]
Since 2001, 700,000 people have left the country as a result of political repression under Isais Afwerki. [4] In 2015, approximately 40,000 Eritrean arrived in Europe via the Mediterranean. Eritrea has become a small country with a large number pf refugees in Africa and elsewhere. [5] [6]
One Eritrean refugee, who wished to remain anonymous for safety reasons, said he was arrested after someone heard him speaking Tigrinya - a language used in Eritrea, as well as Ethiopia's Tigray ...
The Hitsats massacre was a massacre at Hitsats refugee camp on or around 19 November 2020 during the Tigray War. [1] The civilians killed were 300 Eritrean refugees, according to Europe External Programme with Africa (EEPA), [2] and five humanitarian workers, according to The New York Times, [1] Associated Press, [3] and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
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A U.N. refugee agency official said on Tuesday that some 1 million Syrian refugees are expected to return to the country in the first six months of 2025, asking states to refrain from forcing them ...
A mass grave of civilians in Tigray [15] [16]. The EHRC claimed in November 2020 that the Mai Kadra massacre could constitute a crime against humanity. [3] Human Rights Concern Eritrea claimed in February 2021 that crimes against humanity occurred during the war, in particular in the "appalling treatment of Eritrean refugees in the Shimelba and Hitsats camps" and called for an immediate ...