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UNHCR continues to receive new arrivals in East Sudan, largely from Eritrea. The Commission of Refugees (COR) receives and assists asylum-seekers at the border where they are temporarily hosted in reception centres. Within 1-2 weeks they are transported to Shagarab camps where they undergo screening, registration, and Refugee Status Determination (RSD) while receiving life-saving services […]

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Europe External Programme with Africa is a Belgium-based Centre of Expertise with in-depth knowledge, publications, and networks, specialised in issues of peacebuilding, refugee protection, and resilience in the Horn of Africa. EEPA has published extensively on issues related to the movement and/or human trafficking of refugees in the Horn of Africa and on the Central Mediterranean […]

By Markus Rudolf Background Forced displacement in Ethiopia is a complex issue with, in part, contradictory trends. In 2018, when the Eritrean–Ethiopian peace agreement laid the foundation for opening borders and the Nobel Peace Prize, between one and three million people were displaced by inter-ethnic conflicts and violence in Ethiopia. At the same time, just […]

Desperately fighting to curb the immigrants flow through the English Channel, the British Home Secretary Priti Patel signed an agreement with the Rwandan Foreign and International Cooperation Minister Vincent Biruta. The agreement will allow the UK to ‘offshore’ asylum seekers by charter flights to Rwanda pending the processing of their asylum-seeking demands. Landing in Kigali […]

In this report on Eritrean refugees with a residence permit in the Netherlands, the Netherlands Institute for Social Research examines the backgrounds and experiences of this newcomer group. The report reveals considerable distance between newly arrived Eritreans and Dutch society. The main motive among Eritreans for fleeing their country is to escape mandatory conscription without […]

family home and our belongings were confiscated. We didn’t have a choice – we had to leave. Six of my siblings went to a different part of the country with our grandmother. My father’s business partner arranged for my mother, me and my sibling to leave the country. readmore

ENEVA (13 April 2022) – UN human rights experts* deplored Egypt’s recent and ongoing collective expulsions of Eritrean asylum seekers, and called on the authorities to immediately halt any further forced returns. The experts expressed grave concern at what is shaping up to be a policy of arbitrary and collective expulsion of Eritreans, and cautioned the […]