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An Eritrean asylum seeker who killed himself shortly after his 18th birthday was worried about his application to remain in the UK and was traumatised by the recent suicide of a close friend, another Eritrean asylum seeker, an inquest has heard. The examination of the circumstances leading to the death of Alexander Tekle is the […]

An air raid has struck a refugee camp in Ethiopia’s war-hit Tigray region, killing three Eritreans, including two children, the United Nations said. Wednesday’s attack on Mai Aini refugee camp, near the southern Tigrayan town of Mai Tsebri, wounded four other refugees but their lives were not at risk, the UN said in a statement […]

CALAIS, France — At least 31 migrants bound for Britain died Wednesday when their boat sank in the English Channel, in what France’s interior minister called the biggest migration tragedy on the dangerous crossing to date. https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/uk-bound-migrants-die-channel-off-calais-81373494Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said 34 people were believed to have been on the boat. Authorities found 31 bodies — […]

A 27-year-old man from Eritrea died after he and four others jumped overboard as their boat started to sink in the English Channel. His 22-year-old girlfriend watched as he entered the water before she was later rescued, a French migrant help organisation told the PA news agency. After being returned to port in Dunkirk, she […]

At least 43 migrants and refugees are feared to have drowned while 84 were rescued after a shipwreck off Tunisia’s coast, the Tunisian Red Crescent said on Saturday. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/3/at-least-43-migrants-drown-as-boat-capsizes-off-tunisias-coastThe boat had set off from Zuwarah on Libya’s northwest coast, carrying migrants and refugees from Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea and Bangladesh, as they tried to cross the […]

Most of the people who lost their lives when their flimsy dinghy sank in the Channel last month have been named for the first time in a new investigation. The BBC World Service has named 20 of the people who travelled to the UK in search of a better life but drowned in the early hours of 24 […]

In Ethiopia’s wartorn Tigray region, UN aid workers said on Tuesday that they have reached two refugee camps for Eritrean nationals for the first time since being cut off by fighting last month. UN refugee agency (UNHCR) spokesperson, Boris Cheshirkov, told journalists in Geneva that emergency aid had been delivered to the camps’ 23,000 residents, […]