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Eritrean asylum seekers in eastern Sudanese refugee camps used to face excessive violence by the Sudanese police, and by human trafficking gangs who raid the camps to kidnap refugees. New developments have made their life even worse. The international community and Khartoum should intervene to reverse the increasingly widening area of human trafficking in eastern […]

The humanitarian situation in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray is nothing short of abysmal.Atrocities amounting to war crimes have led to the forced displacement of nearly 2.5 million people inside Ethiopia and into neighboring states. The Ethiopian government has blocked virtuallyall food and medical shipments into Tigray, using food as a weapon of war. With […]

Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia say they are being targeted for arbitrary arrest and forcible relocation to war-torn parts of the country, despite having UN permission to remain in Ethiopia. Government security officers are accused of rounding up, abusing and unlawfully detaining refugees who have legal status, as well as Eritreans who have foreign citizenship. Berket*, an Eritrean-born […]

News from Eritrean Refugees in Sudan indicates an organized campaign by local security personnel to arrest, imprison, and extract money from desperate and impoverished Eritrean refugees.  Evidence is continuing to be received that, since mid-February 2022, police and soldiers have been rounding up Eritrean refugees in Sudan from the street, their workplaces and their homes […]

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 […]