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More than 10% of the population of Eritrea — over 492,000 — now live as refugees due to social and political instability and violence. It’s hard to gauge humanitarian need within the small East African country — Eritrea remains one of the countries that Concern struggles to get complete data on for our annual Global […]

Eritrea refugee statistics for 2021 was 121.00, a 39.8% decline from 2020. Eritrea refugee statistics for 2020 was 201.00, a 1.01% increase from 2019. Eritrea refugee statistics for 2019 was 199.00, a 91.16% decline from 2018. Eritrea refugee statistics for 2018 was 2,252.00, a 5.85% decline from 2017. readmore

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The report, I Wanted to Lie Down and Die: Trafficking and Torture of Eritreans in Sudan and Egypt, details harrowing testimonies from dozens of refugees who told HRW that Sudanese and Egyptian security officers often facilitated their abuse rather than arresting the traffickers. Eritrean refugees are routinely brutalised by their captors, mutilation, burning, beatings and sexual […]

The 12 men and women are currently being held in Kassala prison in Sudan, near to the border with Eritrea. Theywere among a group of 20 Eritreans who were arrested during the first week of May and transferred to Kassala prison, charged with illegal entry into the country. All 20 men and women were found […]

Nairobi, May 30, 2016) – The Sudanese authorities deported at least 442 Eritreans, including six registered refugees, to Eritrea in May 2016, Human Rights Watch said today. Sudan denied the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) access to identify those who wanted to claim asylum and also denied the agency access to 64 Ethiopians […]

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 […]