ELL Eritrean Lowland League
Europe Online London (dpa) – Two former Danish government researchers and a British scholar have disowned a report that influences Britain‘s rejection many recent applications for asylum by Eritreans, reports said on Thursday. Jens Weise Olesen and Jan Olsen told Amnesty International in Denmark that they resigned from the …
Read More »From Eritrea to Wonthaggi to Victorian Father of the Year
Victorian Father of the Year Abubeker Mohamed with family (Supplied:Darrian Trainer) By Zoe Ferguson Abubeker Mohamed migrated to Australia from his home country of Eritrea in 1996. Wonthaggi in West Gippsland became home for Abubeker, his wife Suad and their seven children, aged between two and 13-years-old. Less than …
Read More »Canada’s Nevsun defends Eritrea mining after damning UN report
Workers are shown smelting gold at the Bisha mine in Eritrea in this undated photo. Ian Bickis, The Canadian Press CALGARY — Canadian mining company Nevsun Resources is defending its operations in Eritrea following a damning report by the United Nations that accused the miner of using forced labour …
Read More »From Eritrea to Wonthaggi to Victorian Father of the Year
Victorian Father of the Year Abubeker Mohamed with family (Supplied:Darrian Trainer) By Zoe Ferguson Abubeker Mohamed migrated to Australia from his home country of Eritrea in 1996. Wonthaggi in West Gippsland became home for Abubeker, his wife Suad and their seven children, aged between two and 13-years-old. Less than …
Read More »A Message from Eritrean Canadian community
There are many stories about Eritrea. Some are accurate and some are not. One particular story that I liked to tell everyone as I was growing up outside Eritrea is a story about some Greek men who as they were roaming the red sea, 100s and 100s of years ago, …
Read More »Syrian and Eritrean refugees to arrive in 2016
The first group of refugees from Syria and Eritrea is to arrive in Poland next year. Poland has pledged to receive 2,000 refugees by 2017 as part of the European Union’s intake programme. The Ministry of Interior Affairs announced that they will be arriving in groups numbering no more than …
Read More »Eritreans to stage mass demonstration in Toronto – Canada on August 17, 2015
August 17, 2015 on monday 11:00am Eritrean Demonstration in Toronto – Canada, to support the report of the commission of inquiry on human right in Eritrea, and to protest against violations of civil rights and freedom of expression. The committee fact-finding that basic human rights in Eritrea described, as …
Read More »“The government has declared war on us”: an appeal from people suffering inside Eritrea
A rare insight into what goes on inside the “North Korea of Africa”. The situation described in this message from Asmara helps explain why Eritreans make up one of the largest group of migrants and refugees arriving in Europe. Photo: Robert Atanasovski/AFP/Getty Martin Plaut writes: A message has been smuggled …
Read More »Eritrea faces societal collapse
By Jean Shaoul 22 June 2015 A United Nations report has exposed the dreadful conditions in Eritrea, located in the Horn of Africa, that have prompted hundreds of thousands to flee the country. By mid-2014, there were nearly 360,000 Eritreans registered as refugees worldwide by the UN, out of a …
Read More »Why Eritreans risk their lives to flee – refugees tell a different tale
John Cordina Hundreds of Eritreans have come to Malta and obtained humanitarian protection over the past few years, although they only comprise a small minority of the hundreds of thousands who have fled the country. According to the UNHCR, there were over 320,000 Eritrean refugees scattered across the globe as …
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