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In the Alps, the last major town before Austria is a purgatory for those headed north Five Eritrean youths race down the platform. They’ve avoided the 15 or so Italian police and Carabinieri officers who are there to stop them climbing aboard. But inside the final express carriage, a huge …

ADDIS ABABA – An Eritrean opposition group on Sunday accused the Sudanese government of failing to provide enough protection to Eritrean refugees who are subjected to abductions by criminal gangs from in and around Shagarab refugee camp in Eastern Sudan. Young Eritrean refugees in Sudan who have fled persecution in …

By Hilary Beaumont A UN report on human rights abuses in Eritrea has unearthed new allegations of forced labor at a Canadian-owned mining company. According to the report, released this week, some of the most atrocious human rights violations are happening in Eritrea, an east-African nation that’s been compared to …

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) hails this week’s report by the UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in Eritrea. Released on 8 June, the report says some of the human rights violations by President Issayas Afeworki’s government, which include the arbitrary detention of journalists, may constitute crimes against humanity. Although …

By Steve Scherer BOLZANO, Italy May 29 (Reuters) – Some 200 mostly Eritrean migrants heading northwards from Italy were turned back by police in the Italian Alps on Friday and left sleeping in train stations as European countries tightened frontier checks before a global summit in Germany. EU countries are …

Addis Ababa (AFP) – The secretive Horn of Africa state of Eritrea claimed Monday that human rights activists were partly to blame for the hordes of migrants heading to Europe. The isolationist Red Sea dictatorship is one of the largest contributors to the exodus across the Mediterranean and has in …

SINEAD O’SHEA They must either live in misery or risk death by leaving a country that is in the grip of a highly repressive regime. Horror has been expressed at the latest migrant drowning catastrophe in the Mediterranean. Little has been said, however, about Eritrea. But 22% of all people …

BY SAM JONES, PATRICK KINGSLEY, AND MARK ANDERSON Escaping oppression: An Eritrean refugee preparing a meal outside his shelter in the woods in Calais, France. Unbearable living conditions back home have triggered a growing exodus of Eritreans who hope to find a better life for themselves in Europe. Photo: Reuters …

Ali Addeh refugee camp, Djibouti (CNN)Henol and Mebratu emerge from their current home, a modest structure with plastic sheeting serving as its roof, carrying the “master folder.” One of the most important documents on the camp, it’s a record of each Eritrean’s name and their case — whether they’ve been …

New York — With journalists often facing a choice of life in exile or prison, and with even reporters for state-run outlets in fear of arrest, Eritrea secures its place as the most censored country in the world, with secretive North Korea coming in close second, according to a list …