Dejen Ande Hishel, the Eritrean pilot who has been incarcerated without charge for over 15 years and broke out from a PFDJ prison in the capital Asmara, March this year, gives an extensive interview to Voice of Assenna, on the nation's 23rd Independence Day anniversary. In the

At least 14 people died when a boat carrying hundreds of migrants sank in waters between Libya and southern Italy, navy officials say. Some 200 others were rescued from the boat, which went down south of the Italian island of Lampedusa. This comes a day after it emerged that

In total there have been 774 Eritrean asylum seekers to Norway this year. This represents 27 percent of the total of 2,835 people from 86 different countries who have sought asylum in Norway. In the second place, asylum seekers from civil war-torn Syria come with 384 people. Asylum seekers from Somalia,

At least 36 migrants drowned when their boat sank off the Libyan coast earlier this week, officials said, following the recovery of more bodies on Sunday. The navy said it rescued 52 people when the boat sank on Tuesday, but survivors say there were 130 people

(ANSAmed) - RAGUSA, MAY 8 - A 20-year-old Eritrean whose corps was found on Wednesday in Pozzallo, where 289 other migrants came ashore, died of blows to the head and injuries sustained from being trampled.The man seems to have fallen under the rush of the migrants as

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- The mayor of a small Dutch town says a group of former Eritrea nationalteam footballers who went missing after a tournament in Uganda in 2012 and sought asylum is now living in his town. Gorinchem Mayor Anton Barske told public broadcaster NOS on Saturday that the Eritreans have been

A teenager accused of the murder of a young woman in Middlesbrough has appeared at Teesside Crown Court. Dawit Khasay, 19, was in court after a woman in her 20s was found dead at a property on Parliament Road, Middlesbrough in the early hours of Saturday morning. Khasay, of Maple Street, Middlesbrough is