Dear fellow Eritreans, Isaias Afewerki is trying to nullify the 1997 constitution because he does not want to be charged of extra-judicial imprisonments, disappearances, and killings of innocent people by the 1997 constitution. He should be charged and tried of murder. He should also be

Europe’s response to the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean has rightly – if belatedly – focused on saving lives. Not a week goes by now without thousands of Africans, Asians and refugees from the Middle East being rescued off the coast of Italy by European

More than 20 members of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Eritrea are taken to Gahtelay for military training for 45 days, according to sources from Asmara. As a result , most offices of the ministry are closed and the ministry is effectively out of operation;

GENEVA (8 June 2015) -- The Government of Eritrea is responsible for systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations that have created a climate of fear in which dissent is stifled, a large proportion of the population is subjected to forced labour and imprisonment, and

"Systematic and gross human rights abuses" on scale seldom seen may include crimes against humanity, report finds. The Eritrean government may have committed crimes against humanity and was responsible for systematic and gross human rights abuses on a "scope and scale seldom witnessed elsewhere", a year-long

A group of four Rashaida attackers kidnapped 14 Eritrean refugees, including 8 women in Eastern Sudan, just 1 Km from Shegerab Refugee Camp, according to Eritrean refugees in the refugee Camp. The victims were among 70 Eritrean refugees who were being transported from Wedi Sherifey to

By RFI French police officers cleared up on Tuesday morning hundreds of African migrants from a makeshift camp beneath the metro in Paris. Simultaneously, two migrant camps underwent evacuation in the northern port of Calais. About 350 refugees, most of them from Sudan and Eritrea, but also

Migrants rescued in on-going operations brought safely to port in Sicily The Italian Naval vessel Spica, carrying 992 rescued migrants, dropped anchor just outside the small southern Sicilian port of Pozzallo on over the weekend. This shipload, including about 200 minors and mostly made up by Eritreans,

More than 4,200 migrants trying to reach Europe have been rescued from boats in the Mediterranean in the past 24 hours, the Italian coastguard has said. In some of the most intense Mediterranean migrant traffic of the year, a total of 4,243 people were saved from

Eritrea is ranked among the 10 most corrupted countries in the world according Transparency International. The corruption perceptions index countries based on how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be on a scale 0-100 where 0 means that a countyry is perceived as highly

Eritrean American Community of San Diego Honoring & Commemorating Eritrean Independence, San Diego, California, May 24, 2015. The Eritrean community in San Diego, California, in North America dates back to the 80's. It was a very strong community that many of the people in the photograph

Norway's right-wing government is negotiating a deal with Eritrea's repressive regime which would see asylum seekers from the country forcibly returned, even though a UN report maintains that they could face torture. Jøran Kallmyr, state secretary at the Ministry of Justice, plans to soon travel to

  The European Commission has called on EU member states to take in 40,000 asylum seekers from Syria and Eritrea who land in Italy and Greece over the next two years. Germany, France and Spain would receive the most migrants under the Commission's latest plan. The idea of

Minnesota celebrates Independence Day 2015 under especially tragic circumstances by also holding a candle light vigil for those who perished in the Mediterranean Sea.