As we speak, seven Eritrean refugees are stranded at one Air port in Ecuador, Guayaquil Airport, and they have been threatened that they will be forced to return to Eritrea. At least two of them are women and one has health condition. They are crying for help as they will face persecution and harsh punishment if they are forced to return back to Eritrea.
Eritrea refugees living in Kampala, Uganda are being pressured by the recently opened Eritrean Consulate to sign a petition opposing the imposition of United Nations (UN) sanctions on their country.
The African Union Commission Chief Jean Ping, has informed Eritrea to send an ambassador to represent it in Addis Ababa, the seat of the African Union (AU), despite Eritrea’s frosty relations with hosts, Ethiopia.
January 31, 2010 (ADDIS ABABA) — U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday said he will name Haile Menkerios, a former Eritrean diplomat as his special envoy to Sudan making him the third head of the UN Mission in Sudan.
Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi yesterday failed in his bid to stay on as chairman of the African Union (AU) for another year.
ነጋሲ ሃብታይ ከምኡ ‘ውን ፓታዊ ገብረዝግኣቢሄር ዝተባህሉ ክልተ ኣብ እስራኤል ዝርከቡ ኤርትራውያን ምስ ጨወይቲ ኣፍሪቃውያን ስደተኛታት ብምትሕብባሮም ተኸሲሶም፡ ኣብ ፍርዲ ከምዝቐረቡ Haaretz ዝተባህለ ጋዜጣ እስራኤል ሓቢሩ።
January 18, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — Around one hundred refugees from Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia infiltrate Sudan every day through the eastern border, said a Sudanese official on Sunday.