Concerned Eritreans in Vancouver, Canada are planning to remember those brothers and sisters who died in the Mediterranean sea by holding a candle night on April 30, 2011 at 4 PM. Place, at hum park New Westminster. All Eritreans in Vancouver and surrounding area are invited to join the event.

Professor Richard Greenfield, emeritus professor of history at the University of Asmara and senior adviser to the Research and Documentation Center of Eritrea, died in Oxford on 1 June 2008 after along bout with cancer. He was 77.