Eritrea

The Saudi Public Investment Fund intends to establish a new company for cross-docking and transhipment logistics in the Red Sea, the French Africa Intelligence reported on Friday, noting that...

The number of migrants arriving in Britain in small boats hit a record for a single day yesterday, as the rise in dangerous journeys across the English Channel continues...

A joint Sudanese-Libyan patrol announced on Friday that eight Sudanese individuals have been rescued and 20 bodies were found in the desert on the border between Sudan and Libya....

Libyan security forces freed 195 people of different nationalities, including 23 women and two children, who had been kidnapped by a gang for ransom, Anadolu news agency reported. A statement issued...

Amnesty International has called on Friday for Egypt to stop the deportation of Eritrean refugees to their home, where they would face serious human rights violations, including torture. The...

Last week Senegal abstained on a UN Security Council vote to end immediately Russia's military intervention in Ukraine. The decision came despite intense pressure from its former colonial power, France, who wanted the West...

More than 200 Eritrean asylum seekers, including 44 children, have been detained in Egypt, a report by the Refugee Platform in Egypt has revealed. They include a seven-year-old girl and a...

Ten Eritrean refugees detained in the Red Sea Governorate since 2019 have been on hunger strike for four days. They have been denied contact with UNHCR and were not...

Egyptian authorities have deported eight Eritreans who hail from the same family back to Asmara, according to Refugee Platform. A source told Mada Masr that one of the eight people...

Despite possessing meagre resources, the landlocked East African country of Uganda hosts 1.5 million refugees from across Africa, including South Sudan, Burundi, Somalia, Rwanda, Eritrea, and Sudan. So far,...

Qatar National Bank QPSC (QNB) asked a Washington D.C. court to order Eritrea to pay about $300 million of debt after the Horn of Africa nation refused to respond...

Israel's return to the African Union (AU) as an observer state has sparked a huge backlash in the continent with as many as 14 countries said to be ready...

There has been a huge backlash against the UK's proposed anti-immigration bill which grants asylum seekers different rights based on whether they arrived in the country legally or illegally,...

At least 43 migrants drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy, while another 84 were rescued, the Tunisian Red...

Somali parents today staged a protest in the capital Mogadishu, demanding the government disclose the whereabouts of their sons who were taken to Eritrea for military training, Anadolu Agency...

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki yesterday arrived in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, for fresh mediation efforts aimed at resolving the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, local media reported. The Sudanese Sovereignty Council...

The 95 Egyptian fishermen detained in Eritrea since January yesterday returned to Egypt, local media reported. The Youm7 newspaper quoted unnamed sources at Cairo International Airport as saying the 95 Egyptian...

The US has urged Eritrean forces to leave Ethiopia's Tigray region immediately, and the Ethiopian government to hold those responsible for human rights violations accountable, Anadolu Agency reports. Linda...

The young mother was trying to get home with food for her two children when she says soldiers pulled her off a minibus in Ethiopia's Tigray region, claiming it...

An Iranian cargo ship has come under attack in the Red Sea, Reuters reported Al Arabiya TV as saying on Tuesday, quoting unnamed sources. It cited the sources as saying...

Eritrean authorities released on Thursday 80 Yemeni fishermen from Al-Hudaydah governorate, days after detaining them in international waters. Pro-Houthi Al-Thawra newspaper quoted Head of the General Authority for Fisheries...

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri yesterday met with Eritrean Foreign Minister, Osman Saleh, and discussed the recent conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region, local media reported. Saleh, who is on...

Eritrean naval forces must stop their attack on fishermen in Yemen's territorial waters, Fish Wealth Minister, Fahd Kafayen, said yesterday. "The Eritrean forces have been targeting the Yemeni fishermen...

Asylum applications in the European Union (EU) countries has increased by 13 per cent in 2019 compared to the year before, the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) announced yesterday....

Saudi Arabia will not fine citizens of Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Nigeria and Chad if they have overstayed their visas as long as they pledge to leave the country forever,...

Mauritania yesterday denied recent reports on "a possible construction of an Emirati military base" on its soil. A local source told official ACE that Mauritania was having "brotherly relations...

Dozens of would-be North African migrants held in the central Prison in Taiz, south of Yemen, want to return to their homeland, saying that poverty forced them to leave....

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his efforts to make peace with Eritrea

A Sudanese politician accused the UAE of seeking to re-enact the scenario of Yemeni separatist transitional council in Sudan through supporting demonstrations calling for secession as well as recruiting...

Japan will not join the United States in a security mission to protect merchant vessels passing through key Middle Eastern waterways and will instead consider deploying its military independently,...

The Jordanian Air Force was mobilised yesterday to battle the second swarm of locusts to hit the kingdom in 24 hours, according to the National. Officials reported that the...

Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir said today that his country was reopening its border with Eritrea, which has been shut for about a year. Sudan closed the border in early...