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...

Ethiopia will begin moving its troops away from the border with Eritrea, senior military officials said on Friday, months after the erstwhile enemies reopened it for the first time...

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki arrived on Thursday for his first-ever visit to Somalia, in another sign of rapidly changing relations in the region following Eritrea’s rapprochement with one-time foe...

In the concrete bowels of a vast bus station in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, a group of children gathers in the evening to play and dance to...

Egypt is keen on strengthening its bilateral relations with Eretria in all fields, the Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said yesterday. Speaking during a visit to the Eritrean capital...

Hundreds of migrants have been relocated from government-run detention centres in Libya after being trapped by clashes between rival groups, UN and aid sources said on Thursday. The migrants were abandoned...

African migrants rejected by Italy in a standoff with the European Union last week said they had been held by smugglers for up to two years in Libya and many had...

Italy on Sunday disembarked all 150 migrants from a rescue ship that had been docked for five days in a Sicilian port, ending the migrants’ ordeal and a bitter...

The United Arab Emirates plans to build an oil pipeline connecting Eritrea and Ethiopia, an Ethiopian official said. The pipeline will run from Eritrea’s port city of Assab to...

After years of animosity, the presidents of Eritrea and Somalia have signed an agreement to restore relations, Al Jazeera reported today. Eritrea and Somalia are bridging the gap in...

Somalia’s president paid a rare visit to Eritrea on Saturday in a sign that Asmara is trying to use the opportunity created by a rapprochement with Ethiopia to improve...

Israeli authorities are exploring the possibility of deporting African migrants and asylum-seekers to Sudan and Eritrea, Israeli daily Haaretz said today. In a letter to member of Knesset Mossi...

Some 3,073 Tunisians have made the perilous journey from to Italy across the Mediterranean Sea since the start of the year, an official at the International Organisation for Migration...

Ethiopia and Eritrea have signed a “joint declaration of peace and friendship”, Eritrea’s information minister said today. This brings to an end the war between the neighbouring states and...

Ethiopia’s new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has become the first head of government to visit Eritrea, breaking away from the “no-peace, no-war” situation that has existed between the neighboring...

At least 74 undocumented migrants have been held in northwestern Turkey, security sources said Friday. In Canakkale’s Ayvacik district, gendarmes held a total of 41 undocumented migrants, including women...

Thirty-seven Yemeni fishermen have been released by Eritrea after they were captured in international water in the Red Sea, authorities announced today. “The Eritrean authorities are still holding others,”...

About 140 East African migrants escaped from smugglers holding them captive near the Libyan town of Bani Walid earlier this week, according to a local source and a UN report....

The Sudanese authorities yesterday foiled an attempt to smuggle 70 people in to Libya and arrested five human traffickers, the Anadolu Agency reported, quoting the Commissioner of Refugees. Hamad El-Gizouli said in...

Israel is seeking to negotiate a new deal with the United Nations regarding the status and deportation of African asylum seekers residing in the country, according to a report...

  The Middle East is considered to be the most dangerous and difficult region for journalism according to a Reporters Without Borders announcement, Wednesday. North Korea, however, is still...

The Israeli government said on Tuesday it was abandoning a plan to forcibly deport African migrants who entered the country illegally. The government had been working for months on an...

Israel will release about 200 jailed African migrants in the absence of a final deal to deport them and thousands more Eritrean and Sudanese men who entered the country...

Hundreds of African asylum seekers, jailed for refusing to be part of Israel’s controversial mass deportation plan, are to remain in prison until the government responds to a petition...

Sudan has “enough power to protect its borders from any Israeli penetrations through the neighbouring countries,” a senior member of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) stressed yesterday. Speaking...

Anxious and hungry, hundreds of African migrants lie cramped together on the ground of an open-air warehouse in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden. Most are from desperately...

An Israeli security mission made a secret visit to Rwanda last week in an effort to sell weapons and military technology to the country, Israel’s Maariv newspaper reported today....

Asylum seekers held at Israel’s Holot detention facility began a hunger strike last night, reported Haaretz, to protest the jailing of seven Eritreans who refused to leave Israel. According...

Canada has raised concerns over Israel’s planned mass deportations of African migrants. Thousands of mainly Sudanese and Eritreans living in Israel are in danger of being expelled or locked...

Thousands of African migrants and asylum-seekers demonstrated outside the Rwandan Embassy in Israel on Wednesday against government plans to deport them from the country. The protesters, mostly from Eritrea...