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....
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Venezuela 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,...
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Yemen 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...
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UN 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...
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UN 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...