Labor Day might mark the end of summer for some, but in Ethiopia, September means the springtime celebration of a new year. Called Enkutatash, the holiday enticed a crowd of African ex-pats and other curious locals to an outdoor festival at Berkeley’s Civic Center Park this Sunday. Organized by Oakland’s own Ethiopian Community and Cultural [...]
Some 1,458 Eritrean refugees from various camps in Ethiopia were resettled to the United States (US) recently, the Ethiopian State Administration for Refugees and Returnees Affairs (ARRA) disclosed. Last week, a group of 130 Eritrean refugees, after years of exile in Ethiopia, were flown to the US as part of the ongoing resettlement operation. They [...]
Zimbabwe and South Africa will this week hold an urgent meeting to discuss the impending deportation of thousands of Zimbabweans following the scrapping of a special dispensation last week, it has been learnt. The South African cabinet last week approved a proposal to scrap a special dispensation for Zimbabweans and gave the nod to resume [...]
EL-ARISH, Egypt — Egyptian police shot dead a man from sub-Saharan Africa on Friday as he tried to cross the border illegally into Israel, a security official said. “An Egyptian patrol spotted a group of migrants as they were trying to infiltrate Israel south of the Rafah terminal,” he said. “When the police asked them [...]
Five Ethiopians died in a crowded Saudi Arabia prison, which they call it ‘centre for deporting illegal immigrants’, the Arab News reported this week. Ethiopian Women Migrants Destinations by Country in 2009 The five died in the deportation centre in the southern Red Sea port of Jizan of “asphyxiation due to overcrowding,” the newspaper stated [...]
El-Arish, Egypt – Egyptian police arrested five Ethiopians attempting to cross the country’s Sinai peninsula border with Israel on Friday morning, according to a security source.Police fired warning shots into the air when they spotted the group – three men and two women – then arrested them.The group said they had paid a gang of [...]
Eighty Nine Ethiopians charged with being in Kenya illegally have started serving a three-month jail term after failing to raise a fine of Sh10,000 each. There was drama when the convicts broke into tears after pleading guilty. Some knelt and started chanting prayers, which they said were for their families in Ethiopia. Two of them [...]
Yemen’s security services have detained 34 Ethiopian illegal immigrants in Lahj province, Interior Ministry said on Monday. In a press release posted on its website, the Ministry said that the investigations have been started with the Ethiopians. On Aug. 18, the Security Department in Taiz handed over 150 Ethiopian illegal immigrants to the Passport and [...]
Mozambique immigration officials have arrested 44 Somali and Ethiopia migrants who were heading to South Africa. The 23 Somalis and 21 Ethiopians were seized early this month in a local bus going to Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe. Provincial police spokesperson Inspector Clemence Mabgweazara said on Monday that migrants were hold at a police station [...]
Police raided a residential house in the outskirts of Nairobi early Wednesday and arrested 89 illegal Ethiopian immigrants. The aliens – mainly men aged between 18 and 45 – had been staying in the house in Dagoreti for close to a week before it was raided by police. “We are grateful to members of the [...]
