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 [...]

The U.N. refugee agency says it welcomes a decision by the Ethiopian government to relax restrictions on Eritrean refugees.  Agency officials say a new policy introduced by the government allows Eritrean refugees who can support themselves to live outside the camps. The U.N. refugee agency says Ethiopia’s newly introduced out-of-camp scheme – as it is [...]

UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has continued to resettle Eritrean refugees from camps in Ethiopia to the United States under the third country resettlement program. According to a statement by the Administration for Refugees and Returnees Affairs (ARRA) seen by Sudan tribune, some 122 Eritrean refugees were flown to the United States on Friday to lead [...]

KAMPALA, Uganda — About 1,700 Rwandans seeking asylum have been herded onto trucks at gunpoint and driven across the border to Rwanda in what the United Nations has called an illegal operation to repatriate refugees. According to human rights groups and the United Nations, the Ugandan police entered a refugee camp on Wednesday morning in [...]

The Egged driver reportedly told the student that blacks were stupid and should be sent back to Ethiopia. An Ethiopian student is suing an Egged driver for NIS 200,000 damages for racism. The case was filed in the Petach Tikva Magistrates Court this morning by Tebeka, Advocacy for Equality and Justice for Ethiopian Israelis on [...]

Libya said on Thursday that it has granted some 400 Eritreans permission to stay after human rights group warnings that refugees and asylum seekers among them risked abuse if forcibly repatriated. “The relevant authorities have begun taking steps to welcome and integrate these clandestine Eritrean immigrants to prevent them being exploited or put in danger [...]

Melbourne, June 20 (IANS) African migrants face racial discrimination in Australia at every level, the Australian Human Rights Commission has found. Africans feel racism at work places, schools, while finding house and in the criminal justice system, the watchdog said in its report on the treatment towards one of Australia’s newest migrant and refugee groups. [...]

Ethiopia said on Monday that the nation currently is sheltering more than 150,000 refugees from four neighboring countries. JPEG – 30.2 kb Shadows of African immigrants are seen as they cheer during a concert to commemorate World Refugee Day at the Marsa Open Centre for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Marsa in Valletta’s Grand Harbour [...]

ASYLUM seekers wanting refuge in the UK are twice as likely to succeed at their first try than in France, it emerged yesterday. After appeal cases are taken into account, the success rate is still much higher in Britain than in France, official statistics for 2009 show. The EU-wide figures were seized on by critics [...]

They can’t work, they can’t claim benefits, they have nowhere to live. And their only means of survival is one £10 food voucher a week. Four failed asylum seekers tell their desperate stories. Since this era of financial austerity began, newspapers and magazines have hurried to publish advice on how to get by on a [...]