Strategic Thinking on East Africa

Sudan Tribune - February 20, 2016 (ADDIS ABABA) –A group of Eritrean armed men allegedly carried out mass kidnappings from a region in North Ethiopia bordering the tiny Red Sea nation. Multiple sources told Sudan Tribune Saturday that a group of armed men allegedly dressed in Eritrean army uniforms crossed borders to Ethiopia and forcibly kidnapped […]

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From BBC Image captionMany Eritreans, including unaccompanied children, first flee over the border to Ethiopia Conscription in Eritrea continues to be indefinite despite the government saying last year it would be limited to 18 months, Amnesty International says. The compulsory service, which often lasts decades, is the main reason cited by those who flee the […]

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Europe’s Refugee Crisis The European Union (E.U.) is struggling to respond to the recent surge of refugees from Syria, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Albania, Iraq, Pakistan, Eritrea, Serbia, Ukraine and Nigeria. [1] War, poverty and repressive conditions are the three biggest drivers of migration for the people risking their lives to flee the inhospitable conditions at home. […]

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Written by: Gedab News Hundreds of Eritreans are expected to attend the planned demonstration on October 29, in New York, to show their support of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Eritrea (CoIE). The UN established the CoIE in July 2014 with a mandate to investigate human rights violations by the Eritrean government against […]

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From The Wall Street Journal Thousands flee isolated Eritrea to escape life of conscription and poverty BY MATINA STEVIS AND JOE PARKINSON NICHOLE SOBECKI FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ASMARA, Eritrea—On a cool March evening soon after his 16th birthday, Binyam Abraham waited until his mother and young siblings were sleeping and slipped away to begin the long […]

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Associated Press Sudanese state-run radio says Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old American teenage boy arrested after a homemade clock he brought to school was mistaken for a bomb, has met Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir. The boy’s father, Mohamed Hassan al-Sufi, is a Sudanese immigrant in the U.S. and a former presidential candidate who ran opposing al-Bashir. […]

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John Luke, The Times Geoffrey Heeren, director of the immigration clinic at Valparaiso University Law School, center, with current L3 student Mayombo Mbanza, left, and recent graduate Jordan Chelovich. VALPARAISO | A man who was tortured for speaking out against his country’s government has received asylum in the United States, thanks to the tenacity of two […]

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From The Globalist The life of Eritrean political refugees – from Atlanta to Portland. By Geoffrey Berlin, October 10, 2015 Credit: Wead Shutterstock.com Takeaways “At least in a war you have other people around. There in South Dakota, we were all alone.” A political refugee: “America was built on values. And I’m not so sure I like […]

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RICHARD POPLAK “Eritrea is Africa’s North Korea.” This glib comparison has defined Eritrea in the minds of the (very) few outsiders who have afforded it any consideration since it became a pariah state in the early zeroes. But Eritrea is defiantly different from anywhere on Earth—a nation apart, certainly, but one still deeply connected to […]

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Special to WorldTribune.com The aggressive opportunism of Eritrean President Isayas Afewerke is close to an implosion, but the prospect exists that the 69-year-old former revolutionary will lash out in a final attempt to reassert some regional relevance and to preserve his government. Certainly, he has done nothing to build an economic base in his Red […]

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