Eritrean refugees and asylum-seekers report that during compulsory national service they experienced torture, inhumane or degrading treatment, sexual and gender-based violence, forced labor and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Eritrea’s president in rare public comments has dismissed as “a fantasy” allegations that his country’s ...

NAIROBI, Kenya >> Flaming cars, violent clashes, dozens of people detained. As one of the world’s most repressive countries marks 30 years of independence, festivals held by Eritrea’s diaspora in ...

Tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea have flared up again after Ethiopian authorities said they would focus on regaining access to the sea it lost with Eritrea’s independence. In this context, posts ...

Hundreds of Eritrean government supporters and opponents clashed with each other and with Israeli police Saturday, leaving dozens injured in one of the most violent street confrontations among African ...

An agricultural technical school in Eritrea is the latest to fall under government control, in a string of forced seizures of Catholic schools and hospitals. Church sources said Hagaz Agricultural and ...

ASMARA, Eritrea, Nov 14 (UNHCR) - UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers today assured Eritrean President Isiais Afewerki that UNHCR would step up efforts to conclude its repatriation ...

Sweden said Friday it believed Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak, held without trial in Eritrea for 24 years with no news of his fate, was still alive. The claim came after the Swedish ...

Places of worship have become the latest target for the forced roundup of Eritrean teens to serve as soldiers, in what clerics describe as a deteriorating situation. For two years, 15- and ...

ES SHOWAK, Sudan, March 11 (UNHCR) - Some 1,700 Eritrean refugees have left their camps in eastern Sudan and crossed back into their homeland in the biggest return convoy assisted by the UN refugee ...

We thank the Special Rapporteur for his emphasis on critical rights concerns in Eritrea, including the ongoing abusive indefinite forced conscription system and the abuses Eritrean forces are ...