Earlier this month, 21 Eritrean asylum seekers, including a 14-year-old child and two pregnant women, spent over a week trapped between fences on the Israeli side of the Israeli-Egyptian border. As the temperatures soared, one of the women reportedly miscarried. The group was not provided with any shelter; the "most moral army in the world" gave the refugees only small amounts of water and scraps of cloth to protect themselves from the sun.
Messages of Gratitude Reach WCC for its Support to Pastoral Letter from Asmara
Written byIt was learned in Geneva that the Secretary General of the World Council of Churches (WCC), a powerful global body with 349-member churches has been receiving messages of gratitude from important quarters for its strong statement in support of the pastoral letter of four Eritrean Catholic bishops issued in Asmara on 25 May 2014.
TRIPOLI — 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 by human traffickers," a foreign ministry statement said.
The ministry said Libya would "ensure them a decent life and access to employment suitable to their professional abilities."
البيان الختامي للاجتماع الدوري الرابع للمجلس المركزي لحزب الشعب الديمقراطي الارتري
Written byتسعى اللجنة التحضيرية للمهرجان من أجل تحقيق وترسيخ شعار المهرجان الذي يعقد هذا العام تحت شعار ( لنناضل معاً لإرساء العدالة الاجتماعية والدستور )، هذا ويشارك في المهرجان لوحة فسيفسائية كبرى من الحضور، يختلفون في السن والمزاج والأطوار والتجارب النضالية والسياسية، لذلك سوف يكون ملتقىً فريداً يعزز فيه الكل دوره النضالي.
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EPDP Chairman Sends Condolence Message to the Government and People of the Netherlands
Written byEPDP Information Office
Mr. Menghesteab Asmerom, chairman of the Eritrean People’s Democratic Party (EPDP) sent a message of condolence to the King and Government of the Netherlands expressing “deepest sympathies” of the huge disaster in Eastern Ukraine that claimed 298 innocent lives, the majority of them Dutch citizens.
EPDP Central Council 4th Session and the Substance of its Message
Written byThe Eritrean People’s Democratic Party EPDP) Central Council, the Party’s legislative body, held its regular 4th session last week. Although this is a regular and constitutionally mandated session, unlike the last three sessions, this one was of earnest engagement and deliberation on many central issues (given the deteriorating situation eclipsing our country),
