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Addis Ababa) –<span> </span><a href="https://www.hrw.org/africa/ethiopia" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;">Ethiopians</a><span> </span>undertaking the perilous journey by boat across the Red Sea or Gulf of Aden face exploitation and torture in<span> </span><a href="https://www.hrw.org/middle-east/n-africa/yemen" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;">Yemen</a><span> </span>by a network of trafficking groups, Human Rights Watch said today. They also encounter abusive prison conditions in Saudi Arabia before being summarily forcibly deported back to Addis Ababa. Authorities in Ethiopia, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia have taken few if any measures to curb the violence migrants face, to put in place asylum procedures, or to check abuses perpetrated by their own security forces.<div style="margin: 1.55556rem auto; max-width: 900px; width: 900px;">
A combination of factors, including unemployment and other economic difficulties, drought, and human rights abuses have driven hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians to migrate over the past decade, traveling by boat over the Red Sea and then by land through Yemen to Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia and neighboring Gulf states are favored destinations because of the availability of employment. Most travel irregularly and do not have legal status once they reach Saudi Arabia.</div>
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“Many Ethiopians who hoped for a better life in Saudi Arabia face unspeakable dangers along the journey, including death at sea, torture, and all manners of abuses,” said<span> </span><a href="https://www.hrw.org/about/people/felix-horne" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;">Felix Horne</a>, senior Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch. “The Ethiopian government, with the support of its international partners, should support people who arrive back in Ethiopia with nothing but the clothes on their back and nowhere to turn for help.”</div>
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Human Rights Watch interviewed 12 Ethiopians in Addis Ababa who had been deported from Saudi Arabia between December 2018 and May 2019. Human Rights Watch also interviewed humanitarian workers and diplomats working on Ethiopia migration-related issues.</div>
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The International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimates as many as<span> </span><a href="https://reliefweb.int/report/ethiopia/return-ethiopian-migrants-kingdom-saudi-arabia-5-may-2017-31-january-2019" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;" target="_blank">500,000 Ethiopians</a><span> </span>were in Saudi Arabia when the Saudi government began a deportation campaign in November 2017. The Saudi authorities have arrested, prosecuted, or deported foreigners who violate labor or residency laws or those who crossed the border irregularly. About 260,000 Ethiopians, an average of 10,000 per month, were<span> </span><a href="https://reliefweb.int/report/ethiopia/return-ethiopian-migrants-kingdom-saudi-arabia-5-may-2017-31-march-2019" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;" target="_blank">deported from Saudi Arabia to Ethiopia</a><span> </span>between May 2017 and March 2019, according to the IOM, and deportations have continued.</div>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/MOISaudiArabia/status/1157305680912637953?s=20" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;" target="_blank">An August 2 Twitter update</a><span> </span>by Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry said that police had arrested 3.6 million people, including 2.8 million for violations of residency rules, 557,000 for labor law violations, and 237,000 for border violations. In addition, authorities detained 61,125 people for crossing the border into Saudi Arabia illegally, 51 percent of them Ethiopians, and referred more than 895,000 people for deportation. Apart from illegal border crossing, these figures are not disaggregated by nationality.</div>
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Eleven of the 12 people interviewed who had been deported had engaged with smuggling and trafficking networks that are regionally linked across Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland state, the self-declared autonomous state of Somaliland, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia. Traffickers outside of Ethiopia, particularly in Yemen, often used violence or threats to extort ransom money from migrants’ family members or contacts, those interviewed told Human Rights Watch. The 12th person was working in Saudi Arabia legally but was deported after trying to help his sister when she arrived illegally.</div>
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Those interviewed described life-threatening journeys as long as 24 hours across the Gulf of Aden or the Red Sea to reach Yemen, in most cases in overcrowded boats, with no food or water, and prevented from moving around by armed smugglers.</div>
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“There were 180 people on the boat, but 25 died,” one man said. “The boat was in trouble and the waves were hitting it. It was overloaded and about to sink so the<span> </span><em>dallalas<span> </span></em>[an adaptation of the Arabic word for “middleman” or “broker”] picked some out and threw them into the sea, around 25.”</div>
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Interviewees said they were met and captured by traffickers upon arrival in Yemen. Five said the traffickers physically assaulted them to extort payments from family members or contacts in Ethiopia or Somalia. While camps where migrants were held capture were run by Yemenis, Ethiopians often carried out the abuse. In many cases, relatives said they sold assets such as homes or land to obtain the ransom money.</div>
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After paying the traffickers or escaping, the migrants eventually made their way north to the Saudi-Yemen border, crossing in rural, mountainous areas. Interviewees said Saudi border guards fired at them, killing and injuring others crossing at the same time, and that they saw dead bodies along the crossing routes. Human Rights Watch has previously documented<span> </span><a href="https://www.hrw.org/report/2014/05/25/yemens-torture-camps/abuse-migrants-human-traffickers-climate-impunity" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;">Saudi border guards</a><span> </span>shooting and killing migrants crossing the border.</div>
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“At the border there are many bodies rotting, decomposing,” a 26-year-old man said: “It is like a graveyard.”</div>
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Six interviewees said they were apprehended by Saudi border police, while five successfully crossed the border but were later arrested. They described abusive prison conditions in several facilities in southern Saudi Arabia, including inadequate food, toilet facilities, and medical care; lack of sanitation; overcrowding; and beatings by guards.</div>
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Planes returning people deported from Saudi Arabia typically arrive in Addis Ababa either at the domestic terminal or the cargo terminal of Bole International Airport. Several humanitarian groups conduct an initial screening to identify the most vulnerable cases, with the rest left to their own devices. Aid workers in Ethiopia said that deportees often arrive with no belongings and no money for food, transportation, or shelter. Upon arrival, they are offered little assistance to help them deal with injuries or psychological trauma, or to support transportation to their home communities, in some cases hundreds of kilometers from Addis Ababa.</div>
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Human Rights Watch learned that much of the migration funding from Ethiopia’s development partners is specifically earmarked to manage migration along the routes from the Horn of Africa to Europe and to assist Ethiopians being returned from Europe, with very little left to support returnees from Saudi Arabia.</div>
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“Saudi Arabia has summarily returned hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians to Addis Ababa who have little to show for their journey except debts and trauma,” Horne said. “Saudi Arabia should protect migrants on its territory and under its control from traffickers, ensure there is no collusion between its agents and these criminals, and provide them with the opportunity to legally challenge their detention and deportation.”</div>
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All interviews were conducted in Amharic, Tigrayan, or Afan Oromo with translation into English. The interviewees were from the four regions of SNNPR (Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Region), Oromia, Amhara, and Tigray. These regions have historically<span> </span><a href="https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/KSA%20Factsheet_March%202019_Regional%20Data%20Hub.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;" target="_blank">produced the bulk of Ethiopians migrating</a><span> </span>abroad. To protect interviewees from possible reprisals, pseudonyms are being used in place of their real names. Human Rights Watch wrote to the Ethiopian and Saudi governments seeking comment on abuses described by Ethiopian migrants along the Gulf migration route, but at the time of writing neither had responded.</div>
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<strong style="font-weight: 700;">Dangerous Boat Journey</strong></div>
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Most of the 11 people interviewed who entered Saudi Arabia without documents described life-threatening boat journeys across the Red Sea from Djibouti, Somaliland, or Puntland to Yemen. They described severely overcrowded boats, beatings, and inadequate food or water on journeys that ranged from 4 to 24 hours. These problems were compounded by dangerous weather conditions or encounters with Saudi/Emirati-led coalition naval vessels patrolling the Yemeni coast.</div>
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“Berhanu” said that Somali smugglers beat people on his boat crossing from Puntland: “They have a setup they use where they place people in spots by weight to keep the boat balanced. If you moved, they beat you.” He said that his trip was lengthened when smugglers were forced to turn the boat around after spotting a light from a naval vessel along the Yemeni coast and wait several hours for it to pass.</div>
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Since March 26, 2015, Saudi Arabia has led a coalition of countries in a military campaign against the Houthi armed group in Yemen. As part of its campaign the Saudi/Emirati-led coalition has imposed a<span> </span><a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/12/07/yemen-coalition-blockade-imperils-civilians" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;">naval blockade</a><span> </span>on Houthi-controlled Yemeni ports, purportedly to prevent Houthi rebels from importing weapons by sea, but which has also restricted the flow of food, fuel, and medicine to civilians in the country, and included<span> </span><a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/03/26/yemen-attack-refugee-boat-likely-war-crime" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;">attacks on civilians at sea</a>. Human Rights Watch previously<span> </span><a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/03/26/yemen-attack-refugee-boat-likely-war-crime" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;">documented a helicopter attack</a><span> </span>in March 2017 by coalition forces on a boat carrying Somali migrants and refugees returning from Yemen,<span> </span><a href="http://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=21444&LangID=E" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;" target="_blank">killing at least 32</a><span> </span>of the 145<span> </span><a href="https://www.icrc.org/en/document/yemen-icrc-strongly-condemns-civilian-ship-attack-calls-immediate-investigation" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;" target="_blank">Somali migrants and refugees on board</a><span> </span>and one Yemeni civilian. </div>
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<strong style="font-weight: 700;">Exploitation and Abuses in Yemen</strong></div>
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Once in war-torn Yemen, Ethiopian migrants said they faced kidnappings, beatings, and other abuses by traffickers trying to extort ransom money from them or their family members back home.</div>
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This is not new. Human Rights Watch, in a<span> </span><a href="https://www.hrw.org/node/125458" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;">2014 report</a>, documented abuses, including torture, of migrants in detention camps in Yemen run by traffickers attempting to extort payments. In 2018, Human Rights Watch documented how Yemeni guards tortured and raped Ethiopian and other Horn of Africa migrants at a<span> </span><a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/04/17/yemen-detained-african-migrants-tortured-raped" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;">detention center in Aden</a><span> </span>and worked in collaboration with smugglers to send them back to their countries of origin. Recent interviews by Human Rights Watch indicate that the war in Yemen has not significantly affected the abuses against Ethiopians migrating through Yemen to Saudi Arabia. If anything, the conflict, which escalated in 2015, has made the journey more dangerous for migrants who cross into an area of active fighting.</div>
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Seven of the 11 irregular migrants interviewed said they faced detention and extortion by traffickers in Yemen. This occurred in many cases as soon as they reached shore, as smugglers on boats coordinated with the Yemeni traffickers. Migrants said that Yemeni smuggling and trafficking groups always included Ethiopians, often one from each of Oromo, Tigrayan, and Amhara ethnic groups, who generally were responsible for beating and torturing migrants to extort payments. Migrants were generally held in camps for days or weeks until they could provide ransom money, or escape. Ransom payments were usually made by bank transfers from relatives and contacts back in Ethiopia.</div>
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“Abebe” described his experience:</div>
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When we landed… [the traffickers] took us to a place off the road with a tent. Everyone there was armed with guns and they threw us around like garbage. The traffickers were one Yemeni and three Ethiopians – one Tigrayan, one Amhara, and one Oromo…. They started to beat us after we refused to pay, then we had to call our families…. My sister [in Ethiopia] has a house, and the traffickers called her, and they fired a bullet near me that she could hear. They sold the house and sent the money [40,000 Birr, US $1,396].</div>
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“Tesfalem”, said that he was beaten by Yemenis and Ethiopians at a camp he believes was near the port city of Aden:</div>
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They demanded money, but I said I don’t have any. They told me to make a call, but I said I don’t have relatives. They beat me and hung me on the wall by one hand while standing on a chair, then they kicked the chair away and I was swinging by my arm. They beat me on my head with a stick and it was swollen and bled.</div>
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He escaped after three months, was detained in another camp for three months more, and finally escaped again.</div>
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“Biniam” said the men would take turns beating the captured migrants: “The [Ethiopian] who speaks your language beats you, those doing the beating were all Ethiopians. We didn’t think of fighting back against them because we were so tired, and they would kill you if you tried.”</div>
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Two people said that when they landed, the traffickers offered them the opportunity to pay immediately to travel by car to the Saudi border, thereby avoiding the detention camps. One of them, “Getachew,” said that he paid 1,500 Birr (US $52) for the car and escaped mistreatment.</div>
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Others avoided capture when they landed, but then faced the difficult 500 kilometer journey on foot with few resources while trying to avoid capture.</div>
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Dangers faced by Yemeni migrants traveling north were compounded for those who ran into areas of active fighting between Houthi forces and groups aligned with the Saudi/Emirati-led coalition. Two migrants said that their journey was delayed, one by a week, the other by two months, to avoid conflict areas. </div>
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Migrants had no recourse to local authorities and did not report abuses or seek assistance from them. Forces aligned with the Yemeni government and the Houthis have also detained migrants in poor conditions, refused access to protection and asylum procedures, deported migrants en masse in dangerous conditions, and exposed them to abuse. In April 2018, Human Rights Watch reported that Yemeni government officials had tortured, raped, and executed migrants and asylum seekers from the Horn of Africa in a<span> </span><a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/04/17/yemen-detained-african-migrants-tortured-raped" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;">detention center</a><span> </span>in the southern port city of Aden. The detention center was later shut down.</div>
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The International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced in May that it had initiated a<span> </span><a href="https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/iom-yemen-migrant-situation-aden-flash-report-27-may-2019" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;" target="_blank">program of voluntary humanitarian returns</a><span> </span>for irregular Ethiopian migrants held by Yemeni authorities at detention sites in southern Yemen. IOM said that about 5,000 migrants at three sites were held in “unsustainable conditions,” and that the flights from Aden to Ethiopia had stalled because the Saudi/Emirati-led coalition had failed to provide the flights the necessary clearances. The coalition controls Yemen’s airspace.</div>
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<strong style="font-weight: 700;">Crossing the Border; Abusive Detention inside Saudi Arabia</strong></div>
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Migrants faced new challenges attempting to cross the Saudi-Yemen border. The people interviewed said that the crossing points used by smugglers are in rural, mountainous areas where the border separates Yemen’s Saada Governorate and Saudi Arabia’s Jizan Province. Two said that smugglers separated Ethiopians by their ethnic group and assigned different groups to cross at different border points.</div>
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Ethiopian migrants interviewed were not all able to identify the locations where they crossed. Most indicated points near the Yemeni mountain villages Souq al-Ragu and ‘Izlat Al Thabit, which they called Ragu and Al Thabit. Saudi-aligned media have regularly characterized Souq al-Ragu as a<span> </span><a href="https://www.alarabiya.net/ar/arab-and-world/yemen/2017/01/19/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%82-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D9%82%D9%88-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%86%D9%8A-%D8%A3%D9%87%D9%85-%D8%A3%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%82-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA-1787" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;" target="_blank">dangerous town</a>from which drug smugglers and irregular migrants cross into Saudi Arabia.</div>
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Migrants recounted pressures to pay for the crossing by smuggling drugs into Saudi Arabia. “Abdi” said he stayed in Souq al-Ragu for 15 days and finally agreed to carry across a 25 kilogram sack of khat in exchange for 500 Saudi Riyals (US$133). Khat is a mild stimulant grown in the Ethiopian highlands and Yemen; it is popular among Yemenis and Saudis, but illegal in Saudi Arabia.</div>
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“Badessa” described Souq al-Ragu as “the crime city:”</div>
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You don’t know who is a trafficker, who is a drug person, but everybody has an angle of some sort. Even Yemenis are afraid of the place, it is run by Ethiopians. It is also a burial place; bodies are gathered of people who had been shot along the border and then they’re buried there. There is no police presence.</div>
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Four of the eleven migrants who crossed the border on foot said Saudi border guards shot at them during their crossings, sometimes after ordering them to stop and other times without warning. Some said they encountered dead bodies along the way. Six said they were apprehended by Saudi border guards or drug police at the border, while five were arrested later.</div>
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“Abebe” said that Saudi border guards shot at his group as they crossed from Izlat Al Thabit:</div>
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They fired bullets, and everyone scattered. People fleeing were shot, my friend was shot in the leg…. One person was shot in the chest and killed and [the Saudi border guards] made us carry him to a place where there was a big excavator. They didn’t let us bury him; the excavator dug a hole and they buried him.</div>
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Berhanu described the scene in the border area: “There were many dead people at the border. You could walk on the corpses. No one comes to bury them.”</div>
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Getachew added: “It is like a graveyard. There are no dogs or hyenas there to eat the bodies, just dead bodies everywhere.”</div>
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Two of the five interviewees who crossed the border without being detained said that Saudi and Ethiopian smugglers and traffickers took them to informal detention camps in southern Saudi towns and held them for ransom. “Yonas” said they took him and 14 others to a camp in the Fayfa area of Jizan Province: “They beat me daily until I called my family. They wanted 10,000 Birr ($349). My father sold his farmland and sent the 10,000 Birr, but then they told me this isn’t enough, we need 20,000 ($698). I had nothing left and decided to escape or die.” He escaped.</div>
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Following their capture, the migrants described abusive conditions in Saudi governmental detention centers and prisons, including overcrowding and inadequate food, water, and medical care. Migrants also described beatings by Saudi guards.</div>
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Nine migrants who were captured while crossing the border illegally or living in Saudi Arabia without documentation spent up to five months in detention before authorities deported them back to Ethiopia. The three others were convicted of criminal offenses that included human trafficking and drug smuggling, resulting in longer periods in detention before being deported.</div>
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The migrants identified about 10 prisons and detention centers where they were held for various periods. The most frequently cited were a center near the town of al-Dayer in Jizan Province along the border, Jizan Central Prison in Jizan city, and the Shmeisi Detention Center east of Jeddah, where migrants are processed for deportation.</div>
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Al-Dayer had the worst conditions, they said, citing overcrowding, inadequate sanitation, food and water, and medical care. Yonas said:</div>
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They tied our feet with chains and they beat us while chained, sometimes you can’t get to the food because you are chained. If you get chained by the toilet it will overflow and flow under you. If you are aggressive you get chained by the toilet. If you are good [behave well], they chain you to another person and you can move around.</div>
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Abraham had a similar description:</div>
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The people there beat us. Ethnic groups [from Ethiopia] fought with each other. The toilet was overflowing. It was like a graveyard and not a place to live. Urine was everywhere and people were defecating. The smell was terrible.</div>
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Other migrants described similarly bad conditions in Jizan Central Prison. “Ibrahim” said that he was a legal migrant working in Saudi Arabia, but that he travelled to Jizan to help his sister, whom Saudi authorities had detained after she crossed from Yemen illegally. Once in Jizan, authorities suspected him of human trafficking and arrested him, put him on trial, and sentenced him to two years in prison, a sentenced he partially served in Jizan Central Prison:</div>
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Jizan prison is so very tough…. You can be sleeping with [beside] someone who has tuberculosis, and if you ask an official to move you, they don’t care. They will beat you. You can’t change clothes, you have one set and that is it, sometimes the guards will illegally bring clothes and sell to you at night.</div>
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He also complained of overcrowding: “When you want to sleep you tell people and they all jostle to make some room, then you sleep for a bit but you wake up because everyone is jostling against each other.”</div>
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Most of the migrants said food was inadequate. Yonas described the situation in al-Dayer: “When they gave food 10 people would gather and fight over it. If you don’t have energy you won’t eat. The fight is over rice and bread.”</div>
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Detainees also said medical care was inadequate and that detainees with symptoms of tuberculosis (such as cough, fever, night sweats, or weight loss) were not isolated from other prisoners. Human Rights Watch interviewed three former detainees who were being treated for tuberculosis after being deported, two of whom said they were held with other detainees despite having symptoms of active tuberculosis.</div>
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Detainees described being beaten by Saudi prison guards when they requested medical care. Abdi said:</div>
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I was beaten once with a stick in Jizan that was like a piece of rebar covered in plastic. I was sick in prison and I used to vomit. They said, ‘why do you do that when people are eating?’ and then they beat me harshly and I told him [the guard], ‘Please kill me.’ He eventually stopped.</div>
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Ibrahim said he was also beaten when he requested medical care for tuberculosis:</div>
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[Prison guards] have a rule that you aren’t supposed to knock on the door [and disturb the guards]. When I got sick in the first six months and asked to go to the clinic, they just beat me with electric wires on the bottom of my feet. I kept asking so they kept beating.</div>
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Detainees said that the other primary impetus for beatings by guards was fighting between different ethnic groups of Ethiopians in detention, largely between ethnic Oromos, Amharas, and Tigrayans. Ethnic tensions are increasingly common back in Ethiopia.</div>
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Detainees said that conditions generally improved once they were transferred to Shmeisi Detention Center, near Jeddah, where they stayed only a few days before receiving temporary travel documents from Ethiopian consular authorities and deported to Ethiopia. The migrants charged with and convicted of crimes had no opportunity to consult legal counsel.</div>
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None of the migrants said they were given the opportunity to legally challenge their deportations, and Saudi Arabia has not established an asylum system under which migrants could apply for protection from deportation where there was a risk of persecution if they were sent back. Saudi Arabia is not a party to the<span> </span><a href="https://www.unhcr.org/1951-refugee-convention.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;" target="_blank">1951 Refugee Convention</a>.</div>
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<strong style="font-weight: 700;">Deportation and Future Prospects</strong></div>
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Humanitarian workers and diplomats told Human Rights Watch that since the beginning of Saudi Arabia’s deportation campaign, large numbers of Ethiopian deportees have been transported via special flights by Saudia Airlines to Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa and unloaded in a cargo area away from the main international terminal or at the domestic terminal. When Human Rights Watch visited in May, it appeared that the Saudi flights were suspended during the month of Ramadan, during which strict sunrise-to-sunset fasting is observed by Muslims. All interviewees who were deported in May said they had returned on regular Ethiopian Airlines commercial flights and disembarked at the main terminal with other passengers.</div>
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All of those deported said that they returned to Ethiopia with nothing but the clothes they were wearing, and that Saudi authorities had confiscated their mobile phones and in some cases shoes and belts. “After staying in Jeddah … they had us make a line and take off our shoes,” Abraham said. “Anything that could tie like a belt we had to leave, they wouldn’t let us take it. We were barefoot when we went to the airport.”</div>
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Deportees often have critical needs for assistance, including medical care, some for gunshot wounds. One returnee recovering from tuberculosis said that he did not have enough money to buy food and was going hungry. Abdi said that when he left for Saudi Arabia he weighed 64 kilograms but returned weighing only 47 or 48 kilograms.</div>
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Aid workers and diplomats familiar with migration issues in Ethiopia said that very little international assistance is earmarked for helping deportees from Saudi Arabia for medical care and shelter or money to return and reintegrate in their home villages.</div>
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<a href="https://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKCN1QO1XS-OZATP" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;" target="_blank">Over 8 million</a><span> </span>people are in need of food assistance in Ethiopia, a country of over 100 million. It<span> </span><a href="https://www.refworld.org/country,,UNHCR,,ETH,,5ccabea97,0.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;" target="_blank">hosts over 920,000 refugees</a><span> </span>from neighboring countries and violence along ethnic lines produced<span> </span><a href="http://www.internal-displacement.org/global-report/grid2019/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;" target="_blank">over 2.4 internally displaced</a><span> </span>people in 2018, many of whom have now been returned.</div>
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The IOM registers migrants upon arrival in Ethiopia and to facilitate their return from Saudi Arabia. Several hours after their arrival and once registered, they leave the airport and must fend for themselves. Some said they had never been to Addis before.</div>
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In 2013 and 2014, Saudi Arabia conducted an expulsion campaign similar to the one that began in November 2017. The earlier campaign expelled about 163,000 Ethiopians, according to the IOM. A<span> </span><a href="https://www.hrw.org/report/2015/05/10/detained-beaten-deported/saudi-abuses-against-migrants-during-mass-expulsions#c1767f" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;">2015 Human Rights Watch report</a><span> </span>found that migrants experienced serious abuses during detention and deportation, including attacks by security forces and private citizens in Saudi Arabia, and inadequate and abusive detention conditions. Human Rights Watch has also previously documented<span> </span><a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/05/25/yemen-migrants-held-torture-camps" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;">mistreatment of Ethiopian migrants</a><span> </span>by traffickers and<span> </span><a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/04/17/yemen-detained-african-migrants-tortured-raped" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;">government detention centers</a><span> </span>in Yemen.</div>
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Aid workers and diplomats said that inadequate funding to assist returning migrants is as a result of several factors, including a focus of many of the European funders on stemming migration to and facilitating returns from Europe, along with competing priorities and the low visibility of the issue compared with migration to Europe.</div>
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During<span> </span><a href="https://ethiopia.iom.int/sites/default/files/IOM%20POST%20ARRIVAL%20ASSISTANCE%20TO%20ETHIOPIAN%20RETURNEES%20FROM%20KSA_Low_res.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;" target="_blank">previous mass returns</a><span> </span>from Saudi Arabia, there was more funding for reintegration and more international media attention in part because there was such a large influx in a short time, aid workers said.</div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ADDIS ABABA</b>: Ethiopian migrants who braved death-defying land and sea journeys to find work in Saudi Arabia are being deported en masse with nothing but the clothes on their backs, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.</div>
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A report based on interviews with deportees in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa documents exploitation, trafficking and violence that begins from the moment the migrants set off across the Red Sea or Gulf of Aden to reach the Arabian Peninsula.</div>
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It says officials in Ethiopia, Yemen and Saudi Arabia have done little to protect migrants from abuses at the hands of traffickers and security forces.</div>
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And it says they have failed to ease the return of hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians caught up in a large-scale Saudi deportation campaign that began in November 2017.</div>
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“Many Ethiopians who hoped for a better life in Saudi Arabia face unspeakable dangers along the journey, including death at sea, torture, and all manners of abuses,“ said Felix Horne, senior Africa researcher for Human Rights Watch.</div>
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“Saudi Arabia has summarily returned hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians to Addis Ababa who have little to show for their journey except debts and trauma.”</div>
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Ethiopians have long looked to Saudi Arabia as an escape from poor economic prospects and state repression, hoping to find work despite not having legal status.</div>
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To get there, they board overcrowded boats that are at constant risk of sinking during sea crossings that can last up to 24 hours.</div>
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One survivor told Human Rights Watch that he saw smugglers throw dozens of migrants overboard.</div>
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“The boat was in trouble and the waves were hitting it. It was overloaded and about to sink so the [middlemen] picked some out and threw them into the sea, around 25,“ he said.</div>
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Once in Yemen, the migrants are preyed upon by traffickers who kidnap them to extort ransom payments. The traffickers include Ethiopians who carry out beatings and torture.</div>
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Crossing into Saudi Arabia requires evading border guards who frequently open fire, killing many would-be migrants.</div>
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“At the border there are many bodies rotting, decomposing,“ said one 26-year-old migrant. “It is like a graveyard.”</div>
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Despite the risks, up to half a million Ethiopians were in Saudi Arabia when officials there launched a crackdown on illegal migration in 2017, according to the International Organisation for Migration.</div>
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Around 10,000 Ethiopians on average were deported monthly between May 2017 and March 2019, and Human Rights Watch says deportations have continued.</div>
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While the international community provides Ethiopia with some resources to help migrants sent back from Europe, those returning from Saudi Arabia are mostly on their own.</div>
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A spokesman for Ethiopia’s foreign affairs ministry said Thursday that he was out of the country and could not comment. The Saudi government had also not issued any kind of response as of Thursday afternoon. — <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">AFP</i></div>
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<span class="metadata__byline__author" style="box-sizing: border-box;">By <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/profiles/arwa-damon" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006598; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">Arwa Damon</a> and Brent Swails, CNN</span></div>
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Updated 1812 GMT (0212 HKT) February 18, 2019</div>
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"Ethiopia is broken," one of the young men says of his homeland. He is traveling in a group of four from Jimma, in southwest Ethiopia, each carrying nothing but a bottle of water.</div>
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In the distance, the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, which separates the Horn of Africa from the Arabian Peninsula, glimmers in shades of dark blue, turquoise, and green.</div>
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"Yemen," the man says, citing his next destination. "From Yemen I can go to Saudi Arabia for work and send money to my mother."</div>
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About 20,000 migrants, mostly from Ethiopia, attempt the journey along this ancient and increasingly deadly route through Yemen's war zone each month, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).</div>
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They all risk deportation if they come to the attention of the police. Many are unaware of the war in Yemen, the bombs, bullets, mortars, and mines. They are unaware of the dangers of the crossing, and the bodies that wash up on Djibouti and Yemen's shores.</div>
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A confluence of despair</h3>
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Obock is a small fishing village on the northern shores of the Gulf of Tadjoura.</div>
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It is also the center of a confluence of despair.</div>
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On the same sliver of shoreline where Ethiopian migrants depart for Yemen and what they hope will be a better life in Saudi Arabia, Yemeni refugees -- some fleeing Saudi-led attacks -- are arriving, haunted by memories of the nightmare they have just escaped.</div>
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For many Yemenis, the hot, dusty and windswept Markazi Refugee Camp is their first stop.</div>
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The Markazi Refugee Camp in Djibouti.</div>
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Several rows of generator-powered white containers today have all but replaced the less sturdy United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees tents at this camp, which 1,300 or so Yemenis currently call home. The containers were a gift from the Saudi government -- an irony not lost on the refugees here.</div>
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It was airstrikes from the Saudi-led coalition that forced Naghuib, his wife, and two children -- 6-year-old Rasha and 8-year-old Mohammed -- to flee.</div>
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In Yemen, Naghuib's family lived near Khokha, a small village on the shores of the Red Sea. Over the past four years, Naghuib says 25 people from his rebel-held village have been killed, including neighbors and relatives. Intense fighting between the Saudi-led coalition and Iranian-backed Houthi fighters has gripped the country since war broke out in early 2015.</div>
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Naghuib says homes, schools, and mosques in his village have been destroyed. As the situation worsened, sometimes his family could not find food, he adds. When there was a lull in the fighting, he and his family decided to make a run for it.</div>
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Naghuib,<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"> </span>and others interviewed for this story, only wanted their first names used because of the sensitivity of their situations.</div>
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"We came in a small fishing boat," he says. "We were lucky the water was smooth. It took us three hours."</div>
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Nearly 40,000 Yemenis have fled to Djibouti since 2015, according to UNHCR. While the Djiboutian government has been praised for recent reforms, including granting refugees permission to work inside the country, the vast majority of Yemenis that arrived here have moved on to other countries.</div>
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Many Yemeni refugees have <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2017/09/29/djibouti-us-yemen-immigration-lawyer-lon-orig-ejk.cnn" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006598; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">relatives</a> in the United States, and according to UNHCR nearly 15,000 have moved from Djibouti to the US since the conflict began.</div>
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"We came for their future," Naghuib adds, pointing to his children. "We'll go anywhere they take us."</div>
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Naghuib remembers encountering migrants from Ethiopia who were walking through Yemen.</div>
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Their only thought is to get to Saudi. We try to tell them there are mines on the road</div>
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"We would say, 'Where are you going? There is a war.' Most of them didn't speak Arabic. We say, 'Don't go.' They say, 'God is with us,'" he adds.</div>
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Another Yemeni refugee, Abdulrahman, who has just arrived at the camp, says he had similar encounters with migrants back home. "Their only thought is to get to Saudi," he says. "We try to tell them there are mines on the road. They don't know what it's like."</div>
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Abdulrahman knows the dangers only too well. He says he lost his wife and daughter to a mortar bomb around eight months ago. The day after he arrived in Djibouti, he found out that his eldest son, who was fighting with the Houthis, had been killed.</div>
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"He just got married. That's my last memory of him," says Abdulrahman, as his voice starts to shake. He wipes his eyes and turns away.</div>
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A short drive from the Markazi Refugee Camp, dozens of male Ethiopian migrants are sheltering from the intense midday sun and the near-constant wind, under trees sparsely scattered across the barren landscape.</div>
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Under the largest tree, one group of men says they have been waiting here for their smuggler for four days, eating only rice.</div>
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The migrant route from Ethiopia to Saudi Arabia is a well-trodden one. An Ethiopian migrant called Ali says that his relatives made this same journey years ago, before the war. Many of the men have similar stories of relatives who "made it" years ago.</div>
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But when asked about the war in Yemen, the men shrug. They had been unaware of the dangers ahead.</div>
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Since 2017, the UNHCR has been running a public awareness campaign about the Yemen war, through music videos and billboards in five languages. But staffers admit that it has yet to make it here to Obock.</div>
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In Ethiopia, many have access to the internet on their mobile phones -- but in their desperation they chose hope over fear of what lies ahead.</div>
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"We don't have a choice," says one migrant preparing to cross. "We have to be patient, we have to leave it up to God."</div>
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Finally, at dusk the Djiboutian smugglers arrive. Using long sticks, they herd the men under the trees into a single file like cattle.</div>
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One of the smugglers, his cheek full of khat -- a leaf chewed in the Horn of Africa for its stimulant effect -- says they are moving the group to another location, a crevasse where they will join hundreds of other migrants waiting to make the same journey.</div>
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Five days later, the IOM reported that two boats carrying migrants capsized off Djibouti's shores. There were 16 survivors, and 30 bodies recovered but a total of 128 were estimated dead.</div>
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Each migrant making this crossing pays a few hundred dollars.</div>
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That's a fraction of what it can cost to leave Africa via the Mediterranean route -- one reason why Ethiopian migrants by the hundreds still attempt this route each night.</div>
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The distance is another factor: the majority can walk the thousand or<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"> </span>so kilometers from their homes in Ethiopia to Obock, the launching point across the strait and toward the Gulf.</div>
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They take those first steps, they say, because of an overwhelming feeling of hopelessness at home.</div>
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Many Ethiopians here say they come from the Oromia region, which is home to an ethnic group historically at odds with the central government, and where more than <a href="https://reliefweb.int/report/ethiopia/ethiopia-displacement-tracking-matrix-dtm-oromia-region-round-14-november-december" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006598; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">a million people</a> have been <a href="https://reliefweb.int/report/ethiopia/unicef-ethiopia-humanitarian-situation-report-12-january-december-2018" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006598; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">displaced</a> because of political violence.</div>
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A series of devastating <a href="https://reliefweb.int/report/ethiopia/unicef-ethiopia-humanitarian-situation-report-12-january-december-2018" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006598; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;" target="_blank">floods</a> and severe droughts -- the worst in decades -- has also pushed the total number of displaced inside Ethiopia up to almost three million people.</div>
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For the 500 mostly Ethiopians at the IOM transit center in Obock, repatriation is the grim fate awaiting them.</div>
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"My parents are poor ... (They have) no money. I am the eldest," says Ali. He is just 13. He and the other unaccompanied minors huddle in the same room, opting to sit on the cool floor rather than the foam mattresses lined along the walls. The older men congregate in the courtyard.</div>
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Ali says he didn't know about the war in Yemen and the five other boys with him say the same.</div>
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Most Ethiopians who attempt this journey are young men but the IOM transit center does have a women's section, currently home to about a dozen people.</div>
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Safia, a mother in her 20s, left Ethiopia with a group of her friends. Exhausted and dehydrated when she arrived after walking for days, Safia still has an IV needle in her hand.</div>
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"I wanted to go to Saudi but when I got here and saw how dangerous it was, I changed my mind. But some of them kept going," she says.</div>
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Safia doesn't know if her friends made it or not. She has a two-year-old son back home, who she cries for every day.</div>
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<div class="item-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 564.984px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says 25 Ethiopian refugees have gone missing after being forced into the sea as they approached the coast of Yemen.</span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">The men were on one of the four boats that ferried Ethiopians to Yemen on Thursday, Mohammed Abdiker, director of operations and emergencies at the UN migration agency, tweeted on Friday.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">Abdiker further said that the people on the boat were dumped into the sea and “forced to swim to shore” as they approached Yemen's Shabwa province from Somalia.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">No bodies have been recovered.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">IOM spokesman Joel Millman said nearly 600 Ethiopian refugees, men and women, were aboard the ships. The figure is an unusually large number of refugees to arrive off the Yemeni province at one time.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">According to International Organization for Migration figures, some 87,000 people risked their lives trying to reach Yemen from the Horn of Africa by boat in 2017.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">At least 30 African refugees drowned when their boat capsized off the coast of war-torn Yemen last month with reports that their smugglers opened fire on those on board.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">Saudi Arabia and its allies launched a bloody military campaign early in 2015 and have, ever since, been ceaselessly pounding the country in an attempt to reinstall Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, Yemen’s former president and a staunch ally of Riyadh, and to crush the Houthi Ansarullah movement. The Saudi-led coalition has also maintained an embargo on the country where, so far, at least 13,600 civilians have been reportedly killed.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">Yemen’s lawless southern regions, which are mostly controlled by militants loyal to Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s resigned president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, have become a fertile ground for smugglers who vow to transfer refugees from the region to wealthier Arab states in the Persian Gulf.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">However, most of those smugglers leave refugees at sea as they fear being arrested by militants or Saudi Arabia’s military forces.</div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3199300911574327638.post-89108385238307634382018-01-27T02:57:00.001-08:002018-01-27T02:57:00.114-08:00Exploited and Extorted, 30 Ethiopians and Somalis Drown While Trying to Return Home From Yemen - <header class="story-header" id="story-header" style="margin-left: 0px; 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On 4 November 2016 (UNHCR Ethiopia-Photo)" height="280" src="https://sudantribune.com/local/cache-vignettes/L500xH280/wrist-banding_of_newly-arrived_south_sudanese_refugees_at_the_pagak_entry_point_gambella._on_4_november_unhcr_ethiopia-38c72.jpg?1479504028" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;" title="Wrist-banding of newly-arrived south Sudanese refugees at the Pagak entry point, Gambella. On 4 November 2016 (UNHCR Ethiopia-Photo)" width="500" /></span><br /><br />
August 19, 2017 (ADDIS ABABA) – The number of South Sudanese refugees living in Ethiopia as of 31 July 2017 was 382,322, a United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) official disclosed on Friday.<br /><br />
“The total number of arrivals since January 1 is 36,939, bringing the total number since the onset of the emergency in September 2016 to over 90,000,” Diana Diaz, UNHCR’s Associate External Relations and Reporting Officer told <i>Anadolu</i>.<br /><br />
She further added that an average of 175 persons arrive in Ethiopia daily.<br /><br />
65% of the total registered new arrivals since September 2016 are children, including 19,848 unaccompanied and separated children, said Diaz.<br /><br />
South Sudan has experienced a civil war since a split between President Salva Kiir and his former deputy, Riek Machar, escalated in December 2013. Tens of thousands of people have reportedly been killed and over 2 million displaced in less than five years.<br /><br />
A peace deal brokered by the East African regional bloc, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in August 2015, collapsed when fresh violence broke out in the South Sudanese capital, forcing Machar to flee into neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). He currently lives in South Africa.<br /><br />
<strong>OVER I MILLION IN UGANDA</strong><br /><br />
Meanwhile, UNHCR said Thursday that the numbers of South Sudanese refugees currently living in Uganda exceeded one million, amid calls for urgent additional support.<br /><br />
Majority of the refugees, the agency said, are women and children.<br /><br />
“Over the past 12 months, averages of 1,800 South Sudanese have been arriving in Uganda every day,” UNHCR said in a statement.<br /><br />
“In addition to the million there, a million or even more South Sudanese refugees are being hosted by Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic,” it added.<br /><br />
According to the UN agency, however, over 85% of the refugees who have arrived in Uganda are women and children below 18 years.<br /><br />
“Recent arrivals continue to speak of barbaric violence, with armed groups reportedly burning down houses with civilians inside, people being killed in front of family members, sexual assaults of women and girls, and kidnapping of boys for forced conscription,” said UNHCR.<br /><br />
As of refugees arrive, it said, aid delivery is increasingly falling short.<br /><br />
The UN agency underscored that although $674 million is needed for South Sudanese refugees in Uganda this year, so far only a fifth of this amount, or 21%, has so far been received. But although a total of $883.5 million is needed for the South Sudan situation, only $250 million has reportedly been received.<br /><br />
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<div style="font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-top: 2em;">An Eritrean priest who was once nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for helping migrants cross the Mediterranean is now being investigated in Italy for aiding illegal immigration.</div><div style="font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-top: 2em;">Fr. Mussie Zerai, who has been hailed for saving thousands of migrants and refugees crossing the Mediterranean, is currently under investigation in Italy for allegedly aiding illegal immigration by illegally sending information about boats and landings to NGO rescue ships.</div><div style="font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-top: 2em;">"I received a letter from the Trapani public prosecutor's office on Monday informing me of the investigation," Zerai told <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-4775892/Italy-police-probe-priest-hailed-Nobel-Peace-Prize.html" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c8ce0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Agence France-Presse</a> (AFP), insisting that he was innocent.</div><div style="font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-top: 2em;">The priest <a href="https://www.christiantoday.com/article/eritrean.priest.responsible.for.saving.thousands.in.mediterranean.accused.of.aiding.illegal.immigration/111770.htm" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c8ce0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">admitted</a> in a statement that he had passed on details of desperate migrant ships to NGOs and rescue authorities, but he maintained that his "interventions are aimed at saving human lives."</div><div style="font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-top: 2em;">"I can assert myself that I have nothing to hide and that I have always acted in the light and in full legality," Zerai said in a statement released on Tuesday.</div><div style="font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-top: 2em;">"Apart from the Trapani initiative, which I have already informed my lawyer so that I can see and possibly contradict it, I have not been called to any other venue to justify or in any way respond to my work in favour of refugees and migrants," he added.</div><div style="font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-top: 2em;">According to AFP, Zerai would transmit coordinates of migrant boats to the Italian coast guard, but sometimes, he also sends out the information to privately-run rescue ships known to be in the vicinity.</div><div style="font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-top: 2em;">His name somehow ended up in an investigation launched by Trapani prosecutors into illegal immigration which focuses mostly on the roles played in migrant rescues by privately-funded NGOs.</div><div style="font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-top: 2em;">Zerai became known as a one-man emergency hotline for refugees after he gave his number to a journalist in 2003 to help him translate stories of Eritreans in a detention center in Libya.</div><div style="font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-top: 2em;">The number soon spread, and it became a crisis support line for migrants who try to contact the priest from inside trucks in the Sahara desert.</div><div style="font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-top: 2em;">The priest became a <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/11910942/The-little-known-priest-giving-the-Pope-a-run-for-Nobel-Peace-Prize.html" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c8ce0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">contender</a> for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015 amid the worsening migration crisis. That same year, he was able to meet with Pope Francis, who was also nominated for the Nobel for his work on social justice and the environment.</div><div style="font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-top: 2em;">During their meeting at a conference on human trafficking, they discussed the harrowing survivor stories that they had both heard on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa. "He told me - have courage father, keep going,'" Zerai recalled.</div><div style="font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-top: 2em;">According to UNHCR, about 5,000 Eritreans have entered Europe illegally by crossing the Mediterranean in 2017 alone, with the total of "sea arrivals" landing in Italy and Greece this year, reaching 117,000.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3199300911574327638.post-15943626208323169532017-08-10T00:55:00.001-07:002017-08-10T00:55:53.653-07:00Up to 50 Immigrants from Somalia and Ethiopia deliberately Drowned by Smugglers off Yemen - UN<img src="http://hornobserver.com/uploads/article/photo/IMG_9768C9-BDB2B4-C98409-B36F97-493E1C-4672D2.jpg" /><br /><br />
"Up to 50 Immigrants from Somalia and Ethiopia deliberately Drowned by Smugglers off Yemen - UN 0 Wednesday, August 09, 2017 - 23:49:24 in Latest News by Super Admin Visits: 132(Rating 0.0/5 Stars) Total Votes: 0 0 0 Share A boat full of migrants. ADEN – Early Wednesday morning, a human smuggler, in charge of the boat, forced more than 120 Somali and Ethiopian migrants into the pitching sea as they approached the coast of Shabwa, a Yemeni Governorate along the Arabian Sea. The migrants had been hoping to reach countries in the Gulf via war-torn Yemen. Shortly after the tragedy, staff from IOM, the UN Migration Agency, found the shallow graves of 29 migrants on a beach in Shabwa, during a routine patrol. The dead had been buried rapidly by those who survived the smuggler’s deadly actions. IOM is working closely with the International Committee of the Red Cross to ensure appropriate care for the deceased migrants’ remains. IOM’s medical staff also provided urgent care to the 27 surviving migrants, both females and males, who had remained on the beach. IOM provided initial health checks and assistance, including food, water and other emergency relief. Some of the survivors had already left the beach before being assisted. 22 migrants are reportedly still missing and unaccounted for. The approximate average age of the passengers on the boat was 16. "The survivors told our colleagues on the beach that the smuggler pushed them to the sea, when he saw some ‘authority types’ near the coast," explained Laurent de Boeck, the IOM Yemen Chief of Mission. "They also told us that the smuggler has already returned to Somalia to continue his business and pick up more migrants to bring to Yemen on the same route. This is shocking and inhumane. The suffering of migrants on this migration route is enormous. Too many young people pay smugglers with the false hope of a better future," continued de Boeck. Since January 2017 to date, IOM estimates that around 55,000 migrants left the Horn of Africa to come to Yemen, most with the aim of trying to find better opportunities in the Gulf countries. More than 30,000 of those migrants are under the age of 18 from Somalia and Ethiopia, while a third are estimated to be female. This journey is especially hazardous during the current windy season in the Indian Ocean. Smugglers are active in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, offering fake promises to vulnerable migrants. IOM and its partners operate across the region to support these migrants and provide life-saving assistance to those who find themselves abused or stranded along the route. "<br /><br />
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So far 23 percent of the needed 307.5 million U.S. dollars has been donated to UNHCR.</div><div style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; padding: 15px 0px;">Most refugees in Ethiopia come from the strife- torn nations of Somalia and South Sudan and Ethiopia's northern neighbor Eritrea.</div><div style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; padding: 15px 0px;">Smaller groups of refugees fleeing war in Sudan and from across the Red Sea from <a href="http://search.news.cn/language/search.jspa?id=en&t1=0&t=1&ss=&btn=0&ct=Egypt&n1=Yemen&np=content" style="color: black; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Yemen</a>are also part of the group the UNHCR has registered as refugees in Ethiopia.</div><div style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; padding: 15px 0px;">With Ethiopia currently being among the top five refugee hosting nations in the world, it's also one of five African countries participating in a Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF).</div><div style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; padding: 15px 0px;">CRRF is a vehicle for the implementation of pledges made at UN leaders' summit in September 2016 in New York, where refugees in Ethiopia will be given funds for assisting with education and employment opportunities in Ethiopia.</div><div style="color: #404040; line-height: 26px; padding: 15px 0px;">Western Countries in particular hope that schemes like CRRF will persuade refugees living in Ethiopia and other African nations not to undertake perilous trips to reach their countries and instead stay at their current host countries.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3199300911574327638.post-82842091587503470912017-07-05T05:21:00.001-07:002017-07-05T05:21:51.902-07:00'Take migrants from Libya' EU Commission tells member states [Video]<br /><br />
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padding-right: 5px;"><span class="provider-link" data-reactid="23" itemprop="name"><a class="Fz(12px) C(#222) Fw(b)" data-reactid="24" href="http://news.sky.com/skynews/" itemprop="url" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Sky News</a></span></span><time class="date Fz(11px) Mb(4px) D(ib)" data-reactid="26" datetime="2017-07-04T21:45:00.000Z" itemprop="datePublished" style="display: inline-block; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 4px; zoom: 1;">4 July 2017</time></div></div></div><div class="canvas-body Wow(bw) Cl(start) Mb(20px) Fz(15px) Lh(1.6) C(#26282a) Ff($ff-secondary)" data-reactid="27" style="background-color: white; clear: left; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="African migrants currently in Libya who qualify as refugees will be legally resettled to the European Union, according to the European Commission." data-reactid="28" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">African migrants currently in Libya who qualify as refugees will be legally resettled to the European Union, according to the European Commission.</div><div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="The surprise announcement, one of a number of "immediate measures" made in a new EU Action Plan, is designed to tackle an increasingly urgent phase in the ongoing Mediterranean migration crisis." data-reactid="29" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">The surprise announcement, one of a number of "immediate measures" made in a new EU Action Plan, is designed to tackle an increasingly urgent phase in the ongoing Mediterranean migration crisis.</div><div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content=""All actors now need to intensify and accelerate their efforts in line with the increasing urgency of the situation and the commitments undertaken by EU leaders," the plan states." data-reactid="30" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">"All actors now need to intensify and accelerate their efforts in line with the increasing urgency of the situation and the commitments undertaken by EU leaders," the plan states.</div><div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="The Commission, the executive arm of the EU, published the measures after an overwhelmed Italian government threatened to block entry to Italian ports for all aid ships who rescue and recover migrants trying to cross from Libya to Italy." data-reactid="31" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">The Commission, the executive arm of the EU, published the measures after an overwhelmed Italian government threatened to block entry to Italian ports for all aid ships who rescue and recover migrants trying to cross from Libya to Italy.</div><div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="Migrant arrivals in Italy are up nearly 19% over the same period last year." data-reactid="32" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">Migrant arrivals in Italy are up nearly 19% over the same period last year.</div><div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="EU figures estimate that 85,183 people, from countries all over Africa, have been rescued while attempting the deadly crossing. Ninety-five percent leave Africa from the Libyan coastline in flimsy boats." data-reactid="33" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">EU figures estimate that 85,183 people, from countries all over Africa, have been rescued while attempting the deadly crossing. Ninety-five percent leave Africa from the Libyan coastline in flimsy boats.</div><div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="The relocation pledge from Libya is an extension to existing relocation programmes focused on refugees in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon, from where 17,000 mostly Syrian refugees have been resettled." data-reactid="34" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">The relocation pledge from Libya is an extension to existing relocation programmes focused on refugees in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon, from where 17,000 mostly Syrian refugees have been resettled.</div><div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content=""The Commission will launch a new resettlement pledging exercise in conjunction with the UNHCR starting with those in need of international protection from Libya, Egypt, Niger, Ethiopia and Sudan" the new pledge states." data-reactid="35" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">"The Commission will launch a new resettlement pledging exercise in conjunction with the UNHCR starting with those in need of international protection from Libya, Egypt, Niger, Ethiopia and Sudan" the new pledge states.</div><div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="The commission document, called 'Action plan on measures to support Italy, reduce pressure along the Central Mediterranean route and increase solidarity' will form the basis of discussions at an EU interior ministers meeting in Estonia on Thursday." data-reactid="36" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">The commission document, called 'Action plan on measures to support Italy, reduce pressure along the Central Mediterranean route and increase solidarity' will form the basis of discussions at an EU interior ministers meeting in Estonia on Thursday.</div><div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="The <strong> document </strong> contains a series of new measures including renewed impetus on training and equipping Libyan border and coastguard operations, as well as an official code of conduct for charities involved in search and rescue missions in the Mediterranean." data-reactid="37" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">The <span style="font-weight: bolder;">document </span>contains a series of new measures including renewed impetus on training and equipping Libyan border and coastguard operations, as well as an official code of conduct for charities involved in search and rescue missions in the Mediterranean.</div><div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="Charities have been accused of encouraging the pull of migrants by providing rescue missions. They deny this, pointing out that the migrants were making the journeys in similar numbers before they operated in the region." data-reactid="38" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">Charities have been accused of encouraging the pull of migrants by providing rescue missions. They deny this, pointing out that the migrants were making the journeys in similar numbers before they operated in the region.</div><div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="Other measures in the Action Plan include €35m (£30.7m) in extra cash for Italy to help the government in Rome deal with the crisis." data-reactid="39" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">Other measures in the Action Plan include €35m (£30.7m) in extra cash for Italy to help the government in Rome deal with the crisis.</div><div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="Migrants travel to Libya from countries all over Africa - Eritrea, Ethiopia and Sudan in the east, Mali and Niger in the centre and from Nigeria, Senegal, Guinea, Ivory Coast and Gambia in the west." data-reactid="40" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">Migrants travel to Libya from countries all over Africa - Eritrea, Ethiopia and Sudan in the east, Mali and Niger in the centre and from Nigeria, Senegal, Guinea, Ivory Coast and Gambia in the west.</div><div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="More than 2,000 are known to have died this year alone according to the International Organisation for Migration." data-reactid="41" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">More than 2,000 are known to have died this year alone according to the International Organisation for Migration.</div><div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="Around 50 migrants were missing, feared dead, off the coast of Spain on Tuesday. If confirmed, it would make the voyage the deadliest sea crossing in that part of the Mediterranean this year." data-reactid="42" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">Around 50 migrants were missing, feared dead, off the coast of Spain on Tuesday. If confirmed, it would make the voyage the deadliest sea crossing in that part of the Mediterranean this year.</div><div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="Survivors are routinely brought to Italy by charity rescue vessels because Libya is not considered a safe country for them to be returned to." data-reactid="43" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">Survivors are routinely brought to Italy by charity rescue vessels because Libya is not considered a safe country for them to be returned to.</div><div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="Charities including the Italian Red Cross have repeatedly warned that Italy's overcrowded reception centres are in a critical state and cannot cope with the overwhelming number of asylum applications." data-reactid="44" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">Charities including the Italian Red Cross have repeatedly warned that Italy's overcrowded reception centres are in a critical state and cannot cope with the overwhelming number of asylum applications.</div><div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="Sky News has spoken to numerous migrants who have walked out of the centres after an initial registration process which includes fingerprinting. Many make their way to Rome en-route to northern Europe." data-reactid="45" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">Sky News has spoken to numerous migrants who have walked out of the centres after an initial registration process which includes fingerprinting. Many make their way to Rome en-route to northern Europe.</div><div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said: "The dire situation in the Mediterranean is neither a new nor a passing reality."" data-reactid="46" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said: "The dire situation in the Mediterranean is neither a new nor a passing reality."</div><div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content=""We have made enormous progress over the past two and half years towards a genuine EU migration policy but the urgency of the situation now requires us to seriously accelerate our collective work and not leave Italy on its own." data-reactid="47" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">"We have made enormous progress over the past two and half years towards a genuine EU migration policy but the urgency of the situation now requires us to seriously accelerate our collective work and not leave Italy on its own.</div><div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content=""The focus of our efforts has to be on solidarity - with those fleeing war and persecution and with our Member States under the most pressure." data-reactid="48" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">"The focus of our efforts has to be on solidarity - with those fleeing war and persecution and with our Member States under the most pressure.</div><div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content=""At the same time, we need to act, in support of Libya, to fight smugglers and enhance border control to reduce the number of people taking hazardous journeys to Europe."" data-reactid="49" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">"At the same time, we need to act, in support of Libya, to fight smugglers and enhance border control to reduce the number of people taking hazardous journeys to Europe."</div><div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="Last September, Sky News witnessed the <strong> perilous crossings from the deck of a rescue vessel </strong> run by the charity Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS)." data-reactid="50" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">Last September, Sky News witnessed the <span style="font-weight: bolder;">perilous crossings from the deck of a rescue vessel </span>run by the charity Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS).</div><div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="In the nine months since then, the situation has deteriorated." data-reactid="51" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">In the nine months since then, the situation has deteriorated.</div><div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="MOAS and other charities who operate rescue vessels have repeatedly called for "safe and legal routes" for migrants so that they don't resort to deadly sea crossings fuelled by people traffickers." data-reactid="52" style="margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">MOAS and other charities who operate rescue vessels have repeatedly called for "safe and legal routes" for migrants so that they don't resort to deadly sea crossings fuelled by people traffickers.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3199300911574327638.post-85156290403971053092017-04-19T09:21:00.001-07:002017-04-19T09:21:54.398-07:00Instead of a wall, an open door: Why Ethiopia welcomes an enemy's refugees - CSMonitor.com<div class="story-head small-centered small-11 large-12 columns" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0a0a0a; float: none; font-family: "open sans", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 1.5em 0px 2em 0.5em; padding: 0px 0.9375rem; width: 1200px;"><h1 class="eza-title" id="headline" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.03em; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0.25em 0px 1rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cultural similarities have helped Ethiopia absorb more than 160,000 refugees from Eritrea, despite a still-bitter border dispute. But the government has also put out the welcome mat for strategic reasons, at a time when many countries are doing the opposite.</span></h1><h2 class="eza-summary with_promise_text" id="summary" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: inherit; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: -0.02em; line-height: 1.1; margin: 1.25em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px 350px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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Last updated: April 17, 2017 7:17 pm EDT">APRIL 17, 2017 </time><time class="eza-updated" datetime="2017-04-17T19:17:14-04:00" id="date-updated" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></time></span><span class="eza-dateline pubdata" id="dateline" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 0.95rem; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: -0.02em; text-transform: uppercase;"> BADME, ALONG THE ERITREAN-ETHIOPIAN BORDER </span><span class="pubdata separator" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 0.95rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em; margin: 1.3rem 0px; padding: 0px 0.5em; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;">—</span>When Yordanos and her two young children slipped safely across the Mereb riverbed between Eritrea and Ethiopia late one recent night, they thought the worst of their journey into exile was over. The smuggler had done his job, and they were safely over the border.</div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 1.3rem; padding: 0px 78.8438px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Then they heard the hyenas.</div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 1.3rem; padding: 0px 78.8438px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Yordanos and her children began to yell for help, their panicked calls fading into the solid darkness. Suddenly, she saw a group of Ethiopian soldiers coming towards them. The men comforted the young families, and then escorted them to the nearby town of Badme. “They were like brothers to us,” says Yordanos, who asked that her last name not be used for fear of reprisals from the Eritrean government against her relatives at home. </div><div class="injection ad-positioner" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.2em 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ad-wrapper" id="ad-body-1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></div></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 1.3rem; padding: 0px 78.8438px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">In some regards, Ethiopia – and in particular this sliver of Ethiopia’s arid north – is the last place you might expect an Eritrean refugee like Yordanos to receive a warm welcome. In 1998, after all, an Eritrean invasion of this sleepy border town touched off a two-year war between the two countries that cost tens of thousands of lives and more than $4.5 billion, along with destroying most of the then-flourishing network of trade between the two countries. And before that conflict, Eritreans fought a 30-year civil war for independence from Ethiopia, which ended only in 1991.</div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 1.3rem; padding: 0px 78.8438px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Even today, the ashes of those conflicts still smolder. The internationally-brokered peace settlement ending the 1998-2000 war decreed that Ethiopia should give this region of the country back to Eritrea, which claims it as historical land. But Ethiopia never did, and border clashes between the two countries’ militaries continue into the present. </div><div class="injection" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.2em 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ezp-inbody-promo" style="border-left: 4px solid rgb(255, 199, 0); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 1.25em 78.8438px; padding: 0.2em 0.8em;"><div class="story_list_item ezv-listing" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="story_detail" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><h3 class="story_headline no_thumbnail" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><a href="https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2011/0127/Think-you-know-Africa-Take-our-geography-quiz" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3a3a3a; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Think you know Africa? Take our geography quiz.</a></h3></div></div></div></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 1.3rem; padding: 0px 78.8438px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Still, Yordanos’ story is not uncommon. Fleeing enforced, indefinite military service, illegal imprisonment, and torture, about 165,000 Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers <a href="https://data2.unhcr.org/en/documents/download/54244" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(136, 136, 136); box-sizing: inherit; color: #3a3a3a; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">currently live in Ethiopia</a>, according to the United Nations. Upon arrival and registration, they are automatically granted refugee status, and the country continues to welcome more. In February of this year alone, 3,367 new Eritrean refugees arrived in the country, according to Ethiopia’s Administration for Refugee and Returnee Affairs (ARRA).</div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 1.3rem; padding: 0px 78.8438px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">“We differentiate between the government and its people,” says Estifanos Gebremedhin, the head of the legal and protection department at ARRA. “We are the same people, we share the same blood, even the same grandfathers.”</div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 1.3rem; padding: 0px 78.8438px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">The reasons for that openness, indeed, owe much to shared history.<b style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"> </b>As in many parts of Africa, colonialism sliced much of this region apart in illogical ways (though Ethiopia itself was never colonized), sowing political conflicts between members of the same community that have persisted to the present day<i style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;">. </i>For much of the roughly 600-mile Ethiopian-Eritrean border, people on both sides share the same language – Tigrinya – as well as Orthodox religion and cultural traditions.</div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 1.3rem; padding: 0px 78.8438px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">“It’s only the Eritrean government creating problems, not the people,” says Benyamin, a resident of Axum, a town in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, who didn’t give his last name. “I haven’t got relatives in Eritrea but many people here do. Some from the refugee camps go to the university here.”</div><div class="injection" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.2em 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 1.3rem; padding: 0px 78.8438px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">But there may also be more strategic reasons for Ethiopia’s open-door policy, experts say.</div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 1.3rem; padding: 0px 78.8438px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">“Ethiopia strongly believes that generous hosting of refugees will be good for regional relationships down the road,” says Jennifer Riggan, an associate professor of international studies at Arcadia University in Pennsylvania, who studies Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia.</div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 1.3rem; padding: 0px 78.8438px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">There’s also an increasing amount of money in hosting refugees, some highlight,<b style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"> </b>as the international community tries to block secondary migration to Europe. One recent example was the <a href="http://www.eib.europa.eu/infocentre/press/releases/all/2016/2016-212-european-investment-bank-president-pledges-support-for-jobs-compact-in-ethiopia-tackling-migration-and-refugee-challenge.htm" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(136, 136, 136); box-sizing: inherit; color: #3a3a3a; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">joint initiative</a> announced by Britain, the European Union, and the World Bank to fund the building of two industrial parks in Ethiopia to generate about 100,000 jobs, at a cost of $500 million, with Ethiopia required to grant employment rights to 30,000 refugees as part of the deal.</div><div class="injection" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.2em 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 1.3rem; padding: 0px 78.8438px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">It might also be a way of countering international controversy <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2016/1209/Amid-fragile-calm-Ethiopia-s-government-faces-critical-juncture" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(136, 136, 136); box-sizing: inherit; color: #3a3a3a; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">about the Oromo protests</a><b style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"> </b>and shoring up Ethiopia’s standing in the world, according to Milena Belloni, a researcher in the Department of Sociology at the University of Antwerp in Belgium, who is currently writing a book about Eritrean refugees. The protests, which roiled the country's largest region throughout 2016, have prompted a government crackdown that left hundreds of Ethiopians dead and sharply curtailed basic freedoms, <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/01/12/ethiopia-year-brutality-restrictions" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(136, 136, 136); box-sizing: inherit; color: #3a3a3a; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">according to human rights groups</a>. </div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 1.3rem; padding: 0px 78.8438px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Either way, Ethiopia’s approach is in marked contrast to the strategies of reducing migrant flows that are being adopted in much of the West, Dr. Riggan says.</div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 1.3rem; padding: 0px 78.8438px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">“Ethiopia's response is to manage the gate, and figure out how it can benefit from these inevitable flows of people,” she notes. “I definitely think Ethiopia's approach is the wiser and more realistic one.”</div><div class="injection ad-positioner" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.2em 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ad-wrapper" id="ad-body-2" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></div></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 1.3rem; padding: 0px 78.8438px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">After Yordanos, her children, and another mother and her two children who crossed with them were collected by the soldiers near Badme, they were taken into town and left at a so-called “entry point,” a cluster of disheveled government buildings. From there, refugees join the bureaucratic and logistic conveyor belt that assigns them asylum status and moves them to one of four refugee camps in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region.</div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 1.3rem; padding: 0px 78.8438px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">There, relationships between refugees and locals do sometimes grow strained, particularly as both groups compete for scarce shared resources like firewood and cattle pastures. And many Eritrean refugees regard Ethiopia as only a stopover point on their journey to the West. In 2013, there was unrest in all four camps, with riots in two camps, Adi Harush and Mai Aini, when refugees demanded more opportunities for international resettlement and protested authorities' alleged corruption. </div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 1.3rem; padding: 0px 78.8438px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">“People recognize the shared culture and ethnic background, and that helps for many things, but there’s still distrust because of the 30-year-war [for independence], and mostly due to 1998-2000 border conflict and related mass displacement,” says Dr. Belloni. “There’s a double narrative.”</div><div class="injection" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.2em 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 1.3rem; padding: 0px 78.8438px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">In addition to the camps, meanwhile, thousands more Eritreans live in Ethiopia outside the asylum system, both legally and illegally. About 650 miles south of the border, in the capital Addis Ababa, whole neighborhoods function as Eritrean enclaves, where the distinctive, guttural sounds of Tigrinya pour out of cafes with Italian-sounding names like Lattria Piccolo, a nod to Eritrea’s history as an Italian colony.</div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3199300911574327638.post-57498229540046292812017-02-25T02:25:00.001-08:002017-02-25T02:25:34.009-08:00In A Small Ethiopian Town, That Fateful Choice To Flee To Europe | Worldcrunch - The best international journalism. Finally in English.<div class="artice-title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f4f4f; font-family: "Archivo Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><h1 style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #242424; font-size: 46px; line-height: 46px; margin: 22px 0px 45px;">The prospect of a better life elsewhere is on everyone’s lips in rural Ethiopia - <a href="http://www.worldcrunch.com/migrant-lives-1/www.zuma24.com" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s;" target="_blank"><span class="orange-desc" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(229 , 93 , 51); font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif "important"; line-height: 18px;">Tobias Hase/DPA/ZUMA </span></a><span style="font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic;"> </span></h1></div><div class="top-4" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f4f4f; font-family: "Archivo Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 23px;"></div><div class="row" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f4f4f; font-family: "Archivo Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px;"><div class="col-lg-12 col-xs-12" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 1379.44px;"></div></div><div class="top-4 top-4-mobile" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f4f4f; font-family: "Archivo Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 23px;"></div><div class="article-subtitle" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f4f4f; font-family: "Archivo Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 50px;"><h1 style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #242424; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif !important; font-size: 22px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 44px;">While the EU seeks an agreement with Libya to halt the influx of migrants across the Mediterranean, the prospect of a better life elsewhere is what all in rural Ethiopia talk about.</h1></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #4f4f4f; font-family: "archivo narrow" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><br /><br />
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<div class="addthis_inline_share_toolbox social-desktop" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none !important; float: right;"></div></div><div class="col-lg-12 col-xs-12 div-english-edition" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 1349.44px;"><div class="english_edition edition-desktop" style="-webkit-margin-after: 0.1em; -webkit-margin-before: 0.1em; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif !important; font-size: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px;"><span class="eng_edition" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "archivo narrow" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding-left: 0px;"><a href="http://www.worldcrunch.com/aboutus" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: black !important; cursor: pointer; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif !important; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s;">English edition</a></span> <span class="wc-logo-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #242424; font-family: "montserrat"; font-size: 15px;">• <a href="http://www.worldcrunch.com/aboutus" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: black !important; cursor: pointer; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif !important; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(229 , 93 , 51); font-family: "archivo narrow" , sans-serif;">WORLDCRUNCH</span></a></span><span class="date date-desktop" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-size: 20px; margin-top: 10px;">2017-02-25</span></div></div></div></div><div class="article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(36, 36, 36) !important; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 20px;"><div style="-webkit-margin-after: 0.1em; -webkit-margin-before: 0.1em; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif !important; font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 30px; text-align: justify; word-wrap: break-word;"></div><div style="-webkit-margin-after: 0.1em; -webkit-margin-before: 0.1em; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif !important; font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 30px; text-align: justify; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">AGARFA</span> — A soldier chews on a leaf of <a href="http://www.worldcrunch.com/world-affairs/drug-trade-in-africa-how-the-queen-of-khat-got-so-rich" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e55d33; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s;">khat</a>, a mild stimulant, and spits it on the ground. "Hey you, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">ferenji</em>, how much do you want to take me with you to Italy?" he asks me, laughing with his comrade. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ferenji</em> means stranger in Amharic, Ethiopia’s official language.</div><div style="-webkit-margin-after: 0.1em; -webkit-margin-before: 0.1em; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif !important; font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 30px; text-align: justify; word-wrap: break-word;">In the small, far-flung town of Agarfa, in the province of Bale, the soldier is working security at an event organized by Medical Collaboration Committee (CCM), an Italian NGO. The CCM has come to this town, which lies 280 miles away from the capital of Addis Ababa, to educate locals on the <a href="http://worldcrunch.com/syria-crisis-1/a-16-year-oldas-escape-from-syria-in-a-wheelchair" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e55d33; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s;" target="_blank">risks of illegally migrating to Europe</a>.</div><div style="-webkit-margin-after: 0.1em; -webkit-margin-before: 0.1em; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif !important; font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 30px; text-align: justify; word-wrap: break-word;">Mohammed, the local imam, asks to speak. "I haven’t heard back from four of my children," he says, holding back tears. "I know nothing, they’ve disappeared. I had warned them not to go."</div><div style="-webkit-margin-after: 0.1em; -webkit-margin-before: 0.1em; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif !important; font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 30px; text-align: justify; word-wrap: break-word;">Mohammed’s words clearly have an effect on those attending the meeting; the women around him hide behind their <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">hijabs</em> or begin to cry openly.</div><div style="-webkit-margin-after: 0.1em; -webkit-margin-before: 0.1em; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif !important; font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 30px; text-align: justify; word-wrap: break-word;"><img alt="" class="img-responsive img-on-hover" src="https://scontent-fra3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/9340_379812258798006_1457338302_n.jpg?oh=a1d203c68dccf9a5bf6babc712a8302a&oe=592A6D12" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: inline-block; font-family: "Archivo Narrow", sans-serif; height: auto; max-width: 100%; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; width: 1344.44px;" /></div><div style="-webkit-margin-after: 0.1em; -webkit-margin-before: 0.1em; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif !important; font-size: 20px; text-align: justify; word-wrap: break-word;"><em class="img-description-article" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: default; font-size: 14px; height: 65px; line-height: 18px; position: relative; text-align: left; top: -22px; width: auto;">Inside a school in Agarfa — <a href="https://www.facebook.com/agarfa.org/photos/a.379812115464687.1073741833.370177263094839/379812258798006/?type=3&theater" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e55d33; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s;" target="_blank">Agarfa Improvment Association</a></em></div><div style="-webkit-margin-after: 0.1em; -webkit-margin-before: 0.1em; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif !important; font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 30px; text-align: justify; word-wrap: break-word;">While the European Union seeks an agreement with <a href="http://www.worldcrunch.com/world-affairs/libya-chaos-if-italy-fails-to-lead-watch-out-for-russia-again" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e55d33; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s;" target="_blank">Libya</a> to halt the influx of migrants across the Mediterranean Sea, the prospect of a better life elsewhere is on everyone’s lips here in rural Ethiopia. Some have relatives in Europe, the United States, or in the Arab world; some have families <a href="http://worldcrunch.com/migrant-lives-1/migrant-purgatory-trapped-in-a-libyan-detention-center" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e55d33; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s;" target="_blank">stuck in migrant welcome centers in Libya</a>; some have attempted the journey and were sent back; some cry over their loved ones who didn’t make it out; and some just want to leave.</div><div style="-webkit-margin-after: 0.1em; -webkit-margin-before: 0.1em; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif !important; font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 30px; text-align: justify; word-wrap: break-word;">According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the country’s strategic location in the Horn of Africa — the region comprising Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, and Djibouti — and local political instability contributed to rising emigration from Ethiopia in recent years. There has been a growing exodus since 2015. About 740,000 Ethiopians now live abroad. Ethiopia itself is home to the largest number of refugees in Africa, housing 670,000 refugees in camps along its borders with Eritrea, <a href="http://www.worldcrunch.com/world-affairs/rage-and-refuge-on-ethiopia-south-sudan-border" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e55d33; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s;" target="_blank">South Sudan</a>, and Somalia.</div><div style="-webkit-margin-after: 0.1em; -webkit-margin-before: 0.1em; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif !important; font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 30px; text-align: justify; word-wrap: break-word;">The province of Bale has one of the highest emigration rates in the country. Images of Italian soccer star Mario Balotelli are emblazoned on the tuk-tuks — known here as <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bajaj — </em>that fill the streets in the cities of Robe and Goba. People don’t seem to care that Balotelli is of Ghanaian origin and was born in Palermo; what matters is his success and the color of his skin.</div><div style="-webkit-margin-after: 0.1em; -webkit-margin-before: 0.1em; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif !important; font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 30px; text-align: justify; word-wrap: break-word;">"People leave because there’s no work here," says Abdulkadir Gazali, a 39-year-old father of five. "I tried going to Saudi Arabia three times, but they always sent me back."</div><div style="-webkit-margin-after: 0.1em; -webkit-margin-before: 0.1em; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif !important; font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 30px; text-align: justify; word-wrap: break-word;">It might appear easy to leave as long as you have money to <a href="http://www.worldcrunch.com/migrant-lives-1/trafficking-dreams-and-death-the-migrant-smugglers-of-libya" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e55d33; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s;" target="_blank">pay smugglers</a>.</div><div style="-webkit-margin-after: 0.1em; -webkit-margin-before: 0.1em; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif !important; font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 30px; text-align: justify; word-wrap: break-word;">"It costs 400 to 600 euros ($420 to $640) to reach an Arab country," says Waldayese, head of immigration at Bale’s department of social affairs.</div><div style="-webkit-margin-after: 0.1em; -webkit-margin-before: 0.1em; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif !important; font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 30px; text-align: justify; word-wrap: break-word;">The price for migrating to Europe is much higher. It can cost up to 4,000 euros ($4,245). The entire practice is illegal, of course.</div><div style="-webkit-margin-after: 0.1em; -webkit-margin-before: 0.1em; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif !important; font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 30px; text-align: justify; word-wrap: break-word;">"Young people collect the necessary funds by selling livestock or working in the fields," says Waldayese.</div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3199300911574327638.post-40707970317689119632016-12-07T01:20:00.001-08:002016-12-07T01:20:34.664-08:00In Cairo, Ethiopia's Oromos lose hope with U.N. refugee agency | Reuters<section style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"><div class="group wrap" id="rcs-articleHeader" style="margin: 0px auto; position: relative; width: 1100px;"><br /><div class="column2 col col-4" style="display: inline; float: left; margin-left: 20px; width: 300px;"></div></div></section><section style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; 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</ul></div><span id="article-text" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 36px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); width: 780px;"><span id="midArticle_start" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div id="article-byline" style="margin: 0px 0px 24px 80px;"><span class="author" style="color: #333333; font-size: 1.5em; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);">By <a href="http://www.reuters.com/journalists/stephen-grey" style="color: #111111; cursor: pointer; font-family: knowledge-medium, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Stephen Grey</a> and <a href="http://www.reuters.com/journalists/amina-ismail" style="color: #111111; cursor: pointer; font-family: knowledge-medium, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Amina Ismail</a></span> <span class="location" style="color: #333333; font-size: 1.5em; margin-left: 3px; text-transform: uppercase; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"><span class="divider" style="margin-right: 3px; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);">|</span> CAIRO</span></div><span id="midArticle_0" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><span class="article-prime" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"><div style="color: #111111; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 80px; padding: 0px;">In Egypt, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has been the target of bitter criticism and even violent protest this year.</div></span><span id="midArticle_1" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #111111; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 80px; padding: 0px;">Protests at the agency's Cairo headquarters – including one man setting himself on fire – have been led by Oromos, the single biggest ethnic group in Ethiopia.</div><span id="midArticle_2" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #111111; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 80px; padding: 0px;">The Oromos say the UNHCR – which by agreement with the Egyptian government has responsibility for determining asylum applications in Egypt – has routinely rejected their asylum claims. The Oromos claim the UN agency has been hostile to their allegations of discrimination, persecution and even torture by the government of Ethiopia. Protests and a government crackdown in Ethiopia have left 140 (the government estimate) or 314 (Human Rights Watch) dead since July and pushed thousands of people to flee the country.</div><span id="midArticle_3" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #111111; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 80px; padding: 0px;">UNHCR said the criticism is unfounded. It conceded there had been delays to processing applications but said those were caused by a shortage of resources.</div><span id="midArticle_4" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #111111; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 80px; padding: 0px;">It was "absolutely not true to say we reject everyone," said Tariq Argaz, a UNHCR spokesman.</div><span id="midArticle_5" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #111111; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 80px; padding: 0px;">Nevertheless, an increasing number of Oromos in Cairo have tried to get to Europe this year. Almost half of the estimated 150 Ethiopians who drowned in a sinking on April 9 joined the voyage straight from the UNHCR protest, according to relatives and survivors, who said the UN agency effectively pushed them to risk the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean.</div><span id="midArticle_6" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><span class="article-divide first-article-divide" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #111111; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 80px; padding: 0px;">"We have come to feel in Cairo, it is Europe or death!" said Arafat Abdulrahman, an Oromo who lost several friends in the April disaster. He set off for Italy himself and arrived safely in July.</div><span id="midArticle_7" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #111111; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 80px; padding: 0px;"></div><span id="midArticle_8" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><span class="article-subtitle" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-medium, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 80px; padding: 0px;">SELF IMMOLATION</div></span><span id="midArticle_9" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #111111; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 80px; padding: 0px;">Muaz Mahmud, the Oromo migrant who lost his wife Duniya and their two-month-old baby in the shipwreck, is furious with the UN. "If our case had been taken seriously we would have waited for the UN to make a decision," he said. "We wouldn't have dared to leave. But we lost hope."</div><span id="midArticle_10" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><span class="article-divide second-article-divide" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #111111; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 80px; padding: 0px;">Mahmud, 25, said he fled Ethiopia after being arrested for protesting. He said police had tortured him with electric shocks. "'You don't have the right to speak,'" he said they told him. "'If you want to be silent and live silently, you go ahead and live silently.'"</div><span id="midArticle_11" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #111111; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 80px; padding: 0px;">Mohammed Seid, public relations director of Ethiopia's Office for Government Communications Affairs, said no law-abiding citizens had reason to fear the government.</div><span id="midArticle_12" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #111111; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 80px; padding: 0px;">"Ethiopia is governed by rules," he said. 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</ul></div></span><div style="color: #111111; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 80px; padding: 0px;">Seid said that Oromos who make it to Europe or the United States often lie to win asylum. "In their bid to find shelter, or be handed green cards, residency status or have their asylum bids accepted, any pretext is claimed," he said. "But the main reason is economic ... Traffickers lure them through false promises of easy wealth."</div><span id="midArticle_14" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #111111; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 80px; padding: 0px;">In late April, UNHCR in Cairo agreed to work with Oromo groups to resolve the growing dispute there. But 40 or so refugees remained camped outside the agency's office. In July, Getu Ayana, 26, doused himself with petrol and lit a match. Another migrant, Asli Nure, tried to put out the flames. Her clothes caught alight, and both died. According to other Oromos, the self-immolation was in protest at the high number of rejected asylum claims.</div><span id="midArticle_15" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #111111; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 80px; padding: 0px;">Argaz, the UNHCR spokesman, said staff helped get the two medical attention. He said every refugee application is treated on its merits and processed in a transparent and fair way.</div><span id="midArticle_0" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #111111; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 80px; padding: 0px;">Abdo Mohamed, chairman of the Oromo Sons Refugee Association in Cairo, said frustrations remains. "The UNHCR have promised to work on this issue but they are still rejecting people," he said.</div><span id="midArticle_1" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #111111; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 80px; padding: 0px;"></div><span id="midArticle_2" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);"></span><div style="color: #111111; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 80px; padding: 0px;">(Edited by Simon Robinson)</div></span></div></div></section>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3199300911574327638.post-39583968626267756322016-11-04T03:56:00.001-07:002016-11-04T03:56:44.536-07:00EU supports fresh start for returnees in Ethiopia | Africa | DW.COM EU supports fresh start for returnees in Ethiopia<br />
With restrictions on migration tightening in Europe, many would-be asylum seekers from Ethiopia are choosing to return home. An organization funded by the European Union is helping them to return to their country.<br />
Illegale Migrantenin Addis Abeba, Äthiopien (DW/C.Wanjohi)<br />
According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), in the last couple of months thousands of illegal Ethiopian migrants have been forced to return home from countries like Yemen, Zambia, South Africa, Tanzania and Saudi Arabia. As of yet there is no official data about Ethiopians expelled from Europe.<br />
Those Ethiopians who come back are disillusioned and desperate, because they failed to reach the goal they risked their lives for. The biggest challenge they face once they are back is how to begin anew. Many have debts towards those who helped them finance the trip abroad. And they have no means to pay them.<br />
An end to suffering<br />
A lucky few are getting a chance to start their own business. About 30 returned migrants are currently getting training at the local non- profit organization LIVE-Addis. Recently they presented their business plans to LIVE-Addis. They now hope to be self-employed in a couple of weeks.<br />
Among them is Alazaar Beshaf. He went to Dubai in 2014, following a friend's advice. He was told that he would get a better job there. A high school dropout with no legal documents, Beshaf failed to get a visa when he reached Dubai. After five months he returned home to Ethiopia. He told DW: "It was very hard for me in Dubai. I suffered a lot and for five months even the street gangsters were out to kill me"<br />
Illegale Migranten Äthiopien, Alazar Beshaf (DW/A.Abeba)<br />
Alazaar Beshaf returned to Ethiopia from Dubai<br />
Bread for the neighborhood<br />
When Beshaf returned to Addis Ababa, he approached LIVE-Addis. The organization provides assistance for returnees and to victims of human trafficking. Alazaar Beshaf has completed a 21-day training course on business management sponsored by LIVE-Addis. He feels confident that he can now start his own business.<br />
His plan is to make injera, a soft, spongy, pancake-like bread which is very popular in Ethiopia. He aims at selling his product to the residents of his area. “Sixty thousand people live there. But there is no injera on offer, so they have to buy it somewhere else." Beshaf already owns two stoves but needs four to give his business the necessary start. "LIVE-Addis will give me some money and I will buy the other two stoves," he said.<br />
The EU steps in<br />
Illegale Migranten Äthiopien Alemayehu Teshome (DW/C.Wanjohi)<br />
LIVE-Adiss' director Alemayehu Teshome promises quick help for returnees<br />
EU leaders agreed in October to step up their efforts to curb illegal migration. To staunch flows along the so-called central Mediterranean route, the EU is offering trade deals and investment to African countries. In exchange for financial support African partners are to impose tighter border controls and to take back illegal migrants. This new approach by the EU is currently being applied in five African countries: Niger, Nigeria, Mali, Senegal and Ethiopia.<br />
Alemayehu Teshome is the executive director for LIVE-Addis, an organization funded by the European Union. He pointed out that they carefully vet the business plans presented by the future businessmen and things normally run smoothly. "It might not take us more than two weeks after the approval to provide them with start up capital," he told DW.<br />
The organization will then link the aspiring businessmen and women to the local administration to help get them all the licenses they need. Teshome also said LIVE-Addis also assigns community facilitators for technical support and advice when they really start their own businesses for at least six months after the new businesses have opened. Beshaf and the 31 other returnees on his course now have a chance to be successful in their own country.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3199300911574327638.post-41418128852231063982016-10-27T03:04:00.001-07:002016-10-27T03:06:04.791-07:00Protest in honor of Ethiopians protesting in Calis France<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<figure class="e_image e_full" id="e_image_41716605" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><div class="e_full_container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><picture style="box-sizing: border-box;"><img alt="PHOTO: Migrants sailing in a crowded wooden boat carrying more than seven hundred migrants, are helped by members of an NGO during a rescue operation at the Mediterranean sea, about 13 miles north of Sabratha, Libya, Aug. 29, 2016." border="0" src="http://a.abcnews.com/images/International/AP_libya_migrants_02_as_160829_4x3_992.jpg" height="480" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; left: auto; max-width: 100%; top: 0px; width: 660px;" width="640" /><span class="credit" style="border: 0px; bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 15px; position: absolute; right: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(34 , 34 , 34) 0px 1px 1px; vertical-align: baseline;">Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo</span></picture></div><figcaption style="background: rgb(245, 248, 253); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); border-left: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); border-right: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 52px 6px 15px; position: relative; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 660px; z-index: 1000029;"><span class="caption" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Migrants sailing in a crowded wooden boat carrying more than seven hundred migrants, are helped by members of an NGO during a rescue operation at the Mediterranean sea, about 13 miles north of Sabratha, Libya, Aug. 29, 2016.</span><a class="more-link" data-social="true" href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/thousands-refugees-rescued-off-coast-libya/story?id=41717703#" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5d90ce; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px !important; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">more <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; right: 1px; top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">+</span></a></figcaption></figure><br /><br />
<div itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Large numbers of small children who apparently braved the perilous journey along with their families can be seen seated on the laps of adults.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In one image, clusters of personal belongings are shown scattered around the deck of an abandoned ship.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Imagery of refugees crossing the Mediterranean Sea has become iconic in recent years, as hundreds of thousands seek safety or employment by journeying to Europe from the shores of Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, and Turkey.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><br /><br />
<figure class="e_image e_full" id="e_image_41716546" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><div class="e_full_container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><picture style="box-sizing: border-box;"><img alt="PHOTO: A migrant from Eritrea is helped after jumping into the water from a crowded wooden boat during a rescue operation in the Mediterranean sea, Aug. 29, 2016." border="0" src="http://a.abcnews.com/images/International/AP_libya_migrants_03_as_160829_4x3_992.jpg" height="480" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; left: auto; max-width: 100%; top: 0px; width: 660px;" width="640" /><span class="credit" style="border: 0px; bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 15px; position: absolute; right: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(34 , 34 , 34) 0px 1px 1px; vertical-align: baseline;">Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo</span></picture></div><figcaption style="background: rgb(245, 248, 253); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); border-left: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); border-right: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 52px 6px 15px; position: relative; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 660px; z-index: 1000029;"><span class="caption" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A migrant from Eritrea is helped after jumping into the water from a crowded wooden boat during a rescue operation in the Mediterranean sea, Aug. 29, 2016.</span><a class="more-link" data-social="true" href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/thousands-refugees-rescued-off-coast-libya/story?id=41717703#" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5d90ce; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px !important; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">more <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; right: 1px; top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">+</span></a></figcaption></figure><br /><br />
<div itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The <a href="http://data.unhcr.org/mediterranean/regional.php" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5d90ce; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">UN reports</a> that 271,218 of people arrived by sea this year, and that 3,167 who attempted such a trip are either missing or dead.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="t_callout" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/boat-carrying-hundreds-migrants-capsizes-libya-killing/story?id=39367863" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5d90ce; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Boat Carrying Hundreds of Migrants Capsizes Near Libya, Killing at Least 5</a></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="t_callout" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/image-drowned-infant-highlights-deadliest-weeks-refugee-crisis/story?id=39499956" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5d90ce; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Image of a Drowned Infant Highlights One of the Deadliest Weeks of Refugee Crisis</a></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Although much attention has focused on refugees from war-torn Syria, many refugees are also from Eritrea.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><br /><br />
<figure class="e_image e_full" id="e_image_41716488" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><div class="e_full_container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><picture style="box-sizing: border-box;"><img alt="PHOTO: A man carries his five-day-old son after been rescued from a crowded wooden vessel as they were fleeing Libya during a rescue operation in the Mediterranean sea, Aug. 29, 2016. " border="0" src="http://a.abcnews.com/images/International/AP_libya_migrants_04_as_160829_4x3_992.jpg" height="480" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; left: auto; max-width: 100%; top: 0px; width: 660px;" width="640" /><span class="credit" style="border: 0px; bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 15px; position: absolute; right: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(34 , 34 , 34) 0px 1px 1px; vertical-align: baseline;">Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo</span></picture></div><figcaption style="background: rgb(245, 248, 253); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); border-left: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); border-right: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 52px 6px 15px; position: relative; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 660px; z-index: 1000029;"><span class="caption" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A man carries his five-day-old son after been rescued from a crowded wooden vessel as they were fleeing Libya during a rescue operation in the Mediterranean sea, Aug. 29, 2016.</span><a class="more-link" data-social="true" href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/thousands-refugees-rescued-off-coast-libya/story?id=41717703#" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5d90ce; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px !important; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">more <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; right: 1px; top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">+</span></a></figcaption></figure><br /><br />
<div itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hundreds of thousands have fled Eritrea, located on the horn of Africa and bordering Sudan, due to the country's violent, repressive government and limited opportunity for many citizens, according to rights organizations.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><br /><br />
<figure class="e_image e_full" id="e_image_41716430" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><div class="e_full_container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><picture style="box-sizing: border-box;"><img alt="PHOTO: Migrants from Eritrea hold their children after been rescued from a crowded wooden boat as they were fleeing Libya, about 13 miles north of Sabratha, Libya, Aug. 29, 2016. " border="0" src="http://a.abcnews.com/images/International/AP_libya_migrants_05_as_160829_4x3_992.jpg" height="480" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; left: auto; max-width: 100%; top: 0px; width: 660px;" width="640" /><span class="credit" style="border: 0px; bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 15px; position: absolute; right: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(34 , 34 , 34) 0px 1px 1px; vertical-align: baseline;">Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo</span></picture></div><figcaption style="background: rgb(245, 248, 253); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); border-left: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); border-right: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 52px 6px 15px; position: relative; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 660px; z-index: 1000029;"><span class="caption" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Migrants from Eritrea hold their children after been rescued from a crowded wooden boat as they were fleeing Libya, about 13 miles north of Sabratha, Libya, Aug. 29, 2016.</span><a class="more-link" data-social="true" href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/thousands-refugees-rescued-off-coast-libya/story?id=41717703#" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5d90ce; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px !important; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">more <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; right: 1px; top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">+</span></a></figcaption></figure><br /><br />
<div itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Eritrea’s dismal human rights situation, exacerbated by indefinite military conscription, has led thousands of Eritreans to flee every month," according to <a href="https://www.hrw.org/africa/eritrea" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5d90ce; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Human Rights Watch</a>.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><br /><br />
<figure class="e_image e_full" id="e_image_41716259" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><div class="e_full_container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><picture style="box-sizing: border-box;"><img alt="PHOTO: Belongings left behind by migrants are seen in the floor of a wooden boat where more than seven hundred migrants were fleeing Libya, during a rescue operation in the Mediterranean sea, about 13 miles north of Sabratha, Libya, Aug. 29, 2016. " border="0" src="http://a.abcnews.com/images/International/AP_libya_migrants_06_as_160829_4x3_992.jpg" height="480" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; left: auto; max-width: 100%; top: 0px; width: 660px;" width="640" /><span class="credit" style="border: 0px; bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 15px; position: absolute; right: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(34 , 34 , 34) 0px 1px 1px; vertical-align: baseline;">Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo</span></picture></div><figcaption style="background: rgb(245, 248, 253); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); border-left: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); border-right: 1px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 52px 6px 15px; position: relative; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 660px; z-index: 1000029;"><span class="caption" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Belongings left behind by migrants are seen in the floor of a wooden boat where more than seven hundred migrants were fleeing Libya, during a rescue operation in the Mediterranean sea, about 13 miles north of Sabratha, Libya, Aug. 29, 2016.</span><a class="more-link" data-social="true" href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/thousands-refugees-rescued-off-coast-libya/story?id=41717703#" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5d90ce; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px !important; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">more <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; right: 1px; top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">+</span></a></figcaption></figure><br /><br />
<div itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The group cites forced labor, arbitrary arrests, detentions, torture, restrictions on freedoms of expression and movement, and repression of religious freedom as being among the incentives Eritreans have to flee their country.</div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3199300911574327638.post-69993927543294504442016-08-02T00:48:00.001-07:002016-08-02T00:48:18.438-07:00Sudan’s RSF militia arrests 600 illegal migrants near Libyan and Egyptian border - Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan<div class="cartouche" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-size: 14px;"><div class="surlignable"><h1 class="crayon article-titre-59779 " id="titreArticle" style="color: #a75314; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 22px;">Sudan’s RSF militia arrests 600 illegal migrants near Libyan and Egyptian border</h1></div></div><div class="ui-tabs ui-widget ui-widget-content ui-corner-all" id="tabs" style="background: url("//www.sudantribune.com/squelettes/smoothness/images/ui-bg_flat_75_ffffff_40x100.png") 50% 50% repeat-x rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; padding: 0.2em; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><ul class="ui-tabs-nav ui-helper-reset ui-helper-clearfix ui-widget-header ui-corner-all" style="background: url("//www.sudantribune.com/squelettes/smoothness/images/ui-bg_highlight-soft_75_cccccc_1x100.png") 50% 50% repeat-x rgb(204, 204, 204); border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 15.4px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.3; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0.2em 0.2em 0px;"><li class="ui-state-default ui-corner-top ui-tabs-selected ui-state-active" style="background: url("//www.sudantribune.com/squelettes/smoothness/images/ui-bg_glass_65_ffffff_1x400.png") 50% 50% repeat-x rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: #212121; float: left; font-weight: 400; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0.2em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1px; position: relative; top: 1px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article59779#tabs-1" style="color: #212121; cursor: text; float: left; padding: 0.5em 1em; text-decoration: none;">Article</a></li>
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<dt class="crayon document-titre-17091 spip_doc_titre" style="font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: 700; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 350px;"><strong>SRF field commander Mohamed Hamdan (Hametti) speaks in a press conference in Khartoum on Wednesday May 14, 2014 (ST)</strong></dt>
</dl>Last June, hundreds of RSF elements have been deployed in the remote desert of the Northern State shortly after complaint by the governor of drug and human trafficking by the criminal networks.<br /><br />
On Saturday, Sudanese army’s sixth infantry division in North Darfur capital El-Fasher has celebrated the return of the RSF from the Northern State.<br /><br />
Speaking during the celebration, Daglo said his forces arrested about 600 illegal Ethiopian migrants and thwarted several human trafficking operations near Sudan’s border with Egypt and Libya and at Al-Nakheel area in the Sahara desert.<br /><br />
He pointed those illegal migrants have been handed over to the authorities in North Darfur as a prelude to repatriate them into their home country.<br /><br />
The RSF commander said the media has turned a blind eye on numerous offences committed by rebel groups including killing incidents, displacement of civilians and destruction of civil institutions.<br /><br />
Daglo hailed discipline among RSF fighters, saying Sudan became a crossing point for illegal migrants seeking to travel to Europe and the United States.<br /><br />
He called on the West to appreciate efforts exerted by the Sudanese government to combat human trafficking and illegal migration across the Sahara.<br /><br />
Sudan is considered as a country of origin and transit for the illegal migration and human trafficking. Thousands of people from Eritrea and Ethiopia are monthly crossing the border into the Sudanese territories on their way to Europe through Libya or Egypt.<br /><br />
For his part, the commander of the sixth infantry division Ashraf Mahdi El-Rifaie said North Darfur became free of rebellion due to efforts of the Sudanese army, RSF and the rest of the regular forces.<br /><br />
“The RSF carried out its full role and combed the area of the rebel remnants and human traffickers” he said<br /><br />
He added that the RSF managed to free hundreds of foreigners from the grip of human traffickers on the desert near the Egyptian border.<br /><br />
Earlier this month, Daglo said his men arrested over 300 illegal immigrants heading to Libya across the remote desert of Northern State.<br /><br />
Deputy Governor of North Darfur, Mohamed Braima, for his part, described the RSF as the right arm of the Sudanese army, saying they play a major role in maintaining peace and security.<br /><br />
He pointed that the security situation in Darfur is stable, saying the government works to amend the social fabric and hold tribal reconciliations to unify the internal front and address the effects of war.<br /><br />
Earlier this year, the European Union granted a €100m development package to address the root causes of irregular migration in Sudan. The financial support came after pledge by the Sudanese government to cooperate with Brussels to stop human trafficking to Europe.<br /><br />
In January 2014, the Sudanese parliament approved an anti-human trafficking law which punishes those involved with human trafficking with up to 20 years imprisonment.<br /><br />
The RSF, which is widely known as the Janjaweed militias, were originally mobilized by the Sudanese government to quell the insurgency that broke out in Sudan’s western region of Darfur in 2003.<br /><br />
The militia was reactivated and restructured again in August 2013 under the command of NISS to fight the alliance of rebel groups from Darfur region, South Kordofan and Blue Nile states following joint attacks in North and South Kordofan in April 2013.<br /><br />
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<div class="newsDisp" id="resizeableText" style="font-size: 14px; text-align: justify; width: 680px;"><span class="newsDisp" id="ContentPlaceHolder1_lblNewsStory">(MENAFN - Daily News Egypt) The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) bureauin Cairo has responded to the death of an Oromo woman following a protest outside their office on Tuesday.</span><br /><br />
<span class="newsDisp" id="ContentPlaceHolder1_lblNewsStory">Although reports about the incident remain vague, two Oromoasylum seekers allegedly set themselves on fire in front of the UNHCR's headquarters in 6th October City. The incident reportedly took place as part of a protest led by Ethiopia's Oromo community that sought to demand the right to seek asylum with the UNHCR.</span><br /><br />
<span class="newsDisp" id="ContentPlaceHolder1_lblNewsStory">Tarik Argaz, a public information and communications officer at UNHCR, told Daily News Egypt: "We are very saddened by the incident."</span><br /><br />
<span class="newsDisp" id="ContentPlaceHolder1_lblNewsStory">Three people were allegedly injured and transported for treatment, according to Argaz. It is not clear whether that number includes the woman who died as a result of her injuries. A source previously told Daily News Egypt that the woman who died had attempted to put out a fire on another protester when she caught fire.</span><br /><br />
<span class="newsDisp" id="ContentPlaceHolder1_lblNewsStory">Argaz debunked the Oromo people's claims that their asylum demands were being ignored. "The numbers of asylum seekers in Egypt are increasing," he said, noting that UNHCR does not deal with asylum seekers according to their origin. "The decisions are based on legal criteria," he added.</span><br /><br />
<span class="newsDisp" id="ContentPlaceHolder1_lblNewsStory">He further claimedthat the UNHCR recently granted asylum to a "fair number" of Oromo people.</span><br /><br />
<span class="newsDisp" id="ContentPlaceHolder1_lblNewsStory">"The decision to grant asylum cannot be altered by external pressure," Argaz concluded.</span><br /><br />
<span class="newsDisp" id="ContentPlaceHolder1_lblNewsStory">In a statement released on Wednesday, UNHCR attributed the Oromo woman's death to a "violent" incident, without going into further details.</span><br /><br />
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<span class="newsDisp" id="ContentPlaceHolder1_lblNewsStory">The statement also said: 'UNHCR is mindful of the frustrations and anxieties that asylum seekers and refugees may feel because of lengthy procedures, due to the high number of applicants in Egypt. As UNHCR is committed to ensure fair, consistent and transparent processes for asylum-seekers and refugees of all nationalities, it calls for the cooperation by all refugee communities and appeals for their understanding and non-violence.'</span><br /><br />
<span class="newsDisp" id="ContentPlaceHolder1_lblNewsStory">This protest was part of continued attempts by members of the refugee community in Egypt to demand that the UNHCR recognise their communities, among other demands for fair treatment.</span><br /><br />
<span class="newsDisp" id="ContentPlaceHolder1_lblNewsStory">The Oromo people are an ethnic group primarily in Ethiopia, but also in other neighbouring countries. Although the group is considered the ethnic majority in Ethiopia, they are largely politically marginalised and forced to assimilate, which has led to many Oromo people choosing to flee Ethiopia and seek asylum elsewhere.</span><br /><br />
<span class="newsDisp" id="ContentPlaceHolder1_lblNewsStory">The Egyptian government signed a memorandum of understanding in 1953 that makes the UNHCR solely responsible for registering and determining the status of refugees in the country.</span><br /><br />
<span class="newsDisp" id="ContentPlaceHolder1_lblNewsStory">According to the UNHCR's website, as of December 2015 Egypt was host to over 180,000 refugees from around the region, predominantly from Syria, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Iraq.</span><br /><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 1rem; padding: 0px;">Both countries are a significant source of refugees in Europe, while Sudan is also a major migration thoroughfare for people moving between east <a class="u-underline" data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/africa" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; color: #005689; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">Africa</a> and the Libyan coast, the springboard for most people-smuggling missions to Italy. Over 150,000 people reached Europe from Libya in 2015 – only slightly fewer than the record of 170,000 in 2014.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1rem; padding: 0px;">In a draft document seen by the Guardian ahead of its official release by European civil servants on Tuesday, the EU has pledged to go ahead with a project that could see Europe provide Sudan’s security services with more equipment and funds to stop refugees, as well as assisting Eritrea’s judiciary.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1rem; padding: 0px;">The text has yet to be finalised, and EU sources could not confirm that the sections concerned would be kept in the text when it is officially published on Tuesday. The plans are only the latest iteration of a new EU migration strategy still being fleshed out by European leaders.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1rem; padding: 0px;">The proposed strategy also includes sending more aid and technical assistance to about 20 countries including Jordan, Lebanon, Niger, <a class="u-underline" data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/libya" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; color: #005689; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">Libya</a> and Ethiopia, in a bid to persuade their governments to do more to curb irregular migration.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1rem; padding: 0px;">Following a fall in the number of people reaching Europe from Turkey, European leaders are now trying to curb migration from elsewhere in the region. Favourable trade deals and visa liberalisation programmes are among the suggested ways of winning the acquiescence of target countries. Vague reference to legal pathways for refugees to Europe, as well as increased job opportunities for refugees left behind in Africa and the Middle East, are also included among the so-called “country packages”.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1rem; padding: 0px;">But buried deep within the draft document, the most eye-catching announcement concerns the EU’s “Better <a class="u-underline" data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/migration" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; color: #005689; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">Migration</a> Management” project, which the draft suggests “will start this summer”.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1rem; padding: 0px;">The project was first floated publicly in December, and according to <a class="u-underline" data-component="in-body-link" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/sites/devco/files/t05-eutf-hoa-reg-09-better-migration-management_en.pdf" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; color: #005689; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">documents released at the time</a> could involve the provision of cars, equipment and possibly aircraft to the Sudanese government – as well as “capacity-building” for Eritrean judges, whom the UN accuses of aiding and abetting President Isaias Afwerki’s despotic regime in Asmara.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1rem; padding: 0px;">The proposals have been met with fury by some rights campaigners and leftwing MEPs. Barbara Spinelli, an Italian MEP from <a class="u-underline" data-component="in-body-link" data-link-name="in body link" href="http://www.guengl.eu/group/about" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; color: #005689; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">GUE/NGL</a>, a leftwing coalition in the European parliament, said: “These ‘country packages’ would make us complicit with dictatorships and deny basic fundamental rights to people fleeing wars, famine and extreme poverty … The commission should be ashamed of this proposal.”</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1rem; padding: 0px;">Sara Tesorieri, a policy adviser at <a class="u-underline" data-component="in-body-link" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.oxfam.org/" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; color: #005689; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">Oxfam</a>, accused EU leaders of compromising European values, should the proposals come to pass on Tuesday. She said: “The EU needs to reconsider very carefully exactly how much it is willing to sacrifice on the altar of migration, because right now, they are headed down a road where they will have a foreign policy that consists of a single objective. And they will be bargaining with regimes that they have held at arm’s length.”</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1rem; padding: 0px;">She added the EU “should be rethinking its approach. It needs to return to reframing migration as an opportunity. The reality is that migration is increasing globally and Europe is going to be part of that.”</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1rem; padding: 0px;">A spokesperson for the European commission said: “There are also no [concrete] plans at this stage to provide equipment to the Sudanese government. Any decision to provide civilian equipment will be taken on the basis of a forthcoming appraisal mission to <a class="u-underline" data-component="auto-linked-tag" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/sudan" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; color: #005689; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">Sudan</a> from the EU and the consortium of EU member states.”</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1rem; padding: 0px;">The German development minister, Gerd Müller, last week told the Guardian that Germany had no plans to send money to Sudan, contrary to reports in Der Spiegel and statements within EU policy documents, including the draft seen by the Guardian.</div><br /><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 1rem; padding: 0px;">Tuesday’s policy paper is only the latest attempt by the EU to stem the flow of people arriving on Europe’s shores. <a class="u-underline" data-component="in-body-link" data-link-name="in body link" href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/12/migration-crisis-european-and-african-leaders-agree-18bn-trust-fund" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; color: #005689; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">At a summit in Valletta last November</a>, the EU promised to give 23 African nations a share in a €1.8bn (£1.4bn) “trust fund”, money for employment projects and border controls to dissuade people from travelling to Europe.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1rem; padding: 0px;">Some countries would like to see the EU go further, with a tougher approach to refugees. Austria’s foreign minister, Sebastian Kurz, has called for asylum seekers to be kept on islands rather than having direct access to the continent. In an<a class="u-underline" data-component="in-body-link" data-link-name="in body link" href="http://diepresse.com/home/politik/aussenpolitik/5003144/Kurz_Rettung-aus-Seenot-ist-kein-Ticket-nach-Europa?from=gl.home_politik" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; color: #005689; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">interview with Die Presse</a> on Sunday, he urged the EU to follow the Australian model, where migrants and refugees are sent to Pacific island detention centres, where they are held indefinitely, while their asylum applications are processed.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1rem; padding: 0px;">Hungary, a staunch opponent of plans to redistribute refugees around the bloc, had already proposed that refugees be restricted to “closed and protected” centres beyond the EU’s borders.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3199300911574327638.post-20184678039597593772016-06-06T00:52:00.001-07:002016-06-06T00:52:50.580-07:00Refugee team to make history at Rio Olympics<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OmxnJoLX5_M" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3199300911574327638.post-58743760558035424192016-05-30T03:15:00.001-07:002016-05-30T03:15:46.969-07:00Another migrant ship overturns in Mediterranean Sea<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8pLo0ea69jc" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3199300911574327638.post-85215785792844701362016-05-26T02:49:00.001-07:002016-05-26T02:49:31.972-07:00Sudan and Eritrea crackdown on migrants amid reports of EU incentives<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Authorities in Sudan have launched a crackdown on Eritrean migrants - arresting those living in the capital, Khartoum, and intercepting hundreds travelling north through the country towards Libya, the launching point for smugglers’ boats heading for Europe.</div>
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Reports that 900 Eritreans were <a href="https://martinplaut.wordpress.com/2016/05/24/eritreans-rounded-up-in-sudan/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(22, 91, 154, 0.2) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: border-box; color: #165b9a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; transition: box-shadow 0.5s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1); vertical-align: baseline;">rounded up</a> in Khartoum on Monday and that a further 400 arrested en route to Libya have been deported to Eritrea, come amid recent revelations in the <a href="https://martinplaut.wordpress.com/2016/05/24/eritreans-rounded-up-in-sudan/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(22, 91, 154, 0.2) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: border-box; color: #165b9a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; transition: box-shadow 0.5s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1); vertical-align: baseline;">British</a> and <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/eu-to-work-with-despot-in-sudan-to-keep-refugees-out-a-1092328.html" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(22, 91, 154, 0.2) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: border-box; color: #165b9a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; transition: box-shadow 0.5s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1); vertical-align: baseline;">German</a> media that the EU is planning to deepen its cooperation with a number of African countries, including Sudan and Eritrea, to stem migration towards Europe.</div>
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Kibrom*, a 16-year-old Eritrean refugee who used the route through Sudan and Libya to reach Europe in 2015, told IRIN that his twin sister was among a group of 130 Eritreans captured by Sudanese soldiers in the town of Dongola, about halfway between Khartoum and the Libyan border, earlier this month.</div>
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“I passed the same way. When we were travelling, we had to bribe the police. My sister used the same smuggler, but when he tried to bribe the police, it didn’t work,” he said.</div>
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Kibrom’s sister, along with the rest of the group, were taken to a prison in Khartoum where they spent three days. Kibron said he tried to alert the UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR, but failed to make contact.</div>
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“Only the Eritrean Embassy was informed. They took them in an open truck at night time to the Eritrean border,” he said. “From there they were taken to a prison located in my city – Teseney.”</div>
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Leaving Eritrea without permission is a criminal offense and Kibrom is extremely concerned about his sister, who was trying to evade military conscription, as well as his mother and two younger brothers who are still living in Teseney.</div>
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“My mother can’t even try to see my sister or she will be arrested as well,” he told IRIN over the phone from Sweden where he has applied for asylum. “I’m so worried what’s going to happen to them.”</div>
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A spokesperson with UNHCR’s office in Khartoum confirmed that a number of migrants, including Eritreans, had been intercepted in northern Sudan heading towards the Libyan border. Of those being held at the Aliens Detention Centre in Khartoum, UNHCR had only identified six individuals who had previously sought asylum and been recognized as refugees.</div>
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None of those six had been deported and the spokesperson did not comment on the other deportations but said: “If an individual does not apply for asylum through the channels provided and subsequently does not express a wish to seek asylum, Sudan may be within its legal right to pursue deportation of irregular migrants from its territory.</div>
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“For UNHCR, the principle prohibiting forcible returns or non-refoulement only takes centre stage when the affected individuals are persons of concern to UNHCR, which does not appear to be the case in this particular instance.”</div>
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It is unclear whether UNHCR had access to all of the Eritreans detained in Khartoum prior to their deportation. Meron Estefanos, an Eritrean activist based in Sweden who has been in touch with the relatives of some of the deportees, told IRIN that another group of around 300 Eritreans arrested while making their way to Libya were deported last Friday.</div>
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Sudan has a prior record of deporting Eritreans without allowing them access to asylum procedures, a practice that UNHCR has <a href="http://www.unhcr.org/news/briefing/2011/10/4e9d47269/unhcr-dismay-new-deportation-eritreans-sudan.html" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(22, 91, 154, 0.2) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: border-box; color: #165b9a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; transition: box-shadow 0.5s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1); vertical-align: baseline;">condemned</a> in the past as amounting to refoulement.</div>
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In addition to the arrests of migrants in Sudan, Estefanos said there has also been a noticeable increase in controls on the Eritrean side of the Sudan-Eritrea border in the last two months. “Leaving Eritrea to Sudan is becoming hard now,” she told IRIN. “People are being intercepted and sent back.”</div>
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Last year, a <a href="http://www.irinnews.org/report/101619/eritrea-rights-report-prompts-protection-rethink" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(22, 91, 154, 0.2) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: border-box; color: #165b9a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; transition: box-shadow 0.5s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1); vertical-align: baseline;">UN inquiry</a> found evidence that Eritrea is a totalitarian state responsible for “systemic, widespread and gross human rights violations” including a system of indefinite national service that amounts to forced labour.</div>
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Eritrean soldiers are instructed to shoot at anyone they discover trying to leave the country illegally, a policy that hasn’t prevented thousands from fleeing across the border every month. While the majority of Eritreans remain in camps in Sudan and Ethiopia, over 70,000 applied for asylum in Europe during 2014 and 2015, according to EuroStat figures.</div>
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Last week, Der Spiegel and the New Statesman reported on a leaked plan to increase cooperation with African countries of origin and transit for migrants. The articles alleged that the EU plans to use funding from the recently launched <a href="http://www.irinnews.org/news/2015/11/12/eu-africa-migrant-plan-raises-worrying-questions" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(22, 91, 154, 0.2) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: border-box; color: #165b9a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; transition: box-shadow 0.5s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1); vertical-align: baseline;">Emergency Trust Fund for Africa</a> to send equipment and vehicles to help Sudan police its border with Eritrea and to assist with the construction of two closed reception centres in Gadaref and Kassala. Eritrea would be given assistance to develop or implement human trafficking regulations.</div>
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A spokesperson with the EU’s Office for International Cooperation and Development, said the reports were inaccurate and that there are currently no plans to provide equipment to the Sudanese government, or to help them build reception centres.</div>
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“Any decision to provide civilian equipment will be taken on the basis of a forthcoming appraisal mission to Sudan from the EU,” she said, adding that any future donation of equipment would comply with EU sanctions against Sudan, which include a ban on the provision of services related to military activities.</div>
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“The activities related to Sudan are part of a broader regional project in the Horn of Africa, worth EUR 40 million, financed under the EU Trust Fund for Africa and designed to improve migration management,” said the spokesperson, noting that the main objective was to cooperate on fighting trafficking and smuggling.</div>
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“No funding will be channelled through the beneficiary countries’ government structures.”</div>
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The EU has increasingly sought the cooperation of African states to control the flows of migrants headed for its shores by using the promise of aid and trade agreements. Critics <a href="http://www.irinnews.org/analysis/2015/04/13" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(22, 91, 154, 0.2) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: border-box; color: #165b9a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; transition: box-shadow 0.5s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1); vertical-align: baseline;">argue</a> that such policies have contributed to states viewing migrants as bargaining chips to be leveraged for maximum political capital with disastrous results for their safety and human rights.</div>
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Europe’s engagement with Sudan and Eritrea, and other countries along the Horn of Africa to Europe migration route, dates back to the Khartoum Process, launched in November 2014. The EU spokesperson said such initiatives were important for “keeping a dialogue going” with the otherwise isolated Eritrean regime.</div>
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<img alt="Shagarab Camp - Turmesgy Gabr Selassie (right) fled the Eritrean army 3 months ago. He shares this tent with 11 other men and women where they sleep on the ground. The only luxury in their tent is the thin sheets with which they cover themselves" src="http://assets.irinnews.org/s3fs-public/images/200912031240000173.jpg" />But <a href="http://confrontations.org/interface-en/the-migration-crisis-and-the-horn-of-africa-the-khartoum-process?lang=en" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(22, 91, 154, 0.2) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: border-box; color: #165b9a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; transition: box-shadow 0.5s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1); vertical-align: baseline;">sceptics argue</a> that the Khartoum process risks legitimizing the governments of Sudan and Eritrea by treating them as partners in tackling irregular migration, when in fact those countries’ own policies are a major factor in driving migration and fuelling migrant smuggling and trafficking. Sudanese officials have repeatedly been accused of <a href="http://www.irinnews.org/analysis/2014/02/12/sudan-and-egypt-implicated-human-trafficking" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(22, 91, 154, 0.2) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: border-box; color: #165b9a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; transition: box-shadow 0.5s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1); vertical-align: baseline;">colluding with</a> or turning a blind eye to traffickers who kidnap Eritrean refugees and hold them for ransom.</div>
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A former journalist from Eritrea, who asked not to be named, said that Eritrea’s stepped up border controls were partly related to security concerns as it celebrates 25 years of independence, but that they were also about “trying to make themselves look like a good partner” to the EU.</div>
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“They’re helping the trafficking networks become smarter, because people will still look for a way out,” he told IRIN. “If these people stay in power, there’s no way to stop migration.”</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3199300911574327638.post-20645698819230610322016-05-18T03:27:00.001-07:002016-05-18T03:27:33.168-07:00In Attempt to Manage Refugee Crisis, E.U. Seeks to Work With Repressive African Gov’ts<h1 class="page-header" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Minion Pro', Times, sans-serif; font-size: 36px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding-bottom: 9px;"></h1><div class="region region-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br /><br />
<section class="block block-system clearfix" id="block-system-main" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div about="/news/article/james-carstensen/stepping-efforts-manage-refugee-crisis-eu-seeks-work-repressive" class="node node-article clearfix" id="node-1056446" style="box-sizing: border-box;" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document"><div class="authors" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: 'Minion Pro', Times, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 10px 0px;">By <a class="username" href="http://www.cnsnews.com/author/james-carstensen" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #005291; text-decoration: none;" title="View user profile.">James Carstensen</a> | May 17, 2016 | 10:54 PM EDT</div><div class="content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="insert-box" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; float: right; margin: 5px 10px 10px; padding: 10px;"><img alt="" class="img-responsive insert-image image-ap_image" src="http://cdn.cnsnews.com/styles/ap_image/s3/bashir-au2012.jpg?itok=j83s4JpY" height="147" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; max-width: 100%; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle; width: 210px;" width="200" /><br /><br />
<div class="insert-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Minion Pro', Times, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; max-width: 200px; text-align: center; width: 200px;">Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is wanted by the ICC for war crimes and genocide. (AP Photo, File)</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Minion Pro', Times, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Berlin (CNSNews.com) – European Union proposals to stem the flow of migrants from Africa by cooperating with African countries – including those ruled by despotic governments known for human rights violations – are causing controversy here.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Minion Pro', Times, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Plans emerged after minutes from a “secret” March 23 meeting were obtained by German news outlet <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Spiegel</em> and the ARD public television network.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Minion Pro', Times, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">The plan would be coordinated by the German development agency (GIZ), and involve working with eight African countries including Sudan, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia – all ranked “not free” by democracy watchdog Freedom House.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Minion Pro', Times, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">The E.U. would provide funding of 40 million euro ($45 million) over three years, supply equipment such as cameras, scanners and servers for registering refugees, assist with the construction of two refugee camps, and train their border police.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Minion Pro', Times, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">The foundations of the plan were first established during a 2015 E.U.-Africa summit in Valletta, Malta, where African and European leaders signed a 16-point action plan aimed at preventing irregular migration and combatting human trafficking.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Minion Pro', Times, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">However, due to the negative reputation of some of the involved African countries’ governments, ranging from rights abuses to war crimes, the plan has met with criticism.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Minion Pro', Times, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Eritrea is responsible for the third largest influx of migrants fleeing to the E.U., behind Syria and Afghanistan. Sudan, a key route for refugees from Eritrea, is suspected of collaborating with criminal human trafficking networks.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Minion Pro', Times, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">A U.N. inquiry into Eritrean human rights last June <a href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=16054&LangID=E" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #005291; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reported</a> that its one-party government is “responsible for systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations that have created a climate of fear,” and noting that “the population is subjected to forced labor and imprisonment.”</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Minion Pro', Times, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, meanwhile is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, arising from the Darfur conflict.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Minion Pro', Times, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Marina Peter of the German relief organization Bread for the World criticized the plan, saying working with Sudan meant that “a regime that destabilized the region and drove hundreds of thousands of people to flee is now supposed to stem the refugee problem for the E.U.”</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Minion Pro', Times, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">The E.U. has been facing scrutiny as it struggles to find solutions to a growing migration crisis, with record numbers of refugees fleeing conflict-ridden zones in Africa and the Middle East.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Minion Pro', Times, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">After Germany took in more than one million migrants in 2015, Chancellor Angela Merkel under growing political pressure brokered a controversial agreement with Turkey to return all asylum seekers and refugees who had crossed the Aegean Sea into Greece.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Minion Pro', Times, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">The pact has so far succeeded in reducing the numbers of refugees entering Europe through Greece, but recently reached an impasse over another element – visa-free travel for Turks.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Minion Pro', Times, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Talks on that aspect <a href="http://www.dw.com/en/turkeys-eu-minister-not-hopeful-about-visa-waiver-deal/a-19256955?maca=en-RSS_en_Feedly_World_News-8963-xml-mrss" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #005291; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">stalled</a> over E.U. concerns about Turkey’s anti-terror laws, which allow journalists and academics to be labelled as terrorists.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Minion Pro', Times, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">The German government <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/james-carstensen/turkish-pms-fall-stokes-concerns-about-eu-migrant-deal-germany-denies" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #005291; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">denied having a secret “Plan B</a>” if the Turkey agreement should fail, but the government is nevertheless actively looking at additional methods to stem the tide of migrants.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Minion Pro', Times, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tagesspiegel am Sonntag</em>newspaper that there was “a search for solutions in case of possible alternative routes, such as via Libya and Italy.”</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Minion Pro', Times, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">“If, once more, more people come via this route, we will need to search for similar solutions as we did with Turkey and also enter into negotiations with North African countries,” he said.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Minion Pro', Times, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">In further steps aimed at blocking migrant flows from Africa, Germany’s Bundestag, effectively the lower house of parliament, <a href="http://www.dw.com/en/germany-votes-to-classify-maghreb-states-safe-countries-of-origin/a-19255163" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #005291; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">approved a proposal</a>last Friday to add Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia to a list of “safe countries of origin.”</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Minion Pro', Times, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">If approved by the upper house, this would mean that citizens of those countries would have no legal right to apply for asylum, allowing Germany to speed up the process of sending Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian asylum-seekers back to their nations of origin.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Minion Pro', Times, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Greens foreign affairs expert Jürgen Trittin criticized the proposal, telling the<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Saarbrücker Zeitung</em> newspaper that “human rights in the Maghreb are in a bad way.”</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Minion Pro', Times, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;">“These are not safe countries of origin. Period,” he said.</div></div></div></div></div></div></section></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0