News Highlights: ACP-EU meetings, UN demands freedom Eritrean journalist, border management
4 May 2017

News Highlights: ACP-EU meetings, UN demands freedom Eritrean journalist, border management

by | posted in: Uncategorized, Weekly news highlights | 0

In this week’s news highlights, the ACP-EU Joint Council of Ministers is taking place in Brussels, and EU Commissioner Avramopoulos warns European Member States that border controls at EU internal borders have to be removed before the end of the year. In the Horn of Africa, the UN calls for the liberation of the Eritrean independent journalist Dawit Isaak; furthermore, the South Sudanese government considerably raises fees for NGOs that work in the country.

News Highlights: concerns for minor refugees, Libya detention centres, Sudanese politics
27 Apr 2017

News Highlights: concerns for minor refugees, Libya detention centres, Sudanese politics

by | posted in: Eritrea, Horn of Africa region, Libya, Migration, Refugees in the EU, Sudan, Weekly news highlights, Yemen | 0

In this week’s news highlights, the European Court of Auditors report shows dangerous conditions in Greek and Italian refugee camps especially for the 23000 children, while Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) again denounces the appalling conditions in Libyan detention centres. In the Horn of Africa, the UN Monitoring Group will deliver the midterm report on the 30th of April; Eritrea figures again at the bottom of the list in the Freedom of Press Index; furthermore, Sudanese politics are a house of cards, according to the Institute for Security Studies.

News Highlights: Eritrea conference aftermath, famine and South Sudan ethnic killings
20 Apr 2017

News Highlights: Eritrea conference aftermath, famine and South Sudan ethnic killings

by | posted in: Weekly news highlights | 0

In this week’s news highlights, the Dutch-Eritrean relations are becoming more and more tense after the ban of the Eritrean youth conference and during the weekend thousands of people were rescued in the Mediterranean Sea. In the Horn of Africa, Eritrean nurses and care workers are not allowed to show how famine is devastating the country and the government-backed Ethiopian Human Rights Commission reports on the violent episodes of the last six months. Furthermore, in South Sudan the government is perpetrating ethnic killings against its presumed opponents.