Posts Tagged ‘refugees’

25,000 flee Sudan’s troubled Blue Nile to Ethiopia

September 27 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Africa, News, Sudan, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , ,

GENEVA — Some 25,000 people have fled Sudan’s troubled Blue Nile state to Ethiopia in the last three weeks amid fighting between the Sudanese army and rebels, the UN refugee agency said Tuesday. “Since 3 September, when the influx into Ethiopia started, an estimated 25,000 refugees have found refuge in Ethiopia,” said Adrian... Read more

More than 3,000 Ethiopian migrants stuck on Yemeni-Saudi border

September 21 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Ethiopian, Middle East, News, Uncategorized, World Tags: , , , , , , , ,

More than three thousand Ethiopian migrants – who risked their lives leaving the Horn of Africa – find themselves stranded in Yemen, near the Saudi Arabian border. The migrants want to return home, but the International Organization for Migration said it has no money to evacuate them.   Lives at risk The trip to Yemen... Read more

Eritrean Refugees in Ethiopia Say ‘Enough’; Demand Regime Change

April 21 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Africa Protest, Eritrea, Ethiopia, News, Politics, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , ,

ADDIS ABABA,   – Hundreds of Eritrean refugees gathered in the Ethiopian capital on Wednesday to call for democratic rule in Eritrea, which thousands have fled in recent years citing rights abuses. Under banners that read “Yes for democratic change”, around 1,600 Eritreans met to decry what they described as repressive rule under President Isaias Afewerki,... Read more

Nearly two dozen Ethiopian and Somali migrants died as boats sink off Yemen

April 14 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Africa, Ethiopia, Middle East, News, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , ,

Nearly two dozen migrants fleeing violence in North Africa have drowned after boats carrying them sank in separate incidents. At least 21 Somali and Ethiopian migrants died after a small fishing boat carrying 50 sank off Yemen, an official said on Thursday. Hussein Hajji Ahmed, an official at the Somali embassy in Yemen, told the BBC... Read more

Ethiopian Deportees from Yemen Arrive Anxious and Unhappy

April 12 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Africa, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, News, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Ethiopian deportees from Middle Eastern countries, 60 of whom came from Yemen, arrived at Bole International Airport on Monday, April 4, 2011, after escaping the economic crisis and political unrest in the region. The returnees, most of them adolescents and young adults, came back to their home country dejected and penniless. Mebrahtab Hagos, 15, was visibly tired... Read more

Kenya arrested 110 illegal immigrants from Ethiopia

December 16 | Posted by ocean | Ethiopia, News, Uncategorized, Video, World Tags: , , ,

Police have smashed another human trafficking syndicate and arrested 110 illegal immigrants from Ethiopia. The foreigners, who were on their way to Tanzania, were being driven from Nairobi when their lorry was intercepted in Vigurugani area by Administration Police officers as they entered Kinango from where they would leave Kenya through the Lunga Lunga border. Kinango DC Apollo... Read more

Yemen to deport 63 Ethiopian illegal immigrants

July 19 | Posted by ocean | Ethiopia, News, Uncategorized, World Tags: , , ,

Yemen said Sunday it will deport about 63 Ethiopian illegal immigrants to their home country in a week. The Ethiopians, all of them women, are now in the custody of the Immigration and Nationality Passports Authority in Taiz Province near western Red Sea, according to a statement from the Interior Ministry. Necessary arrangements... Read more

Ethiopia requests more money for refugees from Somalia and Eritrea

May 12 | Posted by ocean | Ethiopia, News, Uncategorized Tags: , , ,

Addis Ababa/Geneva – The Ethiopian government and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Wednesday called for an additional 13 million dollars to support refugees from Somalia and Eritrea living in the eastern African country.Almost 25,000 more refugees from Somalia, where Islamist
Refugee camp
insurgents are battling the weak Western-backed government, are... Read more

Yemen arrests 21 Ethiopian Refugges

April 23 | Posted by ocean | Ethiopia, News, Uncategorized Tags: , , , ,

SANA’A, April 23 (Saba)- Security authorities have detained 21 infiltrators of Ethiopia, including 8 women, for their entry into the country illegally. In a press release, Interior Ministry said on Friday that the security services arrested the Ethiopians in Taiz province, south Yemen. They are under investigated. Meanwhile, security sources said that 71 would-be refugees of Somalia, including... Read more

Ethiopia opens new refugees camp for Eritrean

April 15 | Posted by ocean | Ethiopia, News, Uncategorized Tags: , ,

ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia announced Thursday it has opened a new camp in the north of the country to accommodate the growing number of Eritrean refugees arriving each month. The first batch of 356 people arrived on Thursday at the camp in Adi-Harush in Tigray, the fourth to be established in the region since 2004, the Administration... Read more