The Times of Israel published on 25 August 2024 an article titled "Far-right Minister Calls for Expulsion of Eritrean Asylum Seekers after Deadly Brawl" by Sam Sokol.
An estimated 20,000 Eritreans now live in Israel seeking asylum from National Service or as economic migrants. Eritrean pro-regime and anti-regime factions recently clashed in Tel Aviv, resulting in two deaths. Israel is trying to incentivize African migrants and asylum seekers to leave Israel.
The New York Times published on 3 September 2023 an article titled "Netanyahu Calls to Expel Unauthorized Immigrants After Eritreans Clash" by Patrick Kingsley and Abdi Latif Dahir.
Tens of thousands of Eritreans have made their way illegally to Israel seeking asylum. Some support the government in Eritrea while others oppose it. Clashes between these two groups broke out last week in Tel Aviv during an event organized by the Eritrean embassy to celebrate 30 years of independence from Ethiopia. Consequently, Israel called for the deportation of all unauthorized immigrants from the country.
The Washington Post published on 31 August 2023 an article titled "U.S. Presses Saudi Arabia on Reported Migrant Massacres" by Missy Ryan, Sarah Dadouch, John Hudson, and Karen DeYoung.
The Biden administration is pressing the government of Saudi Arabia to identify the military units along the Yemen/Saudi border alleged by Human Rights Watch to have killed Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers who were trying to enter the country. The United States has trained the maritime division of the Saudi border guards and the kingdom is the single largest customer for foreign military sales.
CBS News published on 22 August 2023 an article titled "Ethiopia Launching Joint Investigation with Saudi Arabia after Report Alleges Hundreds of Migrants Killed by Border Guards."
Ethiopia announced it will launch a joint investigation with Saudi Arabia into the Human Rights Watch report of the killing of hundreds of Ethiopian migrants trying to cross from Yemen into Saudi Arabia. In the meantime, Ethiopia urged against speculation, noting the "excellent longstanding relations" between Addis Ababa and Riyadh.
Human Rights Watch published on 21 August 2023 a report titled "'They Fired On Us Like Rain' Saudi Arabia Mass Killings of Ethiopian Migrants at the Yemen-Saudi Border."
Between March 2022 and June 2023, Human Rights Watch research indicates that Saudi border guards killed hundreds of Ethiopian migrants as they tried to cross from Yemen to Saudi Arabia in search of work or asylum.
Refugees International published on 24 July 2023 a paper titled "Sudan in Crisis: Improving the Response for Sudanese Refugees in Egypt" by Abdullahi Boru Halakhe.
About 120,000 Sudanese are stuck between conflict in Sudan and a hostile environment in Egypt at or near the Sudanese/Egyptian border town of Wadi Halfa in unsanitary conditions where they cannot meet their basic needs for weeks. Relaxation of entry and expediting the refugee determination process, combined with livelihood and labor access by Egyptian authorities and UNHCR, would reduce the humanitarian suffering at the border and inside Egypt.
The Washington Post published on 8 December 2021 an article titled "They Fled Hundreds of Miles to Escape War in Ethiopia. But They Fear It Wasn't Far Enough" by Rachel Chason and Rael Ombuor.
The article relates the challenges that Tigrayan asylum seekers and refugees face in neighboring Kenya as they try to escape the civil war in Ethiopia.
Reuters published on 7 May 2021 a special report titled "Ethiopia's Crackdown on Ethnic Tigrayans Snares Thousands" by Giulia Paravicini, Dawit Endeshaw, and Katharine Houreld.
Across Ethiopia, Tigrayans are being fired and jailed since fighting erupted in Tigray Region last November. The ethnic tension is complicating efforts to end a civil conflict that threatens the unity of the country.
The Pulitizer Center published on 11 December 2020 an analysis titled "The Kafkaesque World of Sudanese Refugees in Israel" by Isma'il Kushkush.
The Sudanese refugee presence in Israel has become a contentious political and legal issue that has divided public opinion and ignited court battles, racist rhetoric, and solidarity protests. At the peak in 2012, there were 15,000 Sudanese in Israel, but thousands have been forced to leave.
