News Highlights: Eritrean militia involved in Tel Aviv festival clashes, MSF stops healthcare in Tripoli, Greek-Italian alliance on migration

by EEPA Admin
Posted on September 8, 2023October 24, 2023
Africa

In this week’s News Highlights: 150 injured in clashes at Eritrean festival in Tel Aviv, armed militia involved; Eritrean forces continued crimes post-November 2022, says Amnesty; Civilians killed in Khartoum and bombing in Nyala; US imposes sanctions on RSF Deputy; Humanitarian organisations call for $1 billion to help Sudan refugees; Protests in Tigray repressed as opposition leaders are arrested; Displacement from western Tigray continues; MSF stops medical missions in detention centres in Tripoli; Appeal against Belgian decision to exclude male asylum seekers from aid; Report on dismantling of Greek asylum system; One person found dead, 14 alive, on Greek island; Italy and Greece form alliance on migration; ECHR slaps Italy for mistreatment of a minor; and President of the French senate wants referendum on migration.

Deadly shipwreck off the Greek coast raises questions about the state’s responsibility

On 14 June, the Mediterranean Sea saw one of the deadliest tragedies at sea that happened in recent years. A boat carrying migrants and refugees across the Mediterranean capsized and sank off the Greek coastal town of Pylos. 82 dead bodies were recovered from the sea as of 21 June, while 104 people were rescued. Hundreds of migrants and refugees went missing and are presumably dead as the boat reportedly carried up to 750 people.

In this week’s News Highlights: Violence against civilians and refugees; Public facilities attacked and aid restricted in Sudan; Two-day Eid ceasefire broken; Women and civil society urge for cessation of violence in Sudan; RSF releases 125 SAF soldiers; Displacements due to conflict and food insecurities in Sudan; Troika condemns violence in Sudan; Kenyan President Ruto say there are ‘signs of genocide’ in Sudan; UNSC talks about Sudan; Eritreans face forced return from Ethiopia; Tigray church calls for resume of food aid to Tigray as hunger related death toll rises; Study finds children in primary school experience high levels of trauma; Facilities in Oromia looted and destroyed; Tigrayans disappeared during war still missing; Officials removed in Puntland, Somalia; EU delivers patrol boats to Libya coast guard despite its links with militia groups; NGO vessel rescues 86 people off Libyan coast; Dozens missing and 3 dead off Tunisian coast; Frontex contacts Libyan coast guard for SaR operations; Tunisian model should be extended in other countries, says EU chief; Hungary and Poland block conclusions on migration at EU Summit; ECtHR rules in favour of 67 ill-treated migrants and refugees; Walid case continues in the Netherlands; Rwanda deportation plan deemed unlawful; UK says cost of transferring to Rwanda is in the hundreds of thousands; Greece to continue “strict but fair” migration policy after elections; Greek police and Spanish NGO rescue more than 300 migrants and refugees; Save the Children’s proposal for the protection of unaccompanied minors in Italy; Spain and Morocco under investigation for delayed rescue; and Amnesty accuses Spain and Morocco of Melilla cover-up.