News Highlights: Isaias visits Nairobi, EU Summit sees tough rhetoric on migration, EU expanding support to Libyan coast guard
10 Feb 2023

News Highlights: Isaias visits Nairobi, EU Summit sees tough rhetoric on migration, EU expanding support to Libyan coast guard

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In this week’s News Highlights: Eritrean President Isaias meets Ruto in Kenya; Tigray and Ethiopian delegations meet; Ethiopian Orthodox Church tensions and violence increase; Abiy visits Europe; Cash and increased flights among steps to restore services in Tigray; Russian Foreign Minister visits Sudan; HRW calls for targeted sanctions on Eritrea over collective punishment during round-ups; EU expands support to Libya, starting with extra boat; EU increases support to Rwanda to absorb Libya evacuees; EU Summit discusses migration policies; and multiple shipwrecks cost the lives of refugees and migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. 

News Highlights: Eritrean troops digging in, Asylum seekers pushed back to Greece in boat prisons; EU migration policy criticised
20 Jan 2023

News Highlights: Eritrean troops digging in, Asylum seekers pushed back to Greece in boat prisons; EU migration policy criticised

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force’ in Sudan’s Darfur; Internal memo advises EU operation to continue amidst Libya instability; Report states asylum seekers in the EU are illegally pushed back in prisons below deck; New Frontex director pledges end to pushbacks; EU foreign council meeting on 23 January;  Report states Russia might ‘weaponise migration’; and EU migration policy a “cruel, myopic shambles”, states The Guardian.

News highlights: Aid to Tigray still limited, Divisions around Libya’s election process, Tension rises as France enforces border checks with Italy
18 Nov 2022

News highlights: Aid to Tigray still limited, Divisions around Libya’s election process, Tension rises as France enforces border checks with Italy

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i government protests the decision; Fear around Libya’s election process; Tension rises as France enforces border checks with Italy; Ship carrying 230 people rescued at sea docks in France after being turned away from Italy; European asylum right deregulation increases risk of rights abuses; Official launch of the African Union Compliance and Accountability Framework; African nations ask for more to help combat climate change; Donors must act quickly is famine is to be averted in East Africa; and UN increasingly concerned by privatisation of force.