News Highlights: Shooting at protests in Asmara, hotel attack in Mogadishu, Sahel G5 force launched

In this week’s news highlights: shots were fired at protests in Asmara, Eritrea – reports of casualties and injuries still unconfirmed; Eritrean organisation Freedom Friday calls for unity; war crimes trial against Ethiopian-Dutch Eshetu Alemu has started; Al-Shabaab attacked Mogadishu hotel using IDs and uniforms of security forces; South Sudan and Sudan leaders meet; UN Special Rapporteur on Eritrea calls for protection of refugees; Sahel G5 force against terrorism and trafficking launched.

News Highlights: Attack in Somalia, Swiss aid to Eritrea, Libya political meeting

In this week’s news highlights: Devastating attack in Somalia; Ethiopian government official resigns; South Sudan refugee video report; story of an Eritrean minor; Switzerland starts new programmes with Eritrea; France announces tougher measures on migration; Libyan political leaders to meet in Tunis; UNHCR statement on Libyan detention camps; operations in the Mediterranean saved 600 people; Egyptian army engaged in fighting with terrorist groups in Sinai region.

News Highlights: mini-summit on migration in Paris, Day of Disappearance, Sudan activist freed

In this week’s news highlights, the policy direction of the European Union becomes increasingly clear as several EU countries promise to held Chad, Niger and Libya increase their border protection; processes to return asylum seekers to Greece have started despite doubts over conditions of reception; the International Organization on Migration and Reporters Without Borders remind us of the damage of disappearances; and a prominent human rights activist is pardoned and freed in Sudan, but others are still being held.