News Highlights: ECJ dismisses complaints refugee quota, Eritrean rebels video, Libya’s recent history
7 Sep 2017

News Highlights: ECJ dismisses complaints refugee quota, Eritrean rebels video, Libya’s recent history

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In this week’s news highlights: Italian interior minister Marco Minniti defends his strategy of making deals in Libya to stop migration; the European Court of Justice throws out complaints of Hungary and Slovakia against mandatory relocation of refugees; Eritrean rebels fear the support of Gulf states to Afewerki’s regime; Ethiopia’s drought situation declared major issue by UN; warnings about Cholera in Sudan; Libya’s fragmentation and deals with EU member states are analysed; and Human Rights Watch report states United Nation should start an investigation on torture as possible Crime Against Humanity in Egypt.

News highlights: police clash with refugees in Rome, boats blocked in Libya, floods in Sudan
24 Aug 2017

News highlights: police clash with refugees in Rome, boats blocked in Libya, floods in Sudan

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In this week’s news highlights, the police in Rome use a water cannon to disperse protesting refugees; two opinion articles state that the EU’s migration policy may cause dehumanising conditions in Greek camps and more deaths in the Sahara desert; an armed group is stopping boats from leaving in Libya; Eritrea gets a new EU head of delegation; Eritrea’s biggest mine sees its production life cut in half; and flash floods cause damage in Sudan.

News Highlights: Eritrean Patriarch Antonios seen at Mass, Italy threatens EU, summer break
20 Jul 2017

News Highlights: Eritrean Patriarch Antonios seen at Mass, Italy threatens EU, summer break

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This week in the News Highlights: EEPA takes a summer break and the News Highlights will continue 17 August; Italy is keeping the option open of granting temporary visas for migrants; right-wing group aims to help returning migrants and refugees to Libya; Patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Church, Abune Antonios, was seen at a Mass but according to witnesses, he was not allowed to speak; shots were fired in a three-hour exchange between the Eritrean and Ethiopian military; negotiations on sanctions US-Sudan continue; and state of emergency is declared in four South Sudan states.