News Highlights: EU’s secret externalisation plans, IDPs in Ethiopia lack aid, Boat sinks off Libyan coast
24 Feb 2023

News Highlights: EU’s secret externalisation plans, IDPs in Ethiopia lack aid, Boat sinks off Libyan coast

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In this week’s News Highlights: Process of forming interim Tigray government challenged; New book questions origin of Tigray conflict; Health drain in Tigray; IDPs and refugees in Ethiopia lack aid; Ethiopian Parliament warns of South Sudan armed group; OLA welcomes call for peace, but says it is unspecific; Eritrea continues collecting diaspora tax; Eritrea votes against UN resolution on Russia; Horn of Africa drought to worsen; UNSC meeting on Somalia; al-Shabaab attack in Somalia; Hemedti calls Sudan coup a mistake; AU Summit conclusions; Boat sinks off Libyan coast, killing at least 12; AU and UN express worry about Libya; National courts prosecute human traffickers active in Libya; EU’s secret externalisation plans; Italy signs anti-rescue law; UK plans to process 12,000 asylum seekers without interview; Russia’s increasing influence in Africa; EU increasingly forgetting core values in migration debate, state critics; and UN GA adopts various resolutions.

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: Russia visits Eritrea, 200.000 refugees enslaved in Libya, EU ministers ponder controversial migration reforms
27 Jan 2023

News Highlights: Russia visits Eritrea, 200.000 refugees enslaved in Libya, EU ministers ponder controversial migration reforms

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In this week’s news highlights: Russian foreign minister visits Eritrea; Ethiopian PM visits Sudan; Eritrean troops announce withdrawal from Tigray, but forces remain; Reform of regional administration in Tigray proposed; Military exercises and weapons inflow in Ethiopia; Ethiopian Orthodox Church in tension as three Archbishops break away; Fighting continues in Oromia; Experts warn against normalisation of relations with Ethiopia and Eritrea; IDPs in Abbi Adiy suffer lack of food and medicine; US Airstrikes in Somalia; ICC Prosecutor urges Sudan to cooperate in Darfur trial; Horn of Africa drought forecast for 2023; Digital education in East Africa; 200.000 refugees and migrants estimated enslaved and tortured in Libya; EU migration reforms start with demands for walls and externalisation; EU Foreign Affairs Council yields nothing on Ethiopia; Greece boasts of 260.000 refugees and migrants halted; Irish rescue ship prepares for mission; and UNODC warns victims of trafficking less often identified.