News highlights: Europe’s wall, Fr. Mussie Zerai under investigation, drought consequences
17 Aug 2017

News highlights: Europe’s wall, Fr. Mussie Zerai under investigation, drought consequences

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EEPA’s news highlights are back after the summer break. In the past weeks’ news highlights, Eritrean priest living in Italy is under investigation by the Italian prosecutor because he helps refugees and migrants; European Union member states increasingly call for military solutions to migration; in Eritrea, Patriarch Abune Antonios is still held under guard; drought is threatening – among others – people of Ethiopia and Eritrea; and 1 million South Sudanese refugees are now in Uganda, as the peace process is still ineffective.

News Highlights: urgency resolution Eritrea, EU ‘reducing migration’, violence in South Sudan
5 Jul 2017

News Highlights: urgency resolution Eritrea, EU ‘reducing migration’, violence in South Sudan

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In this week’s news highlights, the European Parliament is about to vote on an urgency resolution about Eritrea, mainly the cases of Patriarch Abune Antonios and journalist Dawit Isaak; the European Commission released new proposals for ‘reducing migration pressures’ in the Central Mediterranean Route; U.S. carried out a drone strike in Somalia aimed at Al-Shabaab; the African Union will send a delegation to Eritrea to discuss the dispute with Djibouti; Amnesty International warns of brutal atrocities in South Sudan; and UNHCR released a new report on mixed migration in Libya.

New UNHCR report shows displaced people on the rise in 2016 – again
20 Jun 2017

New UNHCR report shows displaced people on the rise in 2016 – again

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On the 19th of June the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) released its annual report on “Global Trends on forced displacement” for 2016. The report collects the yearly data on the different categories of people affected by forced displacement: refugees, returned refugees, asylum seekers, Internal Displaced People (IDPs), returned IDPs, stateless people and other persons of concern to UNHCR.