News Highlights: Swiss ruling returning Eritreans, Sudan deports 30 children, Libya detention centre video
13 Sep 2017

News Highlights: Swiss ruling returning Eritreans, Sudan deports 30 children, Libya detention centre video

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In this week’s news highlights: A Swiss court ruling has stated that any Eritrean who has completed the national service can be sent back to Eritrea; UN official warns that South Sudan’s planned election might prolong the civil war; NGO warns that Ethiopia is not to be trusted with respecting the rights of political opponents; 30 Eritrean children forced to return from Sudan, and many other people at imminent risk; US to stop issuing certain visas for Eritreans over refusing deportations; Somalia in intensive fights against the Islamic-State on the southern border of the country; and a video of Libya’s ‘lawless’ migrant detention centres.

EU Plan for Middle-East: humanitarian aid and regional rapprochement policy under the UN’s aegis
5 Apr 2017

EU Plan for Middle-East: humanitarian aid and regional rapprochement policy under the UN’s aegis

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The Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union started a week with the EU fully concentrated on the Middle-East peace and stabilisation processes. At the eve of the conference on the future of Syria, co-hosted by the UK and and the European Union in Brussels the 4th and 5th April, the Foreign Ministers dealt with the current crisis in Syria, Yemen and Libya.

Ambassadors of EU member states question COI report on Eritrea: Is the critique legitimate?
12 Jan 2017

Ambassadors of EU member states question COI report on Eritrea: Is the critique legitimate?

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On Friday, the 6 January 2017, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (F.A.Z.) released an article titled “Not everything is that bad in Eritrea, is it?” (orig.: Alles gar nicht so schlimm in Eritrea?) in which European diplomats raise doubts about the credibility of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) report 2016 concerning the human rights situation in Eritrea.