Tag Archives: Sinai Peninsula
By Meron Estefanos From 20 to 21 April 2013, I attended the 2nd High-Level Tana Forum on Security in Africa, which was conducted under the theme: “Security and Organized Crime in Africa.” In attendance were several heads of states and … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Op-ed
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Tagged Bahir Dar, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Olusegun Obasanjo, Organized crime, Sinai Peninsula, Sudan
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Eritrean women fleeing their country’s oppressive regime are increasingly finding themselves the repeat victim of abuse, exploitation and violence once outside their homeland, a new report by a women’s rights group has found. Meriam Mohamed Omar (R) stands with her … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Special Reports
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Tagged Amnesty International, Asmara, Eritrea, eritrean, Hagaz, Horn of Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Sinai Peninsula, Sudan
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By Katie Harris He was bleeding all over. After more beatings, they poured petrol on him and set him on fire. After he died, they left his body in the room with us until it became rotten and worms started … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Amnesty International, Christian Solidarity Worldwide, Eritrea, eritrean, Gaza Strip, IndepthAfrica, Katie Harris, Sinai, Sinai Peninsula, Sudan
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A Response to Allegations Made against Me by Red Sea Fisher This is a brief explanation prompted by what has been said lately about me in a certain blog known as Red Sea Fisher, ostensibly administered by Eritrean government apologists. … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged Demographics of Eritrea, Eritrea, eritrean, Human rights in Eritrea, IndepthAfrica, International Business Times, Politics of Eritrea, Sinai Peninsula, United Nations Special Rapporteur
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By Tewelde Stephanos The numbers are staggering. Eritrea, a country of 4 to 5 million, has produced over 250,000 refugees in about 10 years. 35,000 live in a state of limbo in Israel. And these are the lucky ones. Over … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed, Refugees/Migrants
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Tagged Amnesty International, Asmara, Egypt, Eritrea, eritrean, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, Nevsun, Sinai Peninsula, Sudan
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Introducing the demon that works for me! Please try this at home: first find an Eritrean Activist (NB the goons that call themselves as YPFDJ or anything PFDJ don’t count as activists… I am not even sure if they count … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Ahlam, Eritrea, eritrean, Martin Luther King, Niagara Movement, People's Front for Democracy & Justice, Sam Hose, Sinai Peninsula, Sudan
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CLICK TO HEAR ESCAPE FROM SINAI BY BBC The truth behind the brutal trade in human trafficking in the Sinai desert ..
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged BBC World Service, Egypt, Eritrea, Eritreans torture in Sinai, Mike Thomson, Sinai, Sinai Peninsula, Sudan
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By Mike Thomson BBC News, Sinai Lamlam, 17, is one of thousands of people who make the treacherous journey from Eritrea to Egypt each year. Many fall victim to unscrupulous people traffickers, who kidnap them and demand ransom money from … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged bbc news, BBC World Service, Egypt, Eritrea, Eritreans torture in Sinai, Mike Thomson, Sinai, Sinai Peninsula, Sudan
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By Abdulrahman Al-Rashed Neither imams nor members of the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist movements would be able to protect the Egyptian presidency from the wrath of the people when they pay more pounds for one dollar. Every single citizen will … read more »
Posted in Article, Egypt, North Africa
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Tagged Copts, Egypt, Egyptian, Gamal Abdel Nasser, IndepthAfrica, Muslim Brotherhood, Saudi Arabia, Sinai Peninsula, Suez Canal
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By Vered Lee, haaretz They fled their homeland only to face a new threat in Israel: domestic violence. Now some are fighting back, from a small center in Tel Aviv. A little after 6 P.M., when the last of the … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Amnesty International, erirean news, Eritrea, Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Israel, London, Sinai Peninsula, Sudan, tel aviv
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Measures taken by Israel to stem a flow of illegal African migrants coming across its desert border with Egypt have had a dramatic effect in recent months, reducing the influx of newcomers to a trickle, according to recent government figures … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Refugees/Migrants, Somali, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged African Migrants, Benjamin Netanyahu, Egypt, Eritrea, Gerry Simpson, Human Rights Watch, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Sinai Peninsula, tel aviv
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(IRIN) – The Israeli government says a hardening of migration policy has caused a 90 percent drop in arrivals in the last few months, from around 2,000 in May to 122 in September. Under an updated Anti-Infiltration law passed in … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somali, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Egypt, Eritrea, Eritrea news, eritrean news, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, IndepthAfrica, Interior ministry, IRIN, Israel, Negev, Sinai Peninsula, tel aviv
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By SARAH LYNCH, New York Times African asylum seekers waited on the Egyptian side of the border fence with Israel in early September. The trip for those trying to cross from Egypt to Israel has become increasingly dangerous as criminal … read more »
Posted in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Special Reports
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Tagged Egypt, Eritrea, Eritrea news, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Sinai, Sinai Peninsula, Sudan, United States
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How Bedouins are kidnapping and ransoming African refugees in Egypt’s lawless hinterland Migrants from Eritrea rest outside a building used to house people waiting to be smuggled into Israel. (Asmaa Waguih/Reuters) CAIRO — Memories of torture still haunt 17 year-old … read more »
Posted in Comoros, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Refugees/Migrants, Somali, Special Reports, Sudan
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Tagged Bedouin, Cairo, Egypt, Eritrea, eritrean news, Ethiopia news, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Sinai Peninsula, Sudan, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
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Premier tells cabinet that 54 migrants crossed border in October and were all taken into custody- a steep decline from the some 2,000 migrants who came through monthly in mid-2012. Israel has stopped the unapproved influx of African migrants across … read more »
Posted in Article, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged African people, Benjamin Netanyahu, Egypt, Eritrea, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Sinai Peninsula, South Sudan, Sudan
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Amidst the unprecedented degree of mayhem Egypt is in today some may question whether the revolution was a disillusion, or even a fallacy that led nowhere. Was this what Egyptians had desired and hoped for? Had they known that this … read more »
Israel has turned away dozens of African asylum-seekers, mostly Eritreans trying enter the country from Egypt, human rights groups have said. Human Rights Watch (HRW) and two Israeli NGOs said that “since June, Israeli forces patrolling Israel’s newly constructed border fence … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, Eritrea, Refugees/Migrants, Somali
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Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Egypt, Eli Yishai, Eritrea, Human Rights Watch, Israel, Sinai Peninsula, tel aviv
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Israelis have taken to the streets to protest about the number of illegal African immigrants living in their neighourhoods in Tel Aviv. Officials estimate 60 thousand people have crossed illegally into Israel in recent years via the desert border with … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Eritrea, Somali
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Tagged African immigration to the United States, Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, Egypt, Eli Yishai, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Middle East, Sinai Peninsula, tel aviv
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By Mirjam van Reisen A new report titled ‘Human Trafficking in the Sinai. Refugees between Life and Death’ sheds new light on the devastation caused by the trafficking in the Sinai. Hostages are killed unless they collect exorbitant ransoms from … read more »
Posted in Global Issues, Middle East
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Tagged CNN, Egypt, Eritrea, Human trafficking, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica world news, Israel, Sinai, Sinai Peninsula, Tilburg University
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by Ran HaCohen If Ahmadinejad didn’t exist, Israel would invent him. Thanks to Israel’s gangster rhetoric of “hold me or I shoot,” international attention is focused on the brutal Muslim dictatorship in Iran, allowing Israel to quietly transform itself into … read more »
By David Knox CNN continues its “Freedom Project” campaign against Modern Day Slavery with the documentary A Stand in the Sinai, featuring CNN correspondent Fred Pleitgen. African refugees, mostly from Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea, face a dangerous journey crossing Egypt’s … read more »
Fessahaye Mebrahtu From Losing Credibility to Losing Ground; the following is the Countdown to the end of Dictatorship. The Eritrean state of affairs continues to consume the energy of Eritreans at home and in the Diaspora. While the majority at home … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Eritrea, News
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Tagged Eritrea, Eritrean Diaspora, IndepthAfrica, Isaias, Isaias Afewerki, Mengistu Hailemariam, Sinai Peninsula, Susan Rice, United Nations
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Prof. Steven Plaut Most Eritrean illegal infiltrators to Israel are Moslems and there is suspicion that terrorists enter the country among them. And if 50 African countries won’t have them, are they also anti-black racists, as Haaretz painted Israel? The … read more »
RAFAH, Egypt: An Egyptian security official says border guards have shot dead an African migrant near the border with Israel. The official said the 25-year-old Eritrean refused to surrender when police fired warning shots in the air and continued running … read more »
Posted in Egypt, News, North Africa, Spotlight
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Tagged Bedouin, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Rafah, Sinai Peninsula, Sudan
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On Sunday night, terrorists at the Egyptian-Israeli border stormed a checkpoint and massacred 16 Egyptian border guards there. They then drove two vehicles toward Israel with the aim of perpetrating a mass-casualty attack against Israeli civilians—thwarted by the combined efforts … read more »
CAIRO — Egyptian helicopter gunships killed 20 militants in the Sinai on Wednesday, state media and the army said, days after 16 soldiers were killed in an attack attributed to Islamist extremists. The air strikes on Tumah village — the … read more »
Posted in Egypt, News, North Africa, Spotlight
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Tagged Arish, Egypt, Gaza, Gaza Strip, Hosni Mubarak, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Sinai, Sinai Peninsula
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Sixteen Egyptian soldiers are dead after unidentified jihadists carried out a terrorist attackin the Sinai Peninsula, striking at the only institution standing in the way of an Islamist takeover of Egypt. The assailants were stopped as they entered Israel. The … read more »
Posted in Global Issues, Middle East
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Tagged afria travel, Al-Qaeda, East Africa, Egypt, Egyptian Armed Forces, Gaza Strip, Hamas, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, india south africa, Israel, map africa, map of africa, news, Sinai, Sinai Peninsula, South Africa, travel to africa, West Africa
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Egyptian police shot and injured three African migrants who were en route to Israel, according to Egyptian security sources in the Sinai peninsula. The officials told Ma’an that security forces saw three men trying to enter Israel and warned them … read more »
Posted in News, Spotlight
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Tagged Africa Countries, africa facts, africa for kids, africa karl wolf, africa lyrics, Africa news, africa news today, africa song, africa toto, african food, African History, Arish, Carmit, Egypt, Ethiopians, IndepthAfrica, Israel, reuters africa news, Sinai, Sinai Peninsula, Ynetnews
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El-Arish – Two American tourists and their Egyptian guide who were abducted by a Bedouin in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula last week were released unharmed on Monday, a security official and the kidnapper told The Associated Press. Reverend Michel Louis, 61, … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, Egypt, News, North Africa
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Tagged About Africa, Abu-Masuh, Africa news, African History, African Maps, All Africa, Bedouin, Boston, breaking news, East Africa, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthNigeria, Nigeria news, niheria newspapers, nothafrica, Sinai Peninsula, United States, West Africa
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Egyptian security officials said Wednesday that border guards shot to death a female African migrant trying to illegally cross into Israel, and arrested three others. The officials say the slain woman refused to stop early on Wednesday when guards fired … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, Egypt, News, North Africa
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Tagged afria travel, Africa news, African news, Benjamin Netanyahu, Egypt, Eritrea, immigration, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Sinai Peninsula, Sudan
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