Tag Archives: Sinai
Selam Kidane From Here to Dignity The lord and master rides by on his horse and the peasant bows lowly and silently farts (a clever old saying… apparently) I came across the above saying in my readings on: shame pride … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged ArbiHarnet, Asmara, Demographics of Eritrea, Eritrea, eritrean, German, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Sinai
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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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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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Stop Modern-Day Slavery: Peaceful Demonstration Human Rights Day is celebrated annually across the world on December 10th. This year, concerned Winnipeggers from various backgrounds will be heading to the Legislative Building on Monday, December 10th at noon, in a peaceful … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Bedouin, Canada, Egypt, Eritrea, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Sinai, Sudan, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
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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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press release Jerusalem — The Israeli military has since June 2012 prevented dozens of asylum seekers, most of them Eritreans, from crossing Israel’s newly constructed fence on its border with Egypt, Human Rights Watch, the Hotline for Migrant Workers, and … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Press Releases
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Tagged Egypt, Eritrea, Eritrean Asylum seekers, eritrean news, Eritrean refugees, ethiopian news, Gerry Simpson, Human Rights Watch, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Sinai, UNHCR, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
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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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It isn’t pretty. Israel did what it could to keep the photographers away. It doesn’t play well against the history of Jews having to move from place to place, and encountering borders closed against them. Jewish officials have problems with … read more »
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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Since Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s visit to Israel last week, during which Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu openly and in Panetta’s presence decriedU.S. policy toward Iran as ineffective, Israeli media have been reporting further bitter charges against Washington by Israeli officials. On … read more »
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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Cairo – Two Brazilian women tourists kidnapped by Bedouins Sunday in the Sinai peninsula were released hours later, Egyptian police confirmed Monday. “The security services have succeeded, in co-operation with Bedouin leaders, to obtain the release of two Brazilian tourists … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, Egypt, News, North Africa
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Tagged africa african news, Bedouin, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, indepthafrica africa news, Israel, Saint Catherine's Monastery Mount Sinai, Sinai, Sinai Peninsula, Tourism
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CAIRO: Egyptian police killed two African migrants on the Sinai border with Israel on Saturday, Egyptian security sources told Bikyamasr.com. The migrants had been allegedly attempting to sneak into Israel via the porous border between the two countries. The victims, … read more »
Posted in Egypt, News, North Africa, Refugees/Migrants
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Tagged African people, Cairo, Egypt, immigration, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Sinai, Sinai Peninsula
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An Egyptian airport official says the government has deported 93 Ethiopians who entered Egypt with hopes of crossing the Sinai desert into Israel illegally. The airport official says 42 Ethiopians were repatriated on Sunday and another 51 were sent back … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged African people, Egypt, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Sinai, Sinai Peninsula, Sudan, Sunday
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Unknown gunmen attacked a police checkpoint in the Egyptian town of Al-Arish on Wednesday, killing two policemen and leaving two injured, a security official said. “Unknown gunmen travelling in two small cars without number plates shot at police officers with … read more »
Posted in Egypt, News, North Africa
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Tagged About Africa, Africa news, African History, African Maps, All Africa, Arab League, Arish, Bedouin, breaking news, East Africa, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, North Sinai Governorate, Pan African News, Police officer, Sinai, Sinai Peninsula, Southern Africa, West Africa
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