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Surprised Foreign Ministry says it knows nothing of deal that could see deportation of tens of thousands of migrants. Israel and an unspecified African country reportedly reached an agreement to deport illegal Eritrean migrants to its territory, and Israel is … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Pan African News
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Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Eli Yishai, Eritrea, eritrean, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Sudan, Sunday, tel aviv, Times of Israel
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Israeli authorities are detaining and then forcing migrants from Sudan and Eritrea to leave the country, a report issued by Human Rights groups charged on Wednesday. The report was published by the US-based Human Rights Watch together with the Israeli … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Eritrea, Human Rights Watch, Israel, Migrant worker, Refugee, Sudan, tel aviv, Uganda
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(JTA) – Two Ethiopian runners who traveled to Israel for last Friday’s Jerusalem Marathon absconded during the race in a suspected effort to stay in the country indefinitely. The two women, Malet Mekonen, 24, and Mahalat Zalika, 25, were seen at … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Friday, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Jerusalem, Jerusalem marathon, Kenya, latest ethiopian news, news ethiopia, Palestinian people, tel aviv
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Joel Millman Ruthless Kidnapping Rings Reach From Desert Sands to U.S. Cities CAMPBELL, Calif.—Ande Zerasion’s voice chokes up reliving the sound of his daughter pleading for help: “Baba, I am in Sinai. Please call me.” It was early October, recalls … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Demographics of Eritrea, Egypt, Eritrea, eritrean, Horn of Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, tel aviv, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
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Last week, soldiers in one of Africa’s most closed and repressive nations — Eritrea — occupied the country’s Ministry of Information and issued demands. The pattern was a familiar one. News spread quickly that a coup was underway. But feisty … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Asmara, Egypt, Eritrea, eritrea africa, Eritrea-Ethiopia, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Information Ministry, Isaias Afewerki, news about eritrea, news fro reitrea, news from eritrea, tel aviv
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Selam Kidane I was intending this to be my short reflections on 2012, it turns out the year was too short for me to be doing a proper reflection on (or is that a nifty excuse from my end?)… sensible … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Eritrea, Eritrea news, eritrean news, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, Hope, Independence Day, People's Front for Democracy and Justice, Semhar, tel aviv, Washington DC
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Israel’s Interior Minister has requested for legal approval to allow authorities to carryout the mass deportation of tens and thousands of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum-seekers and migrants. According to Israeli news outlets, interior minister, Eli Yishai, has called on the … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Eli Yishai, Eritrea, Eritrea news, eritrean news, Israel, Miri Regev, Refugee, Sudan, Sudan news, sudanese news, tel aviv
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Right-wing demonstrators rally against sexual assault of 83-year-old South Tel Aviv woman by African migrant man. Around 150 Israelis have marched though a run-down Tel Aviv neighbourhood in protest against the alleged rape there of an 83-year-woman by an Eritrean … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Eritrea, Eritrea news, eritrean news, Israel, Michael Ben-Ari, Micky Rosenfeld, Monday, Sudan, tel aviv
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Gag order lifted 10 days after man allegedly repeatedly raped an elderly woman near the Central Bus Station in south Tel Aviv. Photo: Ricardo Mallaco An 83-year-old woman was raped for hours in the courtyard of her apartment building near … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Eli Yishai, Eritrea, Eritrea news, eritrean news, IndepthAfrica, Israel, London, Monday, Petah Tikva, Sudan, tel aviv
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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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The Tel Aviv Labor Court last week ordered an Israeli man, Saul Ben-Ami, to pay NIS 71,000 ($19,000) in compensation to his former employee Awaka Yosef, an immigrant from Ethiopia, for referring to him with the racist slur “kushi,” Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Sunday. The incident … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Egypt, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, ethiopian news, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Kingdom of Kush, tel aviv, Yedioth Ahronoth, Yosef
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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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By Ramzy Baroud In life, some phenomena cannot be explained by ordinary logic or technical language, let alone official discourses. How did Gaza manage to fight back with such ferocity and undying vigor in quelling the latest Israeli war despite … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Gaza, Gaza War, Hamas, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestinian people, 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 Ben Sales · IBIM, Israel (JTA) – The explosion occurred close enough to Stesyahu Alema to shake his apartment, where he sat with his wife and two of his five children. But he didn’t flinch. None of them did. … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Alema, Aliyah, Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ibim, indepthafricva, Israel, Jewish Agency for Israel, tel aviv
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Sudanese refugees from the Nuba Mountains are being registered by Israel’s Interior Ministry as South Sudanese, making it difficult for them to find and keep work, pay for rent, bills, or food, and subjecting them to potential arrest and deportation. By Natasha … read more »
Posted in Article, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Darfur, IndepthAfrica, Interior ministry, Israel, Nuba Mountain, Refugee, SouthSudan, Sudan, tel aviv
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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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Rabbi Jerome Epstein After arrival in Israel, Ethiopian Jews are optimistic, but need further help It was still dark and chilly at 5:45 AM in Gondar, Ethiopia when we drove onto the Jewish Agency grounds. We were there to meet … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Aliyah, Ethiopia, ethiopian news, Gondar, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Jewish Agency for Israel, Jewish Federations of North America, tel aviv
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By BEN HARTMAN Photo: Ben Hartman Fearing a wave of impending arrests by Israeli authorities, around a hundred Eritrean migrants rallied outside the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv on Thursday, to protest the construction of a Negev detention facility … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Mali, Nigeria, South Africa
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Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Egypt, Eli Yishai, Eritrea, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Negev, Prevention of Infiltration Law, tel aviv
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Gershom Gorenberg, prospect.org Levinsky Park is where you meet a friend if you’re an African refugee living in South Tel Aviv. One recent afternoon, I found around 50 Sudanese and Eritreans sitting on the small stretch of lawn in groups … read more »
Posted in Eritrea, Refugees/Migrants, Sudan
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Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Egypt, Eli Yishai, Eritrea, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfricaUganda, Israel, Sudan, tel aviv
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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 Isayas Teklebrhan I traveled to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem on September 3, 2012 in order to submit the following letter, designed to expose the Eritrean dictatorial regime. When I arrived at the building, I explained to … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Eritrea
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Tagged Canada, Eritrea, Eritrean Government, IndepthAfrica, Israel, tel aviv, toronto, United Nations, University of Asmara
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Israel is refusing to allow entry to a small group of African migrants huddled at a desert border fence with Egypt, officials said Wednesday, underscoring a toughened entry policy. The Eritrean group appeared to number a dozen, including two women … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Eritrea, News, Spotlight
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Tagged African people, Egypt, Eli Yishai, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, Ran Cohen, Sudan, tel aviv
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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 »
The rising toll of violence in Israel directed at African migrants in the country has seen Ethiopians and Eritreans talk of the increase in racism in the country. “We hear it daily in this country,” said one Eritrean worker, who … read more »
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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, Demographics of Eritrea, Eritrea, Eritreans, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Mark Regev, New Jersey, reuters africa news, Sudan, tel aviv
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An attacker has stabbed three Eritrean men in a Tel Aviv video store in what police said they were initially treating as a racist attack. “All three people that were stabbed were taken to hospital with light to moderate injuries,” … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Eritrea, News, Spotlight
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Tagged afria travel, Africa news, African people, Agence France-Presse, East Africa, Eritrea, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, india south africa, Israel, map africa, map of africa, Micky Rosenfeld, news, news in africa, North Africa, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, tel aviv, travel to africa, West Africa
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JERUSALEM: A final planeload of illegal migrants from South Sudan is to leave Israel for home on Wednesday, bringing to a close a six-week sweep against them, an Israeli official said. “Since the start of the operation to expel the … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Hottest News, News, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Africa Business News, Africa Countries, africa facts, africa for kids, africa karl wolf, africa lyrics, Africa news, africa news agency, africa news today, africa song, africa toto, african food, African History, Eritrea, Haaretz, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Israel, reuters africa news, South Sudan, Sudan, tel aviv, United States
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By the end of 2012, all of Israel’s borders, over a thousand kilometers, will be protected by walls, fences and barriers. You can compare it to Hadrian’s Wall (the monumental border of the Roman Empire in Britain), the Maginot Line … read more »
Posted in Global Issues, Middle East
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Tagged afria travel, Africa news, africa news today, African news, Arab, BBC Africa, bbc africa news, Benjamin Netanyahu, East Africa, Gaza Strip, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, india south africa, Israel, Judea, Judea and Samaria Area, latest africa news, map africa, map of africa, news, news 24, news in africa, North Africa, Samaria, South Africa, south african news, tel aviv, travel to africa, West Africa
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(MENAFN – Arab News) We shall not be a normal people, until we have Jewish whores and Jewish thieves in the Land of Israel,” our national poet, Haim Nahman Bialik, said some 80 years ago. This dream has come true. … read more »
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Eli Yishai, Eritrea, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Jewish state, Miri Regev, South Sudan, Sudan, tel aviv
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