A family separated as they fled Ethiopia’s Tigray region have been reunited in Sudan. Tsiga Tegra’s husband was detained by armed men for seven days in their village before being released, but the experience left the family feeling they had no choice but to flee. Leaving in various directions they had no idea if they would see each other again but were finally reunited … Continue reading Tigrayan family reunites in a refugee camp after fleeing Ethiopia’s conflict

  After a three-day boat trip from Western Sahara, Mohceine Ait Lamadane reached the Canaries and from there travelled to Italy, taking advantage of a system swamped by arrivals and slowed by the coronavirus. “I paid 2,000 euros ($2,430) for the crossing,” 23-year-old Lamdane told AFP in late November after disembarking at Arguineguin port in Gran Canaria where Spain’s coastguard drops off migrants picked up … Continue reading Canary Islands face migration crisis

  Among the thousands of people fleeing the five-week-old conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region are a few dozen men, women and children from Eritrea, one of the world’s most authoritarian states. They were already living as refugees in Tigray, which had long been a safe haven for them during years of conflict and repression in Eritrea. But when Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government launched … Continue reading New exile for Eritrean refugees fleeing Ethiopia