IOM evacuated 200 Ethiopian migrants by boat from Yemen, to Djibouti. The evacuation, which took place on Wednesday June 10, involved two boats carrying evacuees to the Djibouti port of Obock. After a 24-hour journey across the Red Sea between Al Hudaydah, in Yemen, and the port of Obock all migrants arriving at the port
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IOM evacuated 200 Ethiopian migrants by boat from Yemen, to Djibouti. The evacuation, which took place on Wednesday June 10, involved two boats carrying evacuees to the Djibouti port of Obock. After a 24-hour journey across the Red Sea between Al Hudaydah, in Yemen, and the port of Obock all migrants arriving at the port
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In lieu of criminal charges, the Israel Police will decide what disciplinary measures the officer will face. Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein has decided to close the case against a police officer filmed attacking a soldier of Ethiopian descent, the Justice Ministry said Sunday. The case will now be sent back to the police disciplinary unit, it
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AP-The ISIS terror group kidnapped 88 Eritrean Christians from a people-smugglers’ caravan in Libya last week, a U.S. defense official confirmed Monday. The defense official confirmed initial reports of the mass kidnapping to Fox News after seeing a recent intelligence report. The independent Libya Herald newspaper reported that the convoy was ambushed by militants south
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By Callum Paton Islamic State militants in Libya have killed two Eritrean migrants after stopping a truck carrying 75 Africans of different nationalities. The extremist group shot the migrants after holding them at an intersection 5km from their stronghold of Nawfliyah. Military sources quoted by Libyan news website Bowabat Al Wasat said the pair were
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Israeli police locked arms to push back hundreds of ethnic Ethiopian anti-racism protesters on Wednesday in Tel Aviv where many tried to block a major traffic artery. Police said two protesters of some 400 protesters at the scene were detained. Television photographers saw five demonstrators led away. There were no reported injuries in the confrontation
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Robel Berhan steers his blue and orange Union Cab with its empty backseat to Hotel Lucia on Southwest Broadway. Nothing. He heads to the Marriott. A line of other cabs blocks his way. He knows a guy at the Nines who sometimes helps him out. It’s nearly 7 pm on a Wednesday, and Berhan needs
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By Goorish Wibneh Seattle has become one of the preferred destinations for Ethiopian immigrants. Some estimates say there are as many as ten thousand Ethiopians living in the Seattle area. Talking to Ethiopian Americans here in Seattle you might never realize how big the worldwide Ethiopian diaspora is or what people go through to find
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By AFP General view of migrants from Eritrea who stand and sit near tents as they live in a make-shift camp under a metro bridge in Paris, France, May 28, 2015. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier Paris (AFP) – French authorities Tuesday cleared hundreds of migrants from two camps, one under a subway bridge in Paris and the
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By Prof Yossi Mekelberg Chatham House, BBC From the section Middle East Israelis from the Ethiopian community take part in a protest against alleged police brutality and institutionalised discrimination in Haifa in May 2015 Israelis from the Ethiopian community protest in Haifa The story of the immigration and absorption of Ethiopian Jews in Israel epitomises
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