Eritrea:  People Traffickers Stalk Eritreans in Sudan Desert

Radio Netherlands Worldwide, 14 January 2012

Moving at night through the cold, flat desert, armed people smugglers are exploiting, abducting and sometimes killing Eritreans fleeing their authoritarian homeland, the UN and ... read more »

Sudan:  UNHCR Chief Ends Visit With Relief for 'Old' Refugees, Risks for New Ones (press release)

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 13 January 2012

UN refugee agency chief António Guterres ended a visit to Sudan this week by hailing efforts towards lasting solutions for thousands of long-staying refugees in eastern ... read more »

Eritrea:  Eritrean Refugees Kidnapped, Killed - UNHCR Chief

Radio Netherlands Worldwide, 12 January 2012

Eritrean refugees are being kidnapped and sometimes killed by human traffickers, the head of the UN's refugee agency said in Sudan on Thursday, calling for global action against ... read more »

East Africa:  An Eritrean Refugee's African Odyssey (press release)

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 4 May 2012

They crossed the border at midnight, grief-stricken at the death of their daughter the previous day. Gebre's two-year-old girl Arsama perished from the flu. The night after they ... read more »

Sudan:  End Mass Summary Deportations of Eritreans (press release)

Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, 27 October 2011

The Sudanese authorities are increasingly deporting Eritreans to their country without allowing them to claim asylum, Human Rights Watch said today. On October 17, 2011, Sudan ... read more »

Eritrea:  Refugees Battling for a Better Life

UN Integrated Regional Information Networks, 1 July 2011

The first official Eritrean refugees arrived in Sudan in 1968; today, an estimated 1,600 cross the border every month to seek refuge in Shagarab, a large camp in the east of Sudan. read more »