Category: News

Italian Coast Guard rescues 1300 immigrants
Radio Erena: 29 December 2014 The Italian coast guard says it recued a boat that was capsized in the Mediterranean Sea with 1300 immigrants on board [...]

Sudanese Government rounds up and detains Eritreans in Khartoum
Radio Erena: 29 December 2014 Sudanese secret service and police are rounding up Eritreans and detain them unanimously, reported Erena Radio sources. [...]

Tension in the Shegarab Refugee Camp begins to calm down
Radio Erena: 29 December 2014 Tensions in the Sudanese refugee camp of Shegarab are relatively calm as of Christmas morning, confirmed Eritrean refug [...]

21 Eritrean refugees from Shegerab Refugee Camp sank in Atbara River
Radio Erena: 25 DEcember 2014 21 Eritreans sank in an attempt to cross to the Sudanese capital – Khartoum when their small boat capsized in the Atbar [...]

13 Eritreans – of whom 3 sisters were shot dead in the border of Eritrea and Sudan
Radio Erena: 24 DEcember 2014 People in Eritrea and abroad are upset about the news of the 13 Eritreans who were believed to have been shot dead in m [...]

At least 15 migrants died in ‘shameful’ Calais conditions in 2014
Radio Erena : 24 December 2014 At least 15 migrants in and around the French port of Calais have died in the past year as an influx of young men and [...]

Eritrea’s Meskeb Debesay elected best African Cyclist of the Year 2014
Radio Erena: 23 December 2014 Eritrean cyclist Mekseb Debesay (Bike Aid-Ride) was elected best African Cyclist of the Year 2014 on Monday. The award [...]

A construction project for a security fence in the border between France and Great Britain faces protest
Radio Erena: 20 December 2014 A protest in opposition of a construction project to build a security fences in the port city of City bordering France [...]

Western firms reduce Eritrean miners to ‘abject slavery’, UK MPs say
Radio Erena: 19 December 2014 Western mining companies operating in Eritrea are reducing workers to “abject slavery” at their mines and worsening a h [...]

An Eritrean national sentenced to three years in prison for smuggling up to 99 undocumented migrants
Radio Erena : 17 December 2014 An Eritrean national, who is also a citizen of the United Kingdom, was sentenced today to three years in prison for sm [...]