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Overview: University student Al-Zubier Adem fled human rights abuses in Eritrea as a teenager, making a perilous journey across Africa and Europe to build a new life in the UK. Here he tells his story and calls for a more humane government policy towards people fleeing conflict and persecution. I came to the UK in […]

Criticism is growing against EU leaders for failing refugees by neglect at a time of increased number of refugees. Simultaneously, many questions are being asked as to why people – especially from Sub-Saharan Africa – come to Europe. Eritreans constitute the second largest group of refugees in Europe and form a significant proportion of those […]

Nationality The chart below shows trends in the nationalities of people arriving on small boats since 2018. Arrivals from Eritrea increased fairly steadily across the period shown. In the year ending June 2026, Eritrean nationals accounted for the largest share of small boat arrivals (18%), followed by Sudanese (13%), Afghan (12%), Somali (12%) and Iranian […]

Date: 23/05/2025Author: Martin Plaut1 Comment It is the first time Eritrea has accounted for the largest number of people making the journey per quarter. Ian Jones Source: The Independent Thursday 22 May 2025 17:22 BST Eritreans have become the most common nationality of migrants arriving in the UK after crossing the English Channel, new figures show. Some […]

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This Guidance Note supersedes UNHCR’s Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the InternationalProtection Needs of Asylum-Seekers from Eritrea of April 2011.1

Abstract:  While the use of digital technologies has been associated with refugees’ successful integration, this perspective overlooks the digital divide growing on the existing structural inequalities. For Eritrean refugees living in the Netherlands, the digital divide cuts deep into their personal lives and endangers their relation to authorities. Based on two months of ethnographic research and […]

This briefing examines the phenomenon of people crossing the English Channel in small boats. It reviews what we know about the numbers, characteristics, and motivations of people making this journey readmore

Eritrea is the origin of a significant share of the mixed migration flows seen both in the Greater Horn of Africa and farther afield in North Africa and Europe. The limited data available suggest up to 5,000 people leave the country every month. At the end of 2015, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees […]

. This Guidance Note supersedes UNHCR’s Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Asylum-Seekers from Eritrea of April 2011.1  2. Since its independence in 1993, Eritrea has been governed by the People’s Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), headed by President Isaias Afwerki, who serves as both Head of State and Head of Government.2 No […]