GENEVA - The UN refugee agency is very alarmed over consistent reports of ongoing, forcible returns of Eritrean asylum-seekers from Egypt despite appeals from UNHCR to refrain from any return of ...

JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel is refusing to allow entry to a small group of African migrants huddled at a desert border fence with Egypt, officials said Wednesday, underscoring a toughened entry policy.

UN human rights experts expressed grave concerns about the forced return of seven Eritrean asylum seekers today, including five children, from Egypt, despite the risk of enforced disappearance, ...

(Adds security sources, fears of imminent deportations) By Cynthia Johnston CAIRO, June 13 (Reuters) - Egypt has begun mass deportations of detained Eritrean asylum seekers to Asmara and plans to ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 20 June 2008 We are very alarmed over ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt repatriated on Wednesday 25 Eritreans caught in Egypt while on their way to Israel as migrants, ignoring appeals from human rights groups that the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR ...

CAIRO (AP) — An Eritrean national who was denied asylum in the United States and was being sent back to his homeland has died in an apparent suicide in a holding area at Cairo International Airport, ...