Africa & Middle East

Eritrean refugees find new home in drug house

Sun., August 17, 2008 Av 16, 5768 By Vered Lee For the past week, the building on 1 Finn Street in Tel Aviv, near the

Nigeria cedes disputed peninsula to Cameroon

08/14/2008Nigeria cedes disputed peninsula to CameroonNigeria on Thursday officially gave Cameroon full ownershipNations were on brink of war over control of Bakassi PeninsulaInternational court in ...

Colonial borders. Does Africa have a choice?

August 14th, 2008Posted by: Matthew TostevinThe lines of Europe’s carve up of Africa were finally taking shape. On March 11, 1913, Britain and Germany agreed ...

Kuwait slaps ban on Ethiopians in HIV scare

by Dylan Bowman on Wednesday, 13 August 2008 Kuwait has slapped a ban on Ethiopians entering the Gulf state after three maids from the ...

Two dead in Bisha Desert identified

By Ali Aal Bakhaitan BISHA – The bodies of two men found dead in the desert have been identified by their family and released for ...

ISRAEL: Eritrean asylum-seekers told to leave Tel Aviv area

ISRAEL: Eritrean asylum-seekers told to leave Tel Aviv area TEL AVIV, 11 August 2008 (IRIN) - Thousands of Eritrean asylum-seekers in Israel have been told ...

Egypt arrests 587 illegal migrants since January: official

18 minutes agoEL-ARISH, Egypt (AFP) — The Egyptian authorities have arrested 587 illegal immigrants since January trying to sneak across the border into Israel, a ...

Egypt police kill Sudanese migrant at Israel border

Wed 6 Aug 2008, 9:35 GMTISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian police shot dead a Sudanese man as he tried to sneak across the border to ...

Egypt police kill African migrant at Israel border

Fri 1 Aug 2008, 7:45 GMTISMAILIA, Egypt, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Egyptian police shot dead an unidentified African migrant and detained two others while they ...

The tragedy of being an African living in Africa!

Thursday, 24th July, 2008E-mail article Print article JERRY OKUNGU AN East african erspective Temporarily based in Dar-es- Salaam, I have a good grasp of the political ...

The Armada against immigrants

Spain - 22.7.2008Zapatero donates vessels and aircrafts to african countries to block migrationThe Zapatero government has deployed what amounts to a bona fide army along ...

Famine looming for 14m in Africa

By Barney Jopson in Khartoum and Murithi Mutiga and Javier Blas in LondonPublished: July 21 2008 19:55 | Last updated: July 21 2008 19:55Hunger on ...

A worthless currency: 50 billion Zimbabwean dollars now worth barely 70 American cents

A worthless currency Jul 17th 2008 | JOHANNESBURGFrom The Economist print editionThe local dollar is fast shrivelling awayWITH prices doubling every few days, Zimbabweans now ...

U.S. Africa Aid Is Increasingly Military

Advocacy Group Cites Development NeedsBy Stephanie McCrummenWashington Post Foreign Service Friday, July 18, 2008; Page A10 NAIROBI, July 17 -- U.S. aid to Africa is becoming increasingly ...