Service held for Lampedusa migrant ship disaster victims UPI.com
TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 12 (UPI) — More than 1,000 Eritreans gathered in a park in Tel Aviv Saturday to hold a memorial service for asylum-seekers who died on..
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New Ethiopian President Named charlestonchronicle.net
Meanwhile, news of the tragic deaths at sea of close to 300 mostly Eritrean, Somali and … Sheila B. Keetharuth, the U.N. special rapporteur on Eritrea, said: “The …
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Lampedusa sinking death toll at 359 The Japan Times
Only 155 of the about 545 migrants aboard the vessel, mainly from Eritrea, survived the disaster, the worst immigration tragedy for Italy in more than a decade.
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‘My sister swam for three hours before drowning’ Times of Malta
Mr Legaw’s sister, Amileset, was travelling on the rickety vessel that sunk off Lampedusa on October 3. The “quiet and gentle†young Eritrean woman was one of …
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Migrant tragedies sharpen calls for passage to Europe The Tennessean
Those tragedies came just eight days after at least 339 Eritreans died when their boat sank within sight of Lampedusa, in one of the worst verified migrant sea …