...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
, included two women and 17 minors and were suffering from hypothermia.
A Spanish-flagged humanitarian ship on Sunday was seeking a port of safety for 265
The Open Arms charity tweeted that its vessel on Saturday had safely brought aboard 96
It said the passengers, most of them from Eritrea, included two women and 17 minors and were suffering from hypothermia.
In a separate operation two days before that rescue, Open Arms took aboard 169
The traffickers launch vessels, many of them flimsy rubber dinghies or rickety fishing boats, crowded with
Some are fleeing conflict or persecution, but many of the hundreds of thousands of
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...countries.
Italia and fellow EU nation Malta have often refused docking permission to the humanitarian rescue boats, contending that most
Italian and Maltese government authorities have insisted other European nations do their share.