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To escape the authoritarian government under President Isaias Afwerki, evade forced conscription, and/or find economic opportunities, an estimated 5,000 people flee Eritrea every month.
To escape the authoritarian government under President Isaias Afwerki, evade forced conscription, and/or find economic opportunities, an estimated 5,000 people flee Eritrea every month.
In 1941, British forces occupied Eritrea, and Britain then administered Eritrea as a United Nations (UN) trust territory until 1952, when the UN federated Eritrea with Ethiopia. In 1961, the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) began its fight for Eritrean independence, continuing after the Ethiopian annexation of Eritrea in 1962. In the 1970s, the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF) separated from the ELF and “established a stronghold among Eritrean war refugees by extending its mass organizations to all countries with a significant Eritrean exile population.” In 1991, the EPLF beat Ethiopia’s army, replacing the Ethiopian-run regime that had been in power since 1952.
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is a Returned Peace Corps Ethiopia Volunteer and a graduate of Boston College and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where she studied gender analysis and human security.
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