Fleeing persecution – and into destitution
Saturday, February 5th, 2011 Posted in Eritrea, Refugees/IDPs, Somalia | 1 Comment »Soloman* was arrested as he prayed with friends in Eritrea, where his Protestant religion is banned and believers are often persecuted. He was sent to prison but escaped and fled to the United Kingdom at the end ...
Somalia: The worst place in the world to be a school child
Monday, September 20th, 2010 Posted in Education, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania | No Comments »Primary school in eastern SudanAs the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Summit starts today in New York, a new report from the Global Campaign for Education - of which Oxfam is a member - looks at the state of education around the ...