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Meron Estefanos
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Dyslectic. HRD, journalist, research fellow at @dairinstitute.bsky.social & founder of @btchubafrica.bsky.social

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Next thing is to get your friends together singing a song and call it Africa for USA. 🤣🤣🤣
November 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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A landmark legal action has been filed before the International Criminal Court.
700-page legal brief to the International Criminal Court, exposing the involvement of 122 EU & Member State officials in crimes against humanity committed against migrants on the Central Mediterranean route (2014–2020).
After 6 years (!) of investigation, a landmark legal action has been filed before the International Criminal Court. ICC Counsels Dr. Omer Shatz (front-LEX) and Dr. Juan Branco have submitted a 700-page legal brief to the International Criminal Court, exposing the involvement of 122 European Union and Member State officials in crimes against humanity committed against migrants on the Central Mediterranean route (2014–2020). Since 2017, the ICC Prosecutor has been reporting to the UN Security Council on ongoing crimes against humanity committed against migrants transiting through this route. In an ICC case filed in 2019, Shatz and Branco demonstrated that these crimes are being perpetrated pursuant to EU policies of mass killings by drowning and mass refoulement by proxy. In 2023, the United Nations corroborated these findings, concluding that EU officials participate in the commission of these crimes. Since 2015, more than 25,000 civilians have been killed by drowning, while over 150,000 survivors have been forcibly transferred to Libya, where they were detained, tortured, raped, and enslaved. To date, no European suspect has been investigated by the ICC Prosecutor. Several cohorts of the International Law in Action clinic, part of the Master’s program in Human Rights and Humanitarian Action at Sciences Po Paris, contributed to the research phase of this project. In parallel to the legal filing, we are also launching an online platform that will publicly expose the agencies and officials allegedly implicated in these crimes. Check it out: ➡️ Learn more at crimesagainsthumanity.eu
October 17, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Remembering the 369 refugees who drowned in Lampedusa exactly 12 years ago today. I can never forget the 22 years old Yohanna who gave birth as she was drowning, her body was later found with an ombilical cord attached to her baby. #NeverForgotten #ForeverInOurHearts #PeopleNotNumbers #Lampedusa
It's a picture of a poem dedicated to the youngest coffin which was marked as number 92. The poem is called RIP angel, what did your mom call you as I can't stand calling you number 92. The poem was written by Selam Kidane
October 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Is this how the US and Rwanda deal going to be?
Netanyahu on his right hand holding a boat full of African refugees and on his left hand holding weapons of mass distraction. On his right below the refugees the text says "if you agree to take some poor Africans off our hands..". On the left side under the weapons the text says "..we will give you lots of weapons so you can kill more Africans."
May 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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This year's smuggling season started early, as a result of this last week 3 boats disappeared & 3 boats carrying 100s of refugees drowned in the meddeteranian sea. Sadly we lost hundreds of Eritreans again, this are some of the victims. May they rest in peace 💔
Pictures of some of the victims ⬇️
A young Eritrean mother holding the youngest one on the right side and holding her two other children on the left side. Two young Eritrean posing for a picture, one wearing blue shirt holding her two hands on top of her haid and the other one wearing black making a heart sign with her two fingers. Young Eritrean couple smiling Two pictures in one frame and both pictures are of a mother and her three boys.
May 5, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Ruhus beal Lidet yigeberelna. Marry Christmas to all Orthodox/Coptic Christians!
January 7, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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BBC Tigringa interview with an Eritrean man who was recently deported to #Eritrea from #Ethiopia. From the Assab border he was sent to Adi Abeyto and Mai Serwa prisons and then he escaped to Ethiopia again and finally made his way to Kenya.
December 21, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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After the fake babies in the oven story, fake prisoner in Syria and now gaslighting us about uncle Khalid's grandchildren and his daughter's killing like it wasn't televised worldwide. Wtf CNN? “his granddaughter Reem who was killed in what he said at the time was an Israeli airstrike”
Screenshot of CNN article with a picture of Khalid Nabhan with colorful kuffeyeh carf on his head, wearing green shirt and he is holding his granddaughter Reem close to his face. Reem is smiling, wearing a yellow shirt and yellow and white polkadot dress with one hand holding Khalid's beard. Under the picture it says " Khalid Nabhan with his granddaughter Reem who was killed in November 2023 in what he said at the time was an Israeli airstrike in Al Nusrat refugee camp in southern Gaza".
December 19, 2024 at 5:24 PM
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This is so painful and heartbreaking.
Rest in peace Abu Diaa and hope you together with Reem the soul of your soul. 💔
#SavePalestine
December 16, 2024 at 9:17 AM
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Remembering my friend Syrian journalist and activist Raed Fares who was martyred on November 23/2018 fighting Assad.
#NeverForgotten #ForeverInOurHearts
Picture of Raed Fares wearing a yellow shirt and holding a cigarette.
December 8, 2024 at 9:26 AM
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Shame on the entire world for allowing this, this is one of the greatest acts of cruelty against humanity. Stop the genocide. Stop the man made starvation of Palestinians. Ceasefire now. 💔
#FreePalestine #SavePalestine #CeasefireNow
February 28, 2024 at 6:31 PM
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Where are they supposed to go? We are literally watching Palestinians ethnically getting cleansed out of of their land and no one can do anything about it. The hypocrisy of the west is just astonishing and it makes me glad that the whole world woke up and saw their hypocrisy. #CeasefireNow
February 24, 2024 at 2:09 PM