The Ethiopian government has communicated to the Eritrean Democratic Alliance (EDA) and to the Eritrean Global Solidarity (EGS) its willingness to receive Eritrean refugees stranded in Egypt and scheduled for deportation. The Ethiopian government has already communicated this to the Egyptian government according to Mr. Semere Habtemariam, Director of EGS. 
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Semere, who has been working closely with the EDA on this issue, told Gedab News that "this is a small step in the right direction...and, with the help of all Eritreans, we hope to bring about a more comprehensive relief to the suffering of Eritreans." 
 
For years, Egypt tolerated thousands of undocumented Africans, including Eritreans, but has recently clamped down and began arresting them by the thousands. In the month of June alone, Egypt has, despite protests from human rights organizations, deported 1,000 Eritreans back to Eritrea where they face certain imprisonment and torture upon arrival.  Hundreds are still stranded and scheduled to be deported back.

Neighboring Libya is also preparing to deport hundreds of Eritreans back to their homeland.  The EDA has issued a press release urging the Libyan government not to deport the Eritreans because "we have confirmed that some of those returned [refugees] were killed in military camps infront of their colleagues with the aim of terrorizing them and to discourage them from escaping.”
 
Israel has now close to 2000 African refugees (about half of them Eritreans) who came through the Egyptian border. Several refugees were killed by the Egyptian police while crossing the border to Israel. Those who are captured while crossing were either deported or remain in Egyptian prisons.
 
Israel is inviting African nations to receive the African refugees and is reportedly offering cash incentives to countries who are willing to receive the refugees. 
 
Ethiopia already has about 20,000 refugees who live in make-shift camps along its northern border with Eritrea in a place called Shimelba. 
 
Conscription without end, a bleak future, and a merciless police state that the Eritrean regime has instituted has made Eritrea the world's largest exporter of refugees per capita.