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Africa-Press-Ethiopia<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0They watched friends die in the mountains of Tigray. They survived imprisonment. They paid bribes and suffered from injuries as they fled the civil war devastating Ethiopia.<\/p>\n

When the four Tigrayan asylum seekers made it to Nairobi this spring, at first they felt safe. Living in a one-room apartment more than 1,000 miles from the fighting, the friends \u2014 three medical workers and one journalist \u2014 said they were reassured to be in Kenya, a democracy and one of the region\u2019s most stable countries.<\/p>\n

But it was not long before their sense of security dissipated. Rumors abounded about intelligence officers surveilling Tigrayans on behalf of the Ethiopian and Eritrean governments.<\/p>\n

Then, late last month, in an incident that sparked an outcry in Kenya and attracted international attention, two men dragged a prominent businessman of Tigrayan descent out of his Bentley and into a Subaru as he sat in Nairobi traffic. A traffic officer appeared in a widely shared video to be holding the door of Samson Teklemichael\u2019s car open to assist his captors. Teklemichael could be heard pleading for bystanders to record his capture.<\/p>\n

More than two weeks after Teklemichael was taken, it is not clear who was responsible or what their motivation was, said Kenya police spokesman Bruno Isohi Shioso. Police are still investigating, he said, and seeking tips from the public.<\/p>\n

Mulugeta, one of the four Tigrayan friends living in Nairobi, was so shaken he did not leave the apartment for two days.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt free,\u201d he said. \u201cBut now my hope is lost.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more than a year, Ethiopia has been engulfed in a civil war that has claimed thousands of lives and put hundreds of thousands at risk of famine. The fighting between Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed\u2019s government forces and rebels led by the Tigray People\u2019s Liberation Front (TPLF) began as a political power struggle and is now increasingly driven by ethnic rivalries.<\/p>\n

Human rights groups warn that Teklemichael\u2019s disappearance is an ominous indicator of the long reach of Abiy, who just two years ago won the Nobel Peace Prize. He has referred to leaders of the TPLF, which dominated the country\u2019s politics for three decades and is resented by many non-Tigrayan Ethiopians, as \u201ccancer\u201d and \u201cweeds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Abiy\u2019s spokeswoman Billene Seyoum declined to comment for this story. Another government spokesman, Legesse Tulu, did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n

U.S. special envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman said during a news conference that he would look into the alleged abduction, adding that reports of police in Addis Ababa going door-to-door arresting Tigrayans were alarming. The United States, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom on Tuesday condemned reports of mass detentions of Tigrayans by the Ethiopian government, saying arrests without charges \u201clikely constitute violations of international law and must cease immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe brazen daylight abduction of Mr. Teklemichael on a busy Nairobi street has left many people shaken,\u201d said Ir\u0169ng\u0169 Houghton, executive director for Amnesty International Kenya. \u201cThe collapse of the rule of law that we have seen in Addis Ababa, with thousands of Tigrayans being arrested on the streets, that chaos, that lawlessness, must not be allowed to show up in Kenya.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Teklemichael\u2019s wife, Milen Haleform Mezgebo, said in an interview that she had not heard from her husband since he was taken. Fearing for the safety of their three children, she pulled them out of school.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mulugeta and his three friends limit their interactions with new people. When they see other Ethiopians on the street, they wonder if they are spies. Citing security concerns, they spoke on the condition that they be identified only by their second names.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The men are part of what analysts say is likely a large network of Tigrayans living illegally in Nairobi, unrecognized by the Kenyan government or UNHCR, the United Nation\u2019s refugee agency. There were only 168 refugees from Tigray officially registered in Kenya in 2020 and 2021, said UNHCR spokeswoman Eujin Byun, and they have been transferred to Kakuma, one of Kenya\u2019s refugee camps, per the government\u2019s policy. The pandemic has contributed to a backlog of processing requests, Byun said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ethiopian asylum seekers must come through Kakuma to complete the refugee registration process, said Joseph Kotolo, Kenya\u2019s head of refugee status determination. But the men in Nairobi said they worry about their health and safety at Kakuma, where nearly 200,000 people live in often bleak conditions. They believe the thousands of Ethiopians living there could pose a threat, although spokespeople for UNHCR and Kenya\u2019s refugee agency said they had not heard reports of any attacks targeting Tigrayans at Kakuma.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The four men acknowledged, though, that their legal limbo contributes to their fear. They have repeatedly called the U.N. hotline, trying to secure status as legal refugees.<\/p>\n

Teklemichael was \u201ca businessman and a legal person who had been living in Kenya for a long time,\u201d Mulugeta said. \u201cI am not a businessperson. I am not a legal person. I have no money. \u2026 If he was abducted, what about us?\u201d<\/p>\n

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After fighting broke out last November in Ethiopia\u2019s mountainous north, each of the men experienced a different version of the terror that forced them to leave.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mulugeta, who was in Addis Ababa, said he was repeatedly punched by a police officer and dragged to a makeshift prison where he was detained for 40 days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Hailay and Kahsay, who worked together in the Tigray region\u2019s health department, said they watched bombs kill two pharmacist colleagues in the hills of Abiy Addi in December. Hailay, 28, and Kahsay, 26, tried unsuccessfully to resuscitate the men, who had been walking dozens of feet ahead of them. There was no time to bury the bodies, they said, because more bombs were coming. They alleged the bombs were dropped by the Ethiopian government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Teklemariam, 27, a childhood friend of Hailay, said he ran from Eritrean soldiers who repeatedly shot at him after taking control of his hometown, Enticho. Soldiers looted his family\u2019s farm, he said, taking grain, shoes, clothes and cooking supplies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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When he traveled to Tigray\u2019s capital last winter to pick up his paycheck, he called Hailay. With Kahsay, they devised a plan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe only choice,\u201d Teklemariam said, \u201cwas to escape from that horror.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The deterioration of Africa\u2019s\u00a0second-most-populous country<\/a>\u00a0has been staggering. Once heralded for pursing democratic reforms and brokering peace deals in the region, Prime Minister Abiy is leading the battle on the\u00a0front lines<\/a>. The United Nations predicts hundreds of thousands of refugees will flee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The deterioration of Africa\u2019s\u00a0second-most-populous country<\/a>\u00a0has been staggering. Once heralded for pursing democratic reforms and brokering peace deals in the region, Prime Minister Abiy is leading the battle on the\u00a0front lines<\/a>. The United Nations predicts hundreds of thousands of refugees will flee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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For four days, the men said they were beaten by guards who demanded money they did not have.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Eventually, Hailay reached a friend who convinced the officials to release them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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With money gathered from friends, they paid smugglers to get them to Nairobi. The nearly 500-mile journey took a week by foot, motorbike and van. They ate only a handful of times, drank water from the river; and traveled mostly at night to avoid detection. At one point, the smugglers insisted they cross a crocodile-infested river.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mulugeta, who they met on the journey, became like an older brother.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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When Mulugeta, 35, fainted in the heat at one point and badly burned his leg while falling off a motorbike at another, they helped care for him. And when Mulugeta learned his friends in Nairobi had offered to pay for a one-room apartment, he offered to share it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Teklemariam walked through Nairobi\u2019s bustling streets one October evening, collecting the ingredients needed for dinner. He bought cow meat from the butcher around the corner and injera \u2014 a spongy bread that is a staple of Ethiopian cooking \u2014 from a woman who enveloped him in a hug.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He fist-bumped a gaggle of children on the way out.<\/p>\n

\u201cNice Ethiopians,\u201d he said, explaining that the family that owned the store was from the Amhara region, which has long had tense relations with Tigray. But they had welcomed him and his friends.<\/p>\n

Back in the room, the other three men were carefully weaving around each other in the corner that served as a kitchen, chopping onions and chile peppers, starting the gas burner on which the meat stew would be cooked and arranging stools and sleeping pads around the makeshift table.<\/p>\n

Since arriving in March, each has had their own struggles.<\/p>\n

When the TPLF advanced in November, Teklemariam cheered. But rounds of government airstrikes in Tigray that were reported to have killed civilians muted his excitement. He guessed that any TPLF gains would be followed by retaliatory strikes. He feared for his family, from whom he had not heard in months because of a government communications blackout.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany Tigrayans are in a blue mood at this moment,\u201d said Teklemariam, who said he was too traumatized to watch footage of the strikes. \u201cMany people have become silent.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The current situation, the men said, is not sustainable. Unable to work, they rely on the generosity of Nairobi\u2019s Tigrayan community. They eat only two meals a day and have started buying pasta and ugali, a stiff flour porridge, because it is cheaper than injera.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Their six-month passes acknowledging them as asylum seekers expired in October. They said their calls to the U.N. hotline have been brushed off.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Teklemariam emerged from an interview with Kenya\u2019s refugee agency in November in tears. An official told him, he said, to report to Kakuma or go back to his country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Friends have said the only other way to get the paperwork needed to be in Nairobi legally is to pay bribes. But they do not have the money.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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They now hope to get even further away, maybe to the United States or Europe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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What they know for now, Teklemariam said, is this: \u201cWe are not secure here.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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