Five members of Eritrea’s Under-20 women’s team who escaped after playing in a tournament in Uganda last year remain in hiding, the Guardian understands
According to sources close to the players, the five – Luwam Solomon, Yordanos Abraham, Shamat Futsum, Rahel Michael and Trhas Habate, who are aged between 16 and 19 – are “safe and well” after fleeing hours before their game against the hosts in the Cecafa Women’s Under-20 Championship on 2 November.
A spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said they could not comment on individual cases. “I remain gravely concerned by the situation of hundreds of Eritreans who have been disappeared and arbitrarily detained in secret prisons in violation of human rights standards,” wrote Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker in a report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Robel Teklemichael has excelled for Ethiopian Coffee since becoming only the second Eritrean footballer to cross the border since war broke out between the countries in 1998, but there is little prospect of his former Under-20 teammates Hanibal Tekle, Mewael Yosief, Simon Asmelash and Hermon Yohannes joining him any time soon. Theynearly three years after fleeing during the Under-20 Cecafa Cup.
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