Seven members of Eritrea's national soccer team have disappeared after playing in a regional championship in Uganda. It's the latest in a string of defections by Eritrean players in recent years.

Kenyan police are searching for 12 members of the Eritrean national soccer team who failed to return home after competing in a regional tournament in Nairobi, a spokesman said Monday.

A Ugandan government official says 17 Eritrean soccer players and a team doctor have applied for political asylum after going missing during a regional tournament.

Eritrean soccer players who defected say they live in fear. October 13, 2019 (Mainichi Japan) In this photo taken on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, from left, Eritrean under-20 soccer players Hermon ...

Four members of an Eritrean club soccer team who staged a dramatic defection after a tournament in Tanzania last summer arrived in Houston with just a few photos of their glory days and some ...

KAMPALA – Ugandan security forces are hunting for five Eritreans who disappeared from a hotel in Uganda where their team was playing in a soccer tournament, a Ugandan official said on Thursda… ...

A Ugandan government official says 17 Eritrean soccer players and a team doctor have applied for political asylum after going missing during a regional tournament. Musa Ecweru, Uganda's minister ...

After scoring two goals for Eritrea’s national under-20 soccer team during a tournament in Uganda late last month, Mewal defected with three teammates. But after applying for asylum they are ...

PALERMO, Italy (AP) — Soccer gave Mewal Tesfai Yosief hope in an authoritarian nation, a job in a country of forced military conscription and, possibly, freedom at last. After scoring two goals ...