25/10/2026

An in-depth weekly conversation focusing on a topical issue in Africa. In this episode, Focus on Africa: The Conversation, hears from Hanna Petros Solomon whose parents, former Eritrean government official Petros Solomon and Aster Yohannes, were arrested more than two decades ago and have not been heard from since.
Her father was among the senior Eritrean politicians known as the G-15, 11 of whom were arrested in 2001 after calling for democratic reforms. Her mother was detained two years later. Neither parent has been put on trial, and their family still does not know where they are or what has happened to them.

Hosted by Nkechi Ogbonna, the episode features Hanna Petros Solomon reflecting on her decades-long search for her parents, alongside UN Special Rapporteur Dr Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker who discusses the wider human rights concerns surrounding their cases.