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Understanding Eritrea: Inside Africa’s Most Repressive State

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The most secretive, repressive state in Africa is hemorrhaging its citizens. In some months as many Eritreans as Syrians arrive on European shores, yet the country isn’t convulsed by civil war. Young women and men risk all to escape. Many don’t live to tell the tale – their bones littering the Sahara; their bodies floating in the Mediterranean.

Still they flee, to keep away from permanent military service and a future without hope. As the United Nations reported: ‘Thousands of conscripts are subjected to forced labor that effectively abuses, exploits and enslaves them for years.’

Eritreans fought for their freedom from Ethiopia for thirty years, only to have their revered leader turn on his own people. Independent since 1993, the country has no constitution and no parliament. No budget has ever been published. Elections have never been held and opponents languish in jail. International organizations find it next to unimaginable to work in the country.

Nor is it only a domestic issue. By supporting armed revolt in neighboring states it has destabilized the Horn of Africa. Eritrea is involved in the Yemeni civil war, at the same time as the regime backs insurrection movements in Somalia, Ethiopia and Djibouti.

This book tells the untold story of how this tiny nation became a world pariah.

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