@timnitGebru The Horn of Africa is purposely kept in a state of political and economic turmoil by the West. Local people gaining control of the Red Sea shipping lanes would be a disaster for western capitalists; look what Ansar Allah (Houthis) manage to accomplish with a few rockets the past two years.

@timnitGebru oh wow 😳 I had no idea " #Eritrea is one of the world's least developed countries. It is a unitary one-party presidential republic and a de facto totalitarian dictatorship, in which national legislative and presidential elections have never been held. Isaias Afwerki has served as president since its official independence in 1993. The country's human rights record is among the worst in the world. The Eritrean government has dismissed these allegations as politically motivated."

Eritreans, including the dictator’s son, are still so desperate to escape that they take treacherous routes through Libya, the Mediterranean and even war torn Tigray and Yemen, often human trafficked and tortured for ransom. The documentary The Sound of Torture, shows some of these unspeakable kidnappings in the Sinai, and filmmaker Evan Williams’ recently released documentary Escaping Eritrea shows why people go through such lengths to escape.