http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/22/world/africa/coup-attempt-fails-in-eritrea.html?ref=africaAnd a great shame, too. Eritrea is perhaps the world's most repressive regime- Reporters Without Borders records them as having the least free press in the world, below even North Korea. Prisoners are often detained in shipping containers. The
patriarch of the Orthodox Church is under house arrest. Also setting Eritrea apart is the fact that they don't even bother with sham elections- they've just never held a presidential election or a parliamentary election, meaning
there is no legislature, not even a rubber-stamp one. The country, for all intents and purposes, has no constitution. When 2/3rds or so of the cabinet wrote a letter demanding that elections be held, they were sacked and thrown in prison. The country is pretty close to hell on earth. It's been around for just under two decades, yet in that time has managed to go to war with literally all its neighbors, even Djibouti. I mean, when you go to war with f**king Djibouti, you know you're a terrible country. Although I found this statement rather funny (in a dark way):
Funny way of saying nothing happened.
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And now pro-government outlets are claiming that
the entire thing was made up by its Western opponents, even though the ambassador to South Africa admitted there had been a "minor incident".
Eritrea is not the North Korea of Africa. North Korea is the Eritrea of Asia.
