Why East African Leaders Should Call for Rights Reforms in Eritrea

“I became what they wanted me to become; now I want to become my own person,” a 25-year-old former secondary school teacher in Eritrea told me explaining why he fled to Sudan in 2018. Expand Eritrean soldiers march during the country's Independence Day in Asmara in this May 24, 2007 file photo. One of Africa's newest and smallest nations has one of the largest armies in the region. But this is due to national service that continues for many years, sometimes indefinitely for both men and women. © 2007 Reuters Life as a public secondary school teacher across East Africa is tough, in Eritrea,…

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