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Imagine a mother being able to find out what happened to her missing daughter. Picture her receiving a small kit in the mail, as simple as the ancestry tests many people use for fun. She would swab her cheek, send it back, and then wait - not for 19 years, but perhaps just a few weeks. Then, one day, she gets a notification. There's a match.
I want my country back.— A young Eritrean woman
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Economics · Finance · January 2022
On November 25, 2021, Eritrea became the 50th African country to sign a memorandum of understanding to join the China Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). But…
Eritrea by the numbers
Sources: RSF World Press Freedom Index 2026, ITU / World Bank, Amnesty International, CPJ.
Population online
~20%
Roughly four in five Eritreans have no internet access, and those online face a state-run monopoly (ITU / World Bank estimates).
World Press Freedom Index
180/ 180
Last in the world in RSF's 2026 index — no independent media has operated inside Eritrea since 2001.
Journalists jailed without trial
25years
Held incommunicado since September 2001. No charges. No trial. No word.
Advocacy · Human rights
Advocacy · Human rights · February 2023
It is a travesty that this appalling injustice persists almost two decades on, more so now that Eritrea is a member of the UN Human Rights Council.
Bitcoin for civil resistance
We run our own Lightning node and accept donations through our own BTCPay Server — no bank, no processor, no middleman deciding who gets to support a free Eritrea.
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