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Last month, for the fifth year in a row, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) ranked Eritrea the lowest out of 179 countries on its annual Press Freedom Index. This puts Eritrea lower than North Korea (which is 178) and several places below other countries like Syria, Iran, and China whose lack of press freedom is widely known. Eritrea may not command as much international attention as the aforementioned regimes, but conditions are no less appalling in the 19-year-old African nation that RSF has called an “absolute dictatorship” and Human[...]

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