Narobi,Pretoria,London, March 8፡2025 (Tigray Herald)
Eritrean Regime Blocks Internet Cable Access to Maintain Control Over Information.
Eritrea remains deliberately excluded from the global undersea internet cable network, a decision driven by the regime’s fear that access to information would threaten its grip on power. While neighboring countries like Djibouti have embraced digital connectivity for economic growth, the Eritrean government has actively blocked cable landings to keep its population in the dark.
Under President Isaias Afwerki, independent media is banned, internet access is severely restricted, and mobile data is virtually nonexistent.
This digital blackout is not accidental but a survival strategy, ensuring that Eritreans remain disconnected from uncensored news, external influences, and any potential for organized dissent.
In another news In Eritrea 10,000 Prisoners of Conscience Rot in Scorching Metal Containers.
Under the Assad family’s rule in Syria, Saydnaya became a symbol of oppression. But in Eritrea, the dictatorship has taken brutality to another level, imprisoning over 10,000 prisoners of conscience in more than 300 prisons—many of them nothing more than metal shipping containers. These containers become scorching hot during the day and freezing cold at night, turning them into torture chambers.
Some prisoners, like journalist Dawit Isaak and former Vice President Mahmoud Sherifo, have endured this inhumane captivity for over 25 years, completely cut off from the outside world.
The conditions in Eritrean prisons are far worse than anything the world saw when the dictator Assad—the Pharaoh of our times—was finally overthrown.
