The shortage of gasoline in Eritrea is only one in a series of indicators that the government is experiencing severe hard currency shortfall, according to our sources in Asmara. The primary reason for the shortfall is the relatively large unsustainable trade balance the government has been running for the past six years.
Today's edition of Face The Erespora, a streaming audio service provided by Asmarino.com (an Eritrean website), featured an interview (in Tigrgina) with one of passengers on the Libyan plane that was hijacked on Friday.The interviewee (name not provided) disclosed the following:
