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| Eritrea: 'Troops deployed' in Asmara | |
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| Reports from Eritrea say a group of around 100 soldiers have surrounded the ministry of information in the capital, Asmara. | Reports from Eritrea say a group of around 100 soldiers have surrounded the ministry of information in the capital, Asmara. |
| State TV has also reportedly been taken off air in what some have described as a coup attempt. | State TV has also reportedly been taken off air in what some have described as a coup attempt. |
| The city is said to be calm with no shots having been fired. | The city is said to be calm with no shots having been fired. |
| Eritrea's government has been criticised by human rights activists as one of the world's most repressive and closed countries. | Eritrea's government has been criticised by human rights activists as one of the world's most repressive and closed countries. |
| The websites of key Eritrean state and ruling party media are currently operating erratically, with the site for the ruling People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ) party inaccessible. | |
| A statement has reportedly been read out on state radio and television calling for the implementation of the country's 1997 constitution. | |
| President Isaias Afewerki has ruled the country as a one-party state since independence from neighbouring Ethiopia in 1993. |