Eritrean gov't orders foreign opposition groups to leave country
Sudanese, Ethiopian and Somali opposition groups based in Eritrea are grumbling because the financially-strapped Eritrean government has taken measures that will limit their impact on the politics of their home countries, the web site said.
The Eritrean government was housing Eastern, Southern and Darfurian rebels in Asmara until recently, according to the opposition web site. Now, all Eastern and Southern Sudanese opposition officials have been asked to leave the country, awate stated.
Most Somali opposition members, including the former speaker Sharif Hassen Sheik Aden who had moved to Asmara, are leaving Eritrea for Dubai, Egypt and Djibouti because the Eritrean government no longer has the funds to support their activities in Asmara, the web site revealed.
One of the Ethiopian opposition groups in Eritrea, the Tigray People’s Democratic Movement (TPDM) which was operating in the Jebel Hamid area of Gash (bordering Ethiopia), was recently ordered by the government to relocate to the Southern Red Sea (Denakil) Zone, it further indicated.
