Eritrea: Nation's Squabbling Colonels, Fleeing Footballers, Frightened Librarians

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The "brittle" regime of President Isaias Afewerki was "one pistol shot away from implosion", the American ambassador to the country, Ambassador Ronald K. McMullen, reported to Washington in December 2009.

However, McMullen added in a cable published by WikiLeaks , "Isaias is clever, very good at operational security, and two decades younger than Mugabe. While many in Eritrea long for change, few are in a position to effect it."

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