Eritrea one the most repressive regimes in the world. When you look for asylum in Uganda and Kenya...you know things are bad
They get little attention about their brutal dictatorship because they are Black, Muslim, and in Africa.
Real sad about all this is that the capital Asmara used to be one of the more civilized in Africa, and has some of the best old-style Italian architecture around (It was a colony of Italy in 19th-20th C)
I believe that they are the only other country in the world, besides the U.S.A. to claim the right to tax income earned by expats working outside the country. I recall reading that one of the Eritrian revolutinary leaders was schooled in a U.S. university, and said that he got the idea from the U.S.A.