Too bad for Eritrea, an African country, that they don't have friends in the White House.
Twenty years ago, Saudi Arabia was crawling with Eritreans. I don't know if it's like that today. They were doing the jobs that Saudis wouldn't do; come to think of it, Saudis don't do any jobs anyway. Because of Italy's long occupation of that one-time Ethiopian province, most Eritreans are Catholics. The only places they could attend Mass in Jeddah were at the U.S. Embassy or the Belgian Embassy, before the Saudi Interior Minister himself shut that down. And just before I left, the Interior Ministry pulled the visas of the only two Catholic priests in kingdom.