Dan Connell is a senior lecturer at Simmons College, Boston, and a visiting scholar at the Boston University African Studies Center who has been writing about Eritrea for nearly forty years. He is a contributor to Foreign Policy In Focus.
Hundreds of thousands have fled dictatorship—only to face trafficking, exploitation and hostility throughout North Africa and the Sahel.
The present lull in the fighting between Eritrea and Ethiopia may lead to a shift in their bitterly fought contest to the negotiating table, but an end to hostilities between two of the poorest