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/ 22 November 2007
Holding up a grubby, worn banknote, the ex-rebel fighter points proudly to an image famous across Eritrea — defiant liberation soldiers raising a flag on a mountain peak. It’s 10 years this month since Africa’s youngest nation enthusiastically launched its own currency in November 1997, the nakfa.
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/ 16 October 2007
Eritrea has taken over from North Korea as the country in the world where press rights are least respected, the Paris-based campaigning group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) said on Tuesday. North Korea and Turkmenistan are runners-up in RSF’s annual poll of shame of 169 countries.