COUNTRY PROFILE
ast July, as I strolled down Liberation Avenue in Asmara, Eritrea’s capital, a man yelled out at me: ‘The rains may be scarce but at least we finally have peace!’ In the week after the historic visit to Eritrea of the new Ethiopian prime minister, Abiye Ahmed, the streets of Asmara were jubilant. Its wide avenues were plastered with banners celebrating
