The US Department of State continues to strongly recommend deferring all travel to Eritrea.
The Eritrean government continues to require all visitors and residents to apply 10 days in advance for permission to travel outside Asmara’s city limits. Permission is rarely granted.
A number of Eritrean/US dual citizens have been arrested, some being held without apparent cause and without the US Embassy’s being informed.
Avoid travel near the Eritrean-Ethiopian border, where troops are present due to political and military tensions between the two countries, and in the southern Red Sea region. On Jan. 16, 2012, in an attack in Ethiopia near the border, five tourists were killed and four others, kidnapped.
Ships are strongly advised not to sail through Eritrean waters, where high-speed skiffs with armed pirates continue to attack merchant vessels. The Eritrean government does not issue visas to persons arriving by marine vessel.
Land mines and unexploded ordnance remain a serious problem throughout the country, and on relatively well-traveled roads in and near the Gash Barka region of western Eritrea, several mines were recently laid.
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