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Ambassador resigns

    NAIROBI

    The Eritrean ambassador to Sweden, Norway and Finland, Hebret Berhe resigned from her post on Monday. A statement she issued on Thursday said she had resigned because her convictions had brought her into constant confrontation with the malpractices of the government of the People’s Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ). She accused the PFDJ of trying to “block the aspirations of the people to democratic transition, to institutionalisation, the establishment of the rule of law and the holding of multiparty elections”.

    The ambassador said she had reached a stage where “There was no common language between what I stand for on the one hand and what is practiced by the PFDJ-led government on the other”. This had led her to disassociate herself from “the government that doesn’t represent the will of the people” and had therefore submitted her resignation and renounced her membership of the PFDJ, said the statement.

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