This is also one way of preventing high inflation and the government benefiting from the high flow of remittance from diaspora Eritreans. This does not explain how the Eritrean economy will overall benefit. There is no doubt, the 275,000 Eritreans serving in the national army will benefit because their limited army salary will be worth more American dollar or Euro currency, thereby increasing their purchasing power. Some hope the price of consumer goods may also decrease but did not explain its economics.
This is one possibility of preparing for a long war of attrition against Ethiopia's Abiy Ahmed, as the small Eritrean economy is very vulnerable.
This way or that way, you have heard this ahead of many Eritreans that Eritrea is issuing a new Nakfa currency to replace the current one circulating in the land.
Do you know that Eritreans are allowed to take out any amount of hard currency from the country but not allowed to take with them more than 1000 Nakfa? A strange law only in Eritrea.