A) The starving agame are planning to invade Eritrea. (My favorite)
B) The Eritrean President is ill, hence uncertainty.

US State Department - Special Briefing
Office Of The Spokesperson
March 23, 2020
QUESTION: Have you – do you have any sort of contingency plan, like an exit strategy, for embassy personnel if the [COVID-19] situation worsens where any of them are in countries where borders are closed and there are no flights? Are you making plans on how to evacuate staff if that becomes necessary?
SENIOR STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL ONE : Yes, and we have done so already in some places where air travel has become more complicated. When we do that, if we have to charter an aircraft to bring out what we call chief of mission personnel and there’s additional space available on those flights, we will make those additional seats available to private U.S. citizens seeking to depart those countries. So this is an ongoing dynamic situation as the virus spreads and more and more posts go on authorized or ordered departure, yes, we are taking account of this. We are bringing those officers back to the United States, and in a great many cases, certainly I know in the Bureau of Consular Affairs, we’re putting those people to work here assisting the task force, as we mentioned earlier, or otherwise assisting in dealing with this worldwide crisis. Over.




