Eritrean Information Minister, Yemane Ghebre Meskel, slammed a former BBC reporter, Martin Plaut, and Ethiopian based Associated Press (AP) correspondent, Elias Meseret Taye, for false reports and spin. According to him "subversive groups and quislings based/linked to Ethiopia” were also behind the reports.

The said protest is a rare incident in the Eritrean capital, it was started after students of a community based school hit the streets asking for the release of a prominent member of their school who was reportedly arrested for resisting state regulating affairs of the school.

In other developments, the security swoop that led to the arrest of people believed to be linked to the protest was confirmed whiles fresh reports indicate that the children among the arrested party have since been released.

There has been a return to normalcy in the capital and the school has reportedly been reopened.

Source: Africa News