Two military Eritrean pilots on Tuesday defected with
their airplane to the Saudi Arabia and were they are being kept in secret
locations, A French radio reported.
According to Radio France
International (RFI), the two pilots, fled Eritrea with a plane belonging to the
country’s President, Isaias Afeworki in what is widely seen as a show of
discontent against the current leadership.
Eritrean government officials,
sources say, have remained tight-lipped over the defection of the two captains,
who were identified as Yonas Woldeab and his deputy, Mekonnen Debesai.
In the past few years, several
Eritrean air force pilots and personnel are said to have defected from the
country’s young air force, further weakening it.
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