Tom Rhodes and Mohamed Keita/CPJ Africa Program
Tom Rhodes is CPJ's East Africa representative, based in Nairobi. Rhodes is a founder of southern Sudan’s first independent newspaper. Follow him on Twitter: @africamedia_CPJ
![Ali Abdu, Eritrea's longtime information minister, has gone into exile, his brother has confirmed. (YouTube)](https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/aliabducropped1111.jpg?w=400&h=238&crop=1)
Eritrea: Ali Abdu pleads ignorance of Dawit Isaac’s fate
On Wednesday, the Swedish newspaper Expressen published what it described as an exclusive interview with Ali Abdu–Eritrea’s long-time information minister, government spokesman, and censor-in-chief–who vanished from public view in November. The piece confirmed that Ali had gone into exile, but it shed no light on the whereabouts and well-being of more than two dozen imprisoned…