Eritrea is the only African country to have no privately-owned news media. In 2005 the US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) described it as one of the world's leading jailers of journalists.
Another press watchdog, Reporters Without Borders, notes that there is "no freedom of expression".
The government closed the private press in 2001 for "endangering national security" and arrested many journalists after several publications printed the dissenting views of some National Assembly members.
There are no private radio or TV stations.
The press
Hadas Eritrea - government-owned, published three days a week
Eritrea Profile - government-owned weekly, in English
Television
Eri TV - state-run
Radio
Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea (Dimtsi Hafash) - state-run, operates two networks, programmes in 11 languages
Radio Zara - state-run, FM network
News agency
Erina (Eritrean News Agency) - state-run



