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Eritrea’s recent progress in AFCON qualifying offered a rare feel-good moment, but new player defections underline how fragile that progress remains amid the country’s political realities. Eritrea players celebrate during their historic aggregate victory over Eswatini to reach the next round of AFCON 2027 qualifying. Source: CAF (fair use). James Baldwin once wrote that he loved the US more than any other country in the world, and exactly for that reason, he insisted on the right to criticize h