More than 20 members of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Eritrea are taken to Gahtelay for military training for 45 days, according to sources from Asmara.

As a result , most offices of the ministry are closed and the ministry is effectively out of operation; causing discontent of many foreign diplomats stationed in Asmara as they are unable to get routine correspondence and services for their embassies.

All departments are being run by unqualified individuals who lack the necessary diplomatic expertise and merely selected by Yemane Ghebreab (Monkey) on the bases of personal loyalty to him.

Foreign Ambassadors in the country are unwilling to do diplomatic meetings with those department heads as they continually fail to get answers on many issues and the diplomatic protocol requires them to meet with their counterparts or with officials above their post in diplomatic hierarchy.