Eritrean is a low-key town near the Pacific coast a few miles north of the Guatemalan border. Tesfay, a Catholic from the market town of Keren, a crossroads for Eritrea's diverse cultures and religious faiths, left his country in 2007 at the age of 20 after being caught in a giffa (roundup) and taken to the Sawa military training center for induction into Eritrea's national service together with thousands of other young men and women. At the end of his training, Tesfay walked out of the camp and kept going until he reached Kassala, Sudan. There are several other refugees like Tesfay who are on a continuous run from one part of the country to the another in search of basic requirements.

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