The Eritrean dictatorship needs money to maintain their power...

The Eritrean dictatorship needs money to maintain their power (and lifestyle).

They will do whatever it takes to get Gold out of the ground, but they do not have the expertise - Chalice has it.

There is no place for naivete.

Chalice is being used to locate the Gold.

Should Chalice then prove to be "non-compliant" (for want of a better word), then Eritrea would have no qualms in finding some precedent that allows them to "reclaim" Chalice's gold projects (without any compensation), especially if the dictatorship was threatened.

A dictatorship conforms to no rule of international law, nor does it believe that it is obligated to obey any.

Money for guns, and for armies, and wars with Ethiopia, and the USA and the EU (if necessary) - and so who cares about the famine and disease and poverty and oppression?

Hey, are we not the mercenary foreign investors, tolerated so long as we play-the-game?

Gw