Retire in disarray to a North African location (7)
I believe the answer is:
eritrea
'location' is the definition.
(Eritrea is an example)
'retire in disarray to a north african' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
an anagram of 'retire' is 'eritre' which is located in the answer.
'a' is found in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for eritrea that I've seen before include "Country in the Horn of Africa" , "It declared its independence from Ethiopia in 1993" , "Red Sea country, capital Asmara" , "Country to the north of Ethiopia" , "State north of Ethiopia" .)