Arbaete Asmara, or Four Asmara was the earliest reference of the now capital city of Eritrea called Asmara. Aside it's historical importance and being once a "Picolo-Roma" of Eritrea, its origins actually reach hundreds if not a thousand years before that. Asmara stands alone as the only capital, other than Cairo, that is founded on the ruins of culture that gave birth to contemp...

President Isaias Afwerki and his cabinet of 16 ministers, regional governors and other officials form the 24-member State Council, the executive branch of the Eritrean government, chaired by the president. An unicameral 150-member National Assembly which comprises 75 Central Committee members of the ruling PFDJ, together with 75 others (representatives elected by the ge...

Hamid Idris Awate (1910-1962) was a leader during the early movements for Eritrean independence. Hamid also known for firing the first shot against Ethiopian government forces in first of September 1961 at Mount Adal. He went on to create the Eritrean Liberation Army (the armed wing of the Eritrean Liberation Front. He died in May 28th 1962. He was wounded in the la...

Eri-TV1 is broadcast internationally via satellite along with its sister radio station, Dimtsi Hafash. Broadcasts on Eri-TV1 are typically either news, music videos, or dramas. Both domestic and international films also play on the channel. Eri-TV1 is broadcast mostly in Tigrinya, Arabic, English and Tigre, as well as having a few programs in Amharic, Somali and Afaan Oro...

Whenever one thinks about Eritrea, the immediate thing that comes to one's mind is the existing strong harmony and coexistence among the nine ethnic groups of the country. Mutual respect and tolerance are deeply rooted in the Eritrean society which in turn serves as pillar for the present firm unity and nationalism's an asset rarely found in other countries. All these nob...

The Hanish Islands, are a group of small islands found in the Red Sea. While a little more than half of the islands belong to Yemen, during 1991 - 1993 they were claimed by Eritrea as well. After a long trial with an international court under the guidance of Dr. Abdul Karim Aleryani, Yemen was granted full ownership of the larger islands while Eritrea was awarded the pe...

Qohaito, also known as Kohaitto, was a pre-Aksumite city that thrived during the Aksumite period. Located over 2,500 meters above sea level in the Debub region of Eritrea, on a high plateau at the very edge of the Great Rift Valley, As of 2011, Qohaito's ruins have yet to be excavated. The ancient port of Adulis lies directly to the east. The Rock art near the town...

The Red Sea The Red Sea is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. In the north, there is the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez (leading to the Suez Canal). The Red Sea is a Global 200 ecoregion. The sea is underlain by the ...