Tag: Eritrea

Eritrea – a young state in Africa The Border Commission in The Hague confirmed Eritrea’s independence from Ethiopia in 2003. Ethiopia refuses to recognize this arbitral award to this day. This is all the more sad as both countries have not only bled to death economically in the long wars of independence. The still smoldering […]

Attractions Asmara At the end of the 19th century, the capital of Eritrea, Asmara, was nothing more than a small cluster of villages. In 1897, the Italian colonial government moved the seat of government from Massawa to Asmara, which was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2017. Italian architecture characterizes the cityscape, the imposing […]