Eritrea
Facts, researched articles, and events related to Eritrea, drawn from the Provenance Africa archive.
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- From today, if you're from Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Libya, Somalia, and…
- See the 17 African nations that abstained from voting in favour of condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine…
- This Eritrean lady, Haben Girma, is the first blind and deaf graduate of the prestigious Harvard Law School…
- BREAKING: Ethiopian Prime Minister the charismatic Dr. Abiy Ahmed, has been awarded the #NobelPeacePrize fo…
- Hundreds of Ethiopians and Eritreans flocked to a candlelight virgil held last Saturday in Addis Ababa, Eth…
- Given that only 16% of Africa’s trade takes place between African countries, 44 nations on 21 March signed…
- 1. Senait Gidey is a 20-year Eritrean-Canadian fashion/runway supermodel
- The iconic Asmara Theatre in Asmara, Eritrea's capital.
- President Afwerki of Eritrea rejects all foreign intervention, including urgent food aid while over 60% of…
- Cape Verde, Chad, Eritrea, Niger, Togo and The Gambia have no diplomatic relations with Chile.
- So far, 51 prehistoric sites have been identified across Eritrea, from Karora in the north to Beylul in the…
- Stone tools from Abdur, Eritrea (125,000 years old) are the earliest, best-dated evidence for man occupatio…
- Adulis is a port city in Eritrea believed to have been founded by the Greeks in 600 B.C. It was the princip…
- Eritrea has emerged as the most censored country in the world, with close to 30 editors and journalists hel…
- Most scholars believe the Ancient Land of Punt was located to the south-east of Egypt, what is today northe…
- The Nile River Basin comprise of Burundi, Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, N+S.Sudan Tanzani…
- The earliest inscriptions of the rulers of Dʿmt in northern Ethiopia and Eritrea mention queens of very hig…
- World Poorest Nations (UN & WHO): 1)DR Congo; 2)Zimbabwe; 3)Liberia; 4)Niger; 5)Burundi; 6)CAR; 7)Eritrea;…
- Eritrea, Egypt and Libya are in the number 1,2 amd 3 spots respectively for the world’s most dangerous roads.
- Eritrean forces occupied the border town of Badme, the flashpoint that ignited the two-year Eritrean-Ethiop… (1998)
- Eritrea introduced the nakfa as its national currency, replacing the Ethiopian birr and marking a milestone… (1997)
- Eritrea formally gained independence from Ethiopia after a 30-year armed struggle, a date it celebrates as… (1993)
- Eritrea's 30-year war of independence from Ethiopia ended in victory for the Eritrean People's Liberation F… (1991)
- During the Eritrean War of Independence, Eritrean rebels opened the Battle of Afabet against Ethiopian gove… (1988)
- The Eritrean People's Liberation Front destroyed the Ethiopian army's Nadew Command at Afabet after three d… (1988)
- Hamid Idris Awate and about eleven men attacked Ethiopian police at Mount Adal in the Barka lowlands, the f… (1961)
- The United Nations ceded Eritrea to Ethiopia as an autonomous federated territory, a decision that later fu… (1952)
- Allied forces began the Battle of Keren to capture the strategic town of Keren, Eritrea, during World War II. (1941)