BY BILLION TEMESGHEN | SHABAIT OCHA (the office for coordination for the humanitarian affairs) is part of the UN Secretariat responsible for coordinating humanitarian entities to give required responses to needs. “Under the General Assembly resolution, 46/182 of December 1991 OCHA coordinates humanitarian actions to ensure crisis-affected people receive the assistance and protection they need. […]
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Asmara is Africa’s stunning new UNESCO World Heritage Site BY AMBESSAW ASSEGUED | ADDIS FORTUNE The old guard, now in their sixties and seventies, lumber into the lobby of the Embasoira Hotel in Asmera to meet and chat. Some are educated in selective universities like the University of Michigan and UC Berkeley. They are men […]
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Asmara is Africa’s stunning new UNESCO World Heritage Site BY SENAIT FESEHA | THE REPORTER Imagine, if you will, strolling through a quiet city where you may find empty intersections and very few people on the streets; a city with seemingly little connection with the outside world, as if it was located on an entirely […]
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BY FREDERICK GOLOOBA-MUTEBI Former US president Barrack Obama called it the “North Korea of Africa”. Others portray it as a terrible dictatorship, a police state, and a regional troublemaker. Its reputation has been further sullied by reports about so many of its citizens, young people mostly, fleeing repression at home. That repression, it is said, […]
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BY MAIKE GRUNWALD | WELT * Kaum a traveler has ever been in Eritrea, a small country on the Red Sea is known primarily from the news. From its neighbors, especially the archenemy Ethiopia, the country secluded itself for a long time. Until it unexpectedly signed a peace treaty with Ethiopia in July 2018.
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BY SHABAIT We are celebrating this year’s African World Heritage Day, almost a year after Eritrea successfully got “Asmara: a Modernist City of Africa” inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. African World Heritage Day is celebrated every year on May 5th, and it is a day of great continental and global importance.
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Asmara’s skyline height is fixed and the landmarks that make Asmara exceptional should not be blocked by contemporary buildings. It might simply ruin the overall expression of the city. BY BILLION TEMESGHEN | ERITREA PROFILE Asmara is literally one of the rarest picturesque cities in the world. Its constriction which roughly dates back to the late […]
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BY AFRICAN GLOBE Asmara, the capital of Eritrea origins back some 700 years primarily as an Italian state. The area still has artistic flavors of Italian culture, architecture and culinary traditions. Many tourists praise the country belonging to different religions particularly Islam and Christianity as the day starts with a prayer call for Muslims followed […]
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