It's Africa's most secretive state and the source of tens of thousands of migrants who have fled towards Europe. But Eritrea is also now home to a UNESCO World Heritage Site after the cultural ...

ASMARA (AFP) – Eritrea's capital Asmara boasts buildings unlike anywhere else in Africa, a legacy of its Italian colonial past, when architects were given free rein for structures judged too ...

Analysis - The respected Brussels-based think tank, the International Crisis Group, has identified three conflicts in Africa as among the 10 world-wide which – following a violence-wracked 2025 – are ...

Asmara, 01 January 2026 - Eritrean delegation participated in the second Russia-Africa Conference held in Cairo, Egypt, on 19 and 20 December.At the conference, which was chaired by Dr. Badr Abdelatty ...

ON A dusty road leading travellers out of the southern outskirts of Asmara stands a small service station. Once owned by AGIP, an Italian petrol company, it was for decades the last place to fill up ...

ASMARA, Eritrea — With soaring 60-foot-long concrete wings that mimic the shape of an airplane, the Fiat Tagliero garage, built in 1938 in the Eritrean capital, is one of the most unusual gas stations ...

ASMARA, Eritrea—In one of Africa’s most isolated and picturesque capitals, little is what it seems. Cloistered for decades by war and a reclusive policy of self-reliance, Asmara is a study in ...

Places have reputations. Or they have reputations imposed on them by outsiders. Bogota, the Colombian capital, is often associated with drug-related killings, as if life in the city revolves around ...

The State Party indicates that it was not possible to finalize the Urban Conservation Master Plan (UCMP) and the Asmara Planning and Technical Regulation (APTR) by the date foreseen in 2019 due to the ...

The name Asmara may never ring like that of El Dorado. But high above the clouds over Eritrea, East Africa's newest capital city has treasures all its own. Through a quirk of colonial history, the ...

The 61st anniversary of the establishment of the African Unity, now known as the African Union, was commemorated at Asmara Palace Hotel on 14 June. The event was attended by senior Government and PFDJ ...