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In Eritrea’s history, art has played a great role in times of both war and peace. During the long and bitter struggle for independence, all forms of art contributed their invaluable share in winning the struggle. One foreign observer stated that Eritrean revolutionary music “served more than bullets.”

The Eritrean festival creates a platform for an annual congregation of citizens who come from different corners of the country and abroad. Our national festival started in Bologna, Italy, in 1984 during the struggle for independence and endured Eritrea’s independence. The festival, conducted annually has had an enormous impact on Eritrean heritage conservation and contributed a great deal to the national unity of Eritreans at home and abroad.

Eritrea has for the last two months or so been a venue where leaders of the Horn of Africa come together and reach agreements of cooperation. The peace deal between Eritrea and Ethiopia, visit of the Somali President to Eritrea and of Eritrea’s higher delegation to Ethiopia and Somalia, and the most recent visit of President Salva Kiir of South Sudan are some of the notable indications for a bright future in the region.

Okay, let’s calm down. Yes, summer rain is here, it took a while but it is pouring now. And it is awesome —Beles! Shorts! Sandals! Massawa! For those of us who have to keep formal appearances for work, well we can only day dream about wearing shorts and playing in the puddle of water during summer.

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Eritreans residing in Australia have introduced an Anatomical Pathology service project in Eritrea through a training program. The project aims to improve Surgical Pathology (Histo- and Cytopathology) services of Eritrean Hospitals and provide high quality patient care by incorporating modern systems of reporting using the Whole Slide Imaging (WSI) in Eritrean laboratory and remote access and reporting of Pathology cases by Australian Pathologists.

Starting from 1994, it’s been a tradition for the Eritrean youth to devote one year to Sawa to complete their high school education and to attend military training. The purpose of this national tradition is to connect the Eritrean youths to their history and to make them realize and accept certain roles, and duties. Thus, the academic, military and political education carried out in Sawa is one form of political socialization, which helps the youth stand behind the national goals of Eritrea.