The three-day celebration event of the 21st anniversary of Operation Fenkil under the theme “Fenkil: Apiary of Eritrean Independence” was conducted in vivid patriotic spirit. The celebrations began in Salina with a minute of silence in memory of martyrs. Beginning the commemorative event at a place that embraces the history of valiant freedom fighters by itself conveys a special meaning. It is a place where gallant compatriots lost their lives to capture Massawa. A drama depicting the bitter battle fought there, songs and poems attributing to the event as well as a testimony by veteran female EPLF fighter, Ti’be Russom, who participated in the war were presented in the morning hours of Friday, 11 February.
Name a village in Eritrea and I can assure you it has an access to road. The road might be rough or eroded and difficult to drive through because of rain or otherwise but the village has a road that connects it with other villages, towns or cities. The Southern Red Sea region whose topography includes sandy plains and mountains every village irrespective of its location is reachable by road. That is what the tour participants to the Southern Red Sea region experienced during their third day tour to Maebele and Siroru and for that matter during their previous tour to the Debub and Northern Red Sea regions.
PART II Early in the morning of 11 January 2011 the tour participants headed south from Assab to the ancient village of Rahaita to meet Derder (Sultan) Abdel Kadir Dawud and the people of Rahaita to learn what the Sultanate was all about and to observe the remains of the history of the ancient Sultanate. Derder Abdel Kadir Dawud is the sixteenth Sultan in the ranks of the Rahaita Sultanate.The Sultanate of Rahaita is said to be of 800 years old. From the renowned Kingdom of Adal established in Rahaita, the kingdoms of Dankali and Ankala, the Sultanate of Bidu and other major clan chieftains and sheikdoms successively dominated the traditional administration on the Red Sea coasts, in the interiors and on the islands as well.
The Southern Red Sea Region is one of the six regions of the country endowed with rich natural resources, spectacular landscapes and historical sites. The region, which is located within the Great Rift Valley of Eastern Africa, is 23, 384 square kilometers out of which 49% is a plain and sandy land and 44% mountainous and hilly. Moreover, the region is endowed with around 30 islands of different sizes. Most of the islands possess spectacular landscapes very attractive to conduct variety of tourism activities such as swimming, diving and camping. The region comprises of four administrative sub-zones with 72 villages and 31 administrative localities.
Needless to say that education provides unified collection of thoughtful ideas to transform knowledge and enlightenment down to posterity in the vast and uncontrolled information era; but it should be in systematic and careful way of teaching-learning process. Because, educational system, to the contrary might not be worth a great deal if it slips the right path to teach youngsters how to make a life. It is the right way to teach children how to make their own life rather than teaching them how to make a living, be it through experience or formal education that changes outcomes, because some arguments would agree that knowledge gained through experience serves equal or better than that is gained through formal education.
The view outside my window included wild birds and cats roaming near the hotel, a majestic caravan of camels marching by the beach, an empty plain sand beach that extended to the rugged coast, and 3,000 kilometers of open sea that separated me from Asia. This is the city of Massawa; “Pearl of the Red Sea” located in the Northern red sea region of Eritrea. Travelers visiting Africa expect a crash course in tropical living. But in Massawa all one needs to do is book a room at the Gergousoum, an antique old hotel, and the most recent upgraded hotel by Massawa beach.
One disadvantage of technological advancement is that while it provides us with new innovations it also kills many previous innovations. Tape cassettes and the like are considered to be almost useless technologies as they are replaced with audio CDS, VCDS and other forms of disks such as fl ash disks. I sometimes tend to think that cell phone and the internet have killed the importance of letters. In other words, by today’s standards, letters may be considered the most backward means of communication. This is because when those whom we love are far away, wed can easily reach them with the help of these technologies and we feel that we do not need to waste our time writing letters.
The three-day celebration event of the 21st anniversary of Operation Fenkil under the theme “Fenkil: Apiary of Eritrean Independence” was conducted in vivid patriotic spirit. The celebrations began in Salina with a minute of silence in memory of martyrs. Beginning the commemorative event at a place that embraces the history of valiant freedom fighters by itself conveys a special meaning. It is a place where gallant compatriots lost their lives to capture Massawa. A drama depicting the bitter battle fought there, songs and poems attributing to the event as well as a testimony by veteran female EPLF fighter, Ti’be Russom, who participated in the war were presented in the morning hours of Friday, 11 February.
Name a village in Eritrea and I can assure you it has an access to road. The road might be rough or eroded and difficult to drive through because of rain or otherwise but the village has a road that connects it with other villages, towns or cities. The Southern Red Sea region whose topography includes sandy plains and mountains every village irrespective of its location is reachable by road. That is what the tour participants to the Southern Red Sea region experienced during their third day tour to Maebele and Siroru and for that matter during their previous tour to the Debub and Northern Red Sea regions.
Early in the morning of 11 January 2011 the tour participants headed south from Assab to the ancient village of Rahaita to meet Derder (Sultan) Abdel Kadir Dawud and the people of Rahaita to learn what the Sultanate was all about and to observe the remains of the history of the ancient Sultanate. Derder Abdel Kadir Dawud is the sixteenth Sultan in the ranks of the Rahaita Sultanate.The Sultanate of Rahaita is said to be of 800 years old. From the renowned Kingdom of Adal established in Rahaita, the kingdoms of Dankali and Ankala, the Sultanate of Bidu and other major clan chieftains and sheikdoms successively dominated the traditional administration on the Red Sea coasts, in the interiors and on the islands as well.
The Southern Red Sea Region is one of the six regions of the country endowed with rich natural resources, spectacular landscapes and historical sites. The region, which is located within the Great Rift Valley of Eastern Africa, is 23, 384 square kilometers out of which 49% is a plain and sandy land and 44% mountainous and hilly. Moreover, the region is endowed with around 30 islands of different sizes. Most of the islands possess spectacular landscapes very attractive to conduct variety of tourism activities such as swimming, diving and camping. The region comprises of four administrative sub-zones with 72 villages and 31 administrative localities.
Needless to say that education provides unified collection of thoughtful ideas to transform knowledge and enlightenment down to posterity in the vast and uncontrolled information era; but it should be in systematic and careful way of teaching-learning process. Because, educational system, to the contrary might not be worth a great deal if it slips the right path to teach youngsters how to make a life. It is the right way to teach children how to make their own life rather than teaching them how to make a living, be it through experience or formal education that changes outcomes, because some arguments would agree that knowledge gained through experience serves equal or better than that is gained through formal education.
The view outside my window included wild birds and cats roaming near the hotel, a majestic caravan of camels marching by the beach, an empty plain sand beach that extended to the rugged coast, and 3,000 kilometers of open sea that separated me from Asia. This is the city of Massawa; “Pearl of the Red Sea” located in the Northern red sea region of Eritrea. Travelers visiting Africa expect a crash course in tropical living. But in Massawa all one needs to do is book a room at the Gergousoum, an antique old hotel, and the most recent upgraded hotel by Massawa beach.