On Saturday 17 October 2009, President Isaias Afeworki began his tour of inspection in the Gash Barka region following the graduation ceremony of the Sawa Vocational Institution. At a time when most of the country has been connected through an extensive network of roads, the President began his tour by taking the road through Girmaika -Adibara, the towns of Senketknab, Fedadeb, Germayka and Temerat- to finally reach Tessenei, a town which is gradually evolving into a commercial and agricultural hub.
Records in the Ministry of Agriculture indicate that 30 % of Eritrean land used to be a dense forest 100 years ago. But, due to prolonged wars, droughts and other factors the thick forest was been reduced to only 1% coverage over the years. Hence, the Government of Eritrea, in order to restore natural vegetation launched summer work programs in 1994. Students were deployed in different parts of the country to participate in forestation activities ranging from planting tree seedlings as well as soil and water conservation activities. Huge number of human resources and 173 million Nakfas were deployed in this endeavor over the past 14 years. But, has the program been successful in achieving the desired outcome? What are the prospects?
“ It seems like I can’t have enough whenever I eat in this restaurant.” was the impressed comment of the German reporter Stephanie Apple in describing one of the restaurants in downtown Asmara. The walls and ceiling of this restaurant are decorated by shapes of various fruits made of ceramics and sculptures of different traditional artifacts. The balcony, with its white walls and shining golden lights lifts the spirits of any customer that enters the hotel “Albergo Italia”.
The establishment of various higher educational institutions all over the country that began in 2004, that includes the Eritrean Institute of Technology in Mai Nefhi, the college of Marine Science and Technology, College of Arts and Social Science, Hamelmalo College of Agriculture, Orotta School of Medicine and others has stimulated a notable rise in the number of students graduating in various fields of study.
International Tourism Day, 27th September, was marked under the theme “Tourism- Celebrating Diversity” at the Expo hall on Saturday, 26th of September for its 30th time worldwide and for its 15th in Eritrea.
Bideho is a Tigrinya word, with literal English translation, meaning challenge. Bideho is also a frequently used Tigrinya terminology mostly used in doing the undoable, fixing the unfixable and challenging the unchallengeable. That is may be why the Bideho Construction Company is penetrating the impenetrable. When the Italians colonized Eritrea in 1890, the Italians had to connect the highland plateaus of Asmara and its environs with the eastern lowlands of the Massawa port and of course other places of Eritrea with utmost strategic importance to the colonizers. That mission had to be done to meet the demands of the Italians and put the needed infrastructure well in place so as to maintain their stronghold in Eritrea.
On Saturday 17 October 2009, President Isaias Afeworki began his tour of inspection in the Gash Barka region following the graduation ceremony of the Sawa Vocational Institution. At a time when most of the country has been connected through an extensive network of roads, the President began his tour by taking the road through Girmaika -Adibara, the towns of Senketknab, Fedadeb, Germayka and Temerat- to finally reach Tessenei, a town which is gradually evolving into a commercial and agricultural hub.
Records in the Ministry of Agriculture indicate that 30 % of Eritrean land used to be a dense forest 100 years ago. But, due to prolonged wars, droughts and other factors the thick forest was been reduced to only 1% coverage over the years. Hence, the Government of Eritrea, in order to restore natural vegetation launched summer work programs in 1994. Students were deployed in different parts of the country to participate in forestation activities ranging from planting tree seedlings as well as soil and water conservation activities. Huge number of human resources and 173 million Nakfas were deployed in this endeavor over the past 14 years. But, has the program been successful in achieving the desired outcome? What are the prospects?
“ It seems like I can’t have enough whenever I eat in this restaurant.” was the impressed comment of the German reporter Stephanie Apple in describing one of the restaurants in downtown Asmara. The walls and ceiling of this restaurant are decorated by shapes of various fruits made of ceramics and sculptures of different traditional artifacts. The balcony, with its white walls and shining golden lights lifts the spirits of any customer that enters the hotel “Albergo Italia”.
The establishment of various higher educational institutions all over the country that began in 2004, that includes the Eritrean Institute of Technology in Mai Nefhi, the college of Marine Science and Technology, College of Arts and Social Science, Hamelmalo College of Agriculture, Orotta School of Medicine and others has stimulated a notable rise in the number of students graduating in various fields of study.
International Tourism Day, 27th September, was marked under the theme “Tourism- Celebrating Diversity” at the Expo hall on Saturday, 26th of September for its 30th time worldwide and for its 15th in Eritrea.
Bideho is a Tigrinya word, with literal English translation, meaning challenge. Bideho is also a frequently used Tigrinya terminology mostly used in doing the undoable, fixing the unfixable and challenging the unchallengeable. That is may be why the Bideho Construction Company is penetrating the impenetrable.