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Eritrea's Cycling Tradition, a Colonial Import That Became National
The bicycle arrived with Italian colonialism. It stayed, and produced Grand Tour riders.
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Capital: Asmara · ኤርትራ · 16 articlesA Red Sea state that became independent from Ethiopia in 1993 after a thirty-year war. Eritrea holds roughly a thousand kilometres of coastline and the ports of Massawa and Assab, and its capital Asmara is a UNESCO World Heritage site for its modernist architecture.
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Red Sea Shipping Disruption Reaches Horn Ports
Carriers rerouting around southern Africa change the economics of every terminal between Massawa and Mogadishu.
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Why Ports Matter So Much in the Horn of Africa
Four countries, one strategic waterway, and a hundred and twenty million people who need to reach it.
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Why the Horn of Africa Is Strategically Important
Six factors explain why states with no obvious connection to the region maintain a presence in it.