Eritrea: Financial Contribution to Augment Martyrs Trust Fund

NNN: During the commemorative events organized in connection with June 20, Martyrs’ Day, citizens of the Netherlands, Italy, Australia, the USA and Saudi Arabia contributed more than 88,000 dollars and more than 61,000 euros to increase the Martyrs’ Trust …

Eritrea: Merhawi Kudus becomes National Champion of 2022

NNN: The 2022 Eritrean Road Cycling Championships which started with the time trial competition in Asmara on Friday 24th concluded today, June 26th, with the road race. As a result, Mergawi Kudus, a member of the American EF Education Club, wins the 171. …

Eritrea: Over 84 million Nakfa disbursed to families of martyrs

Eritrea Cycling Championship Commences

NNN: The 2022 Eritrean Road Cycling Championship kicks off today, June 24, at the Asmara Martyrs’ Cemetery area with an individual time trial. In the junior men’s category that covered 18 km, Aklilu Arefaine, Samuel Haile and Yoel Habteab took first, …

Eritrea women’s team footballers still in hiding after escaping in Uganda

Five members of Eritrea’s Under-20 women’s team who escaped after playing in a tournament in Uganda last year remain in hiding, the Guardian understands. According to sources close to the players, the five – Luwam Solomon, Yordanos Abraham, Shamat Futsum, …

Eritrea Remembers Its Fallen Heroes

On June 20th, Eritrea celebrates Martyr’s Day, in honor of those who fell in the 30-year war for independence from Ethiopia, from 1961-1991, and those who have fallen in the ensuing off-and-on war with Ethiopia’s Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). A …