Eritrea - Ministry of Information

Officially inaugurated on October 26, 2011, in the City of Kassala, the strategic Arbaéta Asher-Kassala asphalt road linking Eritrea and Sudan was opened at a colorful ceremony in the presence of Eritrean, Sudanese and Qatari leaders to render service for the peoples of both nations.

The ultimate goal of any given entity is but constant improvement. Hence, development requires three essential assets: ingenuity, capital and the art of implementation. Emanating from knowledge and information, ingenuity is the resource for framing objectives and plans of action.

Mass protests that have flared up from North America to the Far East have recently become the major agenda item of the mass media across the globe. It remains, nonetheless, important to reflect on the objective reading of the main cause, instead of pondering on the hourly news, so as to forecast future developments. These apparently accidental phenomena come not as a bolt from the blue, but are the upheavals of economic and political problems.

In the week during which President Isaias Afwerki arrived New York to participate at the 66th Session of the U.N. General Assembly, the warm welcome thousands of Eritreans accorded to him flocking from a number of U.S. and Canadian states, as well as the patriotic spirit that prevailed throughout the public seminar did not only add force to Eritrea’s admirable national unity, but the remarkable event was also heartwarming to friends of Eritrea and a slough to enemy quarters.