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Southern Red Sea region: the land of Danakils Part VII
Friday, 14 June 2013 08:32 | Written by shabait Administrator |
  
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. |
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At the residence of the Sultan there are two drums, big and small ones. The bigger one represents the Derder while the smaller one represents the Banoyta.
The tradition that still is practiced in Rahaita is the way that the youth are organized. The Fiema is youth organization that follows the old tradition of the Rahaita Sultanate and still intact and functional. Fiema is organized with different hierarchy and each one has its responsibility.
Assab is the capital city of the Southern Red Sea region. Assab is a modern city as well as ancient one. It is also the city in which the Italian colonialists set their foot in Eritrea and there by to stay in the country for about sixty years as colonizers. It was in Ras Lema that an Italian priest by the name Giuseppe Sapeto, on behalf of Genovese shipping company called Rubbatino, negotiated and signed with the Afar Sultan of Ausa in 1869 with the local chieftains for the sale of the area for 8,100 Maria Teresa. The agreement was signed in a ship called Nasrel al-Majid. That signing ceremony to transfer power from the Sultan to the Italians makes Assab very unique in the history of Eritrea.