Archive for the ‘Eritrea’ Category
Simona’s nature adventures in Eritrea
I found a nice little cache of animated children’s stories and workbooks that have been translated to Tigrinya. I urge everyone to give them a quick look, each story also has an option to switch to the English translation. Simona’s Nature Adventures in Eritrea, East Africa Lucy Lava Light Magic What is a tree? Workbooks: [...]
December 15, 2009
Tags: links, tigrinya Posted in: Eritrea, language, Tigrigna 
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“My 15 min of ‘fame’ in Eritrea.”
A Nairobi based reporter (Shashank Bengali) tells of his live interview with Isaias on EriTV; anybody catch it?
November 3, 2009
Tags: Eritrea, Isaias Posted in: Eritrea No Comments
cityoneminutes – Asmara
A friend of mine emailed me this link a while ago, I really don’t know how to describe it. Here is a description of their site: Are you curious to know how people live on the other side of the world? What does Moscow look like between three and four in the afternoon? What happens [...]
October 14, 2009
Tags: Asmara, cityoneminutes Posted in: Eritrea, Miscellaneous No Comments
Human Development Index
The Human Development Report 2009 came out today, it’s sort of like a ranking of the general standards of living in the world. Wikipedia has their index updated already. Here are a few selected countries and their score… 001 Norway 0.971 ▲ +0.001 004 Canada 0.966 ▲ +0.001 013 United States 0.956 ▲ +0.001 081 [...]
October 5, 2009
Tags: Human Development Index Posted in: Africa, Eritrea No Comments
heheh…
I have a bizarre sense of humour, but this caption/picture had me laughing… “Apparently they just got Ak47′s and Apple computers in Eritrea.”
June 17, 2009
Tags: pic, twitter Posted in: Eritrea No Comments
EriTV – Streaming Live On The Net
Most people in the Erispora (a cute portmanteau of “Eritrean” & “Diaspora;” of which I’m not the first to use…) already know this, so this post is for all of you non-Eritreans. Eastafro.com is streaming Eritrean television (EriTV) free on the Internet for anybody to watch. So for all of you Tigrigna students who wished [...]
June 13, 2009
Tags: EastAfro, EriTV, Tigrigna Posted in: Eritrea, Tigrigna No Comments
Repairing lives and limbs for children in Eritrea
Physicians for Peace is an American NGO that works on “Improving health care in the developing world” I just stumbled onto a blog post and photo slide of their Limb Rescue Mission in Eritrea. Check it out.
May 29, 2009
Tags: Physicians for Peace Posted in: Eritrea No Comments
Eritrea country literacy report
I was surfing the net when I ran into a report on an Eritrean adult literacy program published by UNESCO in late January of 2008. Although it has few hard figures (at the end there are two good tables), it’s worth a look if you’re interested in this stuff. Small Update – I found a [...]
February 18, 2009
Tags: Eritrea, literacy Posted in: Eritrea No Comments
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