Share Editor’s note: Around the world, 2020 has been turbulent, challenging, and a year truly unlike any other. This article, reviewing the period from May to August, is the second in a three-part series that looks back at some of the important events and developments that unfolded in Eritrea over the past year. Part I was published in the last edition of Eritrea Profile, while Part III will be featured next week.
May
The month began with International Workers’ Day (1 May) commemorated in Asmara. Events saw 40 members of the National Confederation of Eritrean Workers (NCEW) donate blood at the National Blood Transfusion Center. Additionally, Tekeste Baire, Secretary General of the National Confederation of Eritrean Workers, released a statement that, inter alia, declared the NCEW would continue to extend financial and material support to the national efforts to contain the virus.
It is of strategic importance for global trade that the Red Sea region is stable
Ethiopians, who fled the conflict in the Tigray region in northern Ethiopia wait to receive food in Hamdayit camp after reaching Kassala State, Sudan on December 14, 2020 [Mahmoud Hjaj - Anadolu Agency] December 23, 2020 at 1:27 pm
The Red Sea area has always attracted attention due it strategic position and role as one of the world s major sea lanes. The region of which it is at the centre continues to be the setting for international conflicts and challenges, however, as recent developments indicate.
Although landlocked, Ethiopia is generally considered to be within the Red Sea region. At the moment there is armed conflict there between the federal government in Addis Ababa and the Tigray regional administration. It looks as if the conflict is turning into a war of attrition which will have repercussions across the region.
Israel has started lobbying US Senators and Congressmen to approve a bill which would stop Sudan from being the victim of future lawsuits by terror vict