Eritrea Profile 13 February 2021

Special Edition No. 68 Saturday, 13 February, 2021 Pages 4 NEWS BRIEF EFFORT TO CONTROL COMMUNICABLE DISEASES The Land and Agriculture Department in the Northern Red Sea Region reported that effort is being exerted to control communicable diseases from animals to humans as well as other animal diseases. According to the report from the office strong effort is being exerted to raise the awareness of dairy farmers on the communicable diseases and expand livestock vaccination program. According to Mr. Mahmud Idris, head of Animal Health in the region, in 2020 over 673 thousand livestock have been vaccinated in the sub- zones of Gelalo, Massawa, Foro, Ghinda, Sheib, Afabet and Karora and that was 57% of the livestock in the region. Mr. Mahmud also called on the farmers to vaccinate their livestock on time so that they ensure their health and productivity. Indicating that the vaccination program is significantly contributing in ensuring the health of their livestock, the farmers on their part commended the support they are receiving from the Ministry of ERITREAN COMMUNITY FESTIVAL IN AUSTRALIA Agriculture. Eritrean community festival on the objective situation in the at the Eritrean Embassy in EFFORT TO CONTROL DESERT in Australia was conducted homeland and the region, the Australia and New Zealand enthusiastically respecting the impact of the COVID-19 disease stating the impact of COVID-19 LOCUST SWARM objective situation of the COVID- and the measures being taken by pandemic throughout the world 19 disease and guidelines issued the Government and people of in 2020, commended nationals Strong integrated effort is being exerted in cooperation with to control the pandemic. Eritrea to combat the spread of inside and outside Eritrea for agricultural experts, members of the Defense Forces and the public to the pandemic, as well as cultural their strong participation in the control the second desert locust swarm that has appeared in Ghinda The national festival that performances and sports events. fight against the pandemic and subzone. was attended by nationals said that nationals in Australia from all ages featured various In a speech delivered, Mr. contributed over 200 thousand The coordinators of the campaign indicated that so far 70% of the activities including speeches Tekeste Mehari, General Consul USD toward augmenting the locust invasion that has been stretched from Ghinda town to Embatkala National Fund. has been put in control and effort is ongoing. He further congratulated Indicating that the desert locust invasion that came across the border the people of Eritrea and is dangerous both in number and type, Mr. Dawit Angesom, head of ANNOUNCEMENT members of the defense forces Plant Development at the Ministry of Agriculture branch in the sub- on the 31st anniversary of the zone, said that integrated effort is being made to put under control the FROM THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH Operation Fenkil that is being invasion. commemorated. The administrator of the sub-zone, Mr. Omar Yahya Haj on his Eleven patients have been diagnosed positive for COVID-19 At an extensive briefing part commended the members of the Eritrean Defense Forces are in tests carried out on Febraury 11 at Quarantine Centers in the delivered virtually, the Minister demonstrating in the effort to put in control the locust swarm. Central and Northern Red Sea Regions. of Foreign Affairs Mr. Osman Saleh commended the nationals It is to be recalled that the desert locust swarm that was seen in the sub- Out of these, eight patients are from Quarantine Centers in in Australia for their strong zones of Ghinda and Foro was put in under control through integrated Asmara, Central Region. The other three patients are from support toward their people and effort on the part of the public, members of the Defense Forces and Quarantine Centers in Massawa (2), and Nakfa (1), in the Northern Government and lauded their agricultural experts. Red Sea Region. effort to transfer the national values, culture and identity to On the other hand, four patients who have been receiving medical posterity. treatment in hospitals in the Northern Red Sea Region have POTABLE WATER PROJECT IN HALHAL recovered fully and have been discharged from these facilities. Regarding the international The residents of Halhal, Araeta sub-zone, reported that the potable and regional objective situation, The total number of recovered patients to-date has accordingly water project put in place in their area is significantly contributing in Minister Osman indicating that improving their daily lives. risen to 1828 while the number of deaths stands at seven. each and every epoch creates its own opportunities and challenges Indicating that prior to the project put in place in their area they were The total number of confirmed cases in the country to-date has said that foiling challenges increased to 2429. compelled to travel a long distance for fetching water, the residents said encountered and seizing that with the project put in place they are able to fetch water from their opportunities is a formidable backyards for themselves and their livestock. Ministry of Health culture of the struggle of the Asmara Eritrean people and called on every 11 February 2021 The residents also expressed conviction to reinforce contribution for citizen to enhance awareness and the sustainability of the project. reinforce participation. Eritrea Profile, Saturday, 13 February, 2021 No.68 2 Heroic and Decisive: One Week in February Dr. Fikrejesus Amahazion the end of the French presence in beginning of the end for Colonel Indochina, and the historic Battle Mengistu Hailemariam and the History has recorded countless of Santa Clara, the last during Derg regime, and it signaled major battles and decisive Cuba’s revolutionary struggle, to everyone that Eritrea’s military victories. Centuries ago, which extinguished the brutal independence – which had long at the epic Battle of Marathon, dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista been regarded and dismissed the vastly outnumbered ancient in the last days of 1958. by many as unlikely or even Greeks defeated the mighty impossible – was not only merely Persian invaders. More recently, Similarly, our own history possible, but actually only a in 1942-43, the nearly six-month provides us with numerous matter of time from becoming a siege of Stalingrad was one of the examples of significant victories, reality. most pivotal and dramatic events decisive battles, and tremendous in World War II, while in 1944, resilience. Throughout the late In the year prior to the daring the invasion of Normandy by 1800s, Degiat Bahta Hagos, a land and sea operation, codenamed Allied forces on D-Day marked towering anti-colonial resistance Operation Fenkil, the EPLF built the beginning of the Nazi’s figure, fierce warrior, gifted up its naval capabilities and then decline on the Western front. poet, and talented musician, secretly moved its powerful forces Other major battles that shifted launched revolts against invaders, into the region, aiming to isolate of the deep significance that and more and better weapons. the course of history are the Battle oppressive warlords, colonialists, Asmara from the sea (the coastal the Battle of Massawa has for Despite the great imbalance, the of Dien Bien Phu, which led to and external hegemony. A city and the capital are separated Eritreans is how fervently its EPLF succeeded at Massawa by a distance of approximately memory is celebrated. The several (and eventually in securing 115 kilometers). Beginning in days that are set aside every year to independence) because of, among the early hours of February 8, celebrate the spectacular triumph other things, the: quality, valor, the quick and decisive EPLF are among the most special, and bravery of its fighters, who offensive, launched on three colorful, and distinguished on were able to impose their will different fronts, would end by the Eritrean calendar, alongside against a larger, better-equipped February 10, when the Eritreans September 1 (Beginning of opponent; far better planning had secured the mainland. Days the Armed Struggle), May 24 and organization, superior later, on February 16, EPLF (Independence Day), and June 20 maneuvering and speed, and forces stormed the islands in a (Martyr’s Day). the element of surprise, which combined land and sea assault. prevented the Derg from utilizing Invariably, regardless of age, its own forces effectively. The EPLF’s bold surprise sex, religion, ethnicity, socio- attack cut-off the Ethiopian economic status, or other possible Personally, Operation Fenkil regime’s access to supplies distinction, Eritreans look back and the Battle of Massawa are provided by the USSR through on the victory at the Battle of sources of true inspiration and Massawa. Not only did the Massawa with extreme reverence encouragement. They reiterate century later, in March of 1988, Eritrean forces employ tanks and and true happiness. Operation an important lesson: that at the the Eritrean People’s Liberation various armaments and heavy Fenkil was when Eritrea finally end of all long struggles and dark Front’s (EPLF) scored a heroic artillery, they also relied upon a arose after decades under the tunnels, there is often hope and victory in a huge battle in small fleet of gun boats to attack heavy boot of colonial oppression light, as long as you persevere Afabet, considered by eminent from the sea. The battle took an to “placing a noose around the and remain resilient. historian Basil Davidson as the enormous toll on the Derg: about neck of the Derg”. (Another In 1990, after three decades Published Every most significant victory for any 9,000-10,000 Ethiopian soldiers reflection of just how significant of bitter war, despite having Published Every liberation movement since the were killed, while many others the Battle of Massawa was is been vastly outnumbered and SaturdayPublished & Wednesday Every found in the intensely bitter, greatly outgunned, and although Wednesday & Saturday Vietnamese victory at Dien Bien were left wounded.

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