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Before the independence of Eritrea, Ethiopia's ETV had planned to build a transmitter in Asmara with a tentative opening date scheduled for December 1976, on VHF channel 5 with an ERP of 1kW. [1] After the referendum that led to its independence, Eri-TV was created in January 1993, with the help of Canadian technicians. [2]
On 14 November 2020, multiple rockets launched from Ethiopia hit Asmara. Two rockets hit Asmara International Airport. [1]The same day the Eritrean government confirmed that missiles were launched at the capital but denied the city had been hit, saying that they landed in the countryside.
The media in Eritrea played a role in its war against Ethiopia. Independent Eritrea has one of the harshest media regimes, with private and foreign ownership being banned since the early 2000s. As of 2018, the government controlled four newspapers, one television channel and two radio stations.
The Kingdom of Italy invested in the industrial development of Asmara (and surrounding areas of Eritrea), [16] but the beginning of World War II brought this to a halt. UNESCO made Asmara a World Heritage Site in July 2017, saying "It is an exceptional example of early modernist urbanism at the beginning of the 20th century and its application ...
Kagnew Station was a United States Army installation in Asmara, Eritrea on the Horn of Africa.The installation was established in 1943 as a U.S. Army radio station, taking over and refurbishing a pre-existing Italian naval radio station, Radio Marina, after Italian forces based in Asmara surrendered to the Allies in 1941.
Eritrean authorities have suspended all flights by Ethiopian Airlines to the East African nation effective Sept. 30, the airline said on Wednesday. Flights from Ethiopia to Eritrea had resumed in ...
24 May: Eritrean People's Liberation Front take city; Derg rule ends. [21] Haddas Ertra newspaper begins publication. [23] 1993 24 May: Asmara becomes capital of independent Eritrea. [24] Eri-TV begins broadcasting. [23] 1998 - 5 June: Airport bombed by Ethiopian forces during the Eritrean–Ethiopian War.
After a series of armed incidents in which several Eritrean officials were killed near Badme, [4] on 6 May 1998, [5] a large Eritrean mechanized force entered the Badme region along the border of Eritrea and Ethiopia's northern Tigray Region, resulting in a firefight between the Eritrean soldiers and a Tigrayan militia and the Ethiopian police they encountered.