History Throughout history and until 1890, the year in which Italy colonized the territory and delimited it, the area of Eritrea had been part of several empires and kingdoms in the region. The Kingdom of Italy created the colony of Eritrea in 1890 and maintained it until the Second World War, with the […]

In 2002, Eritrea was a small African nation with a population of approximately 4.5 million people. According to computerannals, it had recently gained its independence from Ethiopia in 1993 and was governed by a president elected every five years. The economy was largely based on agriculture, though the government had […]