1. Desei Island Miraculously Beautiful.

A frenzied sprawl of 1 million people Southern Red Sea Region is the third largest of the six regions of
Eritrea and covers an area of 23,384 square kilometers of which 49 percent is plain land, 44 percent
mountains and hills and the seven percent is of volcanic land. The western part of the region has an
altitude of 500 to 2000meters; that has cool and moderate temperature and the eastern part
stretches from zero up to 500 meters above sea level with a hot and dry temperature. The region has
a coastline of 500 kilometers in the southern part of the Red Sea and includes 36 different sized
islands. One of the Islands is Desei Island its location was one of the most important parts of the
international waters—linking Africa and Asia.

The summer hit was setting behind The Grand Dahlak Hotel, and a massive shadow spread engulfing
the plaza, I have wondered around the streets of different port cities in many countries, handled
money to beggars. Massawa is much different; it’s clean, peaceful, old with its Ottoman Turkey
structure yet young with its modern buildings. The view outside my window included wild birds and
cats roaming near the hotel, a majestic caravan of camels marching by the beach, an empty plain
sand beach that extends to the rugged coast, and 3,000 kilometers of open sea that separated me
from Asia,. This is Desei Island located in the Northern Red Sea region of Eritrea.

Desei Island is located 2 hours by boat east of Massawa. The Association of Eritrean Americans in
Asmara had organized a three day trip to Desei Island. Thirty five Eritrean Diasporas from the USA,
England, Italy and Sweden had gathered at 5:00 AM set to travel to the Southern Red Sea Region. We
toured the site we stayed for two days, camped, slept on the beach, danced and toured the island and
its inhabitants. Desei Island is surrounded by coral reefs and pristine coastal lines. Swimming and
scuba diving in the legendarily clear water was miraculous.

Our starting point was the Grand Dahlak Hotel much anticipated Georgian Ocean Hotel, where suits
come with private gardens and pools, restaurant on roof top, outdoor and indoor, bar right by the Red
sea, an outdoor swing pool parallel to the Sea, the interior of the hotel floor beautified by marbles of
different colors and shape, lighting of magnificent chandlers it is a hotel of its own working. The hotel
is furnished with high value furniture; mirrors and chandlers. One mind will be occupied by the
damages one would have to pay if they broke one of the countless mirrors or chandlers.

From Grand Dahlak we started our voyage on the KARAMELA boat, an hour to our travel and prior to
reaching the island we were escorted by dolphins. Seeing the dolphins to many of us was a first time
thing and the kids on the boat were much amused by them. From a sailor’s vantage point at the wheel
of Karamela one can see the scattered dwarf trees of Desei Island, its high rolling hills, the low
houses, boats that lay in long decoration against its beaches. The town of Desei spreads along the
island shoreline. A few perfect and unspoiled Victorian looking mansions, newly built of a lost era of
sea going optimism emerge out of the sand wind on the towns sporadic hills. The sea wind drove sand
steadily inland, tossing them against the aromatic trees and the sand settles on the hills with a gentle
converge. The beaches sparkle with coral stone and sea bubbles. Dozen inlets, each with its pleasant
instruct of sail bats and home ran the periphery of Desei an endless series of pristine anchorages.

Desei Island according to the inhabitants was a resting place for traders who traveled from Asia to the
port cities of Zula and Adulis. The Island is seven kilometers long there are two developed area on the
island; two kilometers apart the city of Desei and the Desei Resort Hotel. The Desei Resort hotel has
21 modern huts and 34 traditional hudmo one room hotel, restaurant, bar, convention hall and staff
residence. Asian traders sailed in search of a passage, Desei the island only town provided resting
area for a fleet of unflustered and one man gill netting boats. Desei’s sea has a brand of luxuriant
beauty, enormous hills, soft white sands in every direction.

Desei Island is hot and dry it’s a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make
enemies. Be that as it may, it is home to proud inhabitants Afar; the Afar man is tall, dark skinned
thick and strong through the torso. One can notice his attitude and the strength in his upper body,
Nobel in appearance, his feature signify dignity very pleasant wearing a bushy hair with red strap and
a formidable curved dagger known as a JILE strapped around his waist. The Afar man of Desei is a
professional fisher man.

The life of an Afar woman is strenuous; it is hard work, the Afar woman out run the goats she herds
and makes beautiful decorative artifacts form the sea shells she gathers and sell to visitors. The ladies
of Desei Island were dresses flawlessly. She wears her olive ebony hair lay on her back and home
made nickels around her neck, a neck that reminds one of alabaster. Her skin tone is ebony dark, the
skin as smooth as ice-cream; attractive in a way that disturbs your emotions. Graceful with an elegant
oval face smooth footed walk of a peasant, a narrow waist, small breasts dress in Lewet and sandals
this is a beauty “Fit for a Queen”

The time spent on the isolated Island of Desei was full of excitement, diner was served, fish of
different types, fresh catches were cleaned, fried, broiled and prepared in a special Afarian dip oven.
The music was out of this world and the visit from the young Afar men was a pleasant surprise. As the
night came to close most people stayed by the out door restaurant and took the night to their liking. A
few of us went by the beach laying our feet in the sea water. A night of heat but with an onshore
breeze at-times silent, next a rush of wind come up from off the sea; loud waves breaking on the
beach. The moon had risen and hung just over hills, pale and indefinite, clouds that traveled the sky
obscuring it. It was a night of passion with Mother Nature. At sun rise we realized we were in a land of
beauty as we watched the red yellowish sun ray breaking through the sky. We took Karamela for a
two kilometers voyage where we bought hand made jewelry, Ostrich eggs and different type of sea
shell from the inhabitants of Desei Island.

As all good things have to come to an end, no one wishing to go back and left with no choice we sailed
back to Masawa escorted by a family of dolphins. It was an experience and an adventure of a life time.

2. Asmara: Renovation of sewerage system

Asmara, 6 March 2019 - The remodel of sewerage framework and asphalting streets in Asmara that
started in September 2018 is advancing in a decent pace, reports said.

The organizer of the undertaking, Engineer Samson Teame demonstrated that the redesign movement is
being led with the help of apparatus and is advancing as per plan.

Architect Samson proceeded to state that nearby the remodel of sewerages, asphalting of streets is
additionally being done. The redesign is relied upon to ease the flooding of streets amid the stormy
season.

As per reports, 30 km-long streets have been asphalted and that will be settled before the happening to
the stormy season.

12 The Evidence of Oligocene Elephants from Eritrea

Elephants are enormous warm blooded animals. They can achieve a tallness of around 3 - 4 meters and
a weight of 4,000 - 7,000 kilograms. These enormous animals are known for their thick bodies, stocky
legs, goliath floppy ears, trunks, and tusks. Those huge ears help elephants remain cool in hot, dry
conditions. What's more, their trunks fill in as a fifth appendage which they use to inhale, handle
objects, lift water, and even suckle for solace. There are roughly 40,000 muscles in the elephant's trunk
alone giving him a remarkable level of adaptability and mobility. The skeleton of an elephant is
comprised of 326– 351 bones. More than 99 percent of every single earthly warm blooded creature
have hair, yet elephants are totally bare.

Furthermore, the earflaps are tremendous particularly in the African assortment, which really has the
biggest earflaps of any creature ever. The primary explanation behind this is, elephants live in the
absolute most sizzling atmospheres on earth and their bodies produce a huge measure of warmth.
Despite the fact that they have balanced their indoor regulators to diminish the warmth yield of their
cells, it is as yet insufficient. Hair sparseness encourages them kill heat quicker, yet that is additionally
insufficient, consequently the immense earflaps work as a cooling gadget. The elephant ears are stacked
with veins especially where the skin is meager, this considers quicker scattering of warmth keeping the
creature cooler when temperatures appear to be inconceivably hot. East African elephants rushing in
gathering nearby a stream

Elephants are herbivores that live in a wide range of sorts of environment from savannah to swamp to
timberland. They are viewed as cornerstone species because of their effect on the earth in which they
live. They have the longest known pregnancy of any living warm blooded animal. Moms convey their
children for 22 months in the belly and after that care for their infants for quite a long while after birth.
Elephants have been known to convey by means of touch, sight, smell, and sound. Over long
separations, they can utilize seismic correspondence - or vibrations made by stepping their feet - to
convey threats to different individuals from the group.

Elephants for the most part have 26 teeth: the incisors, known as the tusks, 12 deciduous premolars,
and 12 molars. In contrast to most warm blooded creatures, which develop infant teeth and after that
supplant them with a solitary lasting arrangement of grown-up teeth, elephants are polyphyodonts that
have cycles of tooth turn for the duration of their lives.

When all is said in done, there are two perceived subspecies of elephants - the African elephant and the
Asian elephant, with the best distinction between the two being their physical area. African elephants
are dispersed all through sub-saharan Africa while Asian elephants are found in southern and
southeastern Asia. Among African elephants, the backwoods structure is littler than the savannah
structure.

- rief advancement of Elephants

Proboscideans (a relative of the advanced elephant)) have been a piece of the Afro-Arabian scene since
at any rate the early Eocene, ~55 Mya. "Proboscidea" is a Greek word that signifies "having a nose".
More than 350 Proboscidea have been distinguished as having existed in the course of the last 50 million
years. Elephantidae is the main enduring group of the request Proboscidea; other, presently wiped out,
individuals from the request incorporate deinotheres, gomphotheres, mammoths, and mastodons. The
main territories that Proboscidea were not found to have been home probably a portion of these animal
types are Antarctica and Australia. Dominant part of these species are terminated leaving just the Asian
Elephant, African Savanna Elephant (the world's biggest land warm blooded creature) and African Forest
Elephant.

The developmental tree of proboscidea, a scientific categorization that joins all elephantid ancestries
just as mammoth and mastodon species, would now be able to be built with higher conviction than any
time in recent memory. Two particular clades appear to have framed 6 million years back. The main
clade incorporated the speculative progenitor of savanna and timberland elephants. The two appear to
have separated at some point amid the miocene-pliocene progress 5 million years back. The second
clade incorporates Asian elephant and the now wiped out wooly mammoth. Note that these two
separated from their regular clade later than savanna and woodland elephants wandered from theirs,
making them hereditarily closer to one another than the two types of Loxodonta.

With just two living species left, the African (Loxodontia africana) and the Asian (Elephas maximus) it is
difficult to trust that this request, the proboscidea, was once a standout amongst the best warm
blooded creature bunches on Earth. While they started in Africa, the proboscidea figured out how to
vanquish pretty much every mainland on this planet. They are known for their capacity to adjust to a
wide range of situations which enabled them to develop and make due till the present occasions. They
are as yet viewed as a standout amongst the most versatile creatures on the planet. Some of them lived
in the rainforests while others lived in the desert. The confirmations from the fossil destinations of
Dogali and Kudo-Felassi (in Eritrea) and the Chilga site (in Ethiopia) are the main known late Oligocene
well evolved creature locales from the entire of Africa.

The Evolution tree of the elephant family dependent on proof of fossils.

The revelation of fossil well evolved creatures on the seaside and good countries of Eritrea speaks to the
most punctual proof for the present most loved Africa's vertebrates, the elephants. These confirmations
are known from two unmistakable locales that are, the Dogali (close to the port city of Massawa) and
Kudo-Felassi (Mendefera) destinations. These destinations safeguarded, fossil proof of a crude
Proboscideana, an exceptionally old relative of present day elephants. It is known by researchers that
early elephant advancement have happened totally in Africa, and these new fossils from Eritrea gave
new confirmations on the early periods of the transformative history of these captivating creatures.
Such familial early elephants were a lot littler than the present African elephants, coming to around
1000 kg in body estimate. This types of elephant were flourishing in the Miocene from the Arabian land
mass to Africa; amid this period Africa and Arabia were as yet joined as a solitary mainland. This
timespan is a bit of the African mammalian developmental history, which is generously obscure to
science.

- Dogali Elephants

In November 2006, a group driven by the late Paleontologist Dr. Jeheskel Shoshani have distributed in
the online Journal of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) a staggering revelation of
fossil survives from a wiped out Elephant species from the website of Dogali (area of Wedeg Melatse