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Welcome to Cali Eritrea 2011,

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Welcome to Cali Eritrea, an informative blog designed to share basic information and news about the Eritrea.
This online resource was originally created in 2007 by Ioan Elvis Sersea, M.A., M.A.T., aka MaestroSersea, English as a Second Language instructor, who wished to connect his adult English learner students with the wonders of the internet.
Now, in 2011, this website has been revisited and improved with formatting and a new template, to ensure ease of use and accessibility.
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A Historical Introduction to Eritrea

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The UN awarded Eritrea to Ethiopia in 1952 as part of a federation.

Ethiopia's annexation of Eritrea as a province 10 years later sparked a 30-year struggle for independence that ended in 1991 with Eritrean rebels defeating governmental forces; independence was overwhelmingly approved in a 1993 referendum.

A two-and-a-half-year border war with Ethiopia that erupted in 1998 ended under UN auspices in December 2000.

Eritrea hosted a UN peacekeeping operation that monitored a 25 km-wide Temporary Security Zone (TSZ) on the border with Ethiopia. Eritrea's denial of fuel to the mission caused the UN to withdraw the mission and terminate its mandate 31 July 2008.

An international commission, organized to resolve the border dispute, posted its findings in 2002. However, both parties have been unable to reach agreement on implementing the decision. On 30 November 2007, the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission remotely demarcated the border by coordinates and dissolved itself, leaving Ethiopia still occupying several tracts of disputed territory, including the town of Badme.

Eritrea accepted the EEBC's "virtual demarcation" decision and called on Ethiopia to remove its troops from the TSZ that it states is Eritrean territory. Ethiopia has not accepted the virtual demarcation decision.

In 2009 the UN imposed sanctions on Eritrea after accusing it of backing anti-Ethiopian Islamist insurgents in Somalia

People of Eritrea

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Population:
5,939,484 (July 2011 est.)country comparison to the world: 107

Age structure:
0-14 years: 42.1% (male 1,256,384/female 1,244,569)15-64 years: 54.3% (male 1,580,535/female 1,641,911)65 years and over: 3.6% (male 96,627/female 119,458) (2011 est.)

Median age:
total: 18.7 yearsmale: 18.3 yearsfemale: 19.1 years (2011 est.)

Population growth rate:
2.472% (2011 est.)country comparison to the world: 28

Birth rate:
32.8 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)country comparison to the world: 38

Death rate:
8.08 deaths/1,000 population (July 2011 est.)country comparison to the world: 101

Net migration rate:
0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2011 est.)country comparison to the world: 75

Urbanization:
urban population: 22% of total population (2010)rate of urbanization: 5.2% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)

Major cities - population:
ASMARA (capital) 649,000 (2009)

Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.03 male(s)/femaleunder 15 years: 1.01 male(s)/female15-64 years: 0.96 male(s)/female65 years and over: 0.82 male(s)/femaletotal population: 0.98 male(s)/female (2011 est.)

Infant mortality rate:
total: 41.33 deaths/1,000 live birthscountry comparison to the world: 63 male: 46.77 deaths/1,000 live birthsfemale: 35.72 deaths/1,000 live births (2011 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 62.52 yearscountry comparison to the world: 180 male: 60.4 yearsfemale: 64.69 years (2011 est.)

Total fertility rate:
4.48 children born/woman (2011 est.)country comparison to the world: 34

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.8% (2009 est.)country comparison to the world: 57

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
25,000 (2009 est.)country comparison to the world: 73

HIV/AIDS - deaths:
1,700 (2009 est.)country comparison to the world: 55

Major infectious diseases:
degree of risk: highfood or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fevervectorborne disease: malaria (2009)

Nationality:
noun: Eritrean(s)adjective: Eritrean

Ethnic groups:
nine recognized ethnic groups: Tigrinya 55%, Tigre 30%, Saho 4%, Kunama 2%, Rashaida 2%, Bilen 2%, other (Afar, Beni Amir, Nera) 5% (2010 est.)

Religions:
Muslim, Coptic Christian, Roman Catholic, Protestant

Languages:
Tigrinya (official), Arabic (official), English (official), Tigre, Kunama, Afar, other Cushitic languages

Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and writetotal population: 58.6%male: 69.9%female: 47.6% (2003 est.)

School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
total: 5 yearsmale: 6 yearsfemale: 4 years (2009)

Education expenditures:
2% of GDP (2006)country comparison to the world: 168

Eritrea Geography

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Geography ::Eritrea

Location:
Eastern Africa, bordering the Red Sea, between Djibouti and Sudan

Geographic coordinates:
15 00 N, 39 00 E

Map references:
Africa

Area:
total: 117,600 sq km
country comparison to the world: 100
land: 101,000 sq km
water: 16,600 sq km

Area - comparative:
slightly larger than Pennsylvania

Land boundaries:
total: 1,626 km
border countries: Djibouti 109 km, Ethiopia 912 km, Sudan 605 km

Coastline:
2,234 km (mainland on Red Sea 1,151 km, islands in Red Sea 1,083 km)

Maritime claims:
territorial sea: 12 nm

Climate:
hot, dry desert strip along Red Sea coast; cooler and wetter in the central highlands (up to 61 cm of rainfall annually, heaviest June to September); semiarid in western hills and lowlands

Terrain:
dominated by extension of Ethiopian north-south trending highlands, descending on the east to a coastal desert plain, on the northwest to hilly terrain and on the southwest to flat-to-rolling plains

Elevation extremes:
lowest point: near Kulul within the Danakil Depression -75 m
highest point: Soira 3,018 m

Natural resources:
gold, potash, zinc, copper, salt, possibly oil and natural gas, fish

Land use:
arable land: 4.78%
permanent crops: 0.03%
other: 95.19% (2005)

Irrigated land:
210 sq km (2003)

Total renewable water resources:
6.3 cu km (2001)

Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural):
total: 0.3 cu km/yr (3%/0%/97%)
per capita: 68 cu m/yr (2000)

Natural hazards:
frequent droughts; locust swarms
volcanism: Dubbi (elev. 1,625 m, 5,331 ft), which last erupted in 1861, is the country's only historically active volcano

Environment - current issues:
deforestation; desertification; soil erosion; overgrazing; loss of infrastructure from civil warfare

Environment - international agreements:
party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Ozone Layer Protection
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements

Geography - note:
strategic geopolitical position along world's busiest shipping lanes; Eritrea retained the entire coastline of Ethiopia along the Red Sea upon de jure independence from Ethiopia on 24 May 1993

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