Eritrean capital added to UNESCO World Heritage list

[Kaleel]

Asmara: a Modernist City of Africa (Eritrea)

Located at over 2000 metres above sea level, the capital of Eritrea developed from the 1890’s onwards as a military outpost for the Italian colonial power. After 1935, Asmara underwent a large scale programme of construction applying the Italian rationalist idiom of the time to governmental edifices, residential and commercial buildings, churches, mosques, synagogues, cinemas, hotels, etc. The property encompasses the area of the city that resulted from various phases of planning between 1893 and 1941, as well as the indigenous unplanned neighbourhoods of Arbate Asmera and Abbashawel. It is an exceptional example of early modernist urbanism at the beginning of the 20th century and its application in an African context.

http://en.unesco.org/news/three-sit...dded-unesco-s-world-heritage-list?language=en

 

[Kaleel]

WARSAW, POLAND

The Associated Press

Eritrean officials on Saturday claimed "victory" after the U.N. cultural agency unanimously decided to put the African nation's capital city of Asmara on the UNESCO World Heritage list — the result of years of lobbying by one of the world's most reclusive governments.

The decision during a session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Poland appreciated the outstanding values of Asmara's 19th and early 20th century modernist architecture, designed by colonial-era Italian architects and immersed in an African highland environment.

Eritrea's ambassador to France and permanent representative to UNESCO, Hanna Simon, called the decision the result of "years of research, planning and campaigning" and a "victory not just for the Eritrean people but for Africa and the world at large."

Simon stressed that the builders were Eritrean and that "despite the colonial imprint" Asmara belongs to the Eritrean identity and to its "struggle for self-determination, thus being a symbol of pride and achievement for the Eritrean people."

Eritrea fought a three-decade war for independence from Ethiopia and since 1991 has become one of the world's most closed-off nations.

Its government has faced widespread criticism over what a U.N. commission of inquiry last year said are numerous abuses including enslavement, rape and torture. President Isaias Afwerki, in power since 1991, is described by rights groups as increasingly repressive in the Horn of Africa country of about 6 million.

Eritrea has been a major source of migration toward Europe.

 

[Apollo]

Eritrea is a human rights violator.

 

[Kaleel]

Eritrea is a human rights violator.

Are you sure?

 

[Apollo]

Are you sure?

You live under a rock? They are the second largest group fleeing after Syrians.

 

[Kaleel]

You live under a rock? They are the second largest group fleeing after Syrians.

Ok I understand that, it says it in the article but what does that have to do with UNESCO recognition?

 

[Apollo]

Ok I understand that, it says it in the article but what does that have to do with UNESCO recognition?

Just wanted to smear Eritrea.

 

[Striker]

 

[Kaleel]

Just wanted to smear Eritrea.

 

[Apollo]

..

Yeah but we got our Freedom™

 

[SomaliWadaniSoldier]

May Allah curse USC. Fucking dogs. Why couldnt they not fight outside the city?

USC is most hated group. The regime handed over to usc dogs the whole capital city on silver plate.
They could become succesorstate to the blessed regime but decided to destroy the ancient city.

 

[Jeesto]

Unesco better add Berbera, Zeylac Jabuuti, Muqdisho, Merka and Baraawe to the World Heritage sites ASAP

 

[Arma]

Why do hundreds of thousands of people flee from the country? There's no war or any tribalism.

 

[Rooble]

Almost all the colonial heritage has been destroyed in Somalia lmfao no wonder Somalis are most hated

 

[embarassing]

Unesco better add Berbera, Zeylac Jabuuti, Muqdisho, Merka and Baraawe to the World Heritage sites ASAP

Yeah Asmara is beautiful good for them. I hope they add Somali cities as well.

 

[DeathWish]

What an embarrassment! These people are taking pride in their colonization.

 

[Kaleel]

Eritrea's 'city of dreams' given UNESCO heritage listing

The proclamation ends a long-running quest by Eritrean authorities to have the city's unique architecture, which includes an art-deco bowling alley with coloured glass windows and a petrol station built to resemble a soaring aeroplane, recognised by the UN cultural body, UNESCO.

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2017/07/08/eritreas-city-dreams-given-unesco-heritage-listing

 

[Adheer Warsame]

We don't even have one

Eritrea already has one, Kenya has a couple and Ethiopia has 18

 

[El padrone]

We don't even have one

Eritrea already has one, Kenya has a couple and Ethiopia has 18

Blame qabyaalad!

 

[ሕጊ።።]

We don't even have one

Eritrea already has one, Kenya has a couple and Ethiopia has 18

18? Only 9 lol