Almost everyone in town was under 34 years old, and could not possibly have known us. Even the predominant language had changed from Arabic to Tigrinnya.  But the two-room addition to the school which we built was still standing, albeit used only as a storeroom for the much bigger new school.

On May 28,2008 - Nepal has become a Federal Democratic Republic after the Constituent Assembly overwhelmingly voted for the abolition of the country’s 240-year-old monarchy and unitary system.  This is an outcome of a prolonged struggle and intensive discourse on the country's political crisis that made the Nepalese people resolve to federalism as a system of governance and a mechanism for managing conflict in a peaceful manner. Using this opportunity, arkokabay.com is delighted to publish two articles from Nepal (news + history) to ensure this fruitful experience of the Nepalese people is shared by the peoples of Eritrea and the Horn of Africa.

"The Tigrinyan-speaking Muslims, or the Jeberti, as rightly described in this monograph, are the outcome, the synthesis of two great cultural evolutions: the Axumite and the splendid Islamic civilizations"  Martyr Dr. Yassin M. Aberra

Part of the treacherous plan and mendacious attitude of the ´Ethiopian´ ´diplomats´ has been to highly portray themselves as Christians, particularly when among Western Christian nations. They try to extract any possible political benefit by highlighting their supposedly Christian historical identity. They even attempt to claim a historical continuity since the days of the Axumite kingdom of Abyssinia, something that cannot be historically proved.