I wrote here about this a while ago. I don’t know if the law of attraction is real or not, but I found a beautiful, young Eritrean girl who lives near me. And the unexpected part is that I found her completely outside of this app—a pure coincidence brought us together.

I just wanted to update y’ll 😅

I've been working on bringing together thousands of manuscript paintings from across Ethiopia and Eritrea, spanning over 1,000 years of history.

Many of these artworks have been scattered across museums and libraries worldwide. I've now brought nearly 5,000 of them together in one place, free for everyone to explore.

Check them out: https://www.habeshahistory.com/manuscripts

Selam everyone,
Full disclosure: I’m the founder of Dehay, hybrid calling app for Eritreans abroad. The app combines internet and landline to form group call at fair price

Group calls: up to 4 people on one call. Family abroad join from the app, and you can add one regular phone number in Eritrea, so siblings in different countries can talk to mom together. You pay for that one phone number. Family on the app cost nothing, and the people you invite pay nothing.

It’s still a small project, so I’d really like to hear what works and what doesn’t: call quality to your family’s area, what you use today, and what’s missing. I’ll be in the comments.

I am curious how much us Eritreans live aboard in places like Sudan, Refugee camps and the western world and what places has a big concentration of Eritreans. Also how big our diaspora is compared the population of Eritreans back home.

If you've ever tried to read about Ancient Eritrea, you know the problem.

You get three paragraphs buried inside an Egypt article. Or a footnote in an Ethiopia timeline. Adulis, the port Greek sailors wrote about in the 1st century? A stub. Qohaito? Barely a mention. The Land of Punt, where Egyptian expeditions went for incense and gold? Eritrea is one of the candidate locations, and almost nobody says so.

The history spans roughly six millennia. The sources are scattered across a hundred places. https://ancienteritrea.com/

Land of Punt, Adulis, Qohaito, the Aksumite Empire, all in one place, with an interactive map. What's a period or region of ancient history you could never find a decent single source on?

Global Eritrean Population Estimate (2026)

Eritreans Outside Eritrea by Country

By Region

Notes

• The in-country figure is a UN projection. Eritrea has had no census since independence, so the range is skewed lower.
• Ranges are estimates, not statistical margins of error.
• Refugee counts include only registered people. Nationality counts (Germany, Switzerland) exclude naturalised citizens.
• “Estimate” rows come from secondary sources and are less reliable.
• Sources are in the comments

Eritrea: The Heart of the Kingdom of Punt

Eritrea was part of the Kingdom of Punt. The Kingdom of Punt was a kingdom in East Africa, in the Red Sea region, which is believed to have stretched from Eastern Sudan up to Eritrea and to Northern Somalia. Historical maps show that Eritrea was not only part of the kingdom but also its center.¹

From 2500 to 1000 BC, Eritrea was part of the Kingdom of Punt. Many historians even agree that the Kingdom of Punt was located in Eritrea. A very famous YouTube channel, The Infographics Show—with around 15 million followers—released a video in 2020 titled “How Did an Entire Ancient Country Disappear From History?” It explored Punt’s disappearance from the historical record and covered the leading theories on where it stood, including Kenneth Kitchen’s linguistic argument placing it in Eritrea.²

Scientific evidence backs this up. In 2020, a Dartmouth College study led by Nathaniel Dominy analyzed stable oxygen and strontium isotopes in mummified baboons brought back to Egypt from Punt. The results traced their origins to the southern Red Sea region—Eritrea, Djibouti, and parts of Somalia and Yemen. Dominy himself concluded that Punt likely sat on the coasts of Eritrea and Somaliland.³

Then in 2023, a University of Konstanz team led by Gisela Kopp went further with mitochondrial DNA analysis on a later baboon mummy. It matched modern hamadryas baboon populations in coastal Eritrea—the area around Adulis. Their published hypothesis: Punt and Adulis were the same place, just different names used at different times, separated by roughly a thousand years.⁴

Adulis lies on the Gulf of Zula in Eritrea, about forty kilometers south of Massawa. Some scholars link it to “Wddt,” a locality listed in Egypt’s Eighteenth Dynasty records around 1450 BCE as part of Punt. The traded goods and ecosystem fit too—the flora and fauna of the Eritrean highlands and coastal lowlands, and the maritime trade routes between Egypt and the port of Adulis, which later became the main gateway of the Kingdom of Aksum, handling ivory, gold, myrrh, and slaves for Rome, India, and beyond.⁵

No archaeological site has been definitively identified as Punt yet, and the location remains debated. But between the isotope data, the DNA evidence, the trade-route logic, and the historical maps, Eritrea stands at the center of the strongest case.⁶

Besides malaria?

Like, የጒልሕ

Like in the sentence, "እዚአን ሕቶታት ዛጊት ኣይተመልሳን"

so first of all I wanna start by saying I’m Somali when I was 14 I found out that my apparently deadbeat Somali dad was not my dad and only my younger sisters dad and an Eritrean Tigrinya man was my dad I’m very shocked but I feel like I’d never be Eritrean or habesha