Eritrea is located in northeast Africa on the Red Sea coast and boasts one of the oldest human settlements in the region.
But it is also home to one of the earliest armed liberation mov.
Eritrea was also pioneer in multi-party democracy in Africa and had a democratic constitution based on United Nations principles in 1952.
One-million-year-old human remains have been found in the Danakil Depression in the country, which is home to one of the oldest-written scripts in sub-Saharan Africa: Ge\'ez.
Eritrea is located in northeast Africa on the Red Sea coast and boasts one of the oldest human settlements in the region