Massawa and its associated orebody, Sofia, were discovered by Randgold Resources, since merged with Barrick, which invested $96.2 million in a feasibility study.
So it was with a certain queasiness that I slipped into the passenger seat alongside the pilot and we lurched off on the rocky road to
Massawa. We passed by gorges gouged out of sheer rock face, gingerly skirting 250 metre-deep precipices on one side and a steady stream of oncoming traffic clogging the other side of the twisting roadway.
Additionally, fuel and provisions are often unavailable in
Massawa and other parts of Eritrea, and are often scarce in the capital city of Asmara.
Through StarBroker AG, DHL's in-house carrier, the first chartered flight from Dubai World Central bound for
Massawa International Airport of the East-African state of Eritrea was successfully given the necessary landing rights to complete a seamless and on-time delivery of cargo.
According to the website, the Yemeni fishermen arrived today Friday to the fishing port in Hudeida governorate but the other nine boats are still seized by Eritrean authorities in
Massawa port.
In our next port of call,
Massawa, we were met by a 75-year-old asthmatic steam engine, from the time Eritrea was an Italian colony and Mussolini made the trains run on time.
They are the Gounkoto mine in Mali (containing an estimated 2.65m oz), the Tongon mine in Cote d'Ivoire, the
Massawa mine in Senegal and the Kibali mine in DR Congo.
Emily
Massawa, from United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) gives presentation on the background of the Karakorum Trust Project.
55 of this book, Summerfield writes that Faitlovitch opened a clinic in Wolleka where drugs were distributed; a closer look at Faitlovitch's diary would have revealed that the twenty-four cases of medicine arrived in
Massawa in a state which rendered their distribution completely useless and that it proved impossible to open a clinic and to distribute drugs in Wolleka!
"It's such a pity the US is still very much unwilling to join the international community, to have a multi-lateral effort to deal with climate change," said Kenya's Emily Ojoo
Massawa, who is chairman of the African group of nations at thetwo-week-long conference.
Another is Eritrea, whose architecture reflects the various rulers of the country: the Ottoman empire, Egypt and Italy; this dome (left) is the former Governor's palace in
Massawa, commissioned by the Egyptian consul in 1872.
The harbour town of
Massawa, where Sato runs the Manzanar project, is also one of the driest places on earth, receiving an animal rainfall of less than 20 millimetres.