The Rashaida represent about 2 % of Eritrea's population.

The Saho represent 4 % of Eritrea's population.

According to the CIA, the Kunama constitute around 2 % of Eritrea's population.

The Amhara and Tigray ethnicities combined make up about 33 % of Ethiopia's population ( c. 24. 6 million Amhara, 5. 5 million Tigray ), while the Tigrinya and Tigre combined make up 85 % ( 55 % plus 30 % respectively ) of Eritrea's population ( c. 5 of 5. 9 million ).

Sibret perform music and dance from all nine of Eritrea's main ethnic groups ( Afar, Bilen, Hedareb, Saho, Kunama, Nara, Rashaida, Tigre and Tigrinya ), they feature regularly on Eritrean radio and television shows and perform as representatives of Eritrean culture around the world.

Having ruled for 18 years, Eritrea's first and only President has been described by critics as a dictator, and the neighboring countries of Ethiopia and Djibouti have accused Afewerki of " exporting chaos " by funding armed insurgent groups within their countries.

Planting of crops was prevented in Eritrea's most productive western region, causing food production to drop by 62 %.

The 10000 metres was Uganda's most successful event in the Athens Games, with Boniface Kiprop Toroitich setting a season best and finishing less than three seconds behind Eritrea's Zersenay Tadese in the battle for bronze.

Tigrinya ( along with Arabic ) was one of Eritrea's official languages during its short-lived federation with Ethiopia ; in 1958 it was replaced with Amharic prior to its annexation.

Eritrea's main languages are mainly Tigrinya and Tigre which are North Ethiopic languages while Amharic ( South Ethiopic ) is the main language spoken in Ethiopia ( along with Tigrinya in the northern province of Tigray ).

In 1988 the EPLF captured Afabet, headquarters of the Ethiopian Army in northeastern Eritrea, putting approximately a third of the Ethiopian Army out of action, prompting the Ethiopian Army to withdraw from its garrisons in Eritrea's western lowlands.

Immediately after Eritrea's independence from Ethiopia, relations were cordial despite the former colonial relationship.

* September 1 is celebrated as the beginning of Eritrea's 30 year armed struggle for independence from Ethiopia, which began in September 1961 and ended in May 1991.

The latter was one of the first electric guitar players in East Africa, and a singer and writer of the famous ' allegedly ' Eritrea's independence song " Shigey habuni " with love theme as coded message for political freedom (-whether the attribution of a lot of the songs of this period to the desire for political expression / freedom was true or if it was just the wild fancy of a repressed people who zealously wanting expression to their deep secret political desire, were only eagerly extracting secret political meanings from what has to be run-o-the-mill universal love songs / folk ballads and nothing else-is not certain ).

Despite other hot spots for war, Africa consistently remains among the top places for ongoing conflicts, consisting of both long standing civil wars ( e. g. Somalia ) and conflicts between countries ( e. g. Ethiopia and Eritrea's border wars after the latter's independence from the former ).

The Eritrean Liberation Front was the main independence movement in Eritrea which sought Eritrea's independence from Ethiopia during the 1960s and 1970s.

The leadership of this multi-ethnic movement came to be dominated by leftist, Christian dissidents who spoke Tigrinya, Eritrea's predominant language.

Upon Eritrea's independence in 1991, Tigrinya retained the status of working language in the country, the only state in the world to date to award Tigrinya recognition on a national level.

Eritrea's President Isaias visited Djibouti in early 2001 and President Ismail Omar Guelleh made a reciprocal visit to Asmara in the early summer of 2001.

The details of Eritrea's association with Ethiopia were established by the UN General Assembly resolution of September 15, 1952.

By 1967 the ELF had gained considerable support among peasants, particularly in Eritrea's north and west, and around the port city of Massawa.

EPLF fighters then moved into position around Keren, Eritrea's second-largest city.

The EPLF attended the July conference as an observer and held talks with the new transitional government regarding Eritrea's relationship to Ethiopia.

The result of the referendum was 99. 83 % for Eritrea's independence.

Furthermore, Eritrea's diplomatic relations with Djibouti were briefly severed during the border war with Ethiopia in 1998 due to a dispute over Djibouti's intimate relation with Ethiopia during the war but were restored and normalized in 2000.

A coastal plain, western lowlands, and some 350 islands comprise the remainder of Eritrea's land mass.

Most of Eritrea's coast is part of the Ethiopian xeric grasslands and shrublands semi-desert ecoregion.

The demographics of Eritrea describes the condition and overview of Eritrea's inhabitants.

Graphical depiction of Eritrea's product exports in 28 color coded categories.

Eritrea's relationship with the United States is complicated.

Eritrea's relationship with Italy and the EU has become equally strained in many areas in the last three years.

Eritrea's foreign relations with Ethiopia are adversarial.

Since independence Eritrea's relationship with Ethiopia was entirely political, especially in the resuscitation and expansion of IGAD's scope.

The federation was ended with an April 1993 plebiscite which approved Eritrea's full independence.

Only ethnic dominance, the case where the largest ethnic group comprises a majority of the population, increased the risk of civil war.

With over 1. 6 million people, the state comprises less than 8 % of the Australian population and ranks fifth in population among the states and territories.

There are also Indian Tamils who form distinct ethnic group which comprises 5. 1 % of the population.

Zambia's population comprises more than 70 Bantu-speaking ethnic groups.

During the late Roman Empire, several Roman provinces covered the territory that comprises present-day Bulgaria: Scythia ( Scythia Minor ), Moesia ( Upper and Lower ), Thrace, Macedonia ( First and Second ), Dacia ( Coastal and Inner, both south of Danube ), Dardania, Rhodope ( Roman province ) and Haemismontus, and had a mixed population of Byzantine Greeks, Thracians and Dacians, most of whom spoke either Greek or variants of Vulgar Latin.

The region comprises, and its population is about 4. 1 million.

The Chinese American community comprises the largest ethnic group of Asian Americans, comprising 25. 9 % of the Asian American population as of 2010.

Formentera comprises one municipality, also called Formentera, and has a population of 9, 962 ( as at 1 January 2010 ).

The university student population of 11, 800 comprises a third of the resident population of Cookeville.

Indeed, its name derives from the Bengali ethno-linguistic group, which comprises 98 % of the population.

The municipality of Ejea de los Caballeros comprises nine different centres of population:

The loss of Messenia is particularly damaging to the Spartans, since the territory comprises one-third of Sparta's territory and contains half of their helot population.

Genesee County largely comprises the entirety of Flint's metropolitan area, the fourth largest metropolitan area in Michigan with a population of 425, 790 in 2010.

The county's population is about 60 % urban and it comprises part of the Florence Metropolitan Statistical Area ( along with Darlington County ).

The Lumbee Indian Tribe of North Carolina comprises more than one-half the state of North Carolina's indigenous population of 101, 000.

The Colorado Springs Metropolitan Statistical Area which comprises El Paso County and Teller County, had an estimated population of 660, 319 in 2011.

The Piraeus Urban Area, part of the greater Athens Urban Area, comprises the city proper ( municipality of Piraeus ) and six other suburban municipalities, having a total population of 466, 065 people ( in 2001 ).

The bat population of the Park comprises at least seven species that depend on day roosting sites within caves and crevices of Uluru and Kata Tjuta.

The Auburn-Opelika, AL MSA with a population of 140, 247, along with the Columbus, GA-AL MSA and Tuskegee, Alabama, comprises the greater Columbus-Auburn-Opelika, GA-AL CSA, a region home to 456, 564 residents.

The Auburn-Opelika, AL MSA with a population of 135, 833 which, along with the Columbus, Georgia metropolitan area and Macon County, Alabama, comprises the greater Greater Columbus, Georgia, a region home to approximately 500, 000 residents.

The smaller section comprises only 3. 8 percent of the Hopi Reservation's land area and 13. 2 percent ( 916 persons ) of its population.

Southport, which comprises just over one-third of the city's land area, originally consisted of rural homesteads and small neighborhoods in Arlington Oaks and Linden, but now has a considerable population that resulted from housing booms in the early 1990s and the early 2000s, adding new neighborhoods in Bridgeway, Gateway, River Ranch, and Newport.