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From: Berhane Habtemariam (Berhane.Habtemariam@gmx.de)
Date: Mon Aug 09 2010 - 13:48:55 EDT
Eritrea Festival 2010 Concludes In Colorful Manner
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a, 8 August 2010 - The Eritrea National Festival 2010 which has been
underway in lively spirit since July 31 at the Expo grounds concluded today
where winners in various activities staged during the event received prizes.
Speaking at the occasion, the Minister of Education and Chairman of the
Holidays Coordinating Committee, Mr. Semere Russom said that the festival
week has made it clear that the unity, values, sovereignty and patriotism of
the Eritrean people continues to rise by the day. "Eritrea is a country that
marches forward though culture, technology, information, justice, values,
faith, love, history and the prospect of the future. Hence, all its
adversaries should take note and realize that it is impossible to defeat a
country like Eritrea," he added.
The prize awarding ceremony began following the presentation of reports from
committees of different competitions. Accordingly, winners in innovation
and creativity, information technology, traditional sports, couple's
competition, speech, artistic work, films and the like received their awards
from the Minister of Defense, Gen. Sebhat Ephrem at individual and regional
level.
Southern Region won first prize for traditional sports, while the Anseba
region stood first in artistic exhibition, education pavilion and cultural
music. Moreover, on regional pavilion presentation Gash-Barka took the first
prize, Southern and Northern Red Sea
<http://www.eastafro.com/Post/2010/08/08/video-festival-eritrea-2010-raimoq-
award-winners> regions won in oral tradition and poetry, while the Northern
Red Sea
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award-winners> region claimed victory for presentation of traditional houses
and life style. Aside from this, Southern Red Sea region was awarded a
special prize for efforts in decorating exhibition and presentation halls.
Moreover, 14 best songs were awarded monetary prizes from the 186 songs
produced during the year. As result 'Hiji Hiray' a song by Tesfai Mahri
(Fihira), 'Gu'e Leminey by Yohannes Tikabo and 'Eritria Simbeli' by
Mohammad Sha'ebi were awarded from first to third respectively.
In the course of the festival week, various entertainment programs such as
regional pavilion, education activities, innovation, creativity and
competitions in which regions, institutions, companies, ministries, members
of defense force, national organizations took part were staged.
Over half a million nationals and foreigners have visited the 10 day
national festival, reports disclosed.
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