Assab

Sir Henry and I went ashore, taking with us a guard of 100 men, shot and pikes, to prevent treachery, lest the Turks might have planned any trick through his means, under cover of courtesy, and we were loth to let him go back without an interview, lest we might lose his friendship, and the refreshments we procured at the port of Assab, which is in his dominions.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784

With the closure of the Assab refinery in 1997, Ethiopia is totally reliant on imports to meet its petroleum requirements.

Energy profile of Ethiopia 2008

Fissured and jointed volcanic aquifers, which are found in the central highland plateau southeast of Asmara and west of Assab, the Alid hot spring and in the southern part of the country

Water profile of Eritrea 2008

A large shipment of food destined for Ethiopia disappeared from Assab at that time, in circumstances that are still in dispute.

Hunger In The Horn 2008

The most efficient way to get emergency food to Ethiopian hunger zones is via the port of Assab in Eritrea, which once handled 75 percent of Ethiopia's imports.

Hunger In The Horn 2008

Assab, from the temporary security zone along the border, where it had been monitoring the 2000 ceasefire agreement between Eritrea and

ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki has vowed to allow all necessary food aid for Ethiopia to pass through Assab: "This is not politics to us," he told NEWSWEEK in a recent interview.

Hunger In The Horn 2008

Ethiopia and Eritrea, joint operators of the facility, decided to close the Assab refinery in August 1997 and import refined petroleum products to meet domestic needs.

Energy profile of Eritrea 2007

Eritrea has crude refining capacity of 18,000 barrels per day (bbl/d), but the refinery located in the Red Sea port of Assab has been shut down since 1997 due to the high operating and maintenance costs.

Energy profile of Eritrea 2007

Regionally, the U.S. pretexts used by Addis Ababa to justify its invasion could thinly veil the land locked Ethiopia's historical and strategic aspiration for an outlet on the Red Sea by using the Somali land as the only available approach to its goal after the independence of Eritrea deprived it of the sea port of Assab.

Somalia: New Hotbed of Anti-Americanism 2007