Battered by tempests, attacked by pirates and finally forced aground on the Eritrean coast, in a desperate search for water and food for his rapidly-dying crew.

For this reason Israel allied itself with the Ethiopian government to take advantage of the long Eritrean coast which stretches over 1080 kilometres.

Aircraft of this size would need to use the Massawa International Airport, on the Eritrean coast.

THE Manzanar Project has planted more than 600,000 mangrove trees along the Eritrean coast.

Originally, its natural range probably extended across North Africa and down to the present Sudanese and Eritrean coasts.

Some authorities believe that small populations may have survived along the Sudanese and Eritrean coasts until the mid-19th century, but if so, these are now certainly extinct.

As a boy, Frumentius had been shipwrecked with his brother Aedesius on the Eritrean coast.

Somali merchants also operated trade factories on the Eritrean coast.

Without knowing the precise date, Mr. Said said they arrived on the Eritrean coast in the latter part of the Turkish occupation, from 1527 to 1865.

In August 2011, three separate incidents of piracy were reported off the Eritrean coast near the port of Assab.