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Fenkil Day Commemorations in Massawa
Massawa's February anniversary of Operation Fenkil, the 1990 military campaign that liberated the Red Sea port from Ethiopian control and cut a key supply line in the final phase of Eritrea's independence war. Expect official ceremony and public commemoration set against the city's still-scarred, historically layered old town.
Fenkil Day commemorates Operation Fenkil, the February 1990 military campaign in which Eritrean People's Liberation Front forces retook the Red Sea port of Massawa from Ethiopian government control, a turning point widely credited with cutting off Ethiopian forces from their main coastal supply line in the final phase of the independence war.