Fenkel is a festival celebrating the liberation of Massawa. This year was the 15th year since the liberation and promised to be a big 3 day party.

President Isaias Afwerki delivered a speech to mark the opening of the festival, you may ready the English translation courtesy of shabait.com.

We also took other photos of Massawa not related to Fenkel, these can be found in the Massawa photo gallery.

Use the arrows to scroll to the left and right, click on the small photos below to see a larger version.

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