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Sembel Residential Complex Asmara The city is developing in a dramatic pace, especially in the housing sector. Sembel Residential Complex is one of Africa's biggest housing complexes, which houses about 1250 families. Sembel Residential Complex was built in 1996 by Keangnam Enterprises, Korea's first contractor. It is therefore also known as Corea. The complex is situated in the South-west of Asmara. There are shops, a hospital, a kindergarten, an elementary school, a gymnasium, playgrounds, sport facilities (tennis court, football & basketball) a round theater, offices and little squares to meet & rest. Sembel Residential Complex Polyclinic and Social Center Gymnasium, elementary school, kindergarten and festival facilities Sembel Residential Complex Shopping Center, Social Center and Hospital. ---------- #life

Eritrea sells luxury houses to earn hard currency It may look like a truck park by Asmara's Halibet Hospital on the edge of town, but the Eritrean Government, keen to tap the hard currency held by the large overseas Eritrean community, has other plans. The poor Red Sea state plans 766 "new residential-style" two and three-bedroom apartments there, with shopping centres and sports facilities, the project's website halibet.com says. The prices, between US$97,000 and US$139,000, are low by London and New York standards, but out of reach for most Eritreans whose average income is just US$130 per year. Glossy brochures are available in Eritrean embassies abroad and payment can be made in US dollars, euros and British pounds but not in nakfa, the national currency. The government has hard currency reserves equal to only one month of imports, according to the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), and must find innovative ways of earning crucial cash. "This econ...