Since 1996, both nations have maintained ties in areas like medical training and collaboration.

As a result, in 2004 Cuban professors founded the Orotta School of Medicine in Asmara, the capital of Eritrea.

The African nation is located in the northeast of the continent, bordering north and west with Sudan, south with Ethiopia and Djibouti, and east with an extensive coastline.

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