Ethiopia and Eritrea

The present flag of Eritrea was adopted on December 5, 1995, and uses the fundamental layout of the flag of the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front, with the wreath with upright olive branch symbol derived from the 1952 flag.
The flag is dominated by a red triangle extending from the hoist to the fly with complementary green [...]

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The colours of African unity - red, green, yellow - are seen on one of the oldest African flags.
These colours were used for the national flag of Ethiopia in 1897; a year after Ethiopia determinedly defended itself from colonial Italy at the Battle of Adwa.
The flag’s tri-colour scheme was there since the early 19th c. [...]

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