Postwar Depression and British Dismantling of Infrastructure
In the year 1945
La Teleferica: The Asmara-Massawa cableway; dismantled and sold for scraps
After WWII was over, economic depression set in. The British dismantled and salvaged many Eritrean factories and transportation infrastructure. Lawlessness and anti-Italian banditry (shiftanet) became rampant.