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Those tactics appear to be part of a government strategy to force an end to Africa's longest-running war. For 23 years, Eritrean guerrillas have been battling governments in Addis Ababa. The prize is control of their 45,400-sq.- mi. homeland, a former Italian colony absorbed by Ethiopia in 1962 during the rule of the late Emperor Haile Selassie. In the mid-1970s, the insurgents were joined in the struggle by Tigrean guerrillas demanding greater autonomy for their 25,400-sq.-mi. province. The insurgencies have intensified in the years since the 1974 coup against Haile Selassie that...
...reports of the airlift brought an angry response from Ethiopia's Marxist regime. In Addis Ababa, the Foreign Ministry called the operation "illegal," "sinister" and "a gross interference in Ethiopia's internal affairs." The statement charged Sudan with accepting financial inducements to help the Israelis. Sudan denied the allegations, calling them "part of a malicious plot against Arab solidarity." Neither Sudan nor Ethiopia has diplomatic relations with Israel. The cost of the airlift, code named Operation Moses, could exceed $100 million. It is financed largely by American Jewish organizations and individuals. To Israel, the program has a particularly deep meaning...
...charges were "just absurd," he said. "Frankly, I think this is the classic example of biting the hand that feeds you." U.S. officials note that Ethiopia's Marxist government had spent more than $100 million on its tenth anniversary celebration last September. Said a Western diplomat in Addis Ababa: "Once they got the anniversary out of the way, they could turn their attention to the drought...
Amid the squalor of Ethiopia's rapidly rilling refugee camps, little help appeared to be in sight last week. As of Thursday, the country had only 8,000 metric tons of grain left, and storehouses in Addis Ababa, Kembolcha and Nazaret were virtually empty. Said Taffari Wossen, chief spokesman for Ethiopia's Relief and Rehabilitation Committee: "We are getting more sympathy than assistance. In terms of actual need, we are still very far from our targets." Warned a Western relief official: "The cupboard is bare...
...hand in their almost nine-year struggle with the Marxist guerrillas of the Polisario Front for control of the 103,000-sq.-mi. Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony. Last week, however, Morocco suffered a major diplomatic defeat. During a four-day summit in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, a majority of the 50 states in the Organization of African Unity agreed for the first time to seat the Polisario Front as a full member. An angry Hassan responded by pulling his country out of the O.A.U., becoming the first member to do so in the organization...