Word: afabet
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...Afabet. In the annals of the interminable civil war between Ethiopia and its . province of Eritrea, the name is a milestone. It was at that dusty town in northern Ethiopia that the Eritrean People's Liberation Front overran President Mengistu Haile Mariam's main northern garrison in March. The rebels claim to have killed or captured 18,000 soldiers in one of their greatest victories in 26 years of fighting. At about the same time, just south of Eritrea, insurgents in Tigre scored a series of military triumphs...
...most foreign-aid workers out of Eritrea and Tigre. Some food is still reaching the estimated 2 million to 3 million victims of northern Ethiopia's latest famine, but no one knows how many have died, casualties as much of politics as of malnutrition. Photographer Anthony Suau traveled through Afabet and the EPLF field bases, assembling an album of stark images that illustrate the everyday realities of a murderous...
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