Word: eritrea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After joining the CIA in 1975, he thrived on Third World crises. He loathed neckties and wore cowboy boots and sometimes a ten-gallon hat. But he was no cowboy on the job. Joseph O'Neill, who served with Woodruff in Africa and is now charge d'affaires in Eritrea, considered him a rock-steady operative who "knew exactly what he was getting into. When things were going bad," he recalls, "you'd count on Freddie to be quiet, thoughtful, and then go out and stick his head in the lion's mouth...
More than 98% of voters in Eritrea elected to secede from Ethiopia, bringing to a peaceful close one of Africa's longest and bloodiest wars of independence. But economic development will not come so easily. Eritrea's government needs in excess of $2 billion to begin rebuilding the nation's shattered infrastructure, and any future prosperity may hinge on amicable ties with Eritrea's former rulers in Addis Ababa. Since the breakaway province now controls Ethiopia's only access to the Red Sea, it is a relationship neither side can afford to neglect...
...Marine compound after U.N. headquarters was surrounded by a raucous mob that hurled rocks and garbage. When Boutros-Ghali traveled on to Addis Ababa for the opening of peace talks among Somali faction leaders, Ethiopian demonstrators gathered to protest alleged U.N. support for the secession of the province of Eritrea...
...that Suau, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for his photos of mass starvation in Ethiopia, is unaccustomed to danger. He has covered the wars in Eritrea and Afghanistan and was part of a group of journalists detained and then released by the Iraqi military in the aftermath of the Gulf War. In addition, he was among the first journalists to enter Romania after dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's fall and execution. His first book, a joint project with TIME senior writer Lance Morrow, to be published later this year, is eyewitness to the democratic upheavals in the Philippines, South...
...journalist. Getting to the story, more often than not, is the real challenge." Michaels, one of four Africa-based TIME correspondents to contribute to this week's cover story, has met that challenge in many ways. Perhaps the most dramatic was her visit last year to Eritrea, which had just won a 30-year war of independence from Ethiopia and had promptly shut down the airport and all other means of communication with the outside world. Michaels flew to neighboring Djibouti, chartered an Arab dhow to the Red Sea port of Mesewa and hitched a ride for the final...