Word: eritrea
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...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...
...from 35 different parties. Last July it adopted a charter ensuring each ethnic nationality the right to self- determination. Step One -- 12 regional elections to be held by the end of the year -- will pave the way for local autonomy or even secession. Already, the Red Sea province of Eritrea has set up its own provisional government and will hold a United Nations-sponsored referendum on independence in two years...
...course, Eritrea's new relationship with Addis Ababa and the rest of the world may need some time to mature. Despite the tensions between their two camps, Issaias still speaks by phone every day to his old friend Meles Zenawi, leader of the rebel group that took control of Addis Ababa and now head of Ethiopia's provisional government. If a new multiparty transitional government -- which was agreed upon last week -- approves, ties between Eritrea and the rest of the country will be defined under an accord that calls for a mutual defense agreement and joint consultative committees on issues...
After three decades of civil war, Ethiopians are not eager to take up arms again, but many consider it an option for the future. "We don't need more war just now, but perhaps in five years we will go get Eritrea back," says a woman in Addis Ababa who has already lost one son in the civil war. That ordinary people are talking about sending their children off to war so soon after the killing has stopped is a measure of how precarious the situation remains...