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Worst hit was the far northern province of Eritrea along the Red Sea, where the crop failure exceeded 80%. More than 40% of the harvest was lost in Tigre, 44% in Wollo and 35% in Harar, the Ogaden desert region that juts into Somalia. Altogether, nine of Ethiopia's 14 provinces are suffering food shortages...
Through the parched Eritrean highlands in northern Ethiopia, 25 trucks rumbled along a rough, winding road. Their cargo: 674 metric tons of food, enough to feed 30,000 people for a month, destined for drought victims in the provinces of Eritrea and Tigre...
...famine took hundreds of thousands of lives and left 4.5 million Ethiopians on the edge of starvation; most are now receiving food aid, thanks largely to Western relief programs. While rains finally broke the drought last summer, much of the population remains undernourished. In the parched northern provinces of Eritrea and Tigre, a simmering civil war is making already harsh conditions even worse. The government's conflict with rebels in those regions has driven out relief workers and blocked food shipments. World Vision, a California-based agency, was feeding 370,000 people in Tigre province last May when threats...
...largest and best-equipped in black Africa. Yet all that might has not blunted the will of the Eritrean rebels. The bloody, seesaw war, largely forgotten in the West and even in Africa, has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. TIME Reporter Edward W. Desmond recently traveled to Eritrea and filed this report...
...State Department official: "(Such) support establishes precedents that could prove explosive all around the continent." Rebel leaders, however, have long insisted that the U.S. and the West have a responsibility to back Eritrean independence. They point out that in 1962 Haile Selassie asserted Addis Ababa's control over Eritrea in violation of a 1950 U.N. resolution that called for Eritrean political autonomy. "We base our case on that U.N. resolution," says Sebhat. "And we want the Americans and the West to act according to their promises at the U.N." The prospect remains unlikely. But the rebels believe more strongly than...