Word: eritrean
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...especially high. So far, the tumult has brought them nothing but misery. Food deliveries to Ethiopia's 7 million drought victims have been disrupted, and in some cases stopped, by the fighting. Supply trucks were attacked and looted, and international relief workers fled. The fall of coastal Assab to Eritrean fighters two weeks ago temporarily closed the city's port on the Red Sea, one of the most important conduits...
...Ababa has assured aid workers that they will be protected. The front also is making efforts to assert control over outlying areas where the government's collapse left citizens without a reliable supply line, for instance in the city of Dire Dawa, in the east. For their part, the Eritrean fighters who have assumed administration of Eritrea province, which includes all the country's ports, promise to allow food to flow freely through their territory...
...Democratic Front's saunter into Addis Ababa was not really part of anyone's plan, including the rebels'. Early last week the organization -- along with guerrilla groups representing Eritrean and Oromo rebels -- met with officials of the teetering central government for U.S.-brokered peace talks in London. The negotiations were made urgent by rebel pushes that put the Democratic Front just outside the capital and the Eritreans in command of all of Eritrea province. These advances prompted Mengistu to flee to Zimbabwe two weeks ago. After just a day, the parties were on the verge of agreeing to a cease...
...EPLF doesn't want to proscribe a destiny for the Eritrean peoples," Tesfai said. "The EPLF is prepared to abide by the decision of the Eritrean people...
Wearing traditional garb called zuria, participants waved small EPLF and Eritrean flags and sang and danced around the statue in the center of the Common...