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...helicopter ( gunships screeching over the capital and of tanks and armored personnel carriers converging on the ministry. Meanwhile, in Asmara, the northern provincial capital and Ethiopia's second largest city, Mengistu's Second Army, some 150,000 strong, was in mutiny. In sympathy with the rebellion, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front announced a two-week cease-fire in its 27- year-old war of secession...
...best equipped in Africa, but it has suffered what one Ethiopian officer called "disastrous, bloody chaos." Last March it was trounced by rebels from the Tigre People's Liberation Front, which has been fighting the government for twelve years. One year earlier, 19,000 government soldiers were routed by Eritrean forces...
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...
...second time in three years because of drought, Western food donations have once again begun pouring into the country. But much of this aid never reaches the hungry. Last week relief officials reported that 172 tons of food, given chiefly by Italy, were destroyed when rebels of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front attacked a 17-truck commercial convoy moving supplies to the stricken provinces of Eritrea and Tigre. The guerrillas say the vehicles were used to ferry ammunition to government troops, a charge adamantly denied by aid organizations and U.S. officials, who fear many people will die if relief...
...rebel sabotage brought the entire operation for Tigre and Eritrea to a halt for more than a month. Not only were the convoys under threat from Eritrean and Tigrean rebels, but even those agencies willing to risk assault could not move their trucks because the government closed the roads. "If many people die this year and next, it will not be due to drought but the politico- military situation," said one relief worker...