Word: eritrean
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...disparity between the West's largesse and the continuing food shortages is the result both of the long delivery time of grain shipped by sea and of Ethiopia's political divisions. The Eritrean Relief Association, an organization associated with separatist rebels in the country's northern province, has reportedly accused Ethiopia's Communist government of interfering with efforts to supply food to the region. In Tigre province, another rebel faction has been accused of preventing hungry people from going to government relief centers in the south...
...intensely about his own experiences, which were dramatic and perilous. Caputo, 42, served with the U.S. Marine Corps in Viet Nam during the mid-'60s. He returned ten years later to cover the fall of Saigon for the Chicago Tribune. As a journalist, he also rode camels with Eritrean rebels in Ethiopia and was shot in both feet by Muslim militiamen in Beirut...
Belai Tewolde, a member of the Association of Eritrean Students, also discussed neo-colonialism and Pan-Africanism in the Eritrean struggle with Ethiopia
Although he credited the Ethiopian Dergue (revolutionary government) with considerable military success in Eritrea, Moose said the Eritrean liberation groups still have control over much of the countryside...
Cuban President Fidel Castro, too, has been badly embarrassed by the increasingly direct role his forces have been playing in the battle against the independence fighters that Cuba helped to train. Not so long ago, Castro proclaimed that the Eritrean struggle was a ''legitimate national liberation war" that Cuba would support to the bitter...