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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...
...that the Ethiopian dictator is gone, the EPLF will hold a nationwide referendum to determine how Eritrea will be governed, according to Tesfay Aradom, EPLF spokesperson and member of the Association of Eritrean Workers in Boston...
...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...