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Many of the 10,000 current residents moved into their first concrete buildings just this year. Helping replace the city's tin huts are young people doing their national service. Every Eritrean male is required to spend six months in the army and 12 more working on rehabilitation projects. Up here, some are also planting trees to revive the blighted landscape. "I like doing it," says 24-year-old Daniel. "I teach people how to do things, and that is a way to develop our country fast...
...Peter's Lutheran, a 35-member white congregation is overshadowed by a planted 150-member Vietnamese Lutheran congregation led by a Vietnamese pastor. Mount Olive Lutheran Church has a white Lutheran service at 10:30 a.m., an African-American Baptist congregation at 12:15 p.m. and an Eritrean Coptic Orthodox congregation at 2 p.m. And Kingshighway Baptist, besides its white and Latino congregations, is host to a special church for street people and unaffiliated youth that meets Thursday nights...
...independence from Ethiopia and had promptly shut down the airport and all other means of communication with the outside world. Michaels flew to neighboring Djibouti, chartered an Arab dhow to the Red Sea port of Mesewa and hitched a ride for the final 71 miles to the Eritrean capital, Asmara...
Although the E.P.L.F. has promised to allow the rest of Ethiopia free access to the Eritrean port of Assab, which normally handles 70% of Ethiopia's trade, about the only thing now moving through it is food. A Shell Oil installation, which is under the front's control, is sending only 10% of the usual fuel supply to the rest of Ethiopia. Says a Western businessman at the port: "There is the definite feeling of a squeeze play here." Wary of the Eritreans, Ethiopian producers of coffee, the country's biggest export, are not sending their goods to Assab...
...danger is that one side or the other will renege on the delicate understanding that has been reached. The Eritreans could simply declare independence without a plebiscite. Issaias says he has received many petitions from his people to do so. "We are free and we are independent," says Tekie Beyene, acting head of the Eritrean Relief Association. "We don't need a referendum to tell us that...