Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Suau, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for his photos of mass starvation in Ethiopia, is unaccustomed to danger. He has covered the wars in Eritrea and Afghanistan and was part of a group of journalists detained and then released by the Iraqi military in the aftermath of the Gulf War. In addition, he was among the first journalists to enter Romania after dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's fall and execution. His first book, a joint project with TIME senior writer Lance Morrow, to be published later this year, is eyewitness to the democratic upheavals in the Philippines, South...
This was a year that disproved the truism that scenes of tragedy all blur together, that photographs of famine in Biafra and Ethiopia, Sudan and then Somalia just pile on in layers, forming a callous around the conscience. Brought face to face one more time with starvation, the world did not just shrug. And pictures gave other conflicts their own unforgettable faces. Some of the video-game visuals from last year's fighting in the Persian Gulf were strangely antiseptic, an invitation to forget that war is the mass production of individual suffering. The photographs from Bosnia-Herzegovina, where...
...impossible to tell whether that is sound strategy or a recipe for disaster. When Aidid and Ali Mahdi made their tentative peace, neither called on his followers to surrender their weapons. A U.S. senior official said that "Aidid has parked his heavy weapons in Ethiopia." Meanwhile, the gung-ho attempt of some of the vanguard troops to seize weapons slowed perceptibly. French troops initially searched Somali cars for weapons; by week's end they were searching only for the heavy guns that used to be carried on technicals. "It would be inconceivable to disarm Mogadishu," said a senior French army...
Hopes of independence were sidetracked by Italy's defeat in World War II. Under British military rule, part of Somalia's territory was turned over to Ethiopia to atone for pre-war European aggression. In 1950, the United Nations allowed Italy to return as a caretaker until Somalia was deemed self- sufficient...
...attempt to head off armed resistance, U.S. officials are meeting in Ethiopia with representatives of the major Somali factions. Some clan leaders, including the Mogadishu kingpin Mohammed Farrah Aidid, claim that they welcome U.S. intervention; Aidid even staged pro-American parades last week. But Western analysts suspect he simply hopes to improve his own position. If he and his rivals feel power slipping away, their attitude could quickly change. Clan chieftains do not, in any case, control all the thugs marauding through the country...