Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...internationally supervised vote, Eritreans will choose whether they wish to be independent from, federated with or united with Ethiopia, Aradom said...
...Ethiopian leader had resisted pressure to step down. Only after Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe sent a personal note offering asylum, and after the demoralized Ethiopian army began rapidly disintegrating, did Mengistu agree to depart. The unlamented dictator, whose ubiquitous portraits have already disappeared from most public places in Ethiopia, flew to Zimbabwe, where he had recently purchased a farm...
That would be a far better outcome than a flat-out rebel military victory, which would leave the Tigrean faction in a dominant position. The group's leaders, once Albanian-style Marxists who now espouse a blend of old-fashioned communism and American-flavored democracy, are widely distrusted in Ethiopia...
...sticky problem. Those around him, sensing a dark future for the government, are keenly interested in negotiations. The President is showing signs of stress -- he needs to take pills to sleep -- but he still seems to think he can hold out. Says a U.S. government specialist on Ethiopia: "He's the type to hang on to the bitter...
Washington still hopes to persuade Mengistu to step aside by turning his own logic against him. The President has claimed that he alone represents unity for Ethiopia against the secessionist demands of the Eritreans. But if there is no political settlement, the Americans will argue, the Eritreans are poised to win their independence by force. What's more, the U.S. will maintain, Ethiopia can remain intact even with Mengistu gone because the Eritreans, to everyone's amazement, say they will defer their dream of a separate state...