Word: ethiopia
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...corrupt military dictators, massacres, famines and bloody civil strife held it back. Now that the dictatorship is gone, new plagues - crime, unemployment, AIDS - are hurting the fledgling democracy. But next to the rest of the continent, Nigeria gleams today. Major wars are tearing at Angola, both Congos, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Somalia, and Sudan, while conflicts simmer in Burundi, Chad, Djibouti, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Uganda. And the United States is eager to school Nigeria's military in the ways of peace-keeping, at least in part to reduce calls on the United States to send troops to keep the peace...
There's not much left of Zalambessa. Shops have been flattened and the roofs and front walls of houses ripped down, revealing brightly colored interiors. Ethiopia says the town was destroyed two years ago, when Eritrean soldiers invaded Ethiopia and stripped the buildings in this small town of tin roofing and wooden doors to use in their trenches. Pastoral scenes painted on walls, however, were still in place last week when Ethiopian troops finally retook the town. The military operation was an important one: using a well-orchestrated pincer movement, Ethiopian generals squeezed the Eritrean army like a tube...
...border town of Zalambessa raised hopes of a quick end to the conflict between the Horn of Africa neighbors. Fighting continued to the north of Zalambessa late last week, despite the fact that Eritrea had said it would withdraw from all disputed territory to its prewar position. Ethiopia seems happy to press its advantage home and grind down the Eritrean army as a way to ensure future peace...
...been called Africa's most senseless, which is saying a lot for a continent where petty squabbles have started wars. Eritrea has had formal independence from Ethiopia for less than a decade--but it has spent the past two years in conflict with its neighbor. The fighting began in 1998, centered on a 154-sq.-mi. disputed triangle of rocky, barren land near the border town of Badme. Since then, an uneasy stalemate has been punctuated by short but fierce set-piece battles that have left tens of thousands dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. Unlike other African wars, which...
...News of Ethiopia's victory in Zalambessa was received with jubilation in the capital, Addis Ababa. Thousands of people gathered in the city's main square and cheered on truckloads of waving Ethiopian soldiers. At the office of the government representative, a computer screen saver read, ZALAMBESSA LIBERATED!! Chief spokeswoman Selome Taddesse popped open a bottle of Ethiopian Champagne as her staff danced to a popular song celebrating past Ethiopian victories. "I've been waiting for this day for two years," said Taddesse...