Word: ethiopian
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...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 of toothpaste, forcing the exhausted Eritrean soldiers back into their own territory--a deep defeat...
...rivers to separate their respective territories, but drew a straight line in the vicinity of Badme to connect two rivers. That straight line disappeared from many maps after 1962 when Eritrea was incorporated into Ethiopia, but reemerged with the amicable secession of Eritrea in 1993, following the overthrow of Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam. Both countries insist Badme falls on their side of the geographically invisible line, and they appear willing to commit tens of thousands of lives to win the argument. "Everyone knows an arms embargo won't do anything to end the fighting because there are so many...
...claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, but neither is it as straightforward. In the battle against hunger, geopolitics has intruded into the picture. Currently, Ethiopia is locked in a border war with Eritrea over an inconsequential strip of no-man's-land. The conflict, experts estimate, is costing the Ethiopian authorities about $1 million a day. Politicians and aid officials in donor countries think that money should be used to buy food rather than guns...
...mentioning Elian's planned meeting with his father, the Washington Post pushed the issue to the side to make space for a lead article on Ethiopia's striking famine. But these attempts to balance the news of children dying at a rate of a dozen a day in some Ethiopian towns with the fate of a cute six-year-old are too rare...