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...means "one with no weaknesses." He fancies himself a poet in a country nourished on oral tradition and lives the spartan life of a nomad. In the 1950s he served in the Italian colonial police force and as a general in Siad Barre's army in the war with Ethiopia. But as a tribal rival of Siad Barre's Darod clan family, he was never fully trusted and was imprisoned without trial for six years in the early 1970s. Later, Siad Barre appointed him envoy to New Delhi to get him out of the country. In 1991 he finally joined...
More than 98% of voters in Eritrea elected to secede from Ethiopia, bringing to a peaceful close one of Africa's longest and bloodiest wars of independence. But economic development will not come so easily. Eritrea's government needs in excess of $2 billion to begin rebuilding the nation's shattered infrastructure, and any future prosperity may hinge on amicable ties with Eritrea's former rulers in Addis Ababa. Since the breakaway province now controls Ethiopia's only access to the Red Sea, it is a relationship neither side can afford to neglect...
...example, in the capital of famine-stricken Ethiopia, Adis Abeba, children under one are being immunized at a higher rate than are infants in New York City or Washington D.C., he said...
...Apparently not. Their rationale for inaction against Japan was that Manchuria was a disputed area anyway and that intervention was not practical. Britain and France were consumed by internal worries and not in the mood for a far-flung foreign adventure. When 1935 rolled around and Italy invaded Ethiopia, the League did have the backbone to impose sanctions. But they lacked the will to make sure they struck, and Italy swallowed up its catch...
...seems so easy to stay on the sidelines, content with our statements of horror and pleas for restraint. Intervention appears messy and frightening, just as it did in China and Ethiopia...