Word: goijam
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Dates: during 1977-1977
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Other Fronts. The Eritrean rebels are not the only ones who oppose Mengistu's rule. Just south of Eritrea, 1,500 guerrillas of the Tigre People's Liberation Front (T.P.L.F.) control about one-third of Tigre province. In the western provinces of Goijam and Gondar, 2,000 men of the right-wing Ethiopian Democratic Union (E.D.U.) are fighting for a non-Marxist civilian government and deny charges that they plan to restore a monarchy under Haile Selassie's sole surviving son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, 60, who is now in London. About 1,000 shiftas-armed nomads...
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