Word: gondar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yafa Bogalay, 28, is happy with the trade-off. Her first life ended in 1981, when she fled to Israel after Ethiopian government troops raided her village school in the Gondar province, hauling away suspected rebels. "I cried and cried when I first got here," she says. Now she works at a child-care center in Ashdod and refuses to teach her three children her native language. "I don't want to even think about Ethiopia," she says. "There was too much suffering." Her sole indulgence in the past is listening to Ethiopian music on her tape player, which offers...
...talks ended in stalemate last November without any agreement for the movement of food to drought-stricken areas. To the south in Tigre, two rebel armies have managed to drive out all troops and representatives of the civilian government. Since August the rebels have been pressing an offensive through Gondar and Wollo provinces, seizing towns within 85 miles of the capital, Addis Ababa...