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...gave a damn about the Ogaden desert, but Shaba copper is something else. Now we have a new policy toward Africa: limited Viet...
...proposed that Ethiopia and Somalia each declare states of emergency to combat the locusts. Cooperation in the battle against the insects seemed unlikely, since the two nations were still at odds because of an abortive Somali attempt to seize the Ogaden region; Ethiopia had repulsed that invasion with Russian and Cuban help. Meanwhile, the migrating locusts were slowly eating their way toward mountainous country in northern Ethiopia, where it would be much harder to locate and attack them with insecticides. The desert locust breeds every six weeks. If the swarms were not soon brought under control, Roy warned, their offspring...
...against the pesky UNITA guerrillas of Jonas Savimbi in the southern part of the country. Last year the Cubans moved into Ethiopia in a big way. Reinforced by huge supplies of Soviet equipment, they helped the unstable Marxist junta in Addis Ababa drive Somali insurgents out of Ethiopia's Ogaden desert region. Now the Ethiopians, with the reluctant help of their 17,000 Cuban guests, are attacking secessionists in the northern province of Eritrea, where a brushfire war has been smoldering for some 15 years. All told, Cuba now has 43,000 troops on duty in at least 14 African...
...record of Soviet efforts to influence Africa includes a number of expulsions and humiliations?in Ghana, Sudan and most recently Somalia, for example. In the Horn of Africa they acquired considerable political capital by helping the Ethiopians drive the Somali insurgents out of the Ogaden. But the war in Eritrea is a different matter. The province's secessionist movement, in the eyes of many nonaligned and radical Arab states, is absolutely legitimate, since Eritrea was unilaterally incorporated into Ethiopia by the late Emperor Haile Selassie in 1967. Both the Soviets and, particularly, the Cubans are doing their best to keep...
...Washington missed an opportunity to enter a crumbling colonial situation on the side of guerrillas who at that time were outside the Marxist orbit. In the Horn of Africa, critics charge, the U.S. was apparently the last to know that Somalia was planning an invasion of Ethiopia's Ogaden region, thereby helping to create an opening for Moscow in Addis Ababa. In Rhodesia, Washington failed to put sufficient pressure on either the Patriotic Front or the Smith regime to achieve a settlement at a time when Smith desperately needed to make a better deal with Nkomo than...