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Ethiopia
Population: 84.8 mn.
GDP: 29.7 bn.
Debt: 2.9 bn.
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The EPRDF congress in September will discuss possible successors to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, with Haile Mariam Desalegne as a front-runner despite Amhara and Oromo opposition. High growth rates and collaboration with the USA and UK on Somalia will deflect criticism on human rights.

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  • Vol 40 No 22
  •  5th November 1999

Battling for Badme

Badme, taken by Eritrea in May 1998, has this year been the focus of several deadly battles. In February, Ethiopia attacked with artillery, then aircraft and tanks, then human-wave assaults. After four days and heavy losses, Ethiopia broke the Eritrean de...

  • Vol 40 No 22
  •  5th November 1999

Getting DC's drift

Ethiopia is angry at what it sees as the international failure to condemn Eritrean aggression. When receiving the new United States' Ambassador to Ethiopia, Tibor Nagy, in early October, Ethiopian President Negasso Gidada pointedly noted that 'aggression ...

  • Vol 40 No 9
  •  30th April 1999

World-class war

UN envoy Mohammed Sahnoun mediates while the world ignores its biggest war

  • Vol 40 No 4
  •  19th February 1999

Pride and prejudice

Both sides seem to be keen to fight to the death in one of the least explicable wars

  • Vol 40 No 4
  •  19th February 1999

My enemy's enemy

Each side hopes to support the other’s dissidents - even when this means helping Khartoum’s National Islamic Front government, its Islamist protégés and its own enemies’ enemies. Eritrea recently added an Oromo-language pro...

  • Vol 40 No 1
  •  8th January 1999

Who dares, loses

The moratorium on air attacks agreed after June’s raids on Asmara and Makelle (and after phone calls by President Bill Clinton to Premier Meles Zenawi and President Issayas Afewerki) still holds. Nevertheless, deliveries last month greatly increased both ...

  • Vol 39 No 21
  •  23rd October 1998

Moving deadlines

OAU negotiators are desperate to secure peace before the rains end

  • Vol 39 No 19
  •  25th September 1998

After the rains

As the rains end and hardliners in Addis Ababa and Asmara threaten renewed fighting senior figures in both governments have privately been sending out peace signals. The differences between the two sides are small, on paper at least. On the ground, they a...

  • Vol 39 No 18
  •  11th September 1998

Brothers at war

In diplomacy and the shooting war, both Eritrea and Ethiopia are confident of victory

  • Vol 39 No 18
  •  11th September 1998

On the border

With the guns mostly silent along the border, the war is being waged through local media. In Addis Ababa, ETV daily broadcasts rallies country-wide supporting the war, parading mothers and wives of soldiers before the cameras to declare their commitment t...

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