Washington has played a key role in Ethiopia since the overthrow of the Mengistu Haile Mariam regime five years ago; its decision to endorse the takeover of Addis Ababa by Meles' Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front in May 1991 and its participation in the London talks the same month laid the pattern for a particularly close diplomatic relationship...
Meanwhile Colonel John Garang's Sudan People's Liberation Army-Mainstream is enjoying its greatest success since President Mengistu Haile Mariam fell and the SPLA split in 1991...
