ERITREA: A Raging War on the Horn of Africa

"We will fight until there is only one bullet and one Eritrean left. After that, Ethiopia can take our country back."

So says Mohammed Abu Baker, 21, a partisan in a bitter civil war that rages today on the politically volatile Horn of Africa. On one side is the army of Ethiopia's despotic military rulers, who are struggling to hold together the empire of the late Haile Selassie, whom they deposed in 1974. On the other are the 4 million people of Eritrea, Ethiopia's northern province. But also involved in the drama are...

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