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| | FlyingFish - Eritrea, Ethiopia, war & famine; Haile Selassie, Mengistu & IMF |
 | | As a rough approximation, the population of Eritrea and Ethiopia and of their border areas (Sudan to the west, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the east, and Djibouti pocketed on the Red Sea coast between the coastal areas of Somalia and Eritrea), is half Christian and half Muslim. |
 | | Calling their territory at the time "Eritrea", after the classical Greek for "red sea", the Italians extended themselves further in the region, only to be thrown back into Eritrea's current borders after a crushing defeat, in 1896 at the battle of Adowa (in modern day Tigray), by Emperor Menelik II. |
 | | Eritrea severed diplomatic relations with Sudan in December 1994, and at the end of 1996, the US delivered $20 million of military equipment to Eritrea, Ethiopia and Uganda, intended to assist with undermining the Sudanese regime. |
| www.flyingfish.org.uk /articles/eritrea/strawbs.htm (4565 words) |
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