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2003-12-30 Africa: East

Sudan, Ethiopia, and Yemen form the Sanaâa Coalition

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Posted by Dan Darling 2003-12-30 12:38:16 AM|| || Front Page|| [11125 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 --An internal memo within the Army of Danâ¢--

Yemen's beef with Eritrea concerns a handful of barren but strategically located rocks in the Red Sea called the Hanish archipelago.

(Link to a mildly informative if not quite totally objective summary of the issue)

Posted by Dan (not Darling) 2003-12-30 1:48:17 AM|| 2003-12-30 1:48:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 D'oh - just realized that I linked to a geoshitties page. We should exceed the site's bandwith after, say, five hits. In summary, Eritrea grabbed these islands back in '95/'96, and everyone else is pissed off.

Posted by Dan (not Darling) 2003-12-30 1:53:05 AM|| 2003-12-30 1:53:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 One can look at a map of the Hanish islands here.

Posted by Steve White 2003-12-30 2:14:25 AM|| 2003-12-30 2:14:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Why am I thinking it'll soon be bye-bye for the Republic of Eritrea?

Posted by Hiryu 2003-12-30 11:20:36 AM|| 2003-12-30 11:20:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't know Hiryu. I'm sure they can save themselves through diplomacy. Afterall, they have, uh, sand to bargain with.

Posted by Charles 2003-12-30 11:57:38 AM|| 2003-12-30 11:57:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Has anybody developed a "Africa For Dummies". I get lost on who is who (outside the idiotic Mugabe and Qaddaffffffffiiiiii?). Something that neatly identifies the countries (and part there of), factions (and fractions there of), armies, rebel "freedom" fighters, etc. It would be especially helpful to describe the 1000 year old axes that the warring groups are grinding.

After awhile, I lose interest, because I just can;t keep up with it all.

Posted by Tornado 2003-12-30 12:24:14 PM|| 2003-12-30 12:24:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Has anybody developed a "Africa For Dummies".

They're too busy living it to write it.

Posted by tu3031 2003-12-30 1:50:18 PM|| 2003-12-30 1:50:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Hirua and Charles: Eritrea fought Ethiopia to a standstill in their last couple of conflict. Their country and their tribe / clan happen to be the same, unlike most of Africa. Gives them a little more morale.

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2003-12-30 1:53:20 PM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2003-12-30 1:53:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Wasn't that area,Nth.Africa,under control of the Ottaman Turks at onetime,possibly the Romans,too.

Posted by raptor 2003-12-30 3:10:16 PM|| 2003-12-30 3:10:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 "And I alone survived, to tell thee."
-- Ishmael

Posted by mojo 2003-12-30 4:03:58 PM|| 2003-12-30 4:03:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Raptor

Ethiopia's always been mostly independent. Too far away for the classical world to get to it, too isolated for the Muslim world to get to it - they had to go through Sudan, which is still animist/Christian. Ethiopia was one of the earliest Christian countries, since Christianity didn't have to invade people to impose itself.

Eritrea used to be part of Ethiopia, or tributary to it (before it was absorbed as a province in the early 1950s), and broke off when the Ethiopians kicked out the commies. Without Eritrea, Ethiopia is land-locked, not that Ethiopians have ever been mighty sailormen.

Posted by Fred 2003-12-30 8:30:22 PM|| 2003-12-30 8:30:22 PM|| Front Page Top

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