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Language, Education, and Public Policy in Eritrea
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Abstract:
After an Eritrea nationalist movement gained Eritrea's independence from Ethiopia in 1991, the newly formed government introduced a national educational policy based on the use of mother languages as the medium of instruction in all public schools. The stated purpose of the policy was to foster national unity, identity, and development while respecting cultural diversity. Nine different languages are spoken in Eritrea, among a population that consists equally of Christians an...
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Ethiopia and Eritrea : Trench warfare.(lack of media coverage does not lessen seriousness of African war)(Brief Article)
The Economist (US)
; ADDIS ABABA WITH no television pictures to put the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea on the world's agenda, it has tended to be dismissed as a minor affair. It is not. In four days of fighting at the end of February, it now seems that up to 40,000 soldiers were killed or wounded in the battle for
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Spit and slug: Eritrea and Ethiopia. (African countries at war)(Brief Article)
The Economist (US)
; THE battlefront between Ethiopia and Eritrea has now been quiet for more than two months. Nobody believes that peace has broken out. On the contrary, everybody is waiting for the rain to stop, and for the fighting to begin again. The first round, a series of border clashes, began on May 6th. It
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Another country. (Eritrea, Ethiopia) (Editorial)
The Economist (US)
; ... prospect is not altogether fanciful. Hence the principle so often cited: African borders may be random lines drawn on colonists' maps, but any attempt to alter them will only lead to more instability and fighting. Africans have bitter memories of secessionist ...
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Backing the favourite; Eritrea and Ethiopia.(A border dispute flares up again between two unfriendly neighbours, Eritrea and Ethiopia)
The Economist (US)
; Ethiopia defies an international ruling and its western allies do nothing WHAT better way to settle an ugly third-world border dispute than through arbitration? What better example of conflict resolution to press upon two rancorous rivals, Ethiopia and Eritrea, who in 1998-2000 fought a bitter
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Was This War Necessary?(Yemane Ghebreab on conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea)(Brief Article)(Interview)
Newsweek International
; In Ethiopia, a minority elite has refused to reconcile itself to the fact that Eritrea is now an independent stateYemane Ghebreab For much of the past month, troops and tanks from Ethiopia and Eritrea had been slugging it out over disputed patches of barren land along their ill-defined border. Like
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Africa wary of new border war; Eritrea and Ethiopia could face UN sanctions if they don't take steps to avert war.(WORLD)
The Christian Science Monitor
; Byline: Abraham McLaughlin Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA -- On the surface, the reasons for rising tensions between the African nation of Ethiopia and its tiny neighbor, Eritrea, may seem trivial. The two are on the verge of restarting the bloodiest interstate
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Hope in the Horn; Ethiopia and Eritrea talk borders.(International)(The creation of a United Nations buffer zone between Ethiopia and Eritrea should spell the end of a bitter border war. But some basic problems endure)(Brief Article)
The Economist (US)
; WE ARE doomed to succeed here, chuckles Legwaila Joseph Legwaila, the United Nations special representative for Ethiopia and Eritrea. He has reason to be cheerful: his staff have recently persuaded those two countries to start implementing the deal that ended their two-year war last December.
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Africa's forgotten war.(Ethiopia and Eritrea)
The Economist (US)
; ADDIS ABABA AND ASMARA Unless mediation succeeds, two countries in north-eastern Africa will resume a pointless war that has already claimed more lives than the one in Kosovo NO ONE paid much attention to a small gun battle in a remote part of the border between Ethiopia and Eritrea on May 6th last
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Eritrea and Ethiopia at doubtful peace.(Brief Article)
The Economist (US)
; THEY signed, and the fighting has stopped--at least for the moment. After two years of war and perhaps 100,000 dead soldiers, the foreign ministers of Eritrea and Ethiopia, under the eye of Algeria's president, signed an interim peace plan on June 18th. This provides for the international
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Eritrea Pays a Heavy Price For Standoff With Ethiopia
The Washington Post
; Eritrea, struggling to rebuild after decades of conflict, is sinking deeper into poverty amid a simmering border dispute with Ethiopia that already has sparked one war between the longtime Horn of Africa enemies. Meager resources are being diverted from development to security, minefields keep
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