Sunday 4 September 2016

Potential conflicts in the former Gash-Setit region, western Eritrea: Threats to peace and security

Potential conflicts in the former Gash-Setit region, western Eritrea: Threats to peace and security by the late Alexander Naty

http://www.unitedvoicesmedia.com/pdfs/Kunama_Conflicts_Alexander_Naty.pdf

Ethiopian Opposition Political Parties and Rebel Fronts: Past and Presen


Ethiopian Opposition Political Parties and Rebel Fronts: Past and Present,a 2009 article by Wondwosen Teshome

This paper attempts to examine how opposition political parties and rebel fronts emerged in Ethiopia, and examines their present conditions. In this paper, selected case studies of political parties and rebel fronts are included to highlight the status and the role of opposition groups in the country in the three successive administrations: Haile Selassie (1930-1974), Derg (1974- 1991), and EPRDF (1991-Present).

http://www.harep.org/Africa/v4-1-9.pdf

Political history of the Afar in Ethiopia and Eritrea


Political history of the Afar in Ethiopia and Eritrea, a 2008 article by Yasin Mohammed Yasin

Among many cases of such tragic partitions, the land of the homogenous nomadic nation of Afar was divided among three states in the African Horn, namely Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. Subsequent to their anticolonial resistance, the Afar have faced further intrastate divisions and marginalization enforced by the central powers in the respective states. Their half-a-century old quest of and struggle for self-determination was regarded as paving the way to an independent state. Is creating a nation called Afarria or else the Afar Triangle the ultimate goal of the Afar political movements? What does unity and self-determination mean for the Afar? This paper will discuss the inception of the modern political orientation of the Afar and their struggle from the era of European colonialism to the time of domestic domination.

http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/bitstream/handle/document/35293/ssoar-afrspectrum-2008-1-yasin-Political_history_of_the_Afar.pdf?sequence=