When the aid agency and the Ethiopian government fell out badly over the delivery of food to Eritrea James was sent in to sort the situation. |
From February onward army and blackshirt militia units mobilized and embarked for the long journey through the Suez Canal to Eritrea and Somalia. |
The annexation of Eritrea by Ethiopia in 1962 started off a bitter 30-year war of independence. |
It is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the east, Kenya to the south, and the Sudan to the west. |
The allied forces even opened an eastern front through Eritrea and Ethiopia. |
During the 1990s, major efforts in Eritrea centered around rebuilding the country and repatriating refugees. |