Eritrea, Africa's Longest War
Author : David Pool
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 13,11 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : David Pool
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 13,11 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Okbazghi Yohannes
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 11,26 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813010441
After decades of bloodshed and famine, the Eritrean-Ethiopian conflict is the longest contemporary war of liberation in Africa. This work examines the nationalist movement in the context of the political and diplomatic struggle, and argues that superpower/UN collusion is partly to blame.
Author : David Pool
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 20,68 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Paul Moorcraft
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 23,78 MB
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1473854962
President Omar al-Bashir is Africa's and arguably Arabia's most controversial leader. In power since 1989, he is the first sitting head of state to be issued with an arrest warrant, for war crimes, by International Criminal Court.He has been a central personality in Islamic and African politics, as well as a love-to-hate figure for the US in the 'war on terror'.For military history readers, Al-Bashir is a field marshal who has fought possibly the world's longest conflict. Modern Sudan has been embroiled in war since 1955.No proper biography has been written on him before. Nor has there been a comprehensive military history of Sudan. The book briefly covers the military background until independence. Then it dissects the long north-south civil war until Bashir's Islamist military coup in 1989. Thereafter it narrates the wars in the east, south, west (in Darfur), International political and military intervention is also factored in.The author draws on in-depth one-on-one interviews with Bashir himself and his family and close political, military and intelligence colleagues.
Author : Adrien Fontanellaz
Publisher : Helion
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 33,25 MB
Release : 2018-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781912390304
A detailed account of Ethiopian-Eritrean conflicts since 1988, including the so-called Badme War 1998-2001.
Author : Richard Reid
Publisher : Hurst & Company
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 23,94 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Eritrean-Ethiopian War, 1998-2000
ISBN : 1787383288
This is a personal account of the war between Eritrea and Ethiopia, fought between May 1998 and June 2000, as well as of the periods immediately preceding and following the conflict. Shallow Graves traces shifting local perceptions of time, the nation and the region, beginning in the mid-1990s and concluding with the peace agreement signed between the two governments in 2018. Richard Reid is a historian who was based in Eritrea during the war, and who continued to visit both that country and Ethiopia for several years afterwards. This personal perspective offers a more vivid, intimate portrait of the experience of the war than can normally be offered by putatively objective academic accounts. As well as providing first-hand reportage and analysis, Reid problematises the role of the historian--and specifically the foreign historian--as the supposedly impartial observer of events. His eloquent narrative, constructed around conversations and interactions with a range of local witnesses, friends and colleagues, explores the impact of prolonged war and its aftermath--both on private and public memory, and on the nature of history itself.
Author : Paul Moorcraft
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 21,89 MB
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1473828236
President Omar al-Bashir is Africa's and arguably Arabia's most controversial leader. In power since 1989, he is the first sitting head of state to be issued with an arrest warrant, for war crimes, by International Criminal Court.??He has been a central personality in Islamic and African politics, as well as a love-to-hate figure for the US in the 'war on terror'.??For military history readers, Al-Bashir is a field marshal who has fought possibly the world's longest conflict. Modern Sudan has been embroiled in war since 1955.??No proper biography has been written on him before. Nor has there been a comprehensive military history of Sudan. The book briefly covers the military background until independence. Then it dissects the long north-south civil war until Bashir's Islamist military coup in 1989. Thereafter it narrates the wars in the east, south, west (in Darfur), International political and military intervention is also factored in.??The author draws on in-depth one-on-one interviews with Bashir himself and his family and close political, military and intelligence colleagues.
Author : Philip Roessler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 11,53 MB
Release : 2019-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0190864559
In October 1996, a group of ageing Marxists and unemployed youth coalesced to revolt against Mobutu Seso Seko, president of Zaire/Congo since 1965. Backed by a Rwanda-led regional coalition that drew support from Asmara to Luanda, the rebels of the AFDL marched over 1500 kilometers inseven months to crush the dictatorship. To the Congolese rebels and their Pan-Africanist allies, the vanquishing of the Mobutu regime represented nothing short of a "second independence" for Congo and Central Africa as a whole and the dawning of a new regional order of peace and security. Within fifteen months, however, Central Africa's "liberation peace" would collapse, triggering a cataclysmic fratricide between the heroes of the war against Mobutu and igniting the deadliest conflict since World War II. This book gives an account Africa's Great War. It argues that the seeds of Africa's Great War were sown in the revolutionary struggle against Mobutu- the way the revolution came together, the way it was organized, and, paradoxically, the very way it succeeded. In particular, the book argues that the overthrow of Mobutu proved a Pyrrhic victory because the protagonists ignored the philosophy of Julius Nyerere, the father of Africa's liberation movements: they put the gun before the unglamorous but essential task of building the domestic and regional political institutions and organizational structures necessary to consolidate peace after revolution.
Author : Dan Connell
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 49,50 MB
Release : 2010-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0810875055
The history of Eritrea is told in this reference through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, places, organizations, and other aspects of Eritrea's history from the earliest times to the present. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Eritrea.
Author : Lionel Cliffe
Publisher : The Red Sea Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 29,1 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9780932415370