Gaim kibreab biography examples
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AFRICAN REFUGEES: Reflections on the African flykting Problem, bygd Gaim Kibreab, HARDCOVER
There are over 10 million refugees in the World, and over half of these are Africans. In the last few years the politics of war and famine in Africa have intensified the abudant growth of refugees in Africa. Political persecution, drought and economic deprivation brought about by poor government planning and management have forced increased numbers of African producers to seek refuge in neighboring lands.
The politics of war and starvation in Ethiopia is a clear example of the conditions that produce an abudance of refugees. An estimated 1000 to 1500 people a day, mainly Eritreans and Tigreans, are at present fleeing the Northern regions of the country to the Sudan.
What are the long begrepp effects of the inflow of refugees on the host country? How do international agencies and host governments handle and care for them? How does the local population relate to refugees, and what is t
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Professor Gaim Kibreab has just brought out an important book: “From Ally to Enemy – the Soviet Union and the Horn of Africa; a failed intervention.”
Published by Red Sea Press it is worth reading to understand just how President Isaias has operated over many years. There is a pattern to be discerned and it should be on Prime Minister Abiy’s bedside, if he wants go know what to expect from his Eritrea ally.
To put Professor Gaim’s key finding in a nutshell, at a critical moment in Eritrea’s fight for independence, Isaias went to a make or break meeting with representatives of the Ethiopian Derg, organised by the East German Communists in January 1978.
Drawing on hitherto unseen documents from the East German archive, Professor Gaim shows that the stand Isaias took put the fight for Eritrean independence in question and – perhaps as worrying – Isaias then told a pack of lies to his own party, the EPLF, about what had been agreed.
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FROM ALLY TO ENEMY: The Soviet Union and the Horn of Africa, A Failed Intervention By Gaim Kibreab
In Moscow’s ill-fated involvement with Mengistu’s regime, the strategic goals of a superpower was defeated by a concatenation of factors. This book has shown how those factors caused the grand design for a Pax Sovietica in the region to founder on a combination of hubris and poor judgement. The attitude of the Soviet Union towards the Eritrean liberation movements, and indeed the twists and turns in its support of the Derg regime, reflects the flawed thinking behind its rush to link states in the region into a confederation under Soviet tutelage. Almost half a century after the ignominious end to the Soviet Union’s plans for Pax Sovietica in the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea, there are now signs that Moscow is returning to the region.
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Dr. Gaim Kibreab, by sifting meticulously through previously unseen material in the former East Germa