why eritrea separated from ethiopia?
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Eritrea's declining autonomy and growing discontent with Ethiopian rule caused an independence movement led by the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) in 1961, leading Ethiopia to dissolve the federation and annex Eritrea the next year.
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Why was the Suez Canal Built? It was a shortcut connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. Made travel to the east much faster.
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ethnic conflict is wide spread in Africa because the present-day boundaries of countries do not match the boundaries of ethnic groups. European countries carved up the continent into a collection of colonies with little regard to distribution of ethnicities.
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Amharic and Tigrinya are the main languages spoken by the Ethiopians and Eritreans, of Eastern Africa. The reason we've grouped these two languages together is that they are strongly intertwined, both deriving from the same ancestor and both sharing characters in their alphabet.
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On 5 June 2017, the UAE, along with Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Bahrain, severed ties with Qatar, accusing it of supporting terrorism. ... In addition to severing ties on 5 June, the UAE also expelled all Qatari nationals living in the Emirates and prohibited its citizens from travelling to Qatar.
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It thus became the forty-second independent country in Africa. Since that time, it has become one of the few monarchies in the Third World.
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Ethiopia is bounded by Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Kenya to the south, and South Sudan and Sudan to the west.
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Other definitions of the Horn of Africa are more restrictive and exclude some or all of the countries of Djibouti, Eritrea, and Ethiopia. There are also broader definitions, the most common of which include all the countries mentioned above, as well as parts or all of Kenya, Sudan, South Sudan, and Uganda.
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One young divergent plate boundary that you'll recognize is actively forming the Red Sea. Although the Arabian penninsula and Africa were once linked to form a single continent, they are now being ripped apart.
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Eastern Africa, part of sub-Saharan Africa comprising two traditionally recognized regions: East Africa, made up of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda; and the Horn of Africa, made up of Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, and Ethiopia.
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The East African Rift Valley, as the region is known, formed where the Somalian and Nubian plates are pulling away from the Arabian Plate. ... Rifting in the western branch 25 million years ago dramatically changed how rivers flowed, where lakes formed and even the region's climate patterns.
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Ethiopia. Ethiopia is considered "never colonized" by some scholars, despite Italy's occupation from 1936–1941 because that did not result in a lasting colonial administration. In the 1880s, Italy failed to take Abyssinia (as Ethiopia was then known) as a colony.
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Between 1880 and 1900, about 90 per cent of the continent was appropriated by Europeans during the so-called “scramble for Africa”. However, scholars place Ethiopia in the “never colonised” category, on the grounds that, despite being occupied by Italy from 1936-1941, no lasting colonial infrastructure developed.
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In December 1934, Mussolini accused the Abyssinians of aggression at an oasis called Wal Wal. He ordered Italian troops stationed in Somaliland and Eritrea to attack Abyssinia. Large quantities of ammunition and supplies had been stockpiled there. In October 1935, the Italian army invaded Abyssinia.
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The CIA World Factbook reports the nation's GDP purchasing power as $8.7 billion, ranking Eritrea 162nd in the world. Unemployment in the country is estimated at just 8.6%, but the poverty rate is estimated at 50%.
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Nyerere saw an irresolvable tension between nationalism and pan-Africanism. As head of state he was forced to build and nurture 'territorial nationalism' based on a sovereign independent state, whereas pan-Africanism would require him to dissolve individual sovereignty.
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In this study, the Horn of Africa region is defined as comprising eight countries, namely Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan and Uganda (Figure 1).