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Article: U.S. Relief Program to Defy Ethiopia; Cross-Border Shipments From Sudan Into Rebel-Held Areas Planned
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- The Washington Post
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- May 31, 1988
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The Reagan administration, frustrated in its efforts to have
Ethiopia permit foreign relief operations in the war-torn north, has
decided to mount a major cross-border program from neighboring Sudan
to feed 2.4 million people facing starvation in rebel-held northern
areas, according to U.S. officials.
The decision seems certain to anger the Ethiopian government,
which declared a state of emergency May 15 to cope with an increasing
rebel threat in Eritrea and Tigray, established a 10-kilometer
no-man's zone along the Sudanese border and threatened to bomb anyone
caught entering it. In early April, it ordered foreign relief
workers to leave those provinces.
U.S. officials disclosed that a ...